Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-12
DINE AMBASSADOR WHITE
Leading Germans Pay Tribute to Departing
American Minister.
IN RESPONSE HE PRAISES FATHERLAND
says Educated Ideas Now Mainly
Come From TeutOns, Although
England Lead in LesrninE
TIL FIFTY Years Ago.

BERLIN, Nov. 1.-THE home secretary
presided tonight at an official banquet in
honor OF Andrew ID. White, former ann
bassador from the United States.
Among the two hundred guests present
we're three members of the cabinet and a
number of distinguished men in all walks
Of life.
Among the Americans present we're John
Babcock, jr., w. J. Clark, T. w. Cridler,
c. w. Kohlsaat, +. /. Sprague, Consul Cen
eral Mason and American Consuls from all
parts OF Germany Count Won P~osadowsky-
Wehner in proposing the healths Of En-
peror William and President Roosevelt.
spoke Of the emperor's great admiration OF
the development of the United States, he
commended the vigor with which President
Roosevelt had conducted the affairs of the
nation after being called suddenly TO their
administration and praised Mr.. Whites I'M
usually meritorious services to his country
abroad.
Professor Harnack, in proposing Mr..
Whites health, said:
Representatives OF every variety OF Ger
man public life are here but we are only
a small portion of those throughout Ger
many who feel reverence for you. We beg
you to widen these walls to the boundaries
OF the empire"
While Mr.. white spoke in reply, Professor
Mommsen left his seat and stood at his
side, listening to every word and nodding
his head in approval.
Professor Mommsen presented an extraor-
binary figure, with his long white hair fall
ing over an old-fashioned. broad linen col
lar and his bosom covered Will decorations
from all countries.
Germany Americas Friend.
Mr.. White said that during the life and
death struggle Of the American union Ger
many was the one nation which took the
side of the union.
therefore he said, when som of my
fellow citizens endeavored to reproach Ger
many with an anti-American feeling in the
more recent military struggle in which
my country was engaged l re-
minded them that this more recent es-
arrangement was infinitely outweighed by
the fact that in the struggle for our very
existence it stood by us through evil and
good report"
While the United States on a superficial
view appeared, he continued, to be the
most materialistic Of nations, the people
Of America were among those most power
| fully swayed by beliefs and ideals of senti-
ment. In no country could the &C
ton Of these two forces, apparently so
antagonistic be seen more vigorously acting
and r~eacting upon each other. He traced
the influence of ideals in political strug-
giles in the United States and said he knew
! no other country where money was less
worshiped as money.
Referring to Americas love for peace
he said: The case which has just been
arbitrated between the United States and
Mexico shows abundantly that the United
States, had it been anxious to fight or de-
sirous of plumber, might easily have made
the question OF the Plus fund into a causus
belli, but instead the matter was quietly
referred to The Hague tribunal and there
it was quietly settled"
Referring again to the indebtedness OF
the United States to Germany, Mr.. White
said it was a curious fact that while down
to the middle of the last century the ideals
controlling American institutions Of learn
ing had been derived almost entirely from
Great Britain, during the entire latter
half the ideas and methods which gave
substance to American instruction in every