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145 assimilationn' and the White man's burden 1 There is more benevolence in a straightforward commercial treaty with China, more honesty and civilization than in all the schemes Which look to spheres of influence, and which can have only one final result-partition and spoliation. The White man's burden, indeed! When did he ever assume it unless he thought it would pay? Better by far, more benevolent and just, that We should help the dark-skin races to bear their own burden than that We should step in and take their lands and leave them Without any burden at all. QA p- plausej ' p , When We think of Holland as our ally, We must remember that she has aided us in developing the country as Well as in securing its freedom. She has mingled in our population a genuine Dutch strain, and the descendants of the earlier settlers, many of Whom are present, have done much toward making this city the greatest in the World, and only second to the New Jerusalem. Then Holland has given us a Worthy Dutch President, Capplausej at times as strenuous as the famous. Peter Stuyvesant, Whom he resembles in his blunt, trenchant Ways and speech, and as the puissant Peter was needed in those far-off times to build a Wall for Wall Street to keep out the Indians, so now Wall Street ought to hold on to his suc- cessor if it has any special desire to keep out the Democrats. 4fApplause.Q The old Hollanders Were city builde1'S, and theil' offspring have maintained the traditions of the race. These municipalities in their native land Were centres of freedom. When a Cluestiml had to be decided, the bell rang and the citizens came
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146 out from their homes and voted. Even in the fourteenth century the imperial authority Was only nominal. It would seem from their annals that they Were chiefly employed in building towns and navies. Their children, and those Whom their children have influenced, are very much like them. Some of the peculiarities of New Am- sterdam havef survived in New York. In the times of Stuyvesant many Worthy burghers were averse to paying taxes-and it is so still--and de- licious controversies Were carried on as to how the town could be run Without some of them bearing their part. In one debate With certain citizens regarding Christmas observances, the stalwart director suggested the dubious morality of look- ing through one's fingers, a habit successive New York oliicials have had when their fingers were not more profitably employed. CLaughte1' and ap- plcmsej It is also recorded that fines were imposed on the Schepens for late attendance on the public councils, but, tmfortunately, these penalties failed to cure the habit, and hence to-day the average New Yorker is never on time-unless it is for an office. QLaughte1'.D But in this he is equalled if not surpassed by the Ohioan. laughter cmd applcmsexj The first revenue for the Dutch mu- nicipality Was derived from the liquor traffic, and excise questions have continued to torment our citizens ever since. CApplause.j i These Hollanders were great traders, and, ac- cording, to their light, were restrictive commer- cialists. Their coolness toward England was engendered largely by revenue differences, they objected to the Scotch having access along the Hudson for the purpose of traffic with the interior:
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