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civic officials who are actually doing it are, as a whole, 

 entitled to the heartiest respect and the fullest support 

 from their brothers who remain at home. 



At the outset there is one point upon which I wish to 

 insist Avith all possible emphasis. The civilized nations 

 who are conquering for civilization savage lands should 

 work together in a spirit of hearty mutual goodwill. I 

 listened with special interest to what Sir Joseph Dims- 

 dale said about the blessing of peace and goodwill 

 among nations. I agree witli that in the abstract. Let 

 us show by our actions and our words in specific cases 

 that we agree with it also in the concrete. Ill-will 

 between civilized nations is bad enough anywhere, but 

 it is peculiarly harmful and contemptible when those 

 actuated by it are engaged in the same task — a task of 

 such far-reaching importance to the future of humanity 

 — the task of subduing the savagery of wild man and 

 wild nature, and of bringing abreast of our civilization 

 those lands where there is an older civilization which 

 has somehow gone crooked. Mankind, as a whole, has 

 benefited by tlie noteworthy success that has attended 

 the French occupation of Algiers and Tunis, just as 

 mankind, as a whole, has benefited by what England 

 has done in India ; and each nation should be glad of 

 the other nation's achie\'ements. In the same way it 

 is of interest to all civilized men that a similar success 

 shall attend alike tlie Britislier and the German as they 

 work in East Africa ; exactly as it has been a benefit to 

 everyone that America took possession of the Philip- 

 pines. Those of you who know Lord Cromer's excel- 

 lent book, in whicli he compares modern and ancient 

 Imperialism, need no words from me to prove that the 

 domhiion of modern civilized nations over the dark 

 places of the earth has been fraught with widespread 



