Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-11
tosst, the health, happiness and pros
periiy Of onr guest, MI. Mutsu.
Mr. Mntsu renlied Sd foiioWs:

Mr. Mutsu replied S. follows:
Mr.. Greenhouse and Gentlemen: When
l received your polite Invitation TO sccept
| at your hancs the honor which you have
| this evening corierr- d upon me, confess
I was possessed oY feeling Of personal
satisfsc ION and national pride. Personal
sat sfsction that my appointment as q. I.
g representative at Washington had
met with the endorse mant u the leading
citizens Of the GreA! Republic who reside
! IN our midst, ana national pride to think
that the relations between our two conf
tries had grown with our strength and
| increased with the increasing years, until
o-d6y we could meet as friends and
not as strangers. In that farce and
ever broadening cor fict between western
ideas and eastern tradition which has
beer going on in ] pan ever since Perry
landed on cur shoree, we have never
] turned In vain to the Ulited States for
sympathy and encouragement 1 am
proud Ct being selected by His Gracious
NJ. TASTY to Convey to the President Of
the United s ates his sentiments Of en-
during esteem and regard. TIE mission
is ccngenial to me, sed you, gentlemen,
have made 1t dtutiy agreeable by this
evidence OK your good will. l shall De
betrAylrg no secret when | state thst the
measure Of my success will depend
upon the results Cf my ef orts to draw
still closer the bonds Of friend
ship and good correspondence between
our two countries. Whn shall attempt
to accomplish In that direction In the
United States, your own minister, with
greater tact and wiser discretion than l
can hope to command, Is carrying to
SUCCESSFUL conclusion here. l thank you,
Mr.. Gresthouse, for the kind words you
have spoken, ard to you, gentlemen, l
extend my grateful Acknowledgements for
the cordial manner In which you have re-
sponded to those words; and can assure
you that nc incident in my life will stand
out more distinct or be remembered with
greater pleasure than this reception and
your warm welcome.
Mr. John Middleton proposed the
health OF 81. u. Hubbard, minister pleni-
potentisry and envoy extraordinary from
the United States TO Lspan, who respond
ed IS follows;
GENTLEAEN-Raving already been hon
ored by you snd charged with the duty OF
proposing the first toast Of the evening
to His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor Of
Jspan--to which the empire and republic
gladly responded, had settled down to
the comfortable reflection that thereafter
1 might in good earnest proceed uninter-
ruptedly to the nnal consideration, dis
cussion and conclusion OF the splendid
feast which you have especially rendered
to your honored guest, so soon to sail for
our native lsnd, IS the minister and envoy
Of his country.
But you have forced me out of what
thought WAS 8 bomb-proof casemste by
raining down on my position your shot
and shell and ordering me to Surrender
at discretion," snd thank you besides In
"speech" for rirking to my "heslth"-
which as yet, thank God, is not the least
impaired by time or indulgence. APP
plause II l must settle and pay up the
debt incurred by your kindly toast, then
let me say there shall be no "fukering,"
ne retrest, but on your heads
be the consequences II the re-
msinder Of THESE smoking viands
grows cold, and the wine insipid while
INFECT 8 speech under your friendly CON-
pulsion. Then, to begin with, let me
thank this distinguished company CHATS
the regulation style Of address) Of my
countrymen and of our friends Of this
Land of the Morning" here present for
this toast. In heart and speech, such
speech as we often use IN the far West, l
esponc-"The same to you" 1t has not
the rvthm srd the rhyme, 1 admit, OF
Lord Byron when he sang "Tbere's .
health to thee and thine Tenn Moore, &c"
but 1t is the same thought, only differ
emily, IL not better, expressed.
Join you with all my heart, my Ameri
can friends, In sill the kindly words you
have said to his excellency tonight, who
goes to see for himself the great repub-
lie, Of which we are accused Ct being
pever tired Of speaking, IS certainly We
never case to love wherever we may
roam. Applause As the Consul Cen
erel has already told you, 80 l repeat to
him that he will be received at our capt.
tai AID by our countrymen with hospi-
tally which will test warn him now In
sGvince-all mis- pledges Of total ab-
stinence (f he has ever made any, which
d ub } [spplaase and preeipitste him
into premature dyspepsia and an
"esIly decline,"ji he feels In duty
bound to take p.-t Of every good thing |
which their hospitable bsrquess will
spread before him. rApplause He will
And It to be great country in extent, as
he already knows from personal observe |
tlOp snQ CT uDiuAus ucalIy every NaIlSty
OF soil and climate and production neces- |
sary to the sustenapce and comfort and |
happiness of mankind. Words cannot do |
justice to the subject Painters brush,
nor sculptor's chisel-though making the |
canvas or the marble speak-cknnot con-
vey scarcely shadow CT the substance Of
tiat grand and continental land. One of |
the rarest and qusiptest Of our early Ameri |
can writers NOW crossed over to the"greAt
ms jorlty"), who in his brief life put the
world in better humor with itself, was |
asked on the Fourth Of July, our national |
independence day, to respond to the toast |
Of "Our Country" "Our native land" he
replied, "God bless her! She needs no |
speeches, no eulogies, and l would at
tempt to make nohe unless had q ros-
trum on the Rocky mountains, with the |
Atlantic and Pacific, the great lakes and |
the south gulf for my orches
ira. n extent, don's mention II!
In fertility Ct soil, let the Nile and the
Niger hide their boosted richness in
shame and silencel As to climate, we
can make Greenlsnders and Lsplanders
happy with our billiards, and the chill
dren of the equatorial nations shout for