The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-11-15
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
speech Of MIR. George Francis Train.
of Boston.

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Mr.. Train. who was received with great applause.
said: UnaccustOmei ~ I an TO public speaking.
overwhelmed By the warmth Of yOur greeting, don't
be surprised If, with the national timidity Of nv
chsraeter-sop peculiar 10 my countrymen-(aughter)
my knees shake, and my tongue cleayes 10 the
roof - my mouth. in rising on this Goth Of August
occasion To tell you how proud I Am to throw back
upon you Ne many kind and honest words of friend
ship a. you have showered upon NE. Having been
called upon 30 Unexpectedly, being totally unprepar-
ed. and naturally bashful. Oaughter.) you must be
generous in your judgment should I break down
while addressing you. Want 81 confidence is q grea,
drawback TO a public speaker. and an unassuminz
disposition almos; fatal. daughter and applause)
Possessing. - you are aEare, these unfortunate
. attributes, With all possible humility, I beg indul-
gence OF this most noble audience OF distinguished
men during the 'ew minutes which are allotted to me
IN acknowledging the toast. One would have sup
posed that = really good thing in this living age Of
competition would have been NJ once adopted but +
assure you %Runyan's pursuit Of knowledge under
difficulties vas nothing 10 my euieavOr 20 Introduce
into the Old World. one u the greatest luxuries Il
New.
Men are true 20 their instincts. good or bad. The
sacred FIRE burns to n greater or lesser degree in US
all When The instinct Of travel got hold of me, |
was not contentsd till / had looked in ut the windows
IL all the nations When the instinct Of learning
languages possessed NE, 1 vas not satisfied till /
could order u 6yfsk in many countries. Then came
the instinct to write letters, to make books, 20 repre-
sent Young America on her anniversary, and during
some years i have been sowing my Wild oats in this
way, 10 - Sreht 1ssguStOf All my turtstinn friends.
(Laughter.) We ae creatures of instinct, acting On
impulse. Education directing our policy, our pas
sions are mOdulafe!, and actions governed by inter est
or fear We are wonderfully alike in feeling, seeing,
hearing, with similar hops and similar fears. Lord
Erougham feels the same sensation in sitting down
upon q pin-tgIeat laughier)-as would the lowest
menial Of Exeter Hall All Of us are excessively
virtuous until We are tempted. History states tha,
IL he had only felt FIVE minutes before as he did five
minutes after, he would not have done it Solomon
was modern homeopath in practice, but IN aIlopaih
IN theory. That CrIah story, in our day, would have
damaged David's chances for the Presidency. (Roars
Of laughter)
The world commenced with n bad lot. if the captain
of the ark was the only one worth saving for seed.
(Laugh;er-) When I found there were no more con-
tracts to make for the Italian army. I left France
and went to america, last year, TO look after the ex-
tensive domain, near an Atlantic city, Of one Of the
royal families of Europe. The first things I saw in
Boston were street railways they met me eyery-
where; street railways in New York, street RAILWAYS
in Baltimore. street railways in Cincinnati, street
railways in philadelphia, street railways in St. Louis,
and street railways IA Chicago. Why are they not
in Europe, I asked myself, but could give no answer.
One reason was, everybody was occusieI-nobody
had time, and nobody money. Observation has
taught me that the higher you 20 in Iife-sociaIIy.
financially, commercially and poitically-the shorter
people are (Cheers-) Everybody seems hard up.
Finance, like wind. wave AMI weather. goes in cycles.
Rothschiid's bills neet about once in forty years, and
when the Bank OF England is in a tight place, they
get an exfeu sion from the Government. UIear. hear.
and l%aughrer) Then 10 was that I sold myself to an
blen- The more L reflected, the hrmer was my con-
victitA- Some bankers joined me, but only for
London, Paris and - Petersburg Never mind. the
instinct got complete control, and out | came, arriving
in the NeTsey In October last. While waiting for a
friend at the BirkeLhead railway station, | entertain
ell the csbman about what ! was going TO do ut Birk-
enhead- (Langhter.s Then zane the tug Of action
i argued-I explSiBed-I rsasoned-bat to little
purpose. Pamphlets, letters, enZrIyings, I threw of
by the thousanl Knowing that the tongue and pen
were the bntteriDs rams of good or evil; knowing
That thinking men we're prosecuted, and inquiring
minds thumbscrewed in every age, I stuck by the
ship (Loud aPplause) | went to Paris. The
Emperor was too busy with the armies. | came to
England. Londnn WAS too conservative Liverpool
-eeme,, asleep.
