New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-24
CALLS KING PEACEMAKER
CHEERS FOR ROOSEVELT.
augIo-4mericdn Lore Feast at st.
Georges -IRnHdL Dinner.

TIE St Georges Society held its 18th annual
.,,,sr q, Ijvlmonicos last night AS usual. Il
Is n kind 81 Anglo-American love feast The
zion JACK md The Stars and Stripes were
.,iaed lovingly together on all the walls. The
.sesrs when the guests drank the health OF the
president were fully as loud as those which
.raetea the name OF the King
BISHOP Burgess. OF Long Island. declared that
~ Tinted states had enunciated the greatest
-ortcal proposition Of all ages when il de-
Jared all men were free and equal Yet this
-rnciple like ali other American principles
- +ieht and justice, had come from England.
The two countries. he went on, were working
toward The one goal England had benefited
every nation she had touched The United
states having received such a birthright
sboud pass on TO the peoples she had taken
under her wing the education and training TO
enjoy their liberty. England had taught us the
way. said the bishop. and we should ever be
willing 10 join her an progress
Robert Il. Turtle president Of the society act
cd as postmaster. Incidentally. he paid pretty
tribute 70 President Roosevelt in assuring him
n a rousirg reception II he ever CHANGED to visit
England. he said:
Ne now see England as first In peace among
the nations OF the world. Who has done this great
srsT Edward vas called Edward the Confessor. The
King has well earned the enViable title OF Edward
snd intereourse with foreign rulers What a pity
Il is that the President OF the United States does
not see his way TO follow this precedent In one
country am sure he would receive a welcome
without parallel in the annals % history.
Bishop Burgess spoke on The Day and All
Who Honor It He told Of what he would feel
A. perchanoe he should ever for an instant think
Of becoming an Englishman and then went on:
Superficial Writers have said that ne SGT our re
have Incorporated some French phrases into his
work France never had liberty as England had II.
not French. but the tongue Of Burke Fox and
washington was English to the backbone, and
frUe 10 English ideas and English law. He was a
trge cbild Of his age and he taught US noble and
- 49, "a. sbSvad ms where 10 md our lfb-
erty the liberty which came from England
So this nation and England have been working
toward the same goal from different starting points
England is monarchy. yet in no country are
personal rights more freely asserted and bravely
defended America IS resDublic. holding ALL doing
all IN the name Of the people. All her protest
against wrong must be in the name OF the people
or she lies before the world
touched. She holds theT1 in the name OF empire
and IN that name does wOndrous things She has
india in her ron grin. lest as a well known East
Indian has said the tribesmen break forth like
animals from a mena gerie-
We are a Republic and have enunciated the great
est political proposition men ever knew, that az
our foreign dependencies only as educators; and
train them 70 De their own rulers, W. Sa9e It
even than Canada to follow out ther own destinies
Elijah r. Kennedy too of The Memory and
Genius Of Shakespeare, Loyal Englishman."
Mr. Kennedy said:
Nothing in Shakespeare is more unexpected than
his amazing knowledge. II comprehends the realms
OF earth and sea and sky. Il embraces tho past
and anticipates the future. II some Of his refer
cuces 20 unnatural things appear ineXact, his
perceptions II the eternal verties are infallble.
II lac has ships sailing from ports. remote from
ua1ieabe waters YOU must consider that he
writing geoEra ply. HIS ideals needed localities,
q stage Tor his people TO act on, and II a sea or
stream requisite for their movement he created
one. and 10. oceans rolled and shall forever ron
where EeOgraphers knew only dry land.
when K 10 his native Warwickshire and
;he country where he roamed in boyhOOd. his
lmoWledlr Of places things and persons. OF
sports and customs. proves the keen observer one
sees q growing in 4 roadside hedge and
straightway pulls II apart that he may describe il
IN terms ~ botany. Shakespeare plucks a rose
from the same bush and presents IL to some Bea-
trlce Viola. in whose chaste bosom IL blooms
forever. The naturalist schedules each bone and
feather OF every bird and assigns Il 70 its proper
class. Shakespeare follows the lark TO heavens
gate and learns its song