The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-29
USUAL FEAST IN
FAR-OFF LONDON
Thanksgiving Dinner of Ameri-
can Society Not So Well At
tended as Formerly.
WHITELAW REID'S SPEECH
LORD JUSTICE PRAISES PRESS
OVER HERE.

London. Nov. WhiteIaw Reid,
the American ambassador. spoke opti-
mistically of the financial outlook, and
Field Marshal Sir George Stuart White
euIogized President Roosevelt in the
warmest terms at the Thanksgiving
dinner of the American society tonight.
That the financial depression was felt
among the Americans in England was
shown by tns attendance at the ban
quet which was the smallest in sew
eral years. Three hundred guests par
ticipated, compared with four hundred
last year. The president OF the society,
Colonel Willard Hunsicker, was absent,
and r. Newton Crane, a former presi-
dent, presided in his stead. Ambassa-
dor Reid sat at his right at the table
of honor, and Mrs. Reid sat at his left.
Others at this table besides the speak
ers, included Marquis and Warehouses
Of Tweedale, Sir Ernest Cassell, Rob
ert J. Wynre the American consul
general at London, and Mrs. Wynne;
J. J. Van Allen, Captain Sydney Clo
man. Isaac Seligman, Richard A.
Westcott, deputy American consul
general; Sir Joseph and Lady Lawrence
and Mr.. and Mrs. II. Gideon Seifridge.
Reds Speech.
Mr.. Reds speech was received with
great enthusiasm. He said: Some
one said to me as / was starting for
this dinner, You will have To be a
Mark Tapley tonight, cheerful under diff
ficulties' That was only an exagger-
ated way of saying that We will have
to be American, as usual. Nothing
could be more un-American than to be
dOwncast over temporary discourage
I ~ 70, 90 - D.
cause some of our people, unhappily,
have lost their money almost as fast
as they made il. We have seen such
things before, and it was worse when
the country was not half so big or half
so rich as it Is now. and we have not
forgotten how we can out Of them"
Will Be All Right Soon.
Continuing. Mr.. Reid said he was re-
minded of a motto he had once seen On
a sundiaI to the effect that Eve are in
a bit of fix, but we shall soon be cut
of it again"
when the clouds roll by" Mr. Reid
said, lit will be seen that we still have
the country that providence gave Us;
that we still have a people, and that we
still have the bOundIess opportunities
which. after every reverse i'm the past
| have invariably speedily lifted us high
er and yet higher. Given these. what
| American fears the result?
I'm most respects our country never
has been in a happier position than to-
| day. 1t is not merely at peace, but on
terms of absolute good will with all the
world. The whole sensational press
was unable to make a ripple in our
cordial relations with that great friend
| ly people in the far east TO whom we
.
the western world. Even that spirited
| little colony beyond our northern from
| tier. Newfoundland, has good natured-
/ ly agreed to arbitrate things instead of
going to war with US. and however this
arbitration turns out. We shall. on
either side of the border, take It smil-
ingly after the habit of the race"
Tribute to Oklahoma.
The ambassador then paid high
| tribute to the new star I'm the flag,
/ Oklahoma, and said the next president
would be the head IF forty-six states.
with a population of 100, coo, 900 before
the close of his term.
| Mr. Reid, continuing. related the his
tory of Thanksgiving day.
The popular veteran. Field Marshal
| White, in toasting President RCose-
welt, spoke of him as one whose hon
esty and strenuosity appealed strongly
| to Englishmen.
Lord Justice John Fletcher Moulton.
one of the most eloquent speakers in
London, toasted the American ambas-
sador, referring to him as an example
of the highest type Of journalist. He
praised the restraint the American
newspapers exhibited during the sinan-
Cial crisis in that country.
Sir George Eastwood Taubman
GOldie, president of the IcOyal Geo
graphical society, responded to our
| Guests"