The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-10
LORD HERSCHELL PRAISED
Chauncey Depew Expresses Admir-
alton of Britain's Commissioner.

alton of Britain's Commissioner.
New York, Nov: 1O-!To, Lord HerschelI
Great Britain and the United States for
IG az iS3b OF di ra+ NY 'e
Arms OF Britain and of the United
expressed the spirit and the tone of the
festival. Under the shields was inscribed
the device, United we stand, divided we
At the table where Lord Herschen sat
Rev. Dr. R s. MacArthur the Rev. DR..
Henry Van Dyke, Seth Low, Bqurke
Willard Bartlett, w. B. Hornblower and
There were red roses in the tall white
glass vase in front of Lord Herschel
white roses in the tall white glass vase
boxes, chrysanthemums and autumn
Leaves IN garlands eDeTywh1eFe LIZ 9rd 1td er
was melOdiOus and sincere. Wherever his
deeply in sympathy with him
He had Pff 6 askfd What is ygq T b b
.tThe happy end of the discussion about
it is highly creditable to the state min
listers sof France and Great Britain" He
sald; .-..,,.-.. 49, -,.o-.o4o7 = no.,
about Egypt may prevent one about
He had said these things in the hearing
of two or three persons only, but they had
been repeated to other;s,, ana an az al We're
serve when he rose to make a speech. Its
sentiments We're of friendship for the
Americans. He appeared singularly in
He is under medium height He has a
fringe of scant black hair at the back of
his head and whiskers that, black a the
ears are white at the ends. His eyes are
stili Iustrous. His upper lip protrudes. a
little He is not at rest, apparently the
chancellor of Great Britain. But a thought
Eliminates his face suddenly and then his
Chauncey NJ Depew said in part:
zone of the best signs of our times tend
ton than even the famous proclamation OF
the Russian car, has been, and is the
the great eIectorate-the democracy. of
Great Britain and the people of the United
States. Sir Henry Irving told me last
summer a story full of significance. It
Great Britain and the people OF the Unit
ed States understand one another they are
in many respects one people One of the
most brillinant and eloquent PLATFORM ora
tors the world has ever known was Henry
civil war when the press and the upper
/ classes of Great Britain were largely hos
ular ambassador from the people of the
United States to the people OF England
Manchester the feeling among the opera
tive and artisans Of that great manutac-
ceeded, the rebellion was put down and
the Union was preserved, IN some way the
cotton of the southern states would be di-
e 'T 17o+ IInfamiiiar VIII that sort of poii-
States. Irving said that at that time he
Birmingham, Having secured good po-
sition In the hall, he saw a maddened
young man upon the platform, with the
evident purpose of tearing him to pieces
tected by the leading citizens of Manches-
ter and the police. 1t was half an hour
The first five minutes of Mr.. Beecher's
speech set them wild again, and then Try
be dragged from the platform and killed
By the exertions, however, OF the men
cured, and Beecher developed in his own
! literature and the ties OF the Two coun-
tries, the common origin OF their hberty
the interest which every man had for him
self and his children in the perpetuity and
ca can 9ii Tgepubiic. The first half hour was
silence, the second was tumultuous APP
enthusiastic approval, and at the close
the crowd insisted upon bearing upon their
shoulders and carrying away in triumph
to his lodgings the orator whose cause
'ii ..,fh ts'e war with Spain threatened the
equilibrium of that delicate instrument
known as me furoPS 9; oa + u puTSl.
Of the globe covered with navies to keep
# from Getting out of trim Every con
sideration of the association OF centuries
and of dynastic considerations and ambi-
powers to sympathize with Spain. They
as was done in the Turko- Grecian war.
Great Britain said. NO; we viii take no
part in any International actien which IS
was then proposed by the CONT
mental powers that they should intervene,
and Great Britain remain neutral. The re-
ply of Great Britain was: In that case
England will be on the side of the United
States That ended the subject of inter
ference in our Spanish war. That action
promoted the peace of the world That
sentiment flashed across the ocean cleo
trified the American people; that position,
unanimously approved in Great Britain by
the masses and by the classes, received
such a recognition in the United States as
only a great and generous people can
give for a great and generous friendship:
That action set the current of the blood of
English-speaking peoples flowing in like
channels and was the beginning of the
era of goOd-felloWship which is to have
the most marked influence upon the story
of nations and of peoples in the future
Z, sctn q world