The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-22
THREE MAIN RACES.
Whitelaw Reid On
England, Germany
and America.
THEY SHOULD STAND AS ONE.
Aims, Origin and Aspira-
tions Almost the
Same.
THEY SHOULD STAND AS ONE.

New York, Nov. 21.-The one hundred
and thirty-first annual banquet of the
Chamber of Commerce was held at Del
monico's tonight and brought together
800 representative business men of New
York. There were also a number of dis
tinguished guests, including Gov.
Roosevelt, Senator Thomas C. Platt,
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew, former
speaker of the house, Hon. Thomas B.
Reed, Hon. Whitelaw Reid, President
Seth Low of Columbia University, Pres
ident A. T. Hadley of Yale University,
Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt, and Hon
John Barrett, former minister to Siam.
In the absence of Rev. DR.. Henry Van
Dyke, President Morris K. Jessup pro-
nounced grace, and the diners sat down
to the music of Sousa's Hands Across
the Sea-
Shortly before the speechmaking be-
gan party Of men and women entered
the small balcony overlooking the ban
quet hall In the party was George
Goodwin Dewey, son of Admiral Dewey.
Rear Admiral Erben shook hands heart
lily with young Dewey and asked after
his fathers health. Mr.. Dewey declined
to discuss the transfer to him of his
fathers Washington house,
Mr.. Reid, in part said: Long age
! Thomas Jefferson remarked that of all
the nations of the earth, Great Britain
could do us the most harm, and there
| fore we should sedulously cultivate her
Friendship. These later days have shown
that, of all the nations of the earth
| Great Britain and the United States car
give each other the most cheer and dc
each other the most good. There is 8
nobler motive, on both sides, for the
same sedulous cultivation of the same
cordial friendship.
In the lamentable wars in which botf
are for the moment unhappily involved
| the utmost we can do is to hope for its
termination. Few thinking people Sc
riously suppose either war can have
any but the one obvious and inevitable
result. The heavier battalions will win
For the rest, whatever may DE the ma
| tural sympathies aroused for the fee
bier side in either war, and whatever
may be urged in partial justification Of
| the acts by which they. precipitateC
| hostilities, the dispassionate observer
| will not doubt that, in both coses, the
| end which is thus foreseen from the
beginning will be best for the security
of personal rights, for the ordered lib
| erty ana the advancement of civiliza
ton of the world.
I'VE cannot but regret that, in one
case, the victory will bring some ma
tural pangs to as noble race as dwells
in Europe. But Dutch sympathy witt
| illusory Afrikander aspirations viii
breed no blood feud. Meanwhile it can
not prevent the return of good friend
| ship, between the two speaking people
| of the world nearest to ourselves in or
| igin, aims and interests, the two great
Indo-G ermanic peoples ruled from Lon
don and Berlin. That is an event mo-
mentous in the worlds history, aus
picious for u.s. and suspicious for the
solution of the eastern problems in
which we must now bear. our share.
"I say without hesitation that If
there are three great nations in the
world that God and nature meant for
eternal peace and amity with each 9th
err, those three are Great Britain, Ger
many and the United States. There
is obviously every reason why England
and Germany should now be friends.
Yet more should the United States well
come and prize the growing friendship
of each"