Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1905-11-10
In Brilliant Banquet of Lon.
don'S Lord Mayor.
DIPLOMATS EXPRESS sympathy
: FOR BLEEDING RUSSIA
WhiteIaW Reid and Ministers From
Many Countries Attend Great
international Love Feast
in England.

London, Nov. "a century ago
FIT, standing where | now stand,
prophesied war. Today | prophesy
peace" This was the text on which
Premier Balfour based his speech con-
corning the relations OF Great Britain
with foreign countries at the Lord
Mayors banquet in the Guild Hall to-
night. Mr.. Balfour and Whiteaw
Reid, the American ambassador, who
replied to the toast Their excellen-
cies the foreign ministers" proposed
by the Lord Mayor, We'd with each
other with pleasant words for the
credit of their respective countries as
leaders among the advocates of arbi-
train. The whole tenor of the
speeches was optimistic. The prem
ier's reference to Russia was partic-
ularly happy. He said:
Our friends in Russia are absorb
ing public interest by the great
movement they are making in the di-
rectlon, as we believe, of self-gov-
ernment. The task of the emperor and
his advisors is indeed not a light one.
and those who for centuries have
practiced parliamentary government
know best the difficulties which con-
front them. There is not citizen in
NfltdN billdll WHO uotS not WISH lnem
every success and | express the ear
nest wish that the movement may not
in the future be strained by the un-
necessary effusion of blood. We hope
that the movement will bring happi-
ness to countless millions, unsulliod
by repetition of the painful and hor-
rible events which made the initial
progress so lamentable."
The banquet was conducted with all
the quaint ceremonial peculiar to the
occasion. The guests of Lord Mayor
Morgan included the retiring Lord
Mayor, Sir John Pound, and Premier
Balfour as guests of honor; Foreign
Secretary Lansdowne, the Archbishop
OF Canterbury, Mir. Arnold Forster.
secretary of war; William st. John
Frederick. secretary for India; Lord
Cawdor, Baron Ashbourne, Lord
Chancellor of Ireland; Ambassador
Reid, the Japanese, Chinese, Greek,
Belgian. Mexican and Siamese minis
ters. and about 1000 other prominent
persons.
Prior to the banquet the guests were
received by the Lord Mayor and the
Lady Mayoress innthe great reception
room of the Guild Hall.
In proposing the toast of "The I'm
pleasantly referred to the reception in
the United States of the British squad
ron under command of Prince Louis
of Battenberg.
Mr.. Balfour spoke first of Russia
and then said that his majesty's gov
ernment had done everything possible
for many years to ward off the dan
gers of war and had done its best to
develop a scheme of arbitration. He
alluded to the difficulties attending
boundary questions and said he hoped
that these all might be settled by ar
bitration.
Il am sanguine on this subject" q"
said the speaker Il think in the flu
ture we shall not see war. unless in
deed we can conceive of a nation or
Il ruler arising who will be unable to
carry out a scheme of national ag-
grandizement except through tramp
ling ON the rights of his neighbors.
However. l see no prospect of such Il
calamity in Europe"
Ambassador Reid's Speech.
Ambassador Reid, in opening, re-
ferred to Viscount Hayashi as The
new ambassador" and said he should
have been selected to respond to the
toast to the representatives Of for
known eloquence, and also because
he was more capable of doing justice
to the subject.
Referring to the premier's express
ions concerning the probabilities Of
peace. Mr.. Reid said II was the busi-
ness of diplomats to make peace and
not war and for his part he preferred
the court of arbitration to the arbi-
trament of the sword.
The ambassador said he would
neither concede nor dispute Mr.. Bal
four's claim that Great Britain had
taken precedence In the matter OF
arbitration. but he would say that
Great Britain and the United States
had set an example and had settled
some of the most burning questions
Trough arbitration, and today the
two countries were more cordial in
their relations than they had been at
any lime In the last hundred years.