Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-01-10
GOOD WILL MESSAGES.
MANY GREETINGS FROM BEYOND
THE SEA.

Sentiments OF the Thinking Peopi
OF England regarding War Will
the United States-Endorsed b.
the Prince OF wales.
Cablegram to the Examiner.
The Marquis OF Lorne sends the fol
lowing:
peace, good will and the hope tha
brotherly commerce may not b
broken by designing outsiders.
LoRNE."
President Leighton of the Roya
Academy speaks for the world of ar
in this way: "With me, as with th'
overwhelming majority of thinkin,
Englishmen, it is my deep-rooted anc
unsuitable conviction that the future
of civilization and freedom over the
whole world can have no stronger safe.
guard nor any surer warranty than
the maintenance of harmony, full and
friendly, based on the mutual respect
and common aims between the great
Enslish.speaking races that are spread
over its face-races that spring from
one common stock, speak the tongue
of Milton and Shakespeare, and are
the champions of order, liberty and
respect for the law. 1t follows that in
our eyes no greater disaster could be-
fall those people, no more sinister
cloud could settle down on their future
than the violent disruption of those
bonds which we, on our side, so
warmly desire to strengthen. That
the New Year may avert that disaster
and strengthen across the water the
feeling that animates US here is wish
I ardently entertain.
FREDERICK LEIGHTON"
Sir Walter Besant is officially typi-
Cal Of literature, and this is what he
says: "All difficulties and disputes
between us ought to be deferred while
we take common action in the East.
There is now existing unchecked q
tragedy of the most frightful kind. No
crime in history has ever been worse
than this long-continued massacre,
this premeditated massacre of Armen-
ians. At the thought OF thousands
daily being butchered, tortured, out
ragged, mutilsted, driven off to perish
with cold in the hills, one asks, Is this
time for quarrel such as may cause
more deaths, more deaths by thous-
ands, of these people every day?. Are
we, as William Mstson asks, to wait
until there is not one maiden left to
violate? Let the lawyers settle the
boundary question between Venezuels
and Great Britain; let US rise to higher
things and nobler duties. Cannot for
once the blue-jackets of America join
our own, and side by side with US res
cue these wretched Christians and
place them once for all out of the
power of the Turk? God help them
else in this blackest New Year in all
their long chronicle of suffering.
WALTER BEsANT."
Lord Lonsdale, more than any other
man in England, represents the better
element of sport OF every kind. Char
acteristically enough from the very
hunting field itself comes the follow.
ing dispatch, dated Quorn: "I can
only say that 1 deeply regret the polit-
ical attitude adopted by President
Cleveland in the Venezuelan matter.
The incident will remain in history as
probably the most selfish political card
that has ever been played. 1t has
ruined some and caused strife and ILL.,
feeling between two nations who can.
not possibly 60 TO war. How is it pos.
sible? There is too much American
capital in England and English capital
in America to allow such an idea to
hold water at all. I am confident that
no warlike feeling really exists between
the two countries other than q mo-
mentary irritation which takes place
between the best of friends at times,
The only feeling hear expressed In
this country is the sincere hope that
1896 may bring about increased friend
ship between both countries. friendly
competition in sport and prosperous
and a happy New Year to America
and those who live within the most
hospitable country have ever trav-
eled in. LoNsDALE."
Representing q very different world,
Dean Farrar has this to say: From
q sick bed I write to express my fer.
vent hope, prayer and conviction that
common blood, common sympathies,
common literature, common interests
common duties and q common faith
will unite the two great divisions ol
the English-speaking race in those
common efforts for good to all man
kind. The whole world would feel the
| frightful shock of q collision between
England and America, and to entel
such a war on trivial grounds would
be an immeasurable crime, would
cause immeasurable calamities. The
feeling OF the vast mass of the Englist
nation towards America are and hav.
ever been those of kindred and sincere
friendship. F. A. FARRAR."
Sir William McCormac is probably
the greatest English authority OF