A BRAZILIAN TRIBUTE TO BRITAIN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1661, 13 January 1917, Page 4

A BRAZILIAN TRIBUTE TO BRITAIN.

An eloquent tribute to Britain was paid by the veteran Brazilian statesman, Senhor Ruy Barbosa, in a speech delivered at Rio de Janeiro on September 17th. After referring to the herosim displayed by the French, Eenhor Barbosa said:— “And Great Britain, gentlemen. AVhat man is there, who is really a man, who would not glory in belonging to a race capable of producing this people, that vies with all others in sincerity, virility, and creative power? Spiritually it is from this race that emanates iu modern times the world of tree humanity. Great Britain's conception of justice has imbued with liberty all those nations which have had the good fortune to he horn of her stock, or to have come in touch with her. During a century in her enviable home (here has reigned that peace so intimately coupled with tho austere and industrious bent of her subjects. But when her gates were forced open, by a transformation of which history knows no equal, the most non-militant of all races under the sun was changed into a real hive of invincible warriors; from her castles came forth the very (lower of her nobility to teach her people by a glorious death the grand simplicity of dying in the sacred cause of justice; the most wonderful military organisation enveloped the land in an impenetrable armour! the country, awestruck, beheld arise there, improvised in but two years, an immense army, and from that little island whose destruction her enemies already looked upon as accomplished, there suddenly arose an unexpected grandeur, unlocked for, serene, clear, and inviolable, before which the myths of ancient Titans pale into obscurity and the mountains of the world sink into insignificance.”