New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-24
conferred upon me- and bid you good night tApplause
REMARKS OF Mr. REID.

REMARKS OF Mr.. REID.
The next toast was The Memory and Genius Of
Shakespeare and was responded to by Mr. White
law Reid as follows:
Mr. CuAInMAN ASp GENTLEMEN; fir,t OF AL b III,
impaired TO the secret that he Is going TO es'e TINS
hall at O'clock whether he PeaE or or b @e minutes e of
eleven. (Cries of Or. mo-" and shut the door y
which the chairman has oonfded me, wish to say
one word ON another subject LooKnS afV Ino .ns
dents of the distinguished Genteman g whom you
sentative in New-York wish In behalf Of New Workers
here express to him cordial goodwill at his com
coed in ' making dug in Up' this metropolis 81 the
Atlantic es friends as Pss'9n on ss Pac re
coast iCheersl II he does Mr. Chairman and gentle.
n s ase ySu SAY a our son for the
gentleman who has just laid down the once wen your
- we hope he may serve an equally long term
shall have "a warm regard for him. ana snaii give n
iReaihs from the printed prosTa%mol. The Memo
and Genius OF Shakespeare" It has always seemed
TO me that this toast might well be received Ike that
to the memory OF Washington. standing and in silence
On an occasion like this no one presumes 70 respond
subject the So of sa Is once an
more presume to speak for the demisod of our common
This Is his Birthday Il is three hundred and nineteen
and fty Years certainly since the English speaking race
have enjoyed In his works body OF literature surpassed
vented IAppauseI We have not been behind our
cousins in the Old Home in appreciation ofi We
book trade s'G may be- trusted since more copies
OF shakespeare are sold here than In the land OF MS
passed quite as mucn into the common speech OF the
people His plays seem to appear oitener on American
Shakespeari actor nowadays in ENGLAND, the Justly
famous Henry Irving. iAppausel But In America we
and Lawrence Barrett while it is only few years since
the bOnored roll led BY Edwin Forrest and Charlotte
land TO rival the wealth OF scholarship which Eng
land has lavshed for nearly two centuries on the e.
blush in putting forward IA our Representatives among
shake'pssran commen!aiors Henry Hudson Richard
New old from the land OF our ancestry we may
take common satisfaction In having been found;
this side the water neither ungratsul nor Negligent
heirs OF our greatest literary inheritance ,..,.
But haven't the remotest thought OF infctng n?Gn
speech Shakespeare. As the Judge SAID 10 the
too Instructive lswysrIJudgc Lawrence mere VIII ten
You that swysrs can DC too aha msy be TAKEN p
graniedw We will. with your good leaye take snake
%SSS for granted Ss sub ne s.
will. am sure, pardon word IN memory by
cherishlng warm recollection, the late Mayor OF STRAIT
for-onAvon. Everybody knows tnat we owe largely 10
him the care with which every remaining relic and me
mortal OF Shakespeare Is preserved In the village tue
great poets brth aud grave have made classic gouhu
Many Americans also to hun the fact that they were
made to feel welcome aud among their kinsfok
a, they trod tho slabs Of the old church up To
Snakespeares grave gazed about the lttle cottage
wAere ho was porn / should not like the 81 Georges
Society 10 NewYork to drunk this toast ON this nnlver
ssry, without dy thought about the
and hospItaBe Mayor Flower, OF whose lanented dean
recent mani, have brought uS the particulars lap
Nor can ait down, Mr.. Ch1rmnn, without still an
other word want to say and want 70 ask tne repre-
sentative ofthe Friendly sons OF ST. Patrok mere pres
sent TO agree with NE In saying mat w.a'e. .
