| Show 1 i I THAT i COMMERCIAL BANQUET i 0 I i That Isn great Interchange of commercial civilities between tho Uelo 1 I SS of the New York Chamber of 3 Commerce and the London Chamber In London on Wednesday l at the banquet day nlsht The greatest friendliness and courtesy were manifested the I Englishmen who have at length I realization that In wakened up to tho American businessmen they have met I rivals worthy of their very keenest I endeavors If not a lltla more formidable formida-ble men than they are able tQ meet AmI When Englishmen concede that it means that the other fellows have i I begun to win tho fi l11and are really I actual vic the prospective K not the ac I ttprs I I torsThe speeches were of tho most complimentary I com-plimentary sort every speaker seemed to vie = with the other In trying to bring to mind pleasant things appropriate to say and It must be admitted that success suc-cess was abundant in this line But the great speech of the nlglt was by Morris K Jcssup president of the New York Chamber of Commerce ip response to the toast to President McKInley handsomely presented by Lord Lansdowne Foreign Secretary in the British Cabinet air Jessups response I re-sponse dwelt upon the magnitude of the commercial relations between the United States and Great Britain and called to mind many courteous and helpful acts which this country must always bear In remembrance Then he came to the commercial and industrial indus-trial rivalry now on betweenthe two countries and upheld hie own land handsomely without either appearance of boafeting or envy doing Justice to Great Britain without lowering the American standard Ho did not allude al-lude so far as the report goes t to specific triumphs of the United States In British domains in outbidding on bridges locomotives viaducts etc where this country supplies better articles ar-ticles in quicker time and at lower prices as he might well have done and which Lord Hepburn practically conceded while claiming the superiority of Great Britain on the sea a supremacy su-premacy by the way which many as tuto Englishman as well as Amen cans see signs of being challenged by America Mr Carnegie spoke of the triumphs of peace peace being the great and prime essential to commercial and Industrial In-dustrial development His elevation of the chambers of commerce of New York and London to be the peace arbitration ar-bitration board of last resort among the Cabinets of tho Nations was a well turned compliment to both bodies and indeed it would by no means be a bad idea for practical arbitration for these are bodies that are always In session that have a breadth of grasp keenness of view and impartiality of Judgment often sadly lacking among diplomats and that are essential to the proper settlement of disputes that take a wide range and involve many intricacies No body could possibly excel a body of wideawake businessmen business-men habituated to large transactions in the handling ofinternatlonal questions ques-tions It was a happy thought to bring together to-gether these greatrepresentative men of the tremendous commercial interests inter-ests controlled In London and New York The visit of the New Yorkers York-ers will lead to better understandings understand-ings and to the Increase of trade The triumphs of peace are the trl umphs to which these men are accustomed accus-tomed triumphs that afflict not humanity hu-manity but spread blessings and comforts com-forts on every hand those men arc the princes of the earth and If the turbulences of politicians could be supplanted by their methods the world would have taken a long step toward millennium |
