New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-06

Nor II to be forgotten that other considerations and
higher motives stimulate emigration from other cOnt-
nents that the love of freedom and OF institutions
the desire for exemption from military bondage WISH
to participate In the choice OF rulers and cherlshe
purpose to worshp God according to the dictates OF
conscience are powerful incentives, often aetn8 upon
immigration amounting to three or four hundred
thousand people annually upon our national characler
Is not easily defined.
The railways which bind together with ligaments of
steel all the States OF Union and the iron SHIPS hat
cross and recross the broad Atlantic in continuous lines
twin agents commerce that peryades every iand
and uniting the people OF the Ola MOId anu tue
New, though they were one IN lineage ana angage'
as they in hope and aspiration, and 50 re-
Gently were one in the anguish OF common grief ny
wants of people who thus their origin and growth
TO all the races of civilized not limited 10 those
things which minister to our comfort ana cOnVchenGe'
but extend beyond the necessary and useful to the ee
CANT and ornamental-to whatever imparts an added
charm TO domestic life. They spring from IoNe
of the beautiful in art and seek qualification wherever
the ohisel and the pencil have wrought with the
greatest skill or come nearest 10 p erICc',Umd
They are indicated by the numerous museums ah H
metropolis only but In all the considerable towns anu
for the advancement of knowledge in its simplest ana
highest forms OF development They cuimmate Wiz LII rne
pean culture and scholarly attainment Ana. III ofaer
that they may profit thereby our sons seek aeCs 40 %
schools and colleges of En- gland, France aud Germany
are supposed to offer to the student
In the same spirit we welcome TO our shores the re-
fined educated ard enlightened Of every land. hoping
that intercourse with the wsest and best VIII lhe
to our highest good that in the far or II not IN te near
funre our Repubc NAV boast If boast 1t WILL not OF ts
material wealth. but OF the widest diffusion OF all the
graces that adorn the life and enrich the heart,
Carl Schurz responded to the toast, The old
World and the New" He said in part
Ifyou had been called upon to respond to the toast
THE Old World and the New as often as have Geen'
you would certainly lind as much difficulty rs a 40 III
Of the Sew world that is not old (Applause;l This
eG grows on me S as E9 Hy oS G s i sG9
never to grow old, and whose WITTY sayinhgs hrc
of This couptry but also tie nations of the Old World.
The American Independence was declared on Jnly 4,
1916 by those born this soil but it was accomplished
a0 q part Word lent the hS Ga %0Td % 'aH
p% S Keep down sa s NoR Not nP La
Fayette aud his friends but there was also France her
self to appear a volunteer fighting our battles. .
And he said that the American cause was tho
of volunteers and 1t has the cause OF
try and have the honor to say that am one OF them
Applausc They not drawn here by the victory OF
Sration that we had was Illustrated by tie citizen sol
diery who appeared there as an Ornament sa,g 1t was
American can soil Of our hOnored guess,
matter What What, their intentions Tts noace way way
gloried by that salute offered 10 the British flag lap
plause the very emblem OF anita hundred
heart. Applause II was browning peace festival 70
which the Old Word sent deegaons to JON us ~ cee
brating The bands played the Watch on the Rhine.
the I" Marseiliaise and God save the Queen and
Hail Columbia" Our guests have seen something vi
this country some of them for the first time ana nave
no doubt that they will return to their countries WIN
the impresson that this is good country naDted Dy
good people. And am assured that whon they return
fhey viii 20 back with the feeling that their
apcestors stand every heart side by side with the
greatest American names and with the certainty that
the gratitude the American people Is as young ana
fresh to day it hundred years ago lAppause.I
II seems to Inc that we nave already gwen
some practical evidence OF that gratitude, Tor
they have made the American people so prosperous
that hen they short OF provisions we ere Wiling 10
fiji the gap. Nations think That we are nav
ing altogether much of good thing, ana are Trying
to shut goods by tricks. - 49, -,
We rejoice with the Nations OF the Old World IN teir
successes and profoundly synpatmzo when
misfortune Ovcrtakes them We never WIN
interfere with their affairs and nope
they Will never interfere with ours. As long as we re-
main freuds-the Old aud New World. and do not Try 10
jump over each others fences, that harmony VIII never
lie disturbed We expect that in hundred years from
now when descendants assemble 10 remember the
feast of friendship that row enjoying thai 'he
country will contain three hundred miions ~ inhabl-
tants the City Oi NewYors dity millions, DeinOnico5
will be twenty stories high, and on top VII
be station Europe 10 America, and over tht the
guests Of the country may find sGitahle accommodations
at the deserted village OF Yorktown. daughter ana
applause.
John Austin Stevens replied in French to the
toast The City of Paris"