Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-07
THE EVENING STAR,
TX ESDAY
January !. 1879.
Gen. Gran; in sreiap.s
DUBLIN HoN0RED WITH TUE LONGEST SrEEC
THE KA-rKESInENT ENER NJ .nE

DUBLIN HoNoRED WITH TUE LONGEST sPRECH
THE RH-fKEsIDENT EVER MADE.
nrELIN, Jan: lowing TO the latencss of the
hour last night did only Scauty Justice TO the
speech OF Gen. Grant at the banquet given him
al the Ma nSlon House. the COMPANY rose and
gave the Irish welcome when the Generals nam
was proposed. The ex-President made, in re
spouse tie longest speech of his life snpakin,r
IN i cear voice. and being listened To with ran,
aTten,ion; lie referred to himself as fellow
cllHen or Dublin. and lntimated amid much
laughter and cheering, that he might return Ia
DGohn one day and run against Harrington "a.
Mayor. and Butt for Parliament. lie warnei
L thoae sehtlehleh mat he was generally trnu-
Diesolhe candidate Then. passing to serIal;S
matters, the General SAID: I'VE have herr
some words spoken about our cctlntry-rn,
tGaio,ymoelore was naturalzed In another.
tl-ttuShteI.l We nave very great country a
PROSPEROUS country, with room for a great many
Itopie. we nave been suffering for some wear
i, ,[oin very great depression. The world has felt
u. rear. hear!l There is no question about
,He tact That when YOU have fOrty-nye millions
VI consumers such as We are. aud when they
are mace 10 feel poverty. then the whole world
must itel IL. tApplauSe.I You have had here
treat prosperity because of our great eyfr1ya
galee ana our great misf0rtunes. We had y
Nat winch drew into it almost every man who
tnu.d Dear arms, and my friend who smoke 81
eloquently 10 you a few moments AGO lnst . ,a5
IN H. lo'i did not observe that DerhaDs, ~ he
i nao WOODEN one In place OF it. When that
great conflict was going on we were SPENDING
ei,ooG,eoo,o0a year more than we were DrS.IIj,
eng ana Europe got every dollar Of it, II made
lCi GU Il laiSe prosperity. You were getting
our ooGoS and our promises 10 pay. You were
caShing them yourselves. That made oreat
.ioSi er!iy and made producers beyond
t9e real necessities OF tie world a; naaca
fti we finally got through the great conflict
iin WIN an inflated currency which was far
uttoW the specie You use here Ii made, our
leopie SUI more eNtrayagant. our Spe,ula-
LIONS Were going on, and we still continued 10
spend 0e0 or 500 nG0. 600 OF money aar
year more than we were producing We paid
II PACK 10 you FOR your labor and manufactures
ana II mace YOU apparently and really prosper
Gus. we, Oh the other hand, were getting really
poor Out Beng honest, however we came tn
We Gay or solid, honest payment. We came
GOWN 10 the necessity of selling more than W.,
Ooughi Now we have turned the corner We
nave had our days of depression: yours are iuSt
coming on. | hope il is nearly over T.IInlr
he3r.l Our prosperity is commencing and as
we become prosperous YOU will. to9-IaDnialsc1
because We become increased consumer, 81
your products as well as our own think Il
safe to say that the Jnited States with a few
years more such prosperity, viii consume as
much more as they did. TWO distinguished
men have alluded TO this subect-one was the
PRESIDENT Of the nited States, and he said thar
the prosperity Of the United states would be
fest 10 the bounds OF the civilized world ZAP
plGGSc-l The other was Lord Beaconstield tie
most 1ai-seeing man, the one who seems to see
as 1ar into the future as any man know-TaD-
paGSel-aId he says the same as President
Hayes"
Gen. Grants speech created profound sensa-
ti0n.-[N. \. Herald.