Article January 12, 1899 Issue

Miscellany

In an address at his home, Canton, Ohio, Judge Day, president of the Peace Commission at Paris, said:—

"If I were called upon to state the most gratifying circumstance of our foreign relations during the war, it would be in the uniformly cordial and hearty friendship of the English before and during the struggle. Observing the obligations of neutrality and never stepping outside the requirements of international law, we had the sympathy and good will of that great power.

"I do not believe either nation seeks or would be benefited by a formal alliance. Nevertheless, the existence of cordial relations between people kindred by blood, speaking the same language, and having the same ideals of civil liberty and good government, is a fact the potency of which can hardly be overestimated.

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