The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-25
WELDING NEW FRIENDSHIP
THANKSGIVING BANQUET OF4MER-
 ICAN SOCIETY IN LONDON.

Understamding-Th Flags Again En-
 twined-Two Notable Spcechcs-Sir
 Edwin Arnold Present Against Ills
 Physicians' Advice-The Great Elo-
 qutnce of Ills Speech.
 London, Nov. 24.-The Thanksgiving banquet of the American society in London, which was held at the Hotel Cecil this evening, was a glorification of Anglo-American friendship. Three hundred Americans and their English guests sat at tables under the entwined speeches were made, one by Henry White, the American charge d'affaires, 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, proposed toasts dent Mckinley, and F. c. Van Duser, the secretary, read President McKin- leys Thanksgiving proclamation.
 MT. White, responding to the toast Thanksgiving Day." evoked enthusi- astic cheers by a reference to Colonel Hay, formerly American ambassador and now United States secretary of state, whose eloquence, he said, had been the chief attraction of the gather ings 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 civili- Zation,' the charge daffaires congratu- lated the nation that, as in a previous crisis, it had been guided by the cour age necessary to surmount 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 differ ences have disappeared. We have emerged from the conflict a united peo- pie among the nations of the earth, ready to assume the responsibilities un- expectedly thrust upon us."
 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, hope, to come, but upon unity of feeling." It would be difficult, he said, to foretell the consequences should the two countries ever decide upon joint action in any part of the world. It would be a combination difficult to de- feat and tending to the advancement of the human race.
 The Earl of Halsbury, the lord chan cellor, extolled the Anglo-American friendship, which, he said, was not ''vain tinsel, but what the race believed was duty to God" The American people, at the risk of tearing asunder the great empire 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 a noble idea and splendid 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 con- cluded: Your guests salute you. Only one who has known Holmes, Emerson Longfellow and Whitman can tell how secretly and shyly Englishmen love America"