The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-15
ATE, DRANK AND MADE MERRY.
Annual Reunion and Banquet OF the
High school Alumni.

Propitious weather. tempting menu,
sharp wits and good music combined
to make the annual reunion and ban
quet of the High SciJol alumni at
Hotel American last night an enjoy
able affair.
The one thing lacking was the pres
ence of Professor II. J. Hockenberry.
This was due to an innovation in the
form of dancing insisted upo1 by Il
majority of the society. The professor
is a consistent Methodist and as the
church discipline prohibits the terpsi-
chorean art he refrained from wit
Messing it's violation. A number OF
teachers who haven't missed the event
in years also stayed away.
Emmons l.. Peck was toastmaster
and all who responded to his calls ac-
credited themselves creditably.
A most timely and interesting toast
was that of ]. Russell Jones on "The
Anglo-American Alliance" Appended
are some extracts from it:
England and the United States are
intuitively one. AS governments they
have the same aims and objects. a
common sympathy binds them, and
while differences exist they are made
comparatively short lived when these
two nations are brought to understand
each other.
ITO critical England the infant re-
public and its proposition of self-gov-
ernment was simply an experiment.
a matter of a few years at best-for
at the end of that period it was pre-
dicted that the fledglings would well
come the parents protecting care, and
that Great Britain might repossess
the land that Yankee optimsts held,
but failed to govern. Have they?
Great Britain probably realizes
more fully than any other nation our
power and possibilities when she is
willing TO admit that we are today in
a condition prepared to meet the navy
of France with her 200 torpedo boats
and three score battleships.
THE people of the United States
are peace loving. We are without the
elements of belligerency and we pre-
fer peace and attendant prosperity to
war and the horrors of bloodshed.
Spain with her loud boasts of prowess,
her claims of kinship and friendship
with the powers of Europe, has forced
upon this great republic conditions
that compelled the development of
our army and navy and forced us
ihtO pldCe dS IL BIedJ llllllldTy ana
naval power
There is no government like ours;
no people with such opportunities:
every man free man-the peer of any
King. To our people every avenue that
leads to the highest place is open. To
al, men, regardless of creed, color or
condition, equal rights and privileges
are offered.
'''Tho .,
in an emergency assume command of
company or battalion, while an or
derly sergeant might successfully di-
rect the movements of a regiment.
Men from the ranks have taken the
place of leaders on many occasions and
led our hosts to victory. No other ma
tion has made such history; has made
such mon.
English statesmen and English
scholars freely express their convic-
tions and declare their intention to pre-
pare for the inevitable. Preparation,
to the great minds of Britain land, calls
for an alliance OF the two English
speaking nations. An alliance, not to
rromulgate general strife ard warfare,
but to secure universal peace; to
bring about conditions of universal
, prosperity more perfect friendship
in all commercial intercourse; to en-
courage everything that has for it's OBJ
ject the betterment Of mankind and
the uniting of all forces that will give
to all people-to all men everywhere
equal rights, exalted freedom, the
highest and grandest opportunities that
Irlifted humanity are capable of en-
joying.
If this is the object and aim os
England's proposition TO the United
States, then ! say God speed the alli-
anoe. Let the compact be written, let
the actual work begin, and with the
first movement let England and Ameri-
ca join in hailing the dawn of the reign
of peace; of universal happiness and
prosperity to all the world"