, 1888-10-11
THE GRAND BANQUET.
Interesting Toasts Responded to by Wasl
Ington's Abiest Gentlemen.

| In the evening after au hour spent In
social intercourse the company adjourned
to the diningroom, where the banquet
took place. The menu was excellent, and
the general arrangements perfect, reflect.
ing credit upon Manager Hayard and Mr.,
Bennett of the Grand,
The tables were tastefuly decorated
with flowers, and while the guests were
| satisfying the cravings of the inner man
the famous Spanish Students discoursed
music in the adjoining room. All went
merry as u marriage bell, and 10y the time
| the toasts began everyone was In u happy
! frame of mind.
1t was just midnight when Toastmaster
! Carrere arose and in a few wel'chosen
words called upon Colonel Winston to
| reply to the toast, "Our Visitors.
HIS SPEECH.
Col Winston spoke as follows Spo.
kane falls has already, through her mayor.
welcomed the guests of the evening. Rec.
| ognzing the fact that they represent. in
| part, q body that wields more power than
all others on earth combined, it is natural
that we should desire their good report OF
the city that ia bold enough to aspire to
become the mining and railroad center
and the manufacturing and commercial
metropolis of our territory.
From all sections of Washington; from
its beautiful inland sea in the west, where
young and progressive cities invite the
| commerce of the world; from where na-
| ture has stored her richest mineral treas
ures, in the north; from the valleys of the
south, those wunderlauds OF soil aud eli.
mate, our guests have come. representing
all the resources of great empire and all
the aspirations of "a great people
The profession that we honor in honor
ing them embOdies the literature OF the
past and preserves the language Of the
present. II was here to herald the earli-
est light of our immature civilization and
| has remained to witness the dawn Of our
statehood. May it survive to chronicle tire
noon.day splendor that awaits the growth
OF our people and the development of our
| resources!
Gentlemen Of the press, it is you who
| furnish Us an intelligent record OF the
work of peoples in foreign lands, in ad.
vance of the rays of the morning sun. that
lighted the spectacles you recount. 1t is
you, who through your morning papers
| sound the reveilie that awakens the intel
lect OF a nation of freemen, and it Is You
who through your evening journals illum-
inc with pleasure the evening iresides of
its retiring millions You are the daily
schoolmasters of "a whole race.
Could this scene be photographed to the
civilized world it would fill with nstonish-
ment those who have been accustomed TO
regard the Pacific northwest as the point
from which the early Spanish invaders
first beheld an unknown sea, and us, who
inhabit 1t, as unhappy mortals abandoned
by fate and deserted by hope.
They would behold hourishing city.
upon whose site ten years ago r1sted the
silence Of the plains unbroken save by the
fall of mighty waters, whose hospitahle
gates have been opened TO welcome to its
cheer q body Of men who are rather 10 be
enyied than to he pited-'-a body OF men
VINO are an honor to the best civilization
of the age in which they live, and who
contribute to that age uuch that marks il
as the bravest and best OF all the unnum'
bered centuries--men, indeed, who are
the worthy inheritors of the greatness
achieved in the field of journalism by
Prentice and Bryant and Greely, and
worthy to participate in the fame that at.
taches to the career of Childs and Dana
. and Bennett.
Gentlemen Of the Territorial Press: The
people of our entire city unite with me in
the sentiment that this happy scene, ol
which your presence is the brightest fea
ture. may become familiar one, as the
years roll by.
The Colonel was loudly applauded al
intervals and greeted with u prolonged
one at the close.
MIR. Franklin Knight responded to th,
toast "1he Local Press" us follows
Had | been called on to select IL NOR,
critical audience, or more difficult subject
to handle in so short a time as | shall con
sumo. could not have done so. | behold
before me the aggregation of the mind,
that direct the public press OF the territory
aud recognize their power" The speaker
then proceeded TO euloRize the sentiment
lately uttered by the presiding judge of tn,
Parnel trial that the.press is the best rep
resentative of the people and declared that
sions of the hour or by local prejudice
Civil society is so constituted
that the public must be repre-
sented, and this public press. which
represents it is powerful for good and ten
times more powerful for evil. There is q
"superstition" in eastern countries called
the evil eye, which blasted the hopes OF
those upon whom it was fixed. The press
is a sort of inverted evil eye, But that Is
not the true purpose OF the press, The
press is to US to-day as natural and iuhe-
rent as the compact OF civil society itself,
momentous in its consequences, therefore
any restrictions upon it are reprehensible
and trespass upon the rights of the peo.
pie II is public educator. Here the
speaker told a story about the kind OF
poodle that need educating by the Rress.
and closed with pleasant allusion to the
guests Of the evening.
The Territorial Press was the next
tonst, to which p. B. johnson of Walla
Walla responded. He referred to the
powers OF the press as resembling eec
tricity, you cannot zee it, you NAV feel it,
and IT yon do you suffer. The press does
not mould public opinion but expresses IL
Spokane owes much to her press.
To the toast Seattle, a Sound City,
Thomas Prosch responded stating tha,
the people of Seattle based their conf
: dence in the city to great extent upor
the railroad. They have very friendl,
: feeling to the people of all the easterI
cities, and especially for Spokane.
; Tacoma" responded to by A. Il. Joal
as follows: 81 have been called upon b,
reply for the city of destiny the city b,
! the sea. Nothing gives me more pleasur,
, than to do 30. feel justly proud of tn
city Of my adoption, as indeed every on,
should be proud Of his home, but before
speak Of that city wish to say to you o
. Spokane Falls that although have trav
eled great deal and been present OF
many occasions Of similar character.
have never been so impressed as | hav,
been in your city and the kindness of you
, DeoDla 20 strou CO In this son NJ pn.1t that