Daily globe., 1879-12-07

quence, and Good Deal ofIsiS N Mixed
In-A Great Country, A Great People, and
Chicago Is Their Prophet.
CHICAGO, Dec. G.-The Chicago CONNER
cial club, an organization composed of the
principal business men of Chicago, gave
their annual banquet this evening at the
Grand Pacific hotel It was an unusually
noteworthy affair, on account Of the large
number of distinguished guests from
abroad. Among the number were Gen.
Grant, Hon. John b. Long, Gov. and Hon.
Alex. H. Rice, ex-governors of Massachu-
sets; John W. Chandler, president Boston
board OF trade and president of Boston
Commercial club: +. w. Lincoln, ex-mayor
of Boston, and eleven other gentlemen iden-
titled with the commercial club, and
with the commercial interests of Boston.
Also II. Wilson Brown, president OF the Gin
cinnati chamber of commerce; Ezra Millard,
president of the Omaha chamber of CON-
merce; FL. D. Stannard, Ex-Governor of
Missouri Alfred Russell, Detroit; Robt
Donohue, Burlington, Iowa. Hon. J. T. Will
son, Iowa. and many others. Gen. Sheri-
dan, Judge Drummond, E. 3. Washburn, r.
B. Blackstone and Col. Frfd Grant, from
Chicago, were among the guests. The din
ner began about 5 o'clock and was most
supor6 III every appointment and fea-
turc. -
President J. W. Doane was flanked on either
side by Gen. Grant and Gov. Long. He pre-
sided with dignity and his introductions of
Speakers were made in felicitous remarks of
good fellowship which gave a spirit of warmth
and friendliness to the proceedings, which was
in perfect accord with the occasion.
President Doane in opening the speech max
luglwe!comeOf he guests from all sections of the
Union, and especially Gen. Grant, now return
ed to his native State after long period of
travel which had been continued ovation.
lie spoke particularly also of the Boston dele
cation representative of the great CONNER
cial centre around which this great continent
the globe itself revolves. lie proposed the
health of Gen. Grant as one of the members of
that Galena ring whose mponcnt parts wer
of such sterling material.
GRANTS RESPONSE.
Gen. Grant being called for said: s'The
allusiorB of your president to myself have been
gratifying the whole, and the assurance
that he has held out to me that if would
settle among you that receive the unani-
mou, vote of the club for its presidency is the
most tempting offer that l have had, yet I
have read of numerous places
having been cut out for me before, but
this is the only one that have had any assur-
auCe Oh, ana IN LQlS ease, even, am somewhat
embarrassed. My understanding before CON-
ing here this evening was that to become
member of this club man had to represent
some industry or Other-sOnne one of the great
industries which have made our country SO
great and prosperOus-and l am at loss to
know where | come in. do see here one or
two of the ring that has been referred to-that
Galena ring-who believe have the honor of
being enrolled members of this club. How
they got in is equally puzzling to me. Gentle
men, thank you heartily for the honor you
have done me. not only in this kind offer you
have made to locate me in this honorable and
responsible place, but for the way you have re-
ceiyed me on the whole. (Vociferous and pro-
louged applause.)
BOSTON RESPONDS.
President Gambler, of Boston, recalled the
previous meetings of those two prominent
commercial lodges and alluded to the magni-
tude of the interests they represent and to the
debt OF gratitude which they owe to Gen.
Grant for mis- protection to those interests.
Mayor Rice, of Boston, eulogized Gen. Grant
as the man who had been honored here to the
full extent OF honor which our people can be-
stow upon q citizen. As the man who had gone
abroad among all peoples, receiving everywhere
marks of friendship and confidence, which he
modestly attributes to the respect in which his
country was held abroad and who had re-
turned to receive the gratitude of his country
men and to live among them in the place
in which he had taken prominent
and leading part in securing for them, he de,
clared that the bond of the Union would and
should be more closely cementeI; that the
States and cities should say and feel what is
yours is ours, and what is ours is yours. It is
the prosperity of our common country of which
we should boast and that lies beyond the limits
of imagination. The country will never want
for market, because it's production will
scarcely keep pace with the increasing popula-
Wa nra as.tr tohi al
the globe, annlhiating space by steam and tel
egraph, and i'll time the people will become
oemented, there will no longer To one exclusive
market, but that nation of the world which has
the greatest skill and enterprise will draw best.
He predicted that in 1900 our population will
be greater than that of Great Britain and
France combined was seventy years ago. There
is no limit to American enterprise. There
s no room or cause for jeal-
ousies, and we may throw them
sway and begin the struggle to carry forward
American influence to a point never before
reached by any nation. The greatness of a
nation does not, after all, consist in its re-
sources and its industries, but in its men, their
character and aspirations We shall rise above
all other lands by superiority of national
character and by that alone. (Applause)
The first toast ~as
Our inland and foreign commerce. May our
inland States develop and become equal in
strength to their seaboard sisters.
Gov. Bagiey, of Michigan. responded in a
speech bristling with humor, and which was
interrupted by constant eutbursts of applause
aud merriment. He said: Mr.. President and
dentlemen:-I propose to speak as business
man, and as believe you are all business men,
or at least did believe when I came here.
but have made np my mind some of you
are speechmakers, but 1 am not. The last
speech made was across the lake at St. Joe
1t was a political speech. l undertood to per-
suade the people of St. Joe that there was but
one party in the land and that it could be
trusted, and that was the Republican party.
because l happened to be a Republican myself,
and the audience began slowly to disappear
They kept going as l kept going on talking
and finally two men who sat on the front seat
got up to so, the last two in the house. got
down from the platform and took one of them
by the collar and said to him: II shall not let
you so until you promise me you will vote the
Republican ticket" wanted to make a con-
vert, and he said he would promise me any,
thing if only would let him go, and he went
said to him, ''How about this other man that
sits with you We'll, said he, that don't
make any difference, he is deaf and dumb ana
couldn't hear So you see l don't make
speeches In that sense, bu can't tell how glad
am as business man to meet
with the business men of Chicago on this very
suspicious occasion. am glad to meet our
old michigan man, Gen. Grant. daughter }
find wherever go there are Michigan men.
Soiie.oA very Well Wnen ne was
stationed IN Detroit in the Fourth infantry. I
haven't any doubt he learned great deal of
the art of war in thst city. So I see in Chi
cago whenever l come here, in this Interstate
commerce that you talk of, that you come over
into Michigan and gobble out of it all our lum-
ber kings and principal men from the west side
OF the State, and bring them over here to Chi
cago and boast of them. Now, we boast in
Michigan great deal we are very proud of it.
as State: We feel that it has enlightened and
civilized the States that adjoin, and we feel as
we look over the census as though we have