Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-10

| tdidllan people, tnlt tnOsS feelings We
| will at all times reciprocate: reciprocate
| not only in words eyanescent. but III aCluaI
| living deeds. tApplause.)
Let me recall TO you the lines which. III
| the darkest days of the civil war the
| Puritan poet OF America issued to Eng
| land:
- oh Englishmen.' he said, oh Englishmen,'
| In hope and in creed;
In blood and tongue are brothers.
| We all heirs Of RunnymeG..
Brothers We are, in the language of
| your own poet. May | not say that, whtie
| our relations not always as brotherly
as they should have been. may not ask;
Mr. President, on the part OF Canaaa ia anu anu
on the part of the United States, II We are
not sometimes too prone 10 stand pS the
| full conceptions of our rights ana exacd
| all our rights 10 the last pound of flesh?
! May | not ask If there have not been TOO
! often between us petty quarreIS Whith
happily do not wound the heart OF the na-
| tion?
Sir l am proud to say, IN the presence
! OF the chief executive of the United states
! that it is the belief of the Canadian gov
ernnent that we should make a supreme
| effort 10 better our relations, and make the
government OF President Mckinley and the
| present government OF Canada. with thc
assent OF Great Britain. so 10 work to-
! Gether TO remove all causes OF as
! scnSion between us.
/ The secretary of state told us some Few
months ago that there was no treaty "i
alliance between Great Britain ana the
United States of America. 1t Is very trut
that between the United States OF America
ard Great Britain to-day no treaty OF al
lance which the pen can write and when
the pen can make. bui there is between
Great Britain and the United States OF
| America unity of blood. of blood when ~
thicker than water tApplausel; ana ap-
peal TO recent history when say lhdt
| whenever one nation has To face emergency
Ia greater emergency than usual-forth-
with the syrpathics OF the other nations
go To their sister. tAppiauSe.)
When last year you were suddenly en-
gagged in with Spain. though SPAN
was the weaker party and though II Is
natural that men should side with the
weaker party our sympathics went you,
for other reason than that OF blood
tApplause.l And am sure you will agree
with me that, though our relations have
not reached the degree of perfection 10
which | would aspire, from that day
rev page has been turned in the history
of our country.
1T was no unusual occurrence before
the month OF May, lMS. TO read IN the
British press of American arroSance; e.
neither was il an unusual occurrence TO
read in the American press OF British
brutality. Since the month of May. 1873,
the vocabulary You do NOT hear today
| Of American arrogance; neither do you
hear OF British brutality, but the only eN-
| prcSsiOns which you find in the press al
| either country the words of mu-
tual respect and mutual affection CAP
| plauSe.D
In the month Of June last, I spoke or
the floor OF the hOuse of commons OF Can
ada on the question of Alaska. and L enun-
Clatcd the very obvious trlIlSm tnat inter-
national problems can be settled In one OF
| TWO ways ony-cither by arbitration or by
! var. And although proceeded to say that
! | the war between Great Britain and the
United States would be criminal and would
IioT be thought of for moment, still the
very word war created quite an excite
| excitement. though | was indirectly the
cause of II. do not at this moment find
, absolute certainty that between your coun-
| try and my country the relations have
reached that degree of dignity and respect
and affection. that even the word war
is never to be mentioned in a British as
. sembly or in an American assembly. (Ap-
plauseD The word IL not to he pronounced,
is abhorrent to us.
\ II repeat what ] then stated. that war
| between Great Britain and the United
, States would be crimnal-in my estima-
tion and judgment, Just criminal as the
civil war which desolated your country
? some thirty years ago. Whatever may
, | nave been the mistaken views of the civiliZ-
ed world at that time, the civilized world
has come to a unanimous conclusion that
r the war of the rebellion was a crime The
civilized world has come TO the conclusion
that it was "A benefit to mankind that this
rebellion did not succeed and that the gov
ernment of the people. by the people and
earth. (ApplauseD Your country was
: desolated for four long years by the awful
al seourSe of civil war. OF the many things
: which are to be admired in this great
: country of yours. the one thing for my
Y part which / most admire is the absolute
Y success with which you have re-establish-
K ed the. Union and erased all traces of the
$ Ny friend, Mr. Cullom. said a moment
: ago that he might believe me almost an
> american am a British subject. but
Il am lover of liberty, believer in demo
:? cratic institutions. and | rejoiced as much
r. as any of YOU did at the spectacle which
n was presented AT Santiago. FL Caney and
e elsewhere during that war: .fApplauseD
. Sirs, there was another civil war. There
| a civil In the last TkPrE
n vas civil war between England then and
- | her colonies.
. J The union which then existed between
g England and her colonies was severed. II
= II was severed, American citizens. as YOU
= know II was. it was through the faults OF
n applause.) If the British government OF
II that day had treated the American colonie:
q as the British government for the last
e twenty or fifty years has treated its colo
"" ntes-if Great Britain had given you ther
!, the same degree OF liberty which 1t gives
/, you. as it has given US, legislative inde,
u pendence absolute. the result would have
e been different; the course of victory, the
. course of history. would have been very
= different. But what has been done cannot
u be undone. You cannot expect that the
= union which was then severed shall ever
u be restored: but can We not hope that. il
. the union cannot be restored under the
~ law. at least there can be union OF
- hearts? tApplause.D
e Can We not hope that the banners OF
J.. England and the banners of the United
le States shall never. never again meet in
"a conflict. except those conflicts provided by
"a the arts OF peace, such as we see to-day IN
~ the harbor of New York in the contest be.
. tween the Shamrock and the Columbia fol
10 the supremacy Of naval architecture and
No naval prowesS? Can not hope that Il
sr ever the banners Of England and the ban
q ners of the United States are again to mec'
l. on the battlefield they should meet en-.
$ twined together in the defense of some holy
ID cause, in the defense of holy justice. 70,
r. the defense of the oppressed. for the en-.
Il franchisement of the down trodden and foi
RS the advancement of liberty. progress anC
civilization" Great appIauseD
iol Perhaps during the entire evening there
le were no sentiments more raptuously ap
p plaudcd-mOre enthusiastically received
IS than that in Premier Lauriers address
10 when he said: There are no two nations
NJ on the face OF the globe as united Greai
20 Britain and America. nor any comfy oi
as blood-and blood will tell-as that which
Is flows between the English-speaking peopI,
on this side of the great Atlantic
H. The audience appreciated the sentiment
> In its fullest. II rose to its feet and cheereC
ne and cheered again. while the premier. un
q, able TO proceed smiled and bowed his ac
~ Acknowledgements of the appreciation OF thu
"a sentiment which evidently came from tbs
r. bottom of his heart.
II The welcome extended to Sir Wilfri,
I'd LGurier was repeated when the next sneak
of er, Vice President Mariscal. of Mexico
nd rose. He answered to the toast. The Re
is public OF Mexico. follows:
Il rise principally to thank YOU YER
cordially for the toast proposed and drunl
in honor OF Mexico and its president. Yet
Id on such an occasion rs this when yo,
w of this phoenix city, and when the presenc
MS of the first magistrate of the nation give