Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-11-26

New York, Nov 23.-The ambassa-
doris of two world powers to the Unit
ed States spoke at the annual Dan-
quet of the New York chamber OF
commerce last night They were
Baron Sternburg of Germany and Sir
Henry Mortimer Durand of Great
Britain.
The formers theme, The CONNER
cial Relations Between the German
Empire and the United States Should
Be Reciprocal, had been looked for
ward to as being peculiarly apt at
this time when German American tar
if questions are under consideration,
The topic OF the latter ambassador
was Diplomacy and Commerce. Yet
another speech of the evening which
was of note was that of Senator S. B.
Elkins of Virginia, who spoke to the
toast The Senate of the United States
ia its Relations TO Good Government.
Senator Elkins took pains to reflte
charges which have been made recent
ly against the higher branch of con
gress.
During Americas period of nece5-
sity and weakness in the trying years
between 1888 and 1889 Prussia was
the only European power which
showed herself willing tn have true
relations with the United States, and
to make a treaty of amity and com
merce with the young republic
Since the days of George Washington
Americans at all times and at all oc
casions have dwelt on the high ideals
of those Germans who came to set
tie in America and have declared that
among the many strains that go to
make up your composite race stocks
no strain has given her better citizens
than those who are of German blood.
Devotion to the union in body
and in soul has always been the sa'
America, and of his offspring. Dur
ing the revolutionary period we find
men of German birth among the best
lighters, and the German General
SteiSben trained the raw recruits OF
the continental army and made posi-
bic Washington S great victory. But
also in time of peace We notice Ger
mans aInC ng the country's leaders; let
me mention Muhlenburg, the first
speaker of the house of representa-
tives, and Carl Schurz, the memora-
BILE unifier of the two great peoples.
Men of German birth and blood sue
ceeded in saving Maryland, Missouri
and Kentucky to the union at the
outbreak of the civil war and let us
never forget that the race which has
borne forward the banner of Germany
is the same in origin with that of
England who first peopled your shores.
frequently had occasion to observe
that if God and nature had ever
marked three nations for perpetual
peace and friendship with each other,
those three were the United States,
Great Britain and Germany.
Since the civil war we notice n
large emigration of young Americans
to the German universities. This
movement became one of the most re-
markable and important features Of
the intellectual life of America.
Among the things made in Germany
which have most general currency in
your republic is the great proportion
of the best scholarship.
Fellow students we viii grasp with
thanks the hand which America offers
US, and call cheers for the man who
represents the best qualities of the
American people.
in the most far reaching diplomatic
actions during the last years we
notice President Roosevelt and En-
peror William moving on the same
lines, a policy which received the fall
approval of the American people be
cause ii is a policy of peace based on
trust
Americas prosperity means Ger
many's prosperity. We both have
vastly increased our trade since the
night those memorable words were
spoken AMI we have closely stood to-
gether to keep the doors of the orien,
open for trade The commercial re-
lations between Germany and the
United States are increasing every
day and the trade done with Hamburg
alone amounts to nearly forty mill