The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-15
DINNER
To WH|TELAW REID.
Special Ambassador at Coronation
of King Edward Tells Why He
Will Wear Knee BreecheS.

send one TO the crowning OF a constltu-
uonal monarch, after an unprecedented
of all the world most closely related 10
us, and the one with which we have the
most intercourse and the most business.
Still less hau the searchers Tor cam
more fragile and brittle is the republi-
canism of the United States than is that
OF France. or OF Switzerland or even of
Mexico or or South American countries
These republics send special ambas-
sadors or ministers to this monarchy now
with impunity.. as they have sent them
tremble. while ours are about to be rock
Cd by the perilous experiment to their
foundations.
That phenomenon ! confess myself
still profoundly puzzled 10 explain. ex-
cepting perhaps on the theory that is
sues for the next election are not so
scarce IN France or switzerland or Mex
leo as they are In this unhappy country
of ours.
DANGERS IN CLOTHES.
"The latest notion OF the issue searchers
impeaches the presidents power 10 send
an embassy He can send no diplomatic
agent. they say. without the previous
war then still with Spain, the treaty OF
peace having been negotiated by an un-
lawful BODY?
fully authenticated discoveries. II fur
ther appears now that / had failed to
grasp the sartorial dangers that threaten
the republic.
II hadn't realized that this great cause
OF freedom round and round would be in
peril. or that the bashful Goddess Of Lib
erty would turn her face from us and veil
IL. II one wore in the English capital
such clothes other people wear--such
clothes as our own Mr.. Choate has now
been wearing without perceptible harm
10 the republic for three years past. and
such as were worn before by n long line
OF his honored predecessors, including
Democrats like Thomas f. Bayard and
Edward j. Phelps, and such Republicans
as James Russell Lowell and Robert Lin
coin and John Hay. In fact in my un-
fortunate Ignorance of these profounder
dations Of the republic 1 was thought
lessly willing to leave the clothes ques-
tion TO the tailors.
TRADE WITH ENGLAND.
1--WE trade more with Great Britain and
her colonies than with any other two
countries I'm the world We invest more
capital under the British than under any
other foreign government. and we have
more British than any other foreign cap
ital invested here. We send several times
as many travellers to British ports as to
any others abroad and wherever else
they may or may not travel. they always
travel in England. We listen TO more
English preachers and scientific men and
lecturers. and read 10 times as many
books by English writers as by those or
any other foreign country. Thus. wheth-
er in business or In social intercourse or
IN intellectual pursuits. our most init
mate relations are with Great Britain.
And finally we like her better. In fact,
we like her so well that we have family
ars with her from time TO time, and
AXE the liberty of scolding when we feel
Ike IT, as we would hardly think OF do |
ng with anybody we didn't know 80 |
we'll. And 10 do her justice, there have |
been times when she treated us with the |
same family candor."
Among the other speakers were: Sem |
ltor Depew who spoke to the toast. |
The Senate" and Charles Emory /
Smith who responded To the toast, |
American Ambassadors. Past and Pres
mt"