The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-05
BANQUET IN LONDON
Reid Refers to Japanese
 Trouble.

London, July 4.-The customary Fourth of July banquet was held to- night at the Hotel Cecil The attend- ance was large. The guests included Ambassador Whitelaw Reid, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the United States supreme court; Sir Robert B. Finlay, the Hon. NJ. Justice Kennedy. pr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university; Robert Newton Crane, Sir Evelyn Wood, Sir Henry Mortimer Durand and Rider Haggard. Mark Twain arrived toward the end of the banquet and was enthusiastically received.
 In the absence of Col. Willard Hun sicker, the president of the American society, the banquet was presided over by Mir. Crane.
 A happy speech was made by Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, who was for merly British ambassador at Washing ton.
 He said in part.
 Tt is hard on an occasion of this Kind to avoid indiscretion or gush, but facts are facts. England and America are friends; we will thank God and leave 1t at that. We are no longer one nation and however much we may re- gret it, we ar no longer one people. There is not much English blood left in the veins of the greater part of the American. We would be better friends 1 + we would recognize the facts that learn to regard each other for what we are Englishmen are apt to forget these facts and be carried away by the idea of community of language and in- terests.t
 continuing, Sir Henry said he had had the good fortune to serve in Washing ton and he spoke of the Americans as the warmest hearted people in the world. In America, he continued. the British ambassador is apt to forget that his first duty Is to his own flag and i1is own people, While in Washing ton,' the former ambassador went on II felt SD entirely at home that for got the fact that was foreigner and here in England I find this feeling of kinship to be equally strong"
 In conclusion Sir Henry delivered an eulogy of the American soldier and Abraham Lincoln, and his remarks brought out cheers from the diners. The most notable passage of Anbas- sador Reid's speech was his reference to "the Japanese trouble"
 Two great nations that have been friends from the beginning and that hold similar positions in their respec tive hemispheres," said the ambassa- dor, are not going to hunt for a quar- rel about small outbreaks in restau rants and barrooms, however much such incidents are to be guarded against and deplored Nor will either .of these nations quarrel for the prfvl- lese of transferring it's surplus labor CTS from the open fields near its own borders when they might help to extend the national power to unoccupied fields on the other side of the globe where 1t would have no use for them. Such fan tacies would never occur to anybody in his widest dreams except for the per- vaslve and the pernlciously industrious diplomacy of these later times"
 Referring to rumors of business troubles in the United States Mr. Reid said the country had been ruined" five times before within his own experience. 'Our laboring classes" he continued, Tn spite of their ruin receive wages as high as those paid anywhere in the world and are being offered more work than they are willing to undertake. Our capitalist classes, fin spite of their ruin possess as big fortunes as are found anywhere in the world
 A humorous speech was made by Mark Twain at the conclusion of which he thanked England for the Anglo saxon standard of liberty given to Am erica. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and Major General Barden-Powell also made speeches.
 Although admittance was by invita- tion and only Americans, with a few exceptions, were asked to cali the crush was as great as at White House re- captions.
 A long buffet tent was erected on the north terrace, access to which was ob- tained by the removal of some windows and the erection of temporary stair cases, carpeted with crimson cloth. Nearly 4,O0O invitations were issued. Tho guests included J. Plerpont Nor gan, Mrs. Morgan and Miss Morgan, Mark Twain, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the supreme court of the United States; the Earl and Countess Crewe, Sir Bache and Lady Cunard, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, Mir. and Mrs. Lewis Harcourt, Sir Charles Hardinge, the Earl and Countess of Essex, MT. and Mrs. Frederick w. Van derbilt the Duke and Duchess of Rox- burgs, Mir. and Mrs. George Cornwall lis West Lord and Lady Willoughby de Eresby, Sir Edward Grey, several officials of the foreign office and many members of the diplomatic corps