The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-22
IMPORTANT SPEECH BY REID.
Significance ofthe eAnglo-Americann d
 German Friendship.

| dred and thirty-first annual banquet of l the Chamber of Commerce was held l at Delmonico's tonight and brought i together 800 representative business men of New York. There was also a
 number of distinguished guests, includ- ing Governor Roosevelt, Senator Thom-
 as c. Platt, Senator Chauncey M. De pew, former Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed, Hon. Whiteaw Reid, President Seth Low of Columbia uni versity, President Hadley of Yale, Ma
 jor General Wesley Merritt, U. S. A.,
 and Hon. John Barrett former minis | ister to Siam.
 Hon. Thomas B. Reed responded to
 the toast ''The Gold Standard The next speaker was President Hadley of
 Yale, who responded to the toast Ed
 ucation for Modern Business Responsi-
 bilities."
 President Hadley said in part: Tt is
 for me to suggest how in the future men
 may be tried who shall fill worthily the places that you now occupy. It is one
 of the interesting things to any one who | looks at the catalogues of the colleges
 of the country to see how they are be- | coming year by year the educators of | business men. A generation ago the great majority of the college graduates
 went into the professions. To-day a | large part of them enter commercial l life. There are two reasons for this. In
 the first place, a great many men who go to college to-day without any other idea than that of making the most of their life find that the business oppor- tunities and the business responsibilities of the present generation are so large that there is no object of their ambition so worthy as business success. And, on the other hand, a great many men who intend from the first to enter business find responsibilities of business so diff cult, the vastness of the problem SD great that they prefer to take many years instead of few in preparing themselves for these responsibilities The combination of these two things has brought our colleges into closer con- nection with the world of commerce at present than they were in the past
 Modern business has expanded itself
 to such a degree and has grown so great that 1t is impossible to-day for man to take at once the large leader ships of the whole and the small over SSlll Ol Llt dtbdilS' JlC llluol Icph lo see which things are worth doing, must know how to measure his power, know which are the great things that he must do and which are the small things that he must leave to others. Life is not all business. Life is something wider and more and more as each year goes on to do our business well in the hours that we devote for it we must have some other things besides business to take our attention and keep us alive and all round man. The modern busi ness man must learn to have enjoy ment of the great things of literature and history"
 The next speaker was the Hon. Whitelaw Reid, who spoke to the toast "The Existing Friendliness Between the United States and Great Britain.' MT. Reid, in part, said: Long ago Thomas Jefferson remarked that of all the na tions of the earth Great Britain could do us the most Harm, and therefore we should sedulously cultivate cordial friendship with her. These later days have shown that of all the nations of the earth Great Britain and the United States can give each other the most cheer and do each other the most good | There is a nobler motive on both sides for the same sedulous cultivation of the same cordial friendship Tn the la mentable wars in which both are for the moment unhappily involved the ut most either need do is to hope for the other, as for itself, an honorable and speedy end to conflicts which neither be- gan. Few thinking people seriously | c,ir oft hut the one obvious and inevitable result | The end which is thus foreseen from the | beginning will be best for the security of personal rights for the ordered liber- ty and the advancing civilization of the | world.
 We cannot but regret that. in one | case. the victory will bring some nat ural bangs to as noble a race as dwells | in Europe. But Dutch sympathy with | illusory. Afrikauder aspirations will | breed no blood feud. Meanwhile it can not prevent the return of good relations between the two peoples of the world | nearest to ourselves in origin, aims and | interests, the two great Indo-Germanic | peoples ruled from London and Berlin. That is an event momentous in the worlds history, suspicious for us. and suspicious for the solution of the east ern problems in which we must now bear our share. I say without hesita- tion that if there are three great na tions in the world that God and nature meant for eternal peace and amity with each other, those three are Great Britain, Germany and the United States. There is obviously every reason why England and Germany should now be friends. Yet more should the United States welcome and prize the growing friendship of each. We are rivals in trade. But we are also indis- pensable customers to each other and we have a common interest in the east the interest of the open door. It is to the interest of all three of us that no nation shall be able to mark the farther east off the commercial map of the world"
 A toast to the queen of New Britain was drunk standing amid great enthu- siasm. Governor Roosevelt was then introduced and responded to the toast, The State oI New York.
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