Extracts from Addresses
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AT THE LUNCHEON IN HONOR OF THE MISSION GIVEN
BY THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT, MONDAY,
NOVEMBER 25, ɪ:oo P.M.
AYOR AMERMAN : It is the desire, I believe, of these gentlemen
of the British Mission to get in touch with our educational institu-
tions all over the United States, and to begin, if we may use an unfavorable
term that we have heard used, a propaganda that will set the current of
our students going towards the British universities, and keep the educa-
tional institutions of the United States and Great Britain in closer touch
in order that there may never be a time when any propagandist can come
to this country and tell us that Great Britain is not the friend of America.
Great Britain and America come of common stock, have the same ideas
of government, the same ideals of personal relations, and of personal
liberty between man and man, but on both sides of the Atlantic we have
sat down and allowed the idea to grow up that nothing was good unless
it was made in Germany. That day, fortunately, is now behind us.
Only you and ourselves will be to blame if ever even a rift comes in the
relations between Great Britain and America.
To our guests I desire to say that we are all here because we count
you our friends. We want you to count us your friends. We want you
to feel that you are at home. We want you to feel that wherever you
meet an American citizen, either in Houston or in Texas or anywhere
in the United States, or anywhere in the world, you have his friendship.
Governor Hobby: My friends, the time of your coming appeals to our
hearts, and the cause of your coming appeals to our heads; and so with
our minds and our souls in complete accord we are pleased and we are
delighted to have you here, and we look upon your mission as one for
the common good, and one which will contribute to the happiness and
the prosperity of the people of both continents. Unless the cause which
brings you to America is nourished and fostered, then the billions which
have piled up the public debts of every nation have gone for naught, and
the blood of heroes, which soaks the glory-covered soil of Europe, has
been shed in vain. If the cause to which you have devoted your lives,
and which it is intended by your visit to promote, is advanced, then the
blessings of world-wide democracy and permanent peace will be realized
to the fullest extent.
On account of what has lately happened, popular government has re-