Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-24
WAS NOTABLE
Not So Much International Love Feast
Oratory as Is Generally Heard.
TRIBUTE TO THE STATESMAN
Governor Hughes Created Merriment
by Quoting From the American
Commonwealth What Ambassa- p
dor Had Written About
Executives.

NEW YORK. March 23.-James Bryce.
British ambassador at Washington. made
his first official appearance before an Amer
lean audience as the guest tonight of the
Pilgrims Society at a dinner at the Wal
dorf-Astorfa.
+ The gathering was notable both in point
of speakers and in the character of the
speechmaking. There was less perhaps Of
what Joseph II. Ghoate. IN opening the ''in-
ternational love feast" described as hands
across-the- sea" oratory than is usually
to pay personal tributes to the statesman
author who many years ago made the ac-
quaintance of Americans and candidly set
forth his impressions in print.
In proposing the health of the ambassador
Mr.. Choate said among other things IF
it be the supreme fitness of an ambassador.
as MaehiaveiA. he may hong remain with
us. and that both countries together, whose
abiding friendship no man can doubt. may
with his aid be found working side by side
for the advancement of civilization and
Justice. and. above all. of the peace Of the
world
Ambassador Bryce's Remarks.
After returning thanks to the Pilgrims,
Mr.. Bryce said
Il take your welcome here tonight, and
the countless signs of good will 1 have had
from so many quarters, to be due to your
knowing that l come as a messenger of
friendship from the old country to the
new and 70 your belief that such message
is the cne which 1 personally desire above
all things to deliver. 1 trust that you will
take it to be the true, deep and real SEN
timent OF the British people.
The friendship of which 1 speak IS not
the officia. diplomatic sort of friendship.
although that most happily exists. am
speaking of something better still and far
deeper: OF something which does not rest
upon formal documents and political combi-
nations: of something which Is felt not only
by the king and the government, but also
by millions TO whom those documents and
combinations are unknown.
The British people have. quite apart from
the state or the government, an interest in
and feeling of brotherhood for the Ameri-
can people. which is by far their strongest
feeling as nation next to their patriotism
for Britain and the British empire. 1 do
not forget your people are not wholly OF
English Scottish and Irish origin. Many
streams of population have flowed in. many
stocks have gone to the making Of your
nation. And you have gained we too
have from time to time gained by these
diverse elements.
Not Race That Links. go
1T is not race only that links you and
us together; it is the language that grew
up. the literature that was produced, the.
free institutions that were framed in the
days when your ancestors and ours lived
together in the ancient island home Nor
is this all. There are in the masses of our
people many whose knowledge of literature
and institutions is slender. but to whom
America is the land to which their brothers
and their children have gone, the land
which stands to their minds as being
pre-eminently the land of human quail
ity the land of a free career, the land
which gives the ordinary man his
best chance. the land which promises fu-
ture in which the masses shall-such as is
their belief-fare better than they have
ever done before. Strong as this sentiment
Island this is the other point I want to
make clear-there is nothing exclusive in it.
nothing to which any other nations can
OBJECT we uU not wait YOU DeCduSe you
are our friends to be any bit the less the
friends of any other nation; we do not ask
you to forget. nor do We forget what we
both owe to Italy. the home of poetry,
painting and music; to France whose in
tellect has SO often irradiated all Europe;
to Germany so rich in the treasures of
thought and learning International amity
is not like conjugal affection which, il it
is to produce happiness, must needs imply
the special devotion OF each to the other
1t is like the friendship of men among
themselves which can take In many at the
same time
You have gone further than any other
nation in giving comfort, enlightment and
opportunities for progress to the individual
man In whatever station or. of whatever
stock. Yet how much there is still to do.
May Coo avert anything which should d.
vert either you US from the task Of
making our own people prosperous. tranquil
and happy"
Hughes Creates Merriment
Gov. Charles E Hughes created merri-
ment by quoting from the American Com
monwealth what the ambassador had
written of state executives.
There are no fiattering lines for the
governor in the American Common.
wealth" he said. The state executive
according to it. has little to do and COM
paratively small sums to handle Legis-
lation it is explained has in the several
states pushed itself to the farthest limits
and SO encroached on subjects which Eu-
ropean legislatures would leave to the
executive that executive discretion is ex-
tinct and the officers are the mere hands
of the Legislative brain. There Is just one
word of comfort in the hopeful concIu-
sion, "A state governor, however, Is not
yet q nonentity.
And while there is life there is hope
of supplying material for a new addition"
added the governor. 49,