The expressions of sympathy for the King and the British
people have been, we are sure, as genuine as they have been universal. None have, it is hardly necessary to say, been more heartfelt or more impressive than those received from America. In his address at the Harvard Commencement Dinner Mr. Roosevelt said:—" Let me speak for all Americans when I say that we watch with the deepest concern and sympathy the sick-bed of the English King, and that all Americans, in tendering their hearty sympathy to the people of Great Britain, will now remember keenly the out- burst of genuine grief with which all England last Fall greeted the calamity which befel us in the death of President McKinley." As we have repeatedly said, it only requires a national sorrow in either country to provide a complete answer to those who pretend that the Americans are as much foreigners to us and we to them as Frenchmen and Germans.
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