The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-01-09

with the freedom of the city, which
includes citizenship. At the grand
banquet he made speech, referred
to by the New York He,mM as the
longest speech he ever made in his
life.
The Hera1Gs cable dispatch says
that Grant, in Dublin, visited the
Royal Irish Academy, Trinity College,
and other places of interest. The
Herald $ reporter continues: Owing
to the lateness of the hour last night,
| did only scanty justice to the speech
of General Grant at the banquet
given him at the Mansion House.
The company rose and gave an Irish
welcome when the Generals name
was proposed. The ex-president made
in response the longest speech of his
life, speaking in clear voice, and be-
ing listened to with rapt attention.
He referred to himself as fellow cit
izen of Dublin, and intimated amid
much laughter and cheering, that he
might return to Dublin and run
against Darlington for mayor and
Butt for parliament. He warned those
gentlemen that he was generally a
troublesome candidate. Then pass
ing to serious matters, the gentleman
said: 1--WE have heard some words
spoken about our cOuntrv-mv coun-
try, before | was naturalized into an
other Laughter. We have very
great country, a prosperous country,
with room for great many people.
We have been suffering for some years
from very great oppression. The
world has felt it. Hear, hear. There
is no question about the fact that
when you have fortyive millions of
consumers, rich as we are, and when
they are made to feel poverty the
whole world must feelit Applause
You have had here great prosperity
because of our great extravaganza
and our great mlsfortunes. We had
a war which drew into it almost every
man who could bear arms. and my
friend Noyes who spoke SO eloquent
ly to you few moments ago. lost
a leg in it. You did not observe that.
perhaps, he has wooden one in the
place of it. When that great conflict
was going on. we were spending one
thousand million dollars a year more
than we We're producing, and Europe
got every dollar Of it. 1t made tor
you false prosperity, You were
getting our bonds and our promises
to pay. You were cashing them
yourselves. That made great pros
perity. But we finally got through
that great conflict and with an in
h..s~d O''''r"N. "Incn was idr DeIow
specie, our people were more ex-
travagant. Our speculations were
going on and we continued to
spend three or four hundred millions
of money per year more than we were
producing. We paid it back to you
for your labor and manufactures,
and it made you apparently prosper
Gus. We. on the other hand. were
getting really poor, but being honest;
however, we came to the day Of solid
honest payment; we came down to
necessity of selling more than we
bought. Now we have had our DAYS
of depression; yours are just coming
on. | hope it is nearly over. Hear,
hear. Our prosperity is commence
ing, and as we become prosperous
you will too, applause. because we
become increased consumers of your
products as well as our own. think
it safe to say that the United States
with few years more such prosperity
will consume as much more as they
did. Two distinguished men have
alluded to this subject. One is the
president Of the United States. He
said that the prosperity of the United
States would be felt to the bounds of
the civelized world Applause. |
The other is Lord Beaconsfeld, a
most far seeing man, one who seems
to me to see as far into the future as
any other man | know, Applause
and he says the same as President
Hayes.
The workmen employed by Ball &
Co. on the locks at the Cascades last