The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-07-04
MIR. PHELPS FIRST SPEECH IN
 LONDON.


 don to her majesty's judges:
 q am much indebted to the lord mayor for the kind and generous way in to this distinguished company for the cordial manner in which the toast has been received. l do not assume to my self the honor of this reception, for am as yet but stranger within the gates of England, and have no such claim upon your personal consideration as my dis tineuished predecessor had. But it is more gratifying than any personal com pliment you could pay me to sec in this another prooi, in addition to the many that have been pressed upon me on all hands since l have landed on your shores, of the hearty feeling of sym pathy which exists among English peo- pie toward the country have :he great honor to represent. When an Amevi- can minister con es here, he finds that it is no foreign mission on which he has been sent. On both sides of the Atlantic he is equally at home he has changed the sky but not the hearts by which he is surrounded-andhe he feels that though he comes as g stranger, he is soon estab- lished as friend. It is an undeniable fact-and in my judgment, it is a most important and significant as we'll as a gratifying fact-that tHe relations be- tween the people of these two grea, countries are growing more cordial ev- cry day. In my belief they never were so cordial as at they are at the present moment. International prejudices are usually the offspring of international misunderstanding; international mis- understandings rapidly perish under the influence of large and liberal interna- tional intercourse; and those are the means, under providence, which are bringing these people nearer and nearer toward each other. Steam and electri- city have bridged the Atlantic, and each country is full of the citizens of the other. Many Americans live here, and many Eng!ishmer live in the United States, and every summer each country is over spread with travellers from the other How cordially on our side of the Atlantic the feeling to which have alluded is re- ciprocated those who have travelled in the United States will know, and those who have not been there 1 freely invite in the name of my countrymen to go, for it is that intercourse which has brought the peoples together in the manner to which l have adverted. The re- lations between governments, and es- pecially the governments of great na- tions, are most important, undoubtedly, and we are to be felicitated on the fact that the relations between the govern ments of England and the United States are now so happy that there is nothing to be said on the subject.
 "But, after all, the fraternity that should exist between nations depends not upon the relations of the govern ments, and is not to be brought about by diplomacy or by treaties; it tdepends upon the personal sympathy and feelings of the people themselves. And if may be permitted to refer to recent events, can assure you that when it was per- ceived in America that the clouds of war which threatened to settle down upon your country began to be dissipated-a hope in the realization of which l pray God we may not be disappointed-and when it began to be seen that the sun- shine of continued peace was likely to fall unobstructed upon the multiplied in- dustries of England, there were no peo- pie in all the range of humanity by whom that conclusion was received with more sincere and complete satisfaction and gratitude than Sy the people cf the United States. Especially, as it seems to me, should the fraternity between these two great aations find expression on this occasion and in this place, where you,
 -.~-:l~ :~ ~xo.~ S.so capacity as chief magistrate of the great est city in the world-a city whose com merce has more than put a girdle around the earth. It is there exactly that you touch us most nearly. America is emphatically country of industry and of business; in no country in the world do that class called business men pos sess so large a share and influence in the affairs of the government America is able to offer a home to all, simply be- cause it offers work to all. ltis pre-emi- nently the home of the worker and not of the idler, and, therefore here, more than anywhere else, it is appropriate that expression should be given to the relations which subsist between the two countries.
 "There is another reason why an American representative, and above ali an American law CT, should be glad to come here on this occasion, and that is the common share which we claim and the common admiration which we feel for the distinguished men who arc your guests to-night@the judges of England. We claim them as ours, as brethren of our profession in America, one and all. In hundreds of courts and among thous- ands of lawyers and judges who never saw and never will see the faces of the English judges, their names to-day are household words, and their decisions are the subject of constant study and of con stant instruction. American judges have to administer justice from the At- lantic to the Pacific, but although the judgments of the English judges do not prevail there, they are seen and felt by both bench and bar. One distinguished member of the English bench, Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, came to Amer i~a q vear a0o He came zs the rueSf