The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-17
Dinner by the Pilgrims Society.
(By the Associated Press.)

London, Oct. 15.-The dinner gwen by.
the Pilgrims Society to the Alaskan
Boundary Commission at Cartridges Hotel
tonight proved the most notable assem-
blage of Englishmen Americans and Ca
nadians ever brought together in Lon,
don. In addition to the members of the
commission the British Cabinet Ministers,
the American Ambassadors and the most
prominent representatives of English pub
lie life were present.
Field Marshal Lord Roberts presided.
On his right sat Ambassador Choate, and
on his left Lord Chief Justice Alverstone.
Lord Lansdowne, Sir Louis Jette, Sir
Stanley Clarke, the Kings equerry, and
Secretary Elihu Root, sat at the same
table while the other guests were distrib
uted at small tables around the ROOM The
Englishmen present wore their decorations
and orders, Lord 1ansdown and Lord Rob-
erts having the blue ribbon riband of the
Order of the Garter
The other guests numbered in all about
one hundred and fifty.
Lord Roberts proposed the health of
King Edward and President Roosevelt in
a united toast which met with a cordial
reception. He then proposed 1.-THE Alas
Lord Alverstone replied, saying that the
meeting of the commissioners would stand
az a monument of the feeling evinced in
America and Great Britain to settle their
differences by common sense method.
Ex-United States Senator Turner and
the Hon. CT ford Sifton, the Canadian In
terror Minister, answered for their respect
i've countries, the latter saying that no
greater crime could be conceived against
humanity than trouble between Great
Britain and the United States.
Proposing the health of the Anglo-Sax-
on race, Foreign Secretary Lord Lans
downe claimed that it had done more than
any other nationality to promote the arts
and literature and just and equal govern
ment. He said:
II may prophesy that our contribution
towards the happiness and the good gov
eminent of the world will not be less in
the future than it has been in the past.
The two great branches Of the Anglo
Saxon race will be found working shout
der to shoulder, giving an example to the
world of the mode of settling differences.
Human nature is fallible and we must
have our little differences from time to
time, but an appeal to force is unthink-'
able"
Applause greeted this utterance.
Lord Lansdowne continued:
I'VE are apt to cherish differences and
leave it to mischief mongers to exagger-
ate them, but surely we Anglo-Saxons
cannot afford to allow this.
The British Foreign Secretary then paid
a tribute to the late Sir Michael Herbert
and added President Rooseyelt's tribute to
Lord Pauncefote that he did his business
as an honest gentleman.
Let US follow that motto" concluded
the Foreign Minister, in public and III
private. Let us do our business as honest
gentlemen, confident of the great honor
which the Anglo-Saxon races deserves o.
the world"
Jacob NJ Dickinson, of the American
counsel, in responding, referred to the
Afro American and other elements COM
posing the American population.
Mr. Root referred to the endeavor to
promote army reforms on both sides of
the Atlantic.
The American people, he said, had in
herited from Great Britain the ingra..cd
distrust of a standing army which had led
the British to limit their army appropria-
ton to annual votes and similarly, in the
american CONSTITUTION, the dppTOpTldl'Ui
was limited to two years. The people of
America had inherited the spirit of civil
control of the military arm. On both
sides of the Atlantic during the past yetr
the overwhelming problem of reconcinng
civil and military expert opinion and az
thority had been the cause of difficulty
and of ineffcieney.
Mr.. Root said that by the creation of a
general staff he hoped that the United
States had solved the problem, and ne
trusted that Great Britain would be SINH
larly fortunate. Mr.. Root said he was
proud to put the American army side by
side with the British army, the character
istic of the latter being that it did not
fight for tyranny. oppression or conquest,
but for progress, liberty and construc-
ton, not destruction which always fol-
lowed in the wake of the British arms.
Lord Roberts briefly thanked Secretary
Root and the proceedings then ended.
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