New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-13
CANADIAN CLUB HEARS
MESSAGES OF PEACE
DOminion'S Minister of Militia
Among Those to Refer to
Coming Celebration.
MESSAGE FROM C0NNAUGHT
500 Members and Their Wives
at Dinner Where Themes Are
Loyalty to Britain and
Friendship to U. S.

Friendship to U. S.
With fifty guests at it's speakers table
and some five hundred members and their
wives in the banquet hall, the Canadian
Club OF New York held its eighth annual
banquet last night I'm the north ballroom
of the Astor.
Speakers and decorations, as well as the
general sentiment of the diners kept to
tions between Canada and the United
states, and frequent reference was made
to the coming celebration Of a hundred
years of peace along the boundary line
between those two countries
Letters Of regret at their inability to be
present were read from the Duke of Con-
naught, Governor General OF Canada, and
r. l.. Borden. the Premier. The dukes
letter follows:
] desire to express to the Canadian Club
OF New York my great regret at not
having been able TO avail myself OF their
invitation to attend their annual banquet
In my long travels through the Dominion
] have visited many branches of the Ca
madam Club. and have had reports Of
many more.
/ wish TO say how fully coguizant am
Of the value Of these institutions in fos-
tering national spirit, and in disseminat-
ing knowledge Of subjects Of imperial and
Of world wide interest.
/ beg the president and members 10
accept my heartfelt wishes for the sue
cess Of the New York branch of the Ca
madam Club.
Colonel Roosevelt was also among
those invited who could not come. His
letter, dated November ., declared that
he wished he could accept, but that 1t
was out OF the question.
II cannot make another engagement of
any kind or sort now" the colonel wrote,
which was taken as an indication that
the former President was not likely to be
seen at any such semi-public gatherings
for some time.
7. Kennard Thomson, president Of the
club, acted as POSTMASTER, and, after
passing over the regrets Of the colonel
from oyster Bay, introduced as the first
speaker Colonel Sam Hughes. Minister
OF Militia and Defence in the Borden
Cabinet.
Minister Of Militia Speaks.
Colonel Hughes, speaking of the ap-
preaching celebration OF a hundred years
Of peace, characterized himself as "the
only member Of the Cabinet with nothing
to DO" but added the qualification that
preparedness for war was its best pre-
ventive.
Logic and argument would scarcely
bring certain peoples" he said, to re-
spect the rights of Christian nations II 1t
were not for the power of the bayonet,
and the bayonet never took second place
in cIvilzng savage races or in uplifting
humanity
As an example in point the colonel re-
ferred to the Soudan, where, he said.
hundred thousand people lost their lives
every year, up TO a few years ago.
To-day life and property are as safe
in the Soudan as they are I'm New York, !"
he said, and when laughter greeted the
second part OF his comparison, the
colonel with a glance toward the neigh
boring Metropole, amended it to-"Well.
as safe as they are I'm the Dominion OF
Canada"
Britain and her colonies would grow
into a still closer union, and Britain and
the United States would always stand
together. ne said, for the general uplift
Of humanity.
Sir Edmund Walker, president of the
Canadian Bank Of Commerce, while sup
porting the same general line, took
passing fling at Thomas Jefferson's words
when he said: The political and social
enterprise of the British Empire rests
on no pretension that all men are Gre
ateI equal but the practice Of the Brit
ish Empire is to measure out equal and
exact justice to all men. OF whatever
state or persuasion. religious or political,
and OF whatever color"
He spoke vehemently for the separate
entity OF Canada, but maintained that
her strongest sentiment would always
be hs- share In the British Empire.
But should England ever decline from
her high estate, should she ever fall be-
cause of her greatness, Canada will be
ready to take her place as the Anglo
Saxon representative among the races"
he added.
David r. Forgan, president of the First
National Bank OF Chicago; Professor Will
lis l.. Moore. chief of the Weather Blu
reau Ernest Thompson Seton and Will
lam e. Brown. president OF the New York
Central Railroad, were among the other
speakers.
Mr.. Brown, in discussing the agricultu-
raj opportunities of the Canadian North-
west, offered as a solution for the high
cost of living, not the familiar cry OF in
creased acreage for agriculture, but an
increase Of the production an acre.
lie said that King George had empha-
sized that point more vigorously than any
man in the world, when. after an inspec.
ton of a fne potato crop raised by
Mathew G. Wallace, in Dumfries, he had
bestowed knighthood on that man, though
he was only tenant and not even the
owner of the land which he had Guilt
waited so skilfully
Mr.. Brown added that n trip through
the Canadian West had convinced him
that section of the continent was des-
tined to undergo as fine a development
as has previously been the lot OF the
trans Mississippi region OF the United
States.
Among those present were James w
Osborne. Lewis l.. Clark, Dean John Gal