The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24

tion to the fact that when they for
 swore allegiance and accepted adoption they did not forswear the inalienable right of an Englishman to grumble or
 write to his paper" He expressed his
 gratitude to this country for the small
 return they had made for our "adop-
 ton" by endorsing the 'open door" in \ the Philippines and China, remarked that when necessary Englishmen car
 r1ed their citizenship of their adopted
 country into Uncle Sams army, as en- l phasized by the return to New Haven
 of one of the Sons of St. George from
 his regiment in the Philippines.
 MT. John Trace responded to the toast
 the President of the United States.
 He said it is difficult to conceive of a
 heavier responsibility than that im-
 posed upon the president of the United
 States. In the land of our birth, the
 sovereign, while welding great and 1 important influence in the social and material life of the nation, has to leave
 the executive functions to the ministers | of state. The. responsibility lies with them who represent the prevailing par 1 ty. Theoretically the sovereign has all
 power, practically none; the govern
 ment is for and by the people, as it Is here.
 Who would dream of blaming the be- | loved Victoria for the commencement
 of the Transvaal war, or Edward for al- l lowing it to go on? In this country the
 president is the sole executive, and to
 him we look to carry out the will of the
 people. If matters are brought to a successful issue, we congratulate our selves that we have good president;
 if mistakes are made, we wish he were more of a statesman. It is the presi- dent who in a large degree determines our happiness and prosperity at home, and our standing abroad. He is chosen from the people to represent them, and in a remarkable sense he is the repre- sentative of the people; the nations of. the earth look at him and say, "As he is, so Is the American people"
 It is not my purpose, said the speaker, to extol MT. Mckinley. Some of us fa- vor his policy; some do not; but think I make no mistake in saying he does what he believes to be right, and more than that no mortal can do
 We love the home of our childhood. and we love the land where our children were born, where our old age will be spent andwe shall lie down to rest; and as British-Americans we were pro- foundly affected by the eloquent and touching message sent by the president at the death of that queen whom all men respected and reyered.
 The Day we Celebrate" was re- sponded to in a very humorous way by MT, William Reeves. He gave the pop ular traditionary version of the combat between St. George and the Dragon, and then gave his own version, which he said he had unearthed from ancient chronicles
 The traditionary history, he said, de- scribed the dragon as a fearful monster that roamed about England devouring and having preference for auburn hair'd young ladies; and he told how St. George delivered them from the scourge.
 It was very important, he said, to the sons of St. George to know what kind of a progenitor they had whether he was young man of good moral l member of the Y. M. c. A., etc., or whether he smoked cigarettes and frequented cheap dances. His re- ! searches showed that St. George was a 1 Londoner and the speaker related | many amusing instances of the boyhood | of St. George. In his early manhood | he said, St. George was an iceman and | there obtained the strength of arm and ,oolness that served him so well in his great combat with the dragon
 St, George travelled in search of ad- ventures, and while on his travels met with St. Patrick.
 The speaker gave a most laughable account of the meeting of the two ;aints. It was well known, he said, hat St. Patrick was a Scotchman and ,e gave comical conservatism in the as occurring between St. Patrick as a Scotchman and St. George l IS a Cockney. These two saints, he aid, invented the game of Pinockle and played it to decide which of them should T. lestroy the dragon and which destroy he snakes in Ireland. The dragon fell o St. George. The speaker related ome of the adventures of St. George Il pursuing the dragon, and how St feorge finally discovered the dragon leeping heavily after having supped pon two strawberry blondes and trim nings"
 St. George did not destroy the dragon !.