The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

SoME little interest has been excited by the
public reception accorded to Mr.. Alexander
Mitchell upon his return to Milwaukee from q
visit to his birthplace in Scotland. Some of our
newspapers have headed the account of the af-
fair with the words Twenty Millions" ana IL
has been made to appear as a vulgar and repre-
hensible worshiping of the golden calf. The
Milwaukee sentinel's account of the reception
and banquet gives the addresses in full. The
principal speech was made by Mr.. E. d. Holton,
who called himself an old friend and contempt
rary of Mr.. Mitchell, who, by the way, has lived
in Milwaukee for forty-four years. Mr.. Holton's
remarks may give a cue to the raison d'etre, so
to speak, of the demonstration He said:
W have many wealthy men in our midst.
Who can hold his wealth with dignity and with
out offense to his neighbour May I not say be-
fore this great company that our friend has done
so, and that none has justly begrudged or nvied
him his possessionsF How has he used that
wealth. He might have taken it to New York
and invested it in houses and lands there, or in
Chicago or other inviting cities for investment.
But no. Here in the city of his home has he
spent his money freely IN the construction of the
most costly and magnificent structures for COM
mercial purposes, in the Improvement t. of lands
and farms i'll and around the city, and, III the
line of mere ART, how extensive and costly the
horticultural establishment at his home, where
every boy and girl can behold the beauties
without cost. How rich and how rare the paint.
ings aud works Of art that adorn his home, and
that are freely shown to all.
SIN this long journey as he has gone in and
out before us, who has ever witnessed an exhi-
bition of undue haste, impatience or anger, or
heard one u%nchaste or profane word from his
lips? Young men, take notice. Has this man,
in the midst of these august business duties,
found time to attend to the claims of religion?
Let those with whom he has long been asso-
ciated testify to his erection of one of the most
magnificent of Gods temples.
"Has he found time to visit the sick? Day by
day he has gone to his friend administering the
consolation of friendship to him that was going
down IN death. Nor has he forgotten the widow
and the fatherless.
M Mitchell, we have not come here in the
spirit of mau-worship and OF fulsOme laudation.
We have come, your neighbours, who have long
marked these characteristics which | have es-
sayed TO sketch, and they have elevated you in
our estimation ana engrafted you to our hearts
as one not only to be esteemed but to be loved,
and for that reason 1 have been directed to give
yOn "a most hearty welcome TO our homes and
hearts, with the invocation that heaven will
grant you many days of life, health and pros
perity."
And the Sentinel editOrially says:
"Mr. Mitchell is the most successful Of Milwau-
kee business men-indeed, he is one of the very
wealthy men of the country whose wealth has
been the consequence of personal assiduity and
sagaclty. AS a usnal thing there isn't a great
deal of sentiment about Mr.. Mitchell, but he has
made friends every where. and those who have
been associated with him longest have the warm
est feelings toward him. 1t is mainly the old
friends of Mr.. Mitchel-the pioneers of Milwau-
kee-whO are to be credited with yesterdays re-
cepti0n."
Mr.. Mitchell is seventy years old. 1t is not the
rule that "A mans neighbors. among whom he
has lived nearly a half century, tender a dis
honorable. rascally skinflint such a reception
as was accorded Alexander Mitchell.
--
TIE young men of this country owe Mon
signor Capel one, not to say two. He says the
women are better educated than the men. This
statement could perhaps be endured, because
there is no denying that the American young
woman knows a great deal, but the Monsignor's
next assertion is a little too much. The superior
woman, he says, tires of her observation-disclosures
good-natured husband, because she wants re-
inement and culture as we'll. To crafty her in
telleGtual l~ongings she turns TO the foreign
dahcing-master, "and that is the end of the
business" To be held up as the inferior of a
woman who can find her ideal in a nimble dane
ing-teacher, with his brains in his heels, is a
Islander which should not be submitted to,
AMONG the party which accompanied DR.,
Riordan from Chicago to San Francisco, where
he goes to assume the duties OF cOadjutor cum iure
successiOne, to Archbishop Allemany, was Rev.
Edward Sorin. Superior General OF the Congre-
CATION of the holy Cross. The Very Rev. Father
ligieux. In 1912 he fnunned the University If
Notre- DAM, which now has a corps OF thirty
professors and lecturers, and boasts of a