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of the Anglo-Saxon race lie the future peace and hope of 

 the wijrUi the signs of the times are most encouraging. 



JOINT TRUSTEES FOR CIVILISATION. 



The forces of the world are slowly but steadily drifting in 

 this direction. Let it be our privilege in our generation to 

 do nothing to prevent the flow of these currents, which if 

 uninterrupted will one day course together in the mingled 

 waters ot one mighty and irresistible river. 



The peoples of the United Kingdom, ol the self-governing 

 nations of tile British Empire and ot the United States are 

 joint trustees for the protection and expansion of thai 

 Anglo-Saxon civilisation which carrier in its development 

 the hope of future peace and the realisation of the highest 

 ideals attainable on earth. Every year our joint respon- 

 sibility to mankind and to future ages for the way in 

 which we now administer our sacred trust grows in fulness 

 and importance. 



There are several questions outstanding between the 

 Dominion of Canada and the United States which have 

 been left open too long and which call for settlement. 

 Both Governments desire to take advantage ot the oppor- 

 tunity which the present feeling ot amity between the two 

 countries affords, and I am persuaded that the hearts of 

 the two iieoples on both sides of the frontier will be glad 

 when their respective Governments have given effect to 

 their desires. 



THE UNITY OF THE RACE. 



Gentlemen, when I look around this masniflcent assem- 

 bly, and remember that of the one thousand years of Bri- 

 tain's pride, nine hundred, or nine-tenths, are yours as 

 uoh as mine, then I realise that no force, however power- 



il. can ever deprive us of that feeling of kinship which 



ines from our joint possession of this great inheritance. 



Vou and I and my fellow-Canadian guests all come from 



u same splendid old motiier stock. We speak the same 



. njuage, we are passing towVrd a single goal, we are 



united in hore. in aspiration and in faith, and if we are 



ri>-sharer8 in' nine-tenths of the past, may we not hope 



that we may be co-partners in the whole of the long future 



that is looming up on our horizon? 



THE EXGLISH-SPEAKERS' JITSSION. 



It is the proud mission of the Anglo-Saxon race to main- 

 tain and advance the cause ot civilisation throughout the 

 world. England thankfully recognises your desire to co- 

 oi)erat« with her in this beneficial work, and the know- 

 ledge that the Stars and Stripes and the flag of England 

 stand in the gateways of the world, as on these walls, their 

 varying colours draped together, fold within fold, as the 

 joint emblems of freedom, righteousness and duty, and if 

 I may quote the language of one of the most eloquent 

 speakers that ever used our mother tongue, " forming in 

 heaven's ligjit one arch of peace," may make us all proud, 

 first, that we have a big duty to perform to the world, and, 

 secondly, that, so long as we are true to eaeh other and to 

 ourselves, we shall have the strength, as well as the will, 

 to accomplish the noble purposes of our joint and splendid 

 destinv. 



THE SECRKTARY OF STATE'S RESPONSE. 



Mr. Secretary Root, who proposed the toast of 

 " The International Comity," referred gracefully to 

 the return of the Franklin portrait. He said it had 



no doubt exercised a potent but subtle influence 

 upon Lord Grey as it looked down upon him in his 

 boyhood from his ancestral halls. He then pro- 

 ceeded as follows: — 



Our country is opposed to treaties with other countries, 

 but the sincere desire to accomplish a purpose is as effec- 

 tive as if the seal were on a contract. The progress, the 

 glory of England is that every step ia a gain to every man 

 who sijeaks the English tongue. 1 am glad to welcome 

 Earl Gre.v for the people over whom be is Governor in 

 Canada. I can do it for a genuine likeness for its people. 



I think the American people should recognise that a 

 great change has taken place on the other side of the 

 border. It has changed the proposed, or assumed, relations 

 ot the two peoples. In 1812 the British Governor of On- 

 tario wrote that the majority of his people were more in 

 favour of the United States than England. 



Canada is no longer the outlying country in which a 

 fringe of royalists live. It has become a great people, in- 

 creasing in population, in wealth. The stirring of a na- 

 tional sentiment is felt. We can see that, while they are 

 still loyal to the British Empire, they are growing up and 

 are a personality in themselves. In their relation to us 

 they have become a sister nation. They are no longer the 

 little remnant on our borders, the.v are a sister nation. 

 A\'e are not jealous. We bid' them God-speed in doing this 

 part for civilisation. 



The newspapers have said that at this dinner it would be 

 said all existing relations between the United States and 

 Canada had been settled. I wish it were so. 



This can be said: We are going to try to settle them. 

 With a sincere and earnest purpose we believe we shall 

 settle them. The race of seals is rapidly disappearing. 

 We are going to try to stop the frightful waste involved 

 in their destruction. The flsb in tlie Great Lakes are being 

 destroyed because we have not had the international regu- 

 lations we hope soon to get. 



The North-eastern fisheries question has still been talked 

 ot. We shall try to settle them again. We are going to 

 try to get rid of all boundary questions. The Alaska boun- 

 dary could have been settled any time for a number of 

 years. But Congress was not willing to make an appro- 

 priation for surveying. The result was a serious contro- 

 versy, which, I fear, has left some hard feeling, which, I 

 hoi>e, will disappear soon. 



Eighty-nine years ago we agreed to a disarmament along 

 the Great Lakes. Great cities have grown up there, as 

 safe as if in the centre of these two countries. 



This condition will not continue, except by the doing of 

 the things necessary to peace. Not governments, but 

 peoples, to-day preserve peace, do justice. Governments 

 can register tlie decrees of democracy. The people of each 

 countr.v that borders on another have the keeping ot peace 

 in their mind. Nations have souls and duties as well aa 

 rights. The people who are grasping and arrogant meet 

 the same fate as people ot like tendencies in a community. 

 A regard not merely with the President at Washington and 

 the Governor-General in Canada for feelings and rights is 

 necessary, hnt also a regard among the people ot this 

 country and Canada. We must be just, considerate, not 

 grasping or arrogant. If the people of the United States 

 and ot Canada will act this way. never will the Canadian 

 frontier bristle with guns and our proud boasts of liberty 

 and justioe be set at naught. Never will we have to blush 

 for our high ideals. 