Time pressed; weeks few past; months we're going
AMI money TOO: when instinct again pOinre1 TO BiIk-
enhesd-prict;cIi men met me in a practical way, I
showed then my card. VIII you take all risk; Yes.
Will you pay all legal damages against the commits
siouers, Yes. VIII you take up the rails in case Of
being q public nuisance' Yes. Will you repave the
streets at your own expense-pay for lighting and
watching the roai during the said work. Yes.
Well, you know, Nr- Train, We are business men,
representing \ business community; what security
will you give-wed don't know you personally Any
thing you like. gentlemen, say the rails, the materials
on the ground. No, that won't answer. What
then. Three thousand pounds. Three thousand
daca,s-weIIi All right-ycu shall have it in sove.
rcigns or consols, and To day If you say So Hedgei
in with conditiOEs, bound down by legal ties, | went
at IL without one word Of actual sympathy or en-
enlargement. lAPplause1 | knew that 1t was q
natural law that prejudice could not be removed by
preaching against ia. | knew that the only way to
dislodge a Bal thing was by proposing a better. l
knew that ruunI tables always looked oblOng 10 the
short-sighteI / knew that msjorities don't always
rule-that bankers seem to have more faith in i'd
yancing on two good names than on gold dust, and
thought. mp TO the recent panic, there was nothing
like leather. / knew that | was called fast, but have
not yet discovered why there Is more dignity in dull
ness than in viv=city, more dignity in going slow
than moving FAST. [Cheersl Is the owl really any
wiser than the eagle? In what respect is the donkey
or the mule superior to the race horse? I have long
believed that the hare was making the second journey
when the tortoise passed him during his siesta.
1Laiyhter1 Observing these things. I remembered
that n little chink lets in n great light. Where there
is a will there's . way. So I kept my own counsel.
and amused myself by noticing the shruzs and wiuks
OF the dOabters, and in listening TO the sneers Of the
skepfics. I wa> not nvase before this that there were
- riany inEdels IN this Christian country. During
this Pilgrims Progress ! think il proper to state /
have had enough good advice poured upon me to have
swaraped q dozen such projects; but knowing that il
was \ great natural law that n man was not a pro-
phet in his own country. or with his own kindred. or
among his own Enthusiastically believing that the
good alvice Of ones friends is perfectly suicidal to
his suecess-l made up my mind to accomplish what
ever | undertook, one Of the most serious of my many
faults being the hcrculeau idea | had Of my own
ability. Ny speeches are sometimes called gus,
thereby insiEuSsiUg that they are both luminous and
exhiiaraiins. LCheersl The modesty OF assump-
ton is better than the egotism Of humility. [Hear
-hear.1 Few practice humility to their interiors.
Men are humble Tor two reasons-oDe, the fear Of
= ~H4ci AA-EN htH thti St- ~ OlueE, [
the praise Of having men say, There's 4 clever
man; see how. modest aul retiring he Is ." Now,
take the mOiesty % assumption The man who a.
sanes n position without capacity to support IL will
fall, through the uneharitibieness of the world Put
your hands in the FIRE and you will get burnt. Walk
of 81. Paul's and the NewtOnian law will bring Won
down Step ont Of the Greet Eastern and you will
sink So he who puts on airs must take them off
again Water won't run up hill Ii is n singular
fact that IL you run your spring cart over n round
road all the small potatoes will go to the bottom.
- q 81 Ian ne a rnnn - - .. I.,-l-I {
or not > diamond. Ii a diamond, the more be comes
in contact with clever men the more polished and
valuable be becomes. If pebble he will waste away
with the aston Of the intellectual tide.
I believe in destiny, but il must be backed up by