New-York tribune., 1900-12-01

NhlTELAW RETD'S ADDRESS
The next speaker WAS whitelsw Reid. who re-
sponoed 10 the toast. THE English Speaking
Race" lie said
old scope OF ST Andrews But possibly we UG have
si,ei, on our IeTing w tre past 10 dwell too excu-
,bst tSe scotcb a. IL Is right also TO remember
that important sections of them have now a habit
OF OF iS rhousnSt ab9 speech Influenced by some gen
Scotch overhowed Scotland Thev have besn Sosng
much 20 rue ireland and even England. They have
they have borne far more than their proportionate
snare " soNeILIi'g America: may be seen even
in the number OF their representatives I'm the
a letter from beyond the Tweed. received in Lon
don during the the Jubilee. reminded me that in some
have said Brtish to include ali ihst vas s99%ld obi
ously meant Well. now let have il understood
that he s-refers to the EneshsPesknrFe re nes'he M
means Of course, that the best part Of them speak
The Engsh-spea king racer' It is not difhcult
determined that It should be now proposed II was
the same man who found: not long ago, an
that in spite of IN" conflicts and traditional bit
teIness w. hUH s 700 MeIli II Is less than hundred
speaking race throughout the world the will
us the other day. Of Lord Roseberys dTeamIthe
dream of OF @ what might have been. as he said If
his vision the time when the preponderating balance
with more than double many English citizens
this side of the Atlantic on the other. Queen
mightest empire Of the world took steamer from
Aona3n 70 set up ne new csPiiai OF the race III, IN
universe which had already been inoculated with
But your chairman 4 dreamer, too, and
seven years earlier in new chapter tor ms irl. I'll
what might have been II nothing had happened in
lIlS but what he fancied might yet be- IN spite OF
all that has happened. His dream was OF re-
united race: Of a movement that should heal the
should put the English eaking race not back in
his conception, rather forward TO where II was
with all the priceless gain of those years, the
Z Spo@Gss M ana security OF rgnts tnT anS
happiness. The whole race in every quarter Of the
under one harmonious prqtectins and wellnigh all
powerful government. To state Il more broadly
ooscusoH he had h hardly r faced S d himself his dFee
b % ~ 'e ,s1d sa W o. t1esHI e5 a sG o ali OF
England herself 10 became in some way cG-parJ,, p,
and illuminated edition Of what We now call the
Of an English Premier or Of IN American merchant
prince ane ge9ia ~ preSqsnt qf S T 1ere
half Of US in this case would be up in arms at
into the Union. but 10 keep good msny out.
Sufficient unto the continent are the people thereof
part Ti by represenEatiyes from Outside its limits
whether from the British Isles or our own Indies
And If there be another psran. unit duty now, for
Sometimes hard FOR u free ems people 10 learn Il is
not TO meddle-as little between Quebec and OF
minister, as We ourselves would have welcomed
meddlng between Richmond and Washington,
For the true Interpretation of both these dreams
another rule must also be kept in veW.-a rule
developed the race on both sides the Atlantic.
These forces start from small centres. grow out
springs Of the powers are forever the same-at the
Ite eentes' IN oIheT woIds. 1GCSi
With rs il concerns more than merely township or
nent now is local too as re,ards race that over
spreads the world; and We have felt already:
the race elsewhere however worthy or represer-
tatives Of outside regions under our sway however
advanced. ever unless We go crazy. be per
mitted 10 have part or lot in II.
Nevertheless The race. under all skies. and around
all the oceans. is alive and throbbng with the new.
hslf-understood. enormously potential influences Of
are in the air They have rsvolutionized manu-
izfng trade Who shall saw they may not reach 10
government? But lately We Ia witnessed grave
Hague 70 ana Po let I the cohtendng nations Content
themselves with such allotments from the pool as
work very well in the trial trip.-if the year that
ths 8mehng 9 good e1i R Rn c6e ay ot 9 %
i the whole world hopes-and respectable part Of
TT Sg5sSyss 9opD95 our ysT % n to s0T1oP
to circle the world. we cannot but note that both
these dreamers. from different points of view and
as natural and Inevitable the peaceful and cordial
cooperation henceforrh Of all parts OF the English
could have enlarged their circle and found equal
part OF the same family that does not vet sneak
English-although il is learning il as fast as II
can-the Teutonic part,
Yet, even as they saw il. II is a blessed vision.
hno what q contrast Twice have had open
war with the mother country. OF 124 years OF
!inoepenaent lie; nearly a tenth has been spent
IN active hostilties with her. and four years more
four bloody, terrible years slowly passed on
the anxious verge OF war Three generations have
srown up nlled with the recollection and STEPPED
N the bitterness OF these conflicts. We have Just
oeen celebrating with full and grateful hearts
1ankee festival Among the foremost Of our causes
for Thanksgiving might well have been reckoned
these growing signs. al over the world, that the
estranged branches Of the English-speaking family
are craving together Canada, that was in open
reVot when the Queen ascended the throne. is
now: under the freshly approved leadership of sir
Nllfr1d Laurier. French Premier a loyal as
ecouaho; ana winning laurels as fadeiess In the
The separation between our own North and South
disappeared at Santiago. The coldness between
Nerids re1oiclngs over the good Queens sixtieth
anniversary. and melted in the genial warmth Of
English support a little later when all Europe was
seainst US We have had common perils since I'm
the East. and our soldiers have fought loyally
slde by SIDE, IN a common cause.-the very thing
IhoTnas Jefferson. with the prophetic vision OF a
ago. when he wrote to Mr.. Monroe: we should
most sedulousy cherish cordial friendship with
our anecuons than 10 be fighting more side
by side in the same cause"
il is a woful cause. that fighting in China but
thls az leas' IS bright side to II. In any other
aspect how can Te face that sphinxlike Chinese
Colossus, while our own peaceful policy is still
thWarted by rival European interests and orninous
whispers OF partition and dismemberment MI the
air, without one dim fornless apparition forever
rising oefore our eyes-the apparition every kirk
vision OF the great and awful DAY of Armageddon?
But WtlateIer befall, believe this Engsh-speak- X
i1 ing reGnlon Is 70 abide And what concrete. CO.
Iossal iorce IN the worlds progress IL means, The
work the English-speaking race divided has done Is
but hint OF " hat that harmonious and cooper