The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-19
GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE.

PUBLIC FAREWELL BANQUET IN HIS HONOR AT
THE ST. JAMES HoTEL-ADDRRssEs AY EafI-
NENT CITIZENS
Mr.. George Jacob Holyoake. distinguished advo-
of cooperation. is about this country
for England during the present week. number Of
friends and scquaintances OF Mr.. Holyoake together
with many believers in the principles which he has
spent his life in advancing. concluded to give him
parting banquet In testimony Of their appreciation
of his services mankind in his support OF
the cause Of liberty and in his efforts behalf Of
the working classes. These gentlemen met at the
St. James Hotel at noon yesterday and rendered Mr..
Holyoake public farewell breakfast. The affair
rendered more agreeable by the OF Mrs.
Holyoake and many lady friends. Among the CUES ts
were DR.. II. W. Bellows. Peter Cooper. Whitelaw
Reid, r. Heber Newton, Parke Goodwin, DR.. Felix
Adler, L. v. Smalley, Robert Collyer and f. E. Bar
mum.
After the solid comforts Of the meal had been dis
posed Of Rev. DR.. Bellows who presided 1t the feast.
explained the objects Of the gathering and Mr. Hol-
yoake replied in address, in which he set forth the
progress already made in England toward co-opera-
ton among the laborng classes. Farewell addresses
by many Of the gentlemen present followed.
Ladies' and gentlemen. said Dr. Bellows, 1--WE are
here gathered to do honor to the presence OF our
friend Mr.. Holyoake, man whose life has been de-
of whose because it Is out Of the spst Of
the more fortunate portion of the world. is so
little studied and so little understood had
expected to meet here Q man whose face was
hacked by the sword, sort of war
rior who had always stood up stoutly and
bravely to do mans work. but here see one Of the
very mildest of men, 1t il meekness and gen.
tleness inhabited this old war horse. Somehow
always found when l was in England that nobody
liked to say word ag ainst him; he was entirely
honest man, and such men are the scarcest in the
world His efforts were directed to the great prob
lem of how to help those who are slow to help
themselves, and how to abate the poverty and mis-
cry OF the world, while many men are content to
live in luxury and yet know that millions of their
fellow-creatures. with just good claim theirs,
are by some misfortune. caprice. tlegaty or crush
ing power of external things, kept permanently in
misery. in Ignorance. and even in sim"
Mr.. Holyoake. in his reply. showed what great
progress had been made in England in the cause Of
cooperation. Although he did not exactly see
things as DIR. Bellows and other ministers saw them,
he did not hesitate to recognize the dsinterested
ness with which they sought to maintain the
highest truths which they knew. All the CO.
operatives asked that government should
keep its hands Off, and leave labor alone
to work out its destinies. So great
had been the progress Of the movement in England
that its success already secured, and in this
country too the speaker thought, the prospects of
cooperation excellent In the days Of the civil
war there were in England no more sturdy defenders
of the Union than the cooperatives Of Rochedale.
(Applause.)
Letters Of regret were then read from President
Hayes, Josiah Quincy. DR.. H. c. Potter A. s. Hewitt
and Colonel Ingersoll. Farewell addresses were
made by Parke Goodwin. Peter Cooper. Whitelaw
Reid. Felix Adler and others. after which the
bly, dispersed.