New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-05
Ex.Ambassador Tells Pilgrims
That Is How Maintenance
Of Peace Can Be
Accomplished.
LAUDS HAY AY-PAUNCEFoTE
M. Innes, Representing Bryce,
Says There Is Nothing So
Futile as a Diplomatic Vic
tory-Silver Urn for
Wilson.

The subject uppermost in the minos
If the American and English Pilgrims
who dined together last night at the
waldorf in celebration of the society's
tentb anniversary, was that Of the Pan
ANA Canal tolls. Without referring to
il in bald terms. but speaking of it
rather as 1.-The little difficulty" or as
the difference of opinion which has
arisen between the two governments.
in tho manner of after dinner orators
anxious not to shock the genial at
mosphere of the feast, Joseph n.
Choate. the president of the Pilgrims,
who presided; Mitchell lnnes, coun-
sellor of the British Embassy at Wash
;ngton. who represented Ambassador
Bryce. and the other speakers, among
them Harry +. V. Britain, secretary
Of the English Pilgrims, and Bishop
Boyd Carpenter. Canon of Westmin-
ster. all discussed ii.
we are now entering the celebration
Of one hundred years Of peace between
the two nations" said Mr.. Choate.
How has the maintenance of peace
been accomplished, Notwithstanding the
horrible controversies that has arisen
from time to time? BY the preserva-
tion on both sides of absolute good
fail and of fidelity to the promises
they have made one another.
Difference" Not Very Serious.
The difference which has arisen just
now is not half as serious as the diff
ferences which have arisen in the past.
There is nothing in ii which cannot be
readily settled by adherence on both
sides to absolute honest dealing and
good faith in the keeping of compacts.
Il had something TO do with the
drawing up of that treaty, the terms of
which are now in dispute. / came in
contact with both those two great
statesmen, John Hay and Lord Paunce-
fote. And if ever there were two men
VINO deserved the gratitude and respect
of their respective nations and each OF
the other nation those two men did for
their perfectly plain and perfectly
honest dealing with each other in their
effort to express in perfectly plain Eng
lish what each had in his own mind.
when they said in the treaty that
the vessels Of all nations should use
tho canal on equal terms they meant
~,
lived and died without believing those
words were susceptible of any othe.
meaning than that which they bore on
their face. But different meanings have
been discovered for those very plain
words. How are we going to settle it?
Why refer the question in dispute 10
some other gentlemen for settlement.
And my first suggestion il. to refer il
10 the Pilgrims on both sides Of the
water to vote upon.
The people of this country are not
going to allow anybody, any Congress.
any President, To break their good
faith which they have pledged. How
are they going to preserve peace for
the next hundred years? There is only
one way, by keeping their word. by
Keeping their good faith. This little
matter will be adjusted, anu 7 hone
Mr. Bryce will remain with US long
enough to see 1t done"
Mr.. Innes. the next speaker picked
up the theme almost at once, saying:
The subject nearest to all our
hearts is the relation between the two
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