The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-25
THANKSGIVING ABROAD
RECEPTIONS AND BANQUETs AT THE
EUROPEAN CAPITALS.
Sir Edwin ArnOId's Tribute to Amer
icans-Speeches by Charge D'Af-
flares White and Others Mt London.

LONDON. Nov 24.-The THANKSGIVING
banquet Of the American Society in London,
which was held at the Hotel Cecil this even
ing, was a glorifcation OF Anglo-American
friendship. Three hundred Americans and
their English guests sat at table under the
entwined iags of the two nations Two
notable speeches were made, one by Mr.
Henry White, the American charge DAFT
flares, and the other by Sir Edwin Arnold,
who was supposed to be nearly at the point
of death from paralysis, but who dragged
himself into the banquet hall against the
orders Of his physicians, leaning on the arm
of his Japanese wife and supported by a
cane.
J. L. Taylor, president OF the society, pro-
POSED toasts to her Majesty, the Queen, and
to President Mckinley, and Mr.. F. c. Van
Duzer, the secretary, read President Nc
Kinley's Thanksgiving proclamation. VIM.
l.. Osborne, the American consul general
in proposing the health of the charge 'af-
flares, paid a high tribute to Mr.. Whites
long services.
Mr.. White, responding to the toast
Thanksgiving Day." evoked enthusiastic
cheers by reference to Colonel Hay, former
ly American ambassador, and now United
States secretary of state, whose eloquence
aIIIacIlOnS
the gatherings of the society. Speaking of
the first foreign war in fifty years, which
Americans had been compelled to wage in
the interests of humanity and civilization"
the charge daffaires congratulated the Ma
ton that, as in previous crisis. it had been
guided by President possessed of the wis
dom and courage necessary to surmount the
difficulties of the crisis The war had
haf he Of
brightly in the hearts of our citizens as it
ever did, and that sectional differences have
disappeared. We have emerged from the
conflict a united people among the nations
or the earth ready to assume the RESPONSE
bilities Unexpectedly thrust upon us" The
speaker referred to the change which had
come over the feelings of the two nations
with respect to each other las based upon
no alliance at present, nor, / hope to come
but upon unity of feeling 1t would be diff
fcult, he said, to foretel the consequences
should the two countries ever decide upon
joint action in any part of the world 1t
would be combination difficult to defeat
and tending to the advancement of the hui
man race,
The Earl of Halbury, the lord chancellor,
eXtolled Anglo-American friendship, which
he said. was not vain tinsel, but what the
race believed was duty to be done" These
two nations, he declared, had destroyed the
idea that 1t was right for one man to make
another his property. The American people,
at the risk CT tearing aSunder the great en-
pire they had founded, had determined that
every man under the stars and stripes
should be free. The two nations together
might defy the world. Their alliance might
be an idea and a dream, but it was noble
idea and a splendid dream
Sir Edwin Arnold concluded the speech
making with an address, the manner of
which was eloquent that it could not be
reproduced. No man, lie said, could visit
America and not express the gratitude at
tachment and hopes that filed his heart.
He concluded: "Your guests salute you.
Only one who has known Holmes Erner-
son, Longfellow and Whitman can tell how,
secretly and shyly, Englishmen love Amer
lea