The age-herald., 1898-11-25
THANKSGIVING
 IN OLD ENGLAND Barquet of American Society at the
 Hotel Cecil, London. TWO NOTABLE SPEECHES Henry White and Sir Edwin ArnOld EX- tOl AnSlO-AmeriCan Unity. TOASTS TO QUEEN AND PRESIDENT Lord Halisbury Declared That the Friendship of the Nations Was Not
 Vain Tinsel, But Duty
 To be Done.
TWO NOTABLE SPEECHES
TOAsIs TO QUEEN AND PRESIDENT

London, November 24.-The Thanksgiving banquet of the American society in London, which was held at the Hotel Cecil this evening was a glorification of Anglo-Amer- ican friendship. Three hundred Americans and their English guests sat at table un- der the entwined flags of the two nations. Two notable speeches were made, one by MT. Henry White, the American charge d affaires and the other by Sir Edwin Ar mold, 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, -iean- ing upon the arms of his Japanese wife and supported by cane. The president of the society proposed toast to her majesty, the queen, and to the president. F. c. Van Duser, the secretary, read President McKinley's Thanksgiving proclamation.
 Mr. White, responding to the toast Thanksgiving Day" evoked great enthusi- astic cheers by reference to Colonel Hay, formerly American ambassador and now secretary of state whose eloquence, he said, had been the chief attraction of the gatherings of the society. Speaking of the First foreign war in fifty years" which Americans had been compelled to wage in the interest of humanity and civilization, the charge d'affaires congratulated the na- tion, that, as in a previous crisis, it had been guided by president possessed of the wisdom and courage necessary to surmount the difficulties of the crisis. The war had proven "that the fire of patriotism burns as brightly in the hearts of our citizens as it ever did, and that sectional differences have disappeared. We have emerged from 4l,o unit na tions of the earth, ready to assume the re- sponsbilities unexpectedly thrust upon us."
 Unity of Feeling
 The speaker referred to the change which had come over the feelings of the two nations with respect to each other "as based upon no alliance at present nor, l hope, to come but upon unity of feeling.'
 It would be difficult, he said, to foretell the consequences should the two countries ever decide uIca .oint action In any part of the world. It would be a combination difficult to defeat and tending to the ad- vancement of the human race.
 The Earl of Halisbury the lord chancel- Tor, extolled Anglo-American friendship, which he said was not vain tinsel, but what the race believed was duty to be done ''
 stroyed the idea that 1t was right for one man to make another his property. The American people, at the risk of tearing asunder the great empire they had found- ed, 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 6i cam, but it was noble idea and a splen- did dream.
 Sir Edwin Arnold concluded the speech making with an address, the manner of which Was so eloquent that it could not be reproduced.
 No man, he said. could visit America and not express the gratitude, attachment and hopes that filled his heart. He concluded with the following:
 Your guests salute you Only one who has known Holmes, Emerson, LongfelIow and Whi.zaan can tell how secretly and shyly Ehgiishmen love America"