The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-07
FAREWELL TO BRYCE
AMBAssADon REID PAYS TRIBUTE
 TO AMBAssADOR.
Resa speaIxs of Good Feeling Between the Two Countries and Says
 That Feeling Must be
 Maintained.

London Feb. e.--The London Pill
 grims gave a farewell banquet this
 evening at the Savoy Hotel in honor
 of James Bryce the new ambassador
 of Great Britain to the United States.
 Ambassador whitelaw Reid, in pro-
 posing the health of Mr. Bryce, re-
 ferred to the presence of the primate
 in all England (Dr. Davidson. arch
 bishop of Canterbury. and of con-
 spicuous Representatives of the gov
 ernment, parliament, the great univer-
 sities, English literature, journalism
 and business, all testifying to the
 pride with which his countrymen saw
 MT. Bryce set forth on hls new duties
 and added The good will of the
 hour will not create any illusion as to
 the nature of those duties.
 'He knows perfectly--none better
 that he Is sent first, to look scrupu-
 fously after the interests of his own
 country. We should not give him
 half so hearty welcome ourselves If
 we did not expect that of him. But
 next he knows just as well that these
 interests in this country as in ours
 are the best promoted by keeping the peace. .8 s55.
 "Of course any diplomatist who does not steer his course by that north star III these QAYSF Is a lQ0fE au8cnfOllSm. But duty is nowh sre else so ciea ----so overpowering aswith the dipiomatist in any way intrusted with responsibil- ity for the relations between the two great nations nearest to each other in the whole world. in history. language. blood. belief and common ideals and aspirations. 3
 That is an honorable task to under take promoting the tendency of these great nations to keep in friendly touch with each other. Circumstances make It also for your guest an easy task. At the heads of the two governments stand two statesmen with unsurpassed records as peacemakers-his majesty, King EdN VII. and Theodore Roose- welt s sr-{s
 "It is not too much to say that each has the conf fence not only of his own people but of the world alike in his desire for peace and his knowing how to secure it. There ias never heen. n time when the two peoples were so glad to be friends, or when they looked with such iimpatienceHon the idea of permitting anything to, prevent it.
 ''The two peoples have better bus mess than watching each other for the causes of offense and they better read the destiny to which they are both tending"
 In concluding. MT. Reid said: The se- lection of Mir. Bryce has been accepted as compliment from the mother coun- try to her giant offspring can as- sure him welcome as cordial as ever fell to the lot of a British representa- tive, and I wish him in his new field, as all confidently anticipate, another and successful career"
 MT Bryce. responding to MT. Read, confessed he had not words to ac- Knowledge the real kindness shown him. He sometimes wondered he said. if whether in going to the western | hemisphere he was not going to an- other and better world He expressed and thanked the American for the good auguries with which he eheered him on in undertak- | ing new and responsible task
 The difficulty would be, Mir. Bryce l said, to live up to it. Of all the duties | a man could undertake, none was 1 higher or more difficult of fulillment | than those given him and if he had not been encouraged by so many friends itated Tn undertaking them.
 MT. Bryce then rapidly reviewed the relations. of Great Britain for the United States for the past century and referred to the steady growth of bet l ter feeling between the two countries since the time of his first visit to l America in 1870.
 During the last forty or fifty years | Great Britain and the United States ' each other better and to read one an- others writings.
 Neither has any cause to quarrel with l the other. Each country has as much 1 as she can possibly acquire l and each country Is proud of the other. |