The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02

/ ana harmony between the two great
nations Of kindred stock to which we
all belong. Nations, like individuals,
may cultivate purposely friendship
with one another. While they stand
laloof one from the other, while they
study and criticise one another's faults
and failings, while they refuse to be-
j heve that the other can do anything as
well as themselves-that used to be a
prevailing idea on both sides of the
water-they may remain aliens and
strangers to each other for an indefinite
period. But when they make up their
minds deliberately to be friends, when.
they have a determined good will, that
/ is, a determined will to be good and to,
do good to each other there is no diff
Guilty in the world about 1t. And SO
this society was organized to help that
cause along. 1t was believed that by
cultivating increased acquaintance,
personal friendship, among the repre-
Sentative men of the two nations, sone-
thing in the direction have intimated
might be accomplished. AS to the mat
ter Of intercourse, believe no one will
charge my own countrymen with hay-.
ling been backward in that respect.
They have visited these shores for
years by hundreds, by thousands, by
items of thousands, and, believe, by
Hundreds of thousands And they have
made themselves perfectly at home.
/ Hawthorne, the centenary of whose
birth we are this very month celebrat-
ling at Salem, the place of his birth,
called these islands, speaking on behalf
of the great majority of his country
men, our old home" And so we have
been always ready to regard and to oo-
1cupy them; and one of the objects that
THE Pilgrims had here was to encourage
land to promote the return of those yis-
citations on the part Of our English
brethren. Emerson, another of our
great American writer's, who studied
Englishmen with great fidelity, said
that mot only was England herself an
island, but that each Individual Eng
lishman was an island henmed inland
walled all round as they hem In and
wall their own private places, with
walls six feet. eight feet, ten rect, or,
better still, the ideal height Of fourteen
fleet. We wanted to break down those
walls; we wanted the representative
men Of Great Britain to visit America
with the same interest, the same fire.
Iquency and the same affection and to
return our visits in kind. In this soci-
lety, being organized to promote that
wholesome performance. they looked
round to see who could be the most far
IvorabIe and successful head Of such an
Reorganization formed with such pur-
| pose; and they reflected that the great
men Of war, the men who had known
land had had enough of war, who had
known all its honors and all its mis-
Ichiefs, were generally the greatest
friends Of peace, Of arbitration, of me-
ldiation, of any way Of settling interna-
tional disputes except by the horrid re
sort Of war. And well knowing that
Lord Roberts was himself most en-
phatically of that mind, and that he
was willing to lend the prestige Of his
person, his great renown, to help on the
cause, they selected him as their presi-
dent; and 7 am happy to say that he
accepted the office not only with will
llingness, but with eagerness, and has
discharged Its duties with fidelity and
with ardor from that day to this. You
do not. expect me, ! am sure, to shed.
any light upon the subject of Lord Rob-
erts as q man of war-that splendid
career of fifty-two years which fortune
and genius united to make an unbrok-
en- progress of victory and success.
From the second lieutenant st nineteen
to the Earl Roberts and the Knight of
the Garter as he stands before you to-
day. from the most subordinate of all
officers to the commanding general Of
the British army for years, from the
capture Of Delhi to the relief of Luck
now, to the relief Of Kimberley, he ex-
|perienced one uninterrupted tide of sue
cess and victory all the time.
It is not for me to enter upon the
subject Of any Of England's wars; but
IL was an eye witness to the emotion,
the uprising, the overwhelming outflow
of feeling in this great city and this
great people on the occasion Of the re-
lief Of Kimberley. Why, it might rath-
er be called the relief of London, for 1t
was as If London had been beleaguered
for months by invading armies and
they had suddenly been dispersed.
thought until that day that an English
crowd was cold and Indifferent and i'm
capable of that marvellous tide and tor
rent of emotion and feeling that char
acterize our great crowds on similar
occasions at home. But then my eyes
were opened and was undeceived, and
found their hearts were as warm and
their feelings as deep as any that beat
within the hearts Of any people on the
face of the globe.
1t is not for me to say, it is not for
you to listen to- any narrative of Lord
Roberts professional achievements and
triumphs. They are known the world
over. My countrymen know them al
most as well as your own. They have
read that fascinating, that thrilling
book, ''Forty-one Years in India" from
its pathetic beginning to its triumphant
close, and they know his history almost
as well as you know his and your own.
] want him to perfect the good work
which he has done, want him to set
the seal upon the friendship which he
has manifested alike for the people of
both countries Inv doing q 1iftIa 20 WOW