LIBRARY OF THE a.37347. COPYRIGHT, 1899, By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. ΤΟ JOHN J. VALENTINE, ESQ., OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, IN RECOGNITION OF HIS UNSELFISH PATRIOTISM AND UNSHAKEN COURAGE. PREFATORY NOTE. The present volume contains eight addresses bearing on the policy of the United States, especially concerning the war with Spain and its results. The first address "Lest We Forget," was delivered May 25th, 1898, on the occasion of the graduation of the Class of 1898, in the Leland Stanford Junior University. As this address has in a sense a historical value, being one of the very first of many of its kind, it is here published exactly as delivered with the change of a word or two only and the omission of a brief quotation. The second address, "Colonial Expansion," delivered before the Congress of Religions at Omaha in October, 1898, is here modified by the omission of a few passages which were used also on the previous occasion. The third address, "A Blind Man's Holiday," was read on February 14th, 1899, before the Graduate Club of Leland Stanford Junior University, and afterwards repeated before the congregation of Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco and the Berkeley Club in Oakland. It was reprinted for general circulation under the title of "The Question of the Philippines,” by the courtesy of Mr. John J. Valentine, who has also published a similar edition of "Lest We Forget." The essay on the "Colonial Lessons of Alaska" was delivered before the University Extension Club of San José; that on the "Lessons of the Paris Tribunal," before the Congregationalist Club in San Francisco. The essay on "A Continuing City" was delivered before the New Charter Association of San Francisco. The essay on the "Last of the Puritans" is introduced to show the substantial identity of the arguments for slavery or control of man by man, benevolent or otherwise, with those for imperial dominion or the control of nation by nation, of race by race, each has industrial and civil good for its avowed purpose, and each has brute force for its method. I am indebted to Mr Walter H. Page, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, for permission to reprint "The Colonial Lessons of Alaska," to Dr. N. C. Gilman, editor of the New World, for the privilege of republishing the essay on "Colonial Expansion," to Whitaker and Ray of San Francisco for permission to use "The Last of the Puritans," and to Mr. J. M. Rice, editor of the Forum, for permission to reprint "The Lessons of the Paris Tribunal of Arbitration." DAVID STARR JORDAN, Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, Santa Clara Co., California. |