old aud now-and our filed sith the horrid dn
OF them. tAppausel -wnateyer may De the Troubles,
tne race lesolSes' so It; Of naive ar foreign
birth who 80. Georges Day say God Dess
and prosper old England" iGreat ana ions-e"h'nseu
app.ause.I
MAYOR EDISON AND JUDGE SHEA
In responding TO the toast Tho City Of New
York " Mayor Edison said:
NIX. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN OF ST, GEORGES So
CIEIr Before proceeding the toast when mas Deeh
man Who ma preceded upon the fact that there IL
decided evidence OF improvement In the rutnfuness OF
his assertions believe have never Deen 80 correctly
reported by the Editor Of The TRIBUNE before Laugh
terl - = - -
Eng settled In the City OF New YORK. instead Of
taking the advice OF former Editor OF Tue TRIBUNE TO
secret Ihc city OF New York Tor It's foundation and
Il is about the only relic of the English Government Lett
FranteS by the Duke u YORK IN 1856 From that day
| 70 ths. there ms been no essential change in
Tie form OF Government. [IauEhlerl The author OF
| that charter an freshman, pure ana simple, ana
| he msdo IL before dynamite was invented lGreat
I6eievc that tho words which have been read in
neoron with this toast are prophetic and that the gen
temcD who here tonight VIII join with ma Tor the
public good and Invent We have not already Invented,
=, eaarsr a. for toe soyfeEnmess.. , OF d9e my
York has given 10 the other ates the model OF STATE
els Tor other siater and tue time has coma
City Of New-Yorz can ard, believe viii, within two
patterned by the otRer cues Of the Unted states ZAP
plause.l
Brief responses were made to tho toast of ",our
Sister Societies. alter Watson speaking
for ST. Andrews Socio,y. NJ. w.
Cooper for the New-Englaud. Judge Law
renee for ST. Nicholas and Chief Justice
Shea for the Friendly Sons of 81 Patrick. Judge
Shea, as the representative OF IN lrlsh society,"
would have been listened 10 with interest. Dut II
was with deepest attention that all present Dent for
pronounced the duty of all Eng disappearing people
ward each other. and let his clOquence oulmlnate
in the sentence, "Whereyer battles are fought for
liberty, that liberty is lost when accompanied by
crime lie spoke as follows;
might be- with our excellent Mayor (wno had just left
the rOoml tho way homes were u not for the
Reid, thought that, as an AMERICAN ~ was pIOpes
for him TO make There are occasions wnen size -oe rs
authority 20 speak for that with 0le exception,
most aHcent society In the city OF New-iofk save 70
express those words OF brothery Kindness whlcn Us
not only our custom. but our heartfelt pleasure 10
utter ON each recurrence OF ~. Geofses LAY
however much IA they may be condemned anu pun
lshed. way st. Paricks Society aud the gentlemen tnai
cluster about the sacred namo or thai saint should
not on this occason-eyen In view OF aetuai
crcumstnnccs-more heartily more sincerely more eur
phatlcnlly unlts With you, Sir. III tue CtlebIatlon
OF tins great National festival lGr"at appia"se.l
apprenend that nuy-iye years OF an Aheilcan
o. sence and education not aonaiod me fom that
obedience to law aud to tue traditions Oh inc Engsn-
PEG pie which for this country us nnepeh-
denoe wncu secured for this country ana It's Inherit
the restoration or those principles Tor when Eng
lishmen have fought the historic helds when are
now notable places throughout the land OF Great
Britain lApplause1 IL true thnt When
liberty ia ON the wing, crimo Is aIooL IL
when these colonies struggled prth.
right which was theirs l. igs oul0nlsts III noed DC
so In no nation Wherever battles are fought Tor IOery
tna liberty Is lost when accompanied ny otlno ~
applause ana cheers cannot ALLEVIATE thnt Whloh Is
truly myself without shutting my eyes To tnst when Us
best about Inc. I would be unla'thiul 10 tie ira
dons OF that country when every drop OF oood IN my
veins Ia OF Irish ogln-I would DO uniaiIhiul 10 me
historic traditions OF thnt country anu W Tvs
moro glorious epochs, If dd NOT
remember the great weight whlch lreia i
had In lts more glorious days In the lorhatlOn
OF the British Consultation aud IN tho S!ansei'
Ling of that Sc indlnaylau CIVILIZATION which II