THE ANGLO-SAXON RACE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 33, 7 August 1925, Page 6

THE ANGLO-SAXON RACE

ONE OF ITS GREATEST TIES

STIRRING SPEECH BY U.S. CONSUL.

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AUCKLAND, this Day,

" You «cc, the real difficult thing for me to do is to bring myself to the state of mind of believing that I am addressing people of another country," waß the statement yesterday of Mr. Walter Boyle, the United States Consul, when addressing the membei's of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. " To my eyes," the speaker continued, " you are so much like an assemblage oi representative American business me.-i that instead of addressing you as our cousins as so many are wont U^do, or as pur blood brothel's, which seems to me the more fitting term, I really feel that I should get down the old flag, wave it around several times,, and aek ,fqr three rousing cheers. But here i would be making an error, for I needs must stop and remember that, though your appearance, your tongue, your ideals, and many other things are such that I am wont to confound you with an American audience, that after all you love another flag even as we lovo uure; that you respect us for the love of our flag as we respect you for the love of your flag, and that when you sing ' God Save the King ' it awakens within your heart of hearts the uniting responsive chord that brings you to an understanding of the bigger things in lifoj even as we Americans respond to the playing'of ' The Star Spangled Banner.' "

Touching the commercial issue in its broadest sense, the Consul said the two great commercial Powers of the world were of Anglo-Saxon origin. " And thus it may be said," he proceeded, "that one of the greatest ties between the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon family is that we are business men, that we understand the business game, that we know how to play it fair, that we can see the other fellow's point of vieWj and we always haVe our eyes upon the ball and are ever •working to make a goal for ourselves. We do not believe in foul tactics, and will have none of him who does. And while we are speaking of a fair deal in business. it is well that we remember that England, in addition to being the mother of our common countries, was also the mother of Free Trade; and, though time and time again country after country has rejected Free Trade as not being suited to its own' economic needs, we must all admit that Free Trade had as^ its inspiration that spirit of fair play* in business that hat marked the history of the Anglo-Saxon."