The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-30
ANGLO-SAXON FRIENDSHIP.
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 CTS. Colonel Hutchinson. chairman of the British pilgrims. sent cordial greet ings to Bishop Potter, as did Henry Britain and number of others.
 Bishop Potter read a message of re- gret from President Roosevelt and a complimentary cable from Sir Thomas Lipton, and introduced as the first speaker Sir Henry Mortimer Durand.
 Sir Henry said he had spent twenty years in India, where men worked hard and said little; that speaking came to Americans as singing to birds. but to Englishmen it came slowly. He had been told years ago that Englishmen and Americans would never be in sym pathy with one another, but he was glad to say that he had seen the proph- ecy fail of fulfillment. He predicted that the feeling would continue and grow. There was nothing in England but good will for America. He men toned Ireland and said that, with an Irishman directing the foreign policy of England, another commanding the army and another the Channel fleet, England's position could not be peril ous.
 MT. Griggs dwelt on the cordial rela- tions existing between, the two coun- tries He said that America had not always been represented by the best of her citizens. In this connection he told a story of an American consul to one of the British cities, wh9 went into a hotel in London and said to the waiter: I'm a -puncher from Montana. l" | Thanks, sir replied the waiter; "Ill inform the other guests for their pro- ] tection.'
 i England had been the first to negative l the divine right os kings, MT. Griggs said, and had created government by the people, for the people. He spoke oi attending the coronation of the king and queen. and of the gorgeous uni l forms worn by most of the people at i tending the ceremony. But" he said among that glittering gathering, there was one man. dressed in the ordinary attire of an English gentleman, Arthur J. Balfour, who represented all EnglanG represented the common people" Ht closed by saying that England hat taught the world government by the people.
 l James M. Beck paid a tribute to tht memory of William Mckinley. one o, whose greatest public services, he said was the part he played in bringing 1 about the remarkable growth of friend ship between the English and American people
 President Woodrow Wilson of Prince q, 1., 7 !, did not believe in the old adage tha blood was thicker than water. It wa not blood that bound the two countries together, he said. nor was it speech it was that we thought the sam, thoughts and understood the sam shade of thoughts. Our intimacy wa based on the common understanding O the same language.
 l President Wilson said he did not be Ilieve our relations with Gemrany woul be so cordial if we spoke the same Ian guage and understood what their pa Ders said of us. The one great tie be tween America and England. he said twas that we had undertaken togethe the solution of the tasks of the world and thus had cemented the friendshi that would exist forever.
 During the dinner press dispatche were read which told of peace negotia tions between the Russian and Japan csc powers having reached that stag where peace is practically assured
 Sir Percy Sanderson said he was ex tremely glad to hear of this, and inti mated that he had received official nc tice to that effect himself.