Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-11-29
THANKSGIVING
BANQUET IN
LONDON
EXILE0 AMERICANS
CELEBRATE THE DAY
Ambassador Reid in Optimistic
Speech Refers to Financial
Crisis Lately Confronting the
United States.

Especial Correspondence Morning Journal
London. Nov. 2s-Whitelaw Reid.
the American ambassador. spoke OPP
timisticaliy on the financial outlook
Field Marshal Sir George White eulo-
gized President Roosevelt In the
warmest terms at the Thanksgiving
dinner of the American society to-
night That the financial depression
was felt by the Americans IN England
was shown by attendance at the ban
quet, which was the smallest In sew
eral years. Three hundred guests
participated, compared with four hun
dred last year The president OF the
society. Colonel Millard Hunsaker.
was absent, and n. Newton Crane. for
mer president, presided In his stead
Ambassador Reid sat az his right at
the table Of honor, and Mrs. Reid sat
at his left, Others at this table he
sides the speakers included the Mar
quis and Marchioness of Tweedsdale.
Sir Ernest Cassel. Robert j. Wynne,
the American consul general at Lon
don, and Mrs. Wynne. ]. j Van Allen,
Captain sydney Coleman. Isaac Sellg-
man, Richard A. Westeott, deputy
American consul, Sir Joseph and Lady
Lawrence. and Mr.. and Mrs H. Cor
don Selfridge. Mr.. Reids speech was
received with great enthusiasm. He
said
Some one said to me as was start
ing for this dinner You will have to
be Mark Tapley tonight. cheerful
under difficulties That was only an
exaggerated way of saying that We
viii have "a be Americans as usual
Nothing could be more un-American
than 10 be downcast over temporary
discouragements or to despair of the
conditions, because some of our hap
py family have lost their money al
most as fast as they have made H. We
have seen such things before and it
was worse when the country was not
half so big or half so rich as IL is
now, and we have not forgotten how
we came ant them =
Continuing Mr.. Reid said ne was
reminded OF a motto he had once seen
on a sundial "a the effect that we
are in bit OF fix. but we shall soon
be out OF IL again"
when the clouds roll by" Mr. Reid
said, ~ viii be seen that We sim have
the country that Providence gave US:
that We still have a people, and that
We still have the boundless opportun-
ities, which, after every reverse In the
past have Invariably speedily lifted u
higher and Yet higher. Given the sea.
what American fears the result? In
ii'NA ifhfftAh our country never mas
been In happier position than today.
II ls not merely at peace, but on
terms OF absolute good wiz with an
the world Even that spirited little
colony beyond our frontier, New
foundland. has good naturedly agreed
TO arbitrate things instead OF going To
war with US, and. however this arbi-
tration turns out shall still be smli-
Ing"
The am bassador then paid a hi.
tribute 10 the new star In the flag.
Oklahoma, and said the next presi-
dent would be head of forty six states
with population of one hundred mill
lion before the close OF his term.
Mr.. Reid, continuing. related the
history Of Thanksgiving dty
The popular veteran. Field Marshal
White, In toasting President Roose-
welt, spoke OF him as one whose hon
ssty and strenuosity appealed strongly
70 Englishmen
Lord Justice John Fletcher Moul-
.on. one OF the most eloquent speak
'rs In London toasted the American
ambassador, referring 10 him as an
Example OF the highest type OF Jour
lnlist He praised the restraint the
american newspapers exhibited dur
ng the financial crisis In that coun-
ry.
Sir George Eastwood Taubman
ioldie, president OF the Royal Geo
raphical society, responded to "Our
iuests."