The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1869-08-20


first road and from the transportation
and other business in which he had
been previously engaged He has in
vested the results of lifetime of success,
among you OF near you, for the COM
mon advantage OF the whole people.
lie has taken upon himself from time
TO time all the risks of failure, of disas-
trous changes in the public prosperity,
of hard times, tight money markets, OF
the days when the stockholders OF wall
street and of Third street, and of other
streets known in the money world,
flourish upon the misfortuneS OF the
country because such days may posi-.
bly, again come TO us). In spite OF all
uncertainties and dangers of this klnd
he has made these investments and
proved his public spirit and his conil-
dence in the future of our section. IS
not this more honorable to him and
better for the community than II he
had been investing in dead bonds since
the war, drawing taxes out of the peo-
pie, his own bonds being untaxed?
That answer can be made anywhere
without the aid of q lawyer for the pur-
pose Of furnishing the argument.
Judge Packer has been distinguished
for one thing among the business men
of our State, and that is, for the absence
of all political prescription in his busi-
| ness life. Along the lines OF his rail
road, and in improvements connected
with them, he has never put forth the
hand of partizan to oppress the man
of labor or the middle man who, be-
tween the man of labor and the man of
capital, manages the interests and bus
mess of both. He has been complained
of for this sometimes, especially near
election times, when his political friends
warmed up TO the contest desired the
use of evory possible means to secure
victory. / say to you, gentlemen, and
with deliberate reflection, that for this
resistance to the spirit of persecution in
business life, he deserves honor from
men of all parties; and it should be
with all Independent and just men
strong recommendation of him to con-
fidence and support. He has persecut-
ed none subject to his control and TO
| his power, on account OF politics. Oh,
that that could be said of all men, and
especially of all men of capital, men
who employ labor! You do not find
this example acted upon everywhere
among all business men. No, you find
capital sometimes demanding, not the
labor which it has paid for, but the vote
which it has not paid for, and either
some express or implied condition il
suggested to the labOrer, that his en-
plOy ment and the performance of a con-
scientious public duty may not possibly
correspond with each other, and that
one of them must be sacrificed. 1t will
be circumstance of qualification to all
honest, independent, wise and thinking
men i'm our Commonwealth If the peo-
pie of Pennsylvania place in the main
Office within their gift a man who is
above this system and principle OF pro-
scription, who dares to defy it and OK
hibit by his own conduct antagonismto 10
it under all its possible forms.
A single topic more, gentlemen, and
j shall leave you. The same paper ly-
ing before me contains another para
, graph which protest to you is the last
, one shall read. Speaking of the Le-
| high University, it says:
"As Il charity it lacked that broad
and humanitarian scope which charac-
terized the princely muniiiconcc of Gil
rard, and has made the names Of Pea
: body and Cornell imperishable. The
J Episcopalians should thank him for IL
, great favor done their denomination,
and undoubtedly they do"
Here are two points: first, to create
prejudice with all other religious socie-
/ ties except the Episcopalian upon the
ground that that great institution is
sectarian one. That is not true. 1t is
open to the admission of pupils of all
sects, of all descriptions in our commu-
! nifty. 1t is open 10 the whole world. 1t
: is not sectarian in that sense, although
it is, for legal purposes of management
and for perpetual succession, connected
somewhat with the church OF which the
) founder is member. The other sug-
gestion is that this is not charity such
rs that which has proceeded from other
men mentioned, whose names are dis
S tinguished at home and abroad. Let
S me make you brief statemen, before l
3 speak directly to this point.
D In the year l720 Il medical hospital
!, was founded in London by man nam
S ed Guy. Its construction was COM
:, menced in that year. He expended up
: ON it about 100000, and at his death las
! he was II man of great wealth, he en-
a dowed it permanently to the extent OF
5 about Sl,0OO,0 900; and it has remained
S from that day to this among the most
4 celebrated and useful of the charitable
I institutions of the British Empire. In
J., the quadrangle enclosed by this hospit-
I al structure there is a statue placed in
: honor of the founder, upon the base OF
which are inscribed the following words:
C "THoMAs GUY,
= SOLE FOUNDER OF THIS HOSPITAL
}. Ii, his lifetime.
: A. ID. 1920"
y
IS there stands the statue in honor of its
Il founder with this remarkable inscrip-
h tion, the leading feature of which is,
i that all this was accomplished by him
e in his lifetime. lie did not hug his
i wealth to the last moment of existence
@ and then give it away in will, to bo
o quarreled over in courts between trus-
j. tees and heirs, or TO be mismanaged in
/, the outset by other hands. This great
| ia oh a lts i..ht
d into his heart and inspired him to ere
}. ate was organized and put into opera
1; tion in his lifetime, while he was pres
c ent 10 see il done and could rejoice in
h the accomplishment of great purpose,
n of Il holy and sacred design.
In the year 1919 Il citizen of our coun-
If try stood beside this statue and thought
n fully read the inscription. lie was a
k man of wealth of the State of New
10 York. lie returned home shortly after
Of wards, but the recollection of that in.
n scription continued with him through.
ii out all the remaining years of his life. In
" tho year 1861, when he was become al
t. aged man, and when, having no chil
id dren of his own, his bounty could bt
10 properly and literally exercised upor
II general purposes of beneVolencc, Inc con
y ceived the idea of establishing upon th'
b. banks of the Hudson, at the city o
ID POughkeepsie, charitable institution
which, being completed during his life
IN time, should remain in the long years q
X the future a monument Ofthe founder
ld thankfulness 10 Divine Providence fo
n the prosperity and blessings with whicl
ed he had been favored. Gentlemen, thi
w man, whose name was Nassar, lived I
h; see his college for the education Of yOun
IL women completed in about five yeal
ss- after IL was begun, and while sittin
e. among the board of trustees in Jun'
his 1868, 10 read his annual address, he wa
IL called 10 his final account. just as h
ia concluded his address, while the WORD
ur which expressed the JOY of his heart Owe
M hlA Ihnir ArrnnI nhinI