The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-05-30
BETTER THAN OUR FATHERS.
Gov. Butler. In M hfcr-Dinncr speech,
unr'ofously Praises Modern
Ways,

Gov. Butler, OF Massachusetts, dincd
with the Saturday Night Club IT tn
Hoffman Hoppc, New York. Mr. Clark
Bel preri,'"n, Ind after dinner Gov.
Butler spoke.
1T takes away all the pleasure for
a dinner" he said, "whcn one knows
that he has to make speech alict =.
Whence nr0re ih.s t;.rciy American Gus.
tom o' npoiiing good dinner by making
intellectual, or, rather. unintcllcctual,
remarks after it? How absurd it is, too,
onr all being attircd ON tn So occasions
III white cravals and .rFa''"N ia., conts.
while TIE -tIyi.nts who wait on us are
clad i'll caricaturos Of orr costumes. The
latter, TOO, are so well bred that it il
difficult to tell who are the gcntlrmcr
and who are tie scrra",S,
"No", y IN pace Of making stupid
speeches, we would do rs our fathers did
tell n good story, OF sing Il goc 4 song,
how much better it would bc. Aid, in
that case, we ought to initiate our
fathers simplicity Of dress Now. SIP.
pose WI had Eonc lmrk rs the plain Silt
plictty u bur fathers, and were clad rs
Thomas Jefferson WAS when. ~ Sccrc-
aIy Of State TO George Washington. lie
went to a bali in Philadelphia. This
republican and democrat wore on that
occasion an deliberately puifcl and pow
'kred wig, blue satin cont, purple
waistcoat of velvet, yellow plush
breeches, white silk stockings anil silver
bucklcd shoes, and carried n cockcd hat
under his arm. How much simpler is
Ich a costume than that Of our day.
Nay, how even more simple were the
'astcs and habits of orr inthcr, Wash
ingten, the great father Of his people. !
will say nothing as 10 his desire to ho
'alled Your ScreMe Highncs", and will
merely nllude to the fact that he never
went to Congress except in IN ona-
mented coach drawn by six white horses
whose blackened hoofs were so polished
that they shone like the boots which will
ne left AT our bedrooms tomorrow morn
ing. His nerfetary followed in coach
md four; ana when the immortal Wash
Jngton assembled the steps of the build.
ng in which Congress then held its scs.
'ions, he stopped and turned around in
rider that his admiring countrymcn
night see the Father Of his Country.
" he disappeared within the doors, too,
he put ont his shapcly leg in order that
hey might see the last Of him. How
much, indeed, have We dcgcncratcd from
he republican simplicity Of our anccs.
toIsl We are even different from the
;encrtion which has preceded us.
81 can remember when, at night
session Of Congress before the war, many
# the mt mbers, because they had been
lining as we have been dining here
tonight, We're unable to perform their
,luties.
"The world is growing better. Now
/ defalcation is heard Of here, and an
other there. but it is not that there are
more dcialcations in proportion to the
population, but that We hear of them
through the newspapers MS soon as they
occur. There are only more on the
,coolboy principle that white sheep give
more wool than black, because there are
more white sheep than there are black
sheep. There are more thieves in ma.
ton Of so, 600, 600 of people than in one
Of ten, and we are really more honcstcr
han our fathers, and don't any one for
get it. Orutory, too is growing better
except in the case of the Governor Of
Massachusetts,. We're You, Mr.. Bell, or
to make a speech in the language and
manner of forty years ago, our friends
here would think rs demcntcd. Let me
,cpcat one which can remember verba.
i'm:
al rise, Mr.. Speaker, TO present a
pctition of merchants whose sails whitcu
very sea, Of merchant princes whost
stately mansions ornament the city thai
contains Faneuil Hall, the cradle %
American liberty and palladium of on
most cherished institutions, to have III,
ax on the raw hides Of Bomco reduced
10 per ccntum.
After repeating these concluding line
in the Wcbsterian manner, Gov. Butte
AT down to the accompaniment OF uni
telsal laughter.