Mr Bayard and the Savages.

Hastings Standard, Issue 91, 11 August 1896, Page 4

Mr Bayard and the Savages.

The annual dinner of the Savage Club was held recently in the Holborn Restaurant. Lord Charles Beresford presided. The United States Ambassador, who met with a very hearty reception, spoke for "The Guests.'' He said it was an old saying that history repeated itself. It was part of history or of that which was called history, that when the settlers from this country landed in America, after a rough vovage, they first fell upon their knees and tli» n upon the savages. And there he \vs, after having nothing but a pleasant voyage coming back to America, glad again to fall upon the Savages. Why did the members of the Savage Club welcome him -with so much cordiality'? What was it that he t\pihul to them ? It was the common manhood of their race (loud chemist There was many troublesome qut-tk.rs around them, but he believed they were all to be solved by the amount of manhood that their people would present to liittt theiu. He had tried to represent m this country the simple, straightforward, unfearing, outspoken manhood of their race. A while ago, in a very remote part of the world there was a gro.M cuu«trophc. Away down in Polynesia there came a tornado in the Samoan I4f nds. Political controversy or rivalry had driven three important nations to he represented there. Germany, Great Britain, and the United States had their armed vessels in waters of a country that never owned an armed vessel. While they were debating a cyclone swept the armed ships of those three nations into de truction. The Americans were lost an 1 part of the British were lost, Germany w;.s su idf 1 and one ship alone survived tht di 1 * r. It was a British ship, the Calliope, commanded by an honest, brave, British seaman, Captain Kane. (Loud cheers.) He fought the tempest, and inch by inch gained his way against it, and in his course to **:• ty he passed . the American flagship—the Trenton —d ri ftin g to her certain destruction. And when the American saw the British man forging his way from danger to safety, he forgot his own peril, and the American caw manned the rigging to cheer the British ship on her way to safety. (Cheers.) A fine Englishman, unhappi % ito dll -Matthew Arnold —had said that that cheer from American throats for British safety was heard right round the world. (Load cheers.) Let them take care that the echo of that cheer should not

cease. There worn II < rarrels and differences, but were tliey not petty quarrels and small dike nee compared with what was meant and carried in those American throats to the hearts of the British sailors as they forged, their way from' danger to safety '? There could be no thought of manhood or of courage, no thought of disinterested public service that was not echoed in America as fully as they could wish it to be. Therefore, passing all petty, small, and unmanly differences, let them feel that night the touch in common of the manhood of their race. (Cheers.) It was not a myth, it wag not a fancy, but it was something that was worth living for, it was something that "was worth dying for. Whatever might be the name of political parties, whatever might be the name even of nations—there was something in common between them all, they wanted but fair play, good feeling, and common manhood to exist between all who spoke the mother-tongue. (Loud cheers.) At a dinner of the Turners' Company last week, Mr Bayard, the American Ambassador," responded to the toast of "Our kinsmen across the Atlantic." He said could not forget that in I*l4 his grandfather signed the treaty between Britain and the United States that had lasted from tjiafc time to this, and there was no just reason known to him why it should not last for ever. Great Britain and the United States had a joint responsibility for the progress of invention and civilisation which they could not honorably forsake.