New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-15
men Of all shades of political opinion that there
should be honest, economical government.

men OF all shades Of political opinion that there
should be honest economical government
REMARKS BY GENERAL wooDFoRD.
Stewart l.. Woodford responded to the toast to tho
National Government saying at the opening that he,
resident of Brooklyn stood here sorry Illustration OF
that old old saying that each place keeps its best at
home aud sends its worst TO q neighborlng
land. Passing the jest. he desired to say that
during fifteen months that he mad been District
Attorney be had found meme moro 0bseTvant Of the
law prompt 10 arrest infIcton OF the reye.
nue. and more earnest collect the duty tnan inc
longer regarded himself the prosecutor but the at0r
ney OF the good merchants to defend me revenue against
the evil practices OF few bad ones IApplause.I
BOSTON MERCHANTS ADDRESS.
The next toast was responded by j. W. Gambler the
president OF the Boston Board Of Trade, who said
that when John A. andrew, the great War
Governor OF Massachusetts, called upon every
offered for the preservation OF the Union,
B HS On Geld the best blood that Massach1
sets nherits ermsoDed the ground. New-Englanders
ern man went he was sure 10 find friends
and be welcomed great responsibility rested GU tho
merchants OF New-Y0rk, for among them were many
of the greatest in the country Communism the speaker
continued is Of tie evils spoken OF at me present
ever be powerful in the United States IL not indg
to this soil. It could not live in free republic
where is oppressed and where the right OF SUI
frage belongs alike to the rich and the poor;
At the same time under the suffering ana ana
order and cOmmOtion, and it was the duty OF inteli-
gent Influential business men or ls country 10
the future IN the face ana see hat we nave no speca
legislation but general legislation for the dement, OF the
whole peOpe--legsaton that will not array one part
OF the country against the Other leglslaon that VIII
not divide the people We have Inherited q nation whch
aud we should be to day and generation as
John Hancock was TO his.
OTHER ADDRESSES
The Rev. DR.. Noah Hunt Schenek replied to tho
toast Truth and Trade" 1t common
thing, be said, to charge ministers WIN
entire lack Of common sense He thought the charge
was unfounded. He regarded cergymen as the most
practical business in the world There was certainly
no class who lived comfortably on such small
WsSF hrc T9s' S s With class suS CT men % %sG
number OF bankruptcies While 10000 merchants
1873 failed in business with liabilities amounting
100000, O00he calculated from their own statements
he did not believe that One-fonrh OF that number OF
clerg failed or that their liabilities amounted to
anything like that sum. .,... mr..
grcss" that Mr.. Blbcock had remarked early In the
evening apparently with much gee, that the state Leg
stature last throes be could now add 20 the
delight or the gentlemen present Dy sayIhs
that, in reply to a Nations prayers, Congress
the company wished TO listen to Horace ia the orlgl-
nal ana he called upon General Horace Porter TO re-
spoud TO Il ipid Transit" General Porter said that
Rapid Transit new thing. IL Dad been tofetOld
by poet named Darwin mot Darwin frudimentarylall
nOtorcyl hundred-aDd-hfty years ago That some Day
people would travel through the air: The managers OF
this undertaking, said the speaker had been accused OF
everything could be thought OF; 10 had been even
asserted that they killed the" Omnibus bill year ago.
The Greeuwich-st. arrangement which for a long
stationary also, might properly be called
the john the Baptist of Rapid Transit. The assertion
that It had been built by Government subsidy pro-
cured Tor 1t in the shape OF pension because IL
stood on one leg only, Islander on
. the New-Yolk Elevated Road; nor was IT true,
he believed, that the Administration meant to
Conf.cate It On the ground that 1t was post road.
"Gculemcn," CONCLUDED General Porter, " when tho
roads are finished, d the Chamber OF Commerce gets
new chair lis president, then Ncw-Iork VIII haya
all the terminal facilities she reasonably AK fOr
General Hancock and Commodore Nicholson replied
brrfy TO the toass to the Army aud the Navy. ami
short speech was made by eXdayOr Hunter OF Brooklyn