The Holland Society of New York - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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l yy' 0 150 from China, Sir Chentung Liang Cheng. He was educated in this country and studied for eight years in Phillips Academy and Amherst College, Massachusetts. He was Secretary to the Envoy at the Court of St. James at the time of the coronation of King Edward. For the special bene- fit of some of the newspapers, it may be Well to mention that the presence of the Chinese Minister here to-night has no significance as to the attitude of the Holland Society on the Eastern Question! QLcmghzfe1'.D I know you will be delighted to hear from Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, who will respond to the toast: THE FRIENDLY RELATIONS OF THE DUTCH WITH OTHER NATIONS. A H ' War is a game which, were their subj ects wise, Kings would not play at. ' I f T 'Q X 6,-D .XF Br, f-1' TT X H T x f .I r W G p kr k.9 XX 0? '5 f 4 s

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149 . when they are threatened, they are only at once maintained. Eternal vigilance is as needful HOW as in the past. Our chief peril is undue confidence and neglectfulness. Rudyard Kipling draws a picture of this kind. He portrays the people of Holland as failing to care for and strengthen the dykes that keep out the sea. They go on in this folly until a storm arises, and the galloping breakers stride and dash through the decaying embankments. Devasta- tion and death are everywhere, and the retreating 'citizens take up the wail: l gs Now we can only wait till the day, wait and apportion ' our shame! . . 'These are the dykes our fathers left, but we would not , - look to the same. H Time and again were we 'warned of the dykes, time and 4 ' again ,we delayed: , I - A ' .Now, it may fall, we have slain our sons as our fathers we have betrayed! H 4 No Hollander in Holland would act as guiltily toward his country and jeopardize life and prop- ertyg and surely the descendants of Holland in America will guard the dykes for their great profit and care 'reared to defend liberty and free institutions. r And instead of this lament, they and their children shall' sing: ll For the peace is not gone, nor the profit gone, 1'10fI' the Old sure day withdrawn, .And we will keep the dykes as firm and strong as they were at the break of dawn. I -THE PRESIDENT: We are highly honored by havin with us to-ni ht the representative at 8 8 Washington from the Flowery KingdOII1, the EHVOY

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