What ideas does Europe at present stand for? She incarnates violence, conquest, extortion, the trammeling or absolute impeding of the free play of forces, hatred, cruelty and the crushing of the individual by the power of the state. America, on the contrary, proclaims liberty, justice, fraternity, humanity, charity, respect of individual freedom, unhindered emulation, peace and good will.

In Europe, each people denies the other an equal share in the common work of civilization, severs all scientific cooperation. In America, the international character of science is upheld and full recognition willingly is granted every merit. And all this is by no means mere lip service America acts up to her principles. She herself bore the hardships of a four years Civil War, unsparingly sacrificed hundreds of thousands of human lives, spent billions of dollars, to stamp out slavery in her Southern States.

When she allowed herself to be involved by a questionable policy in a war with Spain and to wrench off her own colonies, she pledged herself to recognize their independence as soon as they should prove their capacity for governing themselves and for maintaining among them by their own effort or order, security and peace.

To the dumb astonishment of European diplomacy, she gloriously fulfilled her promise toward Cuba, and she is preparing to realize it in the case of the Philippines also. In this ideal manner, America gives an object lesson in protest against the greed of conquest and hallows the natural.  lights of foreign peoples. 