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war without first submitting the cause of dispute to 

 the Round Table at the Hague ; and I also remember 

 how he went straight from the Peace Congress of 

 New York to Germany to tell the authorities at Berlin 

 how vain and profitless would be any expenditure on 

 their part on the construction of new ships, as the 

 requirements of our national safety would compel us 

 to lay down two keels for every one laid down by 



Germany. Disraeli, in one of his novels, in referring 

 to the profession of journalists, in whose behalf we 

 are pleading this evening, made the remark that the 

 world is not governed by statesmen, diplomatists, and 

 Commanders-in-Chief, so much as by obscure little 

 men who live in back attics. Mr. Stead provided ia 

 his own person and by his own achievements an 

 illustration of the truth of this remark. 



SIR T. VESEY STRONG, late Lord Mayor of London. 



The long friendship I enjoyed with him, extending 

 over twenty-five >ears, my respect for his high charac- 

 ter, and my abiding sense of the value of his eminent 

 public services prompt the wish to add my humble 

 testimony to those services and my admiration for the 

 devoted and self-sacrificing spirit in which they were 

 rendered in every phase and period of Mr. Stead's 

 strenuous and memorable life. 



I feel I can hardly express my testimony more 

 appropriately or in clearer terms than those I employed 

 when, as Lord Mayor, I wrote to him last year on the 

 twenty-first anniversary of the Review of Reviews, 

 and referred to his arduous labours of editorship con- 

 sistently maintained in the spirit in which he entered 

 upon that self-imposed task. 



I said : — " At that time the objects you had at 

 heart appeared so far off as to be well-nigh impossible 

 of attainment to all but the eye of faith. What has 

 been achieved by the movements you have made your 

 objective, and to which you ha\'e directed your unflag- 

 ging efforts, have been little less than marvellous. 



" Your close adhesion to your original conception of 

 a periodical by which the busiest and the poorest might 

 follow with intelligent interest the movements of con- 

 temporary history has been characteristic, and one's 

 first thought suggested by the retrospect is that the 

 progress revealed is so encouraging as to cause one to 

 .say with you, ' Let us thank God and take courage.' 



" The amelioration of the conditions of life, the 

 levelling up of social inequalities, the securing for each 

 individual the possibility of a nobler life — these have 

 all seen advancement. Indeed, the retrospect is one 

 long record of the triumph of elevating ideals in the 

 social, political, and international history of the period. 



" To few has it been given to combine the power of 

 the pen with the power of personal advocacy which 

 you have so long and so strenuously exerted in pro- 

 moting the true brotherhood of man. Your enthusiastic 

 support of the idea of the essential unity of the English- 

 speaking peoples throughout the world strikes the key- 

 note of the march which may, in the fullness of time, 

 lead on through all the higher conceptions of our own 

 Imperial destiny and the developing policy of our 

 American brethren, to the final triumph of humanity. 



" 'I'he recent visit of the American Navy to our 

 shores, and the memorable reception of the officers and 

 men of the fleet at the Guildhall, are conspicuous 

 examples of the growth of this unity, which will, I 



believe, be a bright memory with the people of both 

 nations in years to come." 



" My earnest wish and suggestion to you is that you 

 should republish your ' Address to all English-speaking 

 People,' together with the Retrospect. Thus may be 

 measured the advance the world has made towards 

 the ideal you set up as a beacon light." 



To the testimony thus expressed a year ago one may 

 well call to remembrance events and mo\ements of 

 world-wide interest and importance which virtually 

 focused themselves in the ever memorable year of the 

 Coronation of Their Majesties King George V. and 

 Queen ]\Iary. History has yet to write the part Mr. 

 Stead played in those events in promoting international 

 relationships and goodwill. But prominent among 

 those services I may venture to place his successful 

 efforts in securing the great representation of Free 

 Churches at the historic meeting over which it was my 

 great privilege to preside at the Guildhall in support 

 of Anglo-American Arbitration. 



" Not as White as He's Painted." 

 A );ood cartoon ol llic rcnjdcli period. 



