188 WITH MR. CHAMBERLAIN IN THE 



also paying a tribute to the love which Canadians 

 who dwell in this country continue to cherish for 

 their native land, he said in part : 



Is it because eighty or one hundred years ago 

 there was a little difference between your ancestors 

 and our ancestors in which you succeeded — happily 

 for the general civilisation and progress of the world 

 — that any of the ill-feeling evolved during that 

 struggle should still continue ? As the bitterness 

 engendered by your own great war of twenty-five 

 years ago has died out, why should not the bitterness 

 engendered by a struggle which took place three- 

 quarters of a century earlier die out likewise ? 

 (Applause.) From 1840 until to-day there has 

 never been a year during which the Canadian 

 Government has not shown a disposition to meet 

 the people of the United States more than half way, 

 so far as commercial relations or fishery relations 

 were concerned. (Applause.) We have always 

 been anxious for reciprocal trade with the United 

 States. (Applause.) 



SECRETARY BAYARD'S LETTER 



After Mr. Foster had concluded, the following 

 letter from Secretary Bayard was then read by Mr. 

 Wiman : 



Department of State, 



Washington, D.C., 



March I, 1888. 



Erastus Wiman, Esq. 



My dear Sir, — I did not receive until Monday 

 last the card of invitation to the banquet to be given 



