Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
Friendship With Canada Key
note of Banquet Address.
EARL GREY ALSO SPEAKER
Expresses Regard for U. S., and
Discusses Rhodes Scholarships.
GOV. HUGHES HIGH TRIBUTE
President Visits tuberculosis Con-
gress and Makes
Speech.

= ALBANY, y. Y. March 19.-President
Taft. Earl Grey, governor general of
4 Canada, and Gov. Hughes of New York
met here today and formed notable trio
of guests at the banquet of the Univer-
sity Club of this city tonight.
r Earl Grey sat on the Presidents right
at the dinner. Both took for their topics
the friendly relations that always have
existed between the people of Canada
aud tho Cnited States and expressed the
hope that those relations always might
be maintained.
William 2. Adams of Cohoes was
stricken with heart failure during the
dinner. He was assisted from the banquet
hall and physicians summoned. Although
: his condition is serious. he is expected
to recover Mr.. Adams was member
OF the upstate Hudson-Fulton commits
sion.
President Taft. who chose last place on
the program of speakers, did not begin
: his remarks until ten minutes past mid
night He declared it had been great
privilege TO meet and talk with Earl
Grey and Minister Fielding of Canada.
THE governor general and l have been
comparing notes. said the President,
land find that his job and mine differ
in several marked degrees-in his favor.
he represents the king and the king and
he can do no wrong. The President can
do no right-at least he hasn't anybody
To throw it onto since Loeb left the
White House"
Chides Ex-Gov. Francis.
Former Gov. Francis of Missouri in a
speech had told some campaign stories
in which he and Gov Harmon of Ohio
figured. President Taft chided Mr.. Fran
ris as to how much he and Gov. Harmon
Just yearned and yearned'' for Mr..
Bryan's election. He said he already had
shown Gov Hughes and Gov. Harmon all
over the White House, and that If Gov.
Francis would only come to town he,
too, should have a tour OF inspection.
The President referred but briefly and
generally to the important tariff confer
3ence to be held tomorrow, looking to an
adjustment of differences with Canada.
= He said that every effort would be put
forth by the American government to see
if means could be found of avoiding
1.-The creation of tariff wall between this
country and the Dominion The people
of the United States are slow, the Presi-
dent said to realize what the potentiality
of the Dominion and her people is.
I'VE must be as close friends as pos
-sib1e for mutual benefit. 1 don't say
negotiation. though l hope it may
help little. l am deeply impressed
with the rapid growth and prosperity
of Canada. and 1 want to say that it
Is to our great advantage to- be just 20
them and to2theff great advantage to
he gust to Us.
Tribute to Gov. Hughes.
: TIRE President declared hesalways
liked to be with Gov. Hughes, be
cause he represents the best In the
Z coInmuuity and the highest ideals"
And" continued Mr.. Taft. when he
pays you compliment he does it in such
beautiful language and such sincerity of
purpose that your are almost convinced
yourself" ..ssg g--s.s.sy "a. .l .<-s.sst
: The President closed with an expression
Of the pleasure the Banquet and his visit
TO albany had afforded him.
Earl Grey prefaced the main portion
of his address with an appreciation of
the college songs that had been sung
during the evening. The phrase that
the one in the stein song, which ran:
IT'S always fair weather when good
fellows get together"
so long" he declared, '.as the Stars
and Stripes and the Union Jack get to-
gether. then it is always fair weather,
a in my opinion"
Continuing, the governor general
said:
Il deeply appreciate the great welcome
you have given ne I recognize in the
warm cordiality of my reception the
pie of Canada.
Compliment to Canadians.
+! Il may perhaps be excused IL 1 confess
to you, with all the confidence Of one who
has lived for upward of five. years in
close and delightful intimacy with the
Canadian people, that they are well
worthy of your esteem and affection.
They possess a full measure of those
great qualities which have won for you
so high a place in the nations of the
world. While resolutely determined, like
you, on all occasions to fearlessly de-
fend their just and legitimate rights.
they entertain toward you the same de-
sire to secure your good will, to pro-
mote your interests that you. on your
part. entertain toward them.
Gentlemen, may / make another con-
fession? | never visit the United States
without experiencing a feeling of pride
that We. Canadians and Americans are
related by the close ties of common
ancestry. and that consequently. although
living under different forms of free and
enlightened government. we are. SO far
as the real big things of this world are
concerned, practically one people.
May I now say one word at this uni
versity dinner a university man talk
ing to university men; as Rhodes trus-
tees and one of the executors of Cecil
Rhodes will? May I be permitted to
which. rooted in the grave of Cecil
Rhodes, are destined one day to bear i'm
mortal fruit. What was Cecil Rhodes
great dream? What were the motives
that prompted him to give to your states
a magnificent present of Oxford scholar
ships?
They were prompted by the conscious
ness that we are products of the same
stesrs; that we are inheritors of common
ideals: that NC are the joint trustees of
great Christian truths.
Gov. Hughes Address.
GOV. Hughes in his address took adj
vantage of the occasion to pay another
striking tribute to President Taft He
demanded that public servants unfaithful
10 their trusts should be turned out Of
office In part he said:
There is one here tonight whom every
fair-minded citizen of the United States
honors and esteems. SO long as sincerity
and a disposition to do absolute justice
shall receive applause among men, so
long is President Taft secure of his fame
and the love of his fellow countrymen. II
Is rare that this Capital city is favored
with the presence of the chief executive
of the United States, and tonight as cit
ln In sNa-~