New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-09

that there is trust between man and man,
buyers and sellers, and Il there s rs,
is because experience has created the propaol1ies
truthfulness IN the actions OF men ana an n . he
cordant circumstances II men G novsr "OS would
send 10 China, Japan Mexico their great ~
and interests, with other guarantee tnah Una. @
are Trustworthy The shpmaster must De lIuStMV..y'
the officers OF the Government must be TRUSTWORTHY
and that business goes on and Increases oh ,o thew
over n silent testimony that bad as men 40 nc n
do not lie bad enough to separate man HUN "'A"
state of fact IL 10 me very surprising tnaS a9
intrused with large interests are found TO DO 80 o
that should cause him TO make of with the 1und5 cou
mtted to him under his administration th fo not
oEt man 80 that he shall snap
under temptation. Yet admit all men are oreskaI In
Men are like timber. Oak will bear stress tnat pm
will not Pine and heml0ck have their own captaholy
under test by square foot square inch; put 1nefS
thai could not be 6ToRen at some pressure and never
man born that could not be broken at some pressure
not be broken by money pressure but who can De
by the pressure OF fattery. There Is man a 10 =
warped and bassed by social connections Ihere are
many men You cannot tempt with req GOA, Dus %
One way or another every man vincible and needs
his fellows and his institutions around him to hold n
a those s@po words q the Loa Prayer
not inio temptation" (ApplauseI NO man .ha
temptation adapted to his peculiar weakness But
does that peculiarly is that 10 requires
would almost seem as if q man must serve as
supei endent ola sunday-schoe in order to secure
men deiraudug their wards, and leading men ~
charge are running OH with hundreds i Of would
seem as If religion simply cloak for rdscaty Inc
time coming when must go back 10 olG-Iashiohco'
plain lndoctrination in our pulpits.
THREE THINGS TO BE DONE.
What are we coming to- 1t TO me that there are
three things DO DONE In the first place the houscnou
must do its work The things learn from fathers ana
mothers never forget They become Moor
pSpareny. INTO almost Sas 0F Next
this doctrine of truth, equity, fidelity must
part OF the ministry and the Church than 1t does to-day
The wonder is great many times expressed why tue
meeting. The churches arc always popular when
people near something there that they wa5 to near lsso
fe and food for the Tght ana ,RSro tssW will
When men are hungry aud get what they need, they go
every day. But next there must DO public sentiment
among ali honorable merchants that shall frown without
commerce at home or abroad that Is opposed to
s9a are ndspeRsa5s to te prosperity Of
merce. With them with the stimulus. enterprise oR
portunities and means that have in hands Amer
ca can carry the world; but without TINS
commercial underestimate in the commerce OF America We
snail do Just f0olshly az every people nave uOhe
aud shall to the disasters in the long run tha
they have come TO- 800, A.,
SO then. gentlemen, this toast. Ministers and Mer.
chants" is strange combination after all You
are the merchants and L am tho mipleter
Sa8 Sat n stii and beard the Whole Of it.
lie bad from TO bottom and beginning to end ana 50
is cheating umbrellas and satepencils Laugh
teri There is little line drawn before you come quite
up TO the deaG line OF actual trausgression Laughter
When young swears he will teach whole system
OF doctrines faithfully, nobody believes him. put ne
rs excused because everybody knows that he does MOI
naS% When lawyer says in a bad case,
ION my soul believe my client to be an injured man
and so IL ia no lie at all. daughter. Why when
engineers make one estimate We pay up
cortesy lies OF Ignorance and professional lies, law
yers lies and theoOgans les-and they are good men
calico lies llaughterl, broadcloth lies cotton
lies silk Hes and those most yermnous anu 1lu' ttu
nous OF all lies lies of grocers. Roars OF laughter
Gentlemen have expected TO say "A word or Two
on the subject OF mOnOpOlies wish there were Few
men who had monopoly or lying and that they had u
mol 20 back to nv frat statement The church and the
store have a common business before them 70 iay me
LIQUIDATION OF sound morality; Inc minister anu
the merchant have like interest-the minister Ter
merchant for his own sake Gentlemen, lying
ought to be put exactly In the same category OF Yern
use a fine tooth comb, II every DAY ILaugnterI
And so with ms benedction. gentlemen, VIII leave
You to mediate these important topics ApplauseI
MIR. DEPEW'S PLEASANTLY.
The more serious business of the evening being
disposed of in the preceding half dozen toasts and
sueeches Chauncey NJ. Depew was called on to re-
spond to this sentiment:
"Our Annual Feasts."- On these occasions proies-
and laymen, the wolves lue sHSSPJ 4NNN
gether in peace ana cOhcoru'
Mr.. Depew did so 20 this effect:
Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE: The clergymen present here tonight have
evdeuty recognized the fact that the members OF TINS
body never go 20 church, and they have
Ti improved the opportunity when they caught
ma here OF preaching two OF the
Inro.st and most practical sermons under which have
eyo- sat- and the Rev Mr. Beecher has enunciated the
doctrine which carried out to s fullest extent would
lead 70 the depopulstion of the body TO which you
belong l4reat aughteri. No finer or higher tribute
member Ilaughterl when he stated that truth did not
originate IN man. but was science by itself We are its
professors and eyaugests. iGreat laugherl Truth Is
being eternally crushed TO eartn, and the
LAWYER Is always occupied in grabbing It By the
ins6terJ So that while we live truth Will rise again.
no matter what the preachers may say. Laughter ]
Now tonight has been most extraordinary
IN parsdoxes and statements. We have had this
sermon from Brother Beecher, and 1t OF the
most moving and interesting aud Instructive have ever
heard We have had sermon from Brother Newman
winch embodied all the results OF Eastern travel
concentrated for the purpose OF nstrucng cOngre,
CATION which he has no hopes OF having Laughter
And when he went on 70 define all the issues OF this
world to be purely local issues except the sermon Whc
he was delivering he failed 10 state that the one local
issue upon which turned the great election In TINS
country the tariff laughterl Andwheh MI ctrans-
han with u moving eoquence which NOBODY Dht a
Brooklyn could urge. stated that We the suffering
taxpayers OF New-lOtk, were reachhg INTO Ihe supIhe
region where philanthropy dwels because our enforced
contributions were to bring Brooklyn and Long Island
mo contact with the rest of tue world ne let the I'M
preston upon my mind that the S5OOOOOO IN excess OF
the estimate was paid out OF the pockets OF tue Bridge
Trustees themselves. Laughter
Now that toast which has been assigned TO me 70.
night peaceful In It's sentiments contains more solid
dynamite in 1t than anything TO which l have
ever addressed myself II properly exploded II
would leave nothing but tho bottles OF
This entertainment here. Great laughter.
Ihave looked through all the history of the Chamber OF
Commerce for 10 years to lind s9re reason wny the
layman and professional should be- put In antagon-
Ism toast places them think that the sermons
which YOU have listened to here to night ought
TO have kept you till tomorrow morn
ing from originating the suggestion That
there IA u anagOnism between professionals and aymen
can imagine other reason for toast Ike this than
brief experiences OF the recent past. l
have been attending sessions OF the Chamber
of Commerce for fifteen twenty years
and the regular sentiments to which gentlemen
responded have been the the merchant
marine; they have been banking and currency; they
have been the relations of internal and foreign com
merce 10 the prosperity Of the country; they have
been the State OF New-York ts glory aud great
ness, upon which 1 have occasion made a
few eIemporanoous remarks myself But this sentiment