The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01

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and Canada. As we read the treaty Of
peace OF 1888 we are rather in doubt whether
IL was not intended that Canada should be
coded to the United States. The Governor
Genera OF Canada wrote in thar time that
the majority Of his people rather favored
the Americans. Then there came q change.
~ VA, no longer Il distant colony, in
which a fringe Of l~oyalists who emigrated
from the United States gal, ed Il precariors
livelihood from a sterile soil. II became
a great people. 4. stirring rational sen
timent began to be frl'.
Now, in their relations to the mother
country one can sec that, while they are
still loyal, they are growing up, and as a boy
Is to his parents when he attainS to man
hood, so they are getting a personality for
themselves. They are n great and growing
people. The people of the United states
look upon them with no jealous eye. We
bid them godspecd, as they do their part
TO reach their place among the nations.
Some Of the newspapers have said that
1t would be announced at this dinner that
all standing difficulties were settled. /
wish it were so, We are going to try to
settle all existing questions. We are try
ing, to settle them, and with that sincere
and honest purpose which is behind the
attempt | believe that we will settle them.
The race of seals, which for many years
has produced one of the most valuable
products for the clothing Of mankind And
womankind, interiected Choatel is ra pidly
disappearing. We are going to try to stop
the fearful waste.
The food supply of the Great Lakes is
being destroyed because in those inter
national waters we cannot inforce the
regulations which govern fishing in the
Dominion and in the United States. We
are going to try to draw up an effective
agreement which will protect them The
Northeastern fisheries have been making
trouble ever since the Treaty of Utrecht.
"Thnrn 10 atilI coma ittln trniIhln thpTn,
And thereare still some~ boundaries to settle;
The Alaskan boundary question could
have been settled at any time many years
ago. 1t failed because Congress was then
unwilling to make an appropriation OF
money to make n survey. There arose,
too, much hard feeling which will. hope,
be settled in a short time.
The feeling in Washington, in Ottawa,
in London, is for justice and right, but the
sentiment Of the peoples is necessary to the
with the problems Of to-day and those
which will arise the people will have resting
on them the duty not TO be arrogant but
to deal as a Just and kindly man deals with
his neighbor.
IF the people of the United States and
Canada do that, never shall the frontier
brstle with guns, never shall the relations
by which one people lives at pence with
the other be set at naught, never shall VIZ
blush for our failure to live up to our high
ideals"
. GOV. HIGGINS SPEAKS FOR II STATE.
Gov. Higgins, who followed Secretary
Root, responded to the toast, The State of
New York. His speech was very brief.
He assured Earl Grey of the great pleasure
which the meeting at the dinner afforded
him.
Wherever you find an Englishlnan, you
fnd," said Gov. Higgins, "a champion. OF
personal Independence and equal rights
under the law.
1T is my hope and my firm belief that the
amicable relations which have so long
existed between Great Britain and the
United States will continue. and that the
citizens of this country and its otticials-ln
fact the officials and citizens OF both coun-
tries-may always be received by each
other with the same hearty welcome we
extend tonight to Earl Grey
Gen. Horace Porter was called on to re-
spondt to the toast TIE Peace Of the World
Ii was after II o'clock when he arose.
This" said he. lis the hour at which
g~raveyards yawn and also when the audi
ence is apt to do the same.
He begged to be excused from ha vim the
sin go down on his shoulders of having
kept any of the diners from church or early
pra yers.
As a final toast. Mr.. Choate proposed
athe ladies' There was no response and
none was wanted. Before any orators en-
thusiasm could move him to his feet, the
Dand began WIN Aulu lang oyue, ltle inel
at table caught it w and they passed out of
the grand ballroom singing 1t.
Among those present at the Inner were
Robert c. Ogden, DIR. William Jay Schief-
felin, Willis L. Ogden. the Rev. Percy Stick
ney Grant. Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A. Miles,
Rollo Ogden. John d. Crimmins. H. H..
Hanna, the Rev. Henry Van Dyke, F. Hop
kinson Smith John Kendrick Bangs. Hamil-
ton w. Mabie, Brander Matthews. Sir Percy
Sanderson, Isaac n. Seligman, Col. John
Jacob Aston, Thomas Alexander, John
j. McCook, Oscar S. Straus, Paul Morton,
W. A. Day, George Westinghouse, $. II.
Olin. Charles Lanier, John g.. Milburn, j.
Hnmpden Robb, Temple Bowdoin. James
Gen. Stewart l.. Woodford. Charles D.
Stickney, the Hon. Hugo Barring. the Col,
Hon. Everard Barring, Thomas Barring, Julian
T. Davies, Ronald c.. Lindsay, Mortimer
l.. Schif, George Cromwell, John l.. Cad
walader, Philip Schuyler. Edgerton Win
throp, Adrian II. Joline, Gen. Thomas II.
Hubbard, H. B.. Parsons, Gen. James II.
Wilson. William Rhinelander Stewart,
Vernon H. Brown. Stuyvesant Fish, the
Rev. Howard Dufield, Cornelius N. Bliss,
Chester S. Lord, W. Barclay Parsons, JUS
tice TruaX, Frank A. Munsey, Charles f.
Rushmore, Sir Monta que Allan, Sir Henry
pellat, Frederick H.. Reed. II. D. Walbridge,
BIrayton Ives, Gen, i. 4. Burnett Perry
Crocker, Z. y. Taller, George S. Hastings,
the Rev. Donald Sage Mackay. John Crosby
Brown, Hart Lyman, Schuyler Parsons,
Robert J. Collier, X, 7. Wilson, George
H. Macy, John H. Flagler, Job E. Hedges,
Gen. Thomas l.. Watson, John r. Van
Wormer, Don VI. Dickinson, Gen. Alfred
E.. Bates, J, b. Haggin, Frank A, Vanderbilt