The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-06
CARNEGIE MADE SPEECH
Angl0-Saxon Unity Theme of
 the Philanthropist.
Lord Lansdowne's Toast to the Presi. dent Aroused Enthusiasm. Mutual Admiration the
 Order of the Evening.

London, June 5.-The banquet tend cred by the London Chamber of com- merce to the delegates of the New York Chamber of Commerce at Gro- cers' Hall tonight, was one of the handsomest affairs of the kind ever given in a city famed for lavish hos pitality. No effort was spared to honor the American guests, but it must be confessed that the latter did not sustain the reputation America has for brilliant after-dinner speaking. Nor did the British speakers do much to relieve the tedium of four hours talk ing.
 All the speeches, however, teemed with extreme friendliness and faith in the establishment of permanent friend ly relations. All the speakers express ed the belief that Great Britain and the United States would rule the des- tinies of the world, and that their rn- written alliance would always work for peace and the benefit of mankind.
 Grocers' Hall just opposite the Bank of England. has the reputation of be- ing the most interesting chamber of all the city companies. Lord Brassey presided. On his right was MT. Choate and on his left Lord Lansdowne, Morris K. Jessup, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius N. Bliss, Lord Alverstone (Lord Chief Justice of EnglanD, MT. Griscom. George G. Ward, Lord Strathcona, Lord Avebury, President of the Associated Chambers of Com merce, and J. Pierpont Morgan were ot hA foh af honor. In all nearly 300 were present.
 Brassey Welcomed Guests.
 Lord Brassey welcomed the guests "as the representatives of the skill an enterprise which have turned the vast resources of the American continent to the service of mankind"
 Referring to the debt Great Britain owed to the Chamber of Commerce at the time the Venezuelan difficulty arose, Lord Brassey said he desired to mark Great Britain's deep sense 2f tke service rendered.
 There was a murmer of expectancy as Lord Lansdowne, the Foreign Sec retary, rote to toast President McKin- ley. "I imagine" he said, that this duty has been assigned to me because am connected with the Department of Foreign Affairs, and 1t may be that OOdGI COtlAAIl6 AiOAA HUB may oCChA to denote something more than a mere private expression of admiration and good will. I think I may say that to all the subjects of his majesty 1t re- quires an effort to think of our rela- tions with the United States as foreign relations. Prolonged cheers.)
 With regard to President Mckinley, we think of the great office he fills, and in addition to his public cares, we re- member the burden of private anxiety he has to bear and 1t is the prayer of our whole country that his wife may be restored to health and that he may continue to be to the whole world a potent influence for the good of the human race"
 Morris K. Jessup Speaks.
 Morris K. Jessup. President of the New York Chamber of Commerce Ee.- viewed the founding of the New York Chamber of Commerce and said: We do not forget how you instilled into our minds habits of industry, thrift and fair dealing so that now. in the dawn of the twentieth century. we are able to state with some pride that the busi- ness relations between the two coun- tries amounts to the astounding sum of over $960. .O00, ,000 yearly. We do not forget the kindness shown us in time of financial distress, notably in 18S1. when specie payments were suspended, business at a standstill. and our people disheartened, when one of our honored citizens and princely merchants. MT. James Gore King, visited London, and by his high character. so impressed your financial men that the Bank of England advanced one million pounds sterling in sovereigns, and sent the same by packet to New York. under the control of MT. King, to enable the banks in New York to resume specie payments, thus restoring confidence. asking for no security save for the honor of Mir. King on his and Barring Brothers guarantoR, no stipulation be- ing made as to the time the loan was to be returned nor any profit exacted or required, the only reward being the desire to do a kindly and friendly act. ."
 MT. Jessup declared the two nations could only be rivals in the effort each may put forth, "actuated by the same desires, to carry to the end of the earth the blessings of our civil and religious liberty"
 Tariff Relaxation.
 A Barton Hepburn aroused interest by an intimation that the United States was entering upon the stage of tariff relaxation.
 "Over two years ago." observed MT. Hepburn, President Mckinley, in a speech in Boston, said: We are not talking about tariff now and in his recent trip across the continent, he made no allusion to the tariff, but greatly emphasized the necessity of cul- tivating outside markets; and the chairman of the Republican Campaign Committee has announced that the tar if will be taken from all so-called trust commodities and our ability to produce has so largely outgrown our capacity to consume that the open door is rap idly becoming the shibboleth of Amer ica."
 MT. Carnegie who had the best re- ception of the evening, dwelt upon the importance of the growing friendly re- lations between the two countries, and continued: The horoscope of the fu- ture shows that common dangers are