Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-12-13
Bos7oA's BANQUET.
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tinguEhed Guests Present.
Grady says the Whites Must Aule-
Carnegie Has Wosd concssning tha
American Progress

| OF New England attended the annual banquet
Of the Boston Merchants Association ar
Hotel Venaome this evening. From to I
O'Clock . reception vas held 10 the parlors
At which members Of the association vers
introduced to Ex-President Cleveland. An
drew Carnegie, Henry W. Grady Of Georgia
and Hon W. l. Putnam Of Maine, special
guests Of the evening.
| At = O'Clock the party repaired to the
dining hall Among those present were
Jona than A. Lane, president Of the associa-
| ton; Hon. p. A. Collins, Hon. John Lowell,
Hon VIM. 4. Russell, Hon. Leopold Morse
Gov. Ames, Gen. Clinton b. Fiske Of New
Jersey. Hon. Homer Rogers, president Of
the Boston Board Of Aldermen; Francis
Lynde Stetson Of New York. Collector Sal
Hon. Josiah Quincy, Ex-Governor Gaston.
Postmaster Cesse. Hon. Alden Speare, pre- ii
dent of the Boston Chamber of Commerce
Henry B. Goodwin, president Of the Boston
Executive Business Association; Richard
Briggs. president Of the Merchants Club ;
C. F. Choate, president of the Old Colony
R. R.; Speaker w. E. Barrett, Hon. Geo.
G. Crockef. Hon. Thomas L. Jenks. Chas.
s. Smith, president of the New York Cham
ber of Commerce; Joseph Burnett. Edward
Atkinson. Hon. s. N. Aldrich. Assistant
U. s. Treasurer; Ex-Congressman A. A,
Ranney. Also ex-Gov. Rufus B. Bullock.
DR.. J. W. Rankin. Clarence Knowles, 5. NJ.
Inman, DR.. X. ID. Spaulding. Col. Evan P.
Howell, Thomas d. Meader, J. X. Halliday,
W. A. Hemphill and Judge George Hillver,
all Of Georgia; John II. Inman of New
York; President Norton or the Louisville &
Nashville X. R.; Marion Verdery, Hon.
Patrick Calhoun, and c. c. Nichols Of the
Atlanta Constitution.
After the banquet Gov. Ames welcomed
the guests Of the occasion. Homer Rogers
welcomed the guests in behalf Of Mayor
Hart, who was absent from the city. Mr..
Cleveland was then introduced. He was
received with long, continued applause. Mr..
Cleveland's speech was received with great
enthusiasm.
Henry W. Grady Of Georgia, followed.
He said the South was so scantily peOpled
that but 10 per cent. of its lands are cuti-
vated; and since 1860 the northern emigra-
ton to the South has been decreasing, be-
cause Of the race problem and the suspicion
it breeds. The Southerners' very existence
depends on the right of the solution of the
race problem. The speaker said that this
year the South hal raised !, SOC, 900 bales Of
cotton, which could not have come from the
hands of sullen or discontented laborers.
The negroes of Georgia, 20 years ago were
slaves, but they Iow possess 0,0O0, 900
worth of property. For every Afro-Ameri-
can agitator of this stirring strife l could
show q thousand negroes happy in their
cabin homes. with their children in schools.
Since 1865 the South has spent 1922 .000,
600 in education and this year it is pledged
to s37 ,0OO. 900 more, and the blacks. by
e kkr.
half of the funds.
In the courts negroes have distinctly bet
ter showing on account of their color. The
negro vote remains an ignorant and credu-
lous faction, the prey of the INSCRIPTIONS of
both parties. and plays part in the cam
paign in which every interest in society is
jeopardized, every approach to the ballot box
debaached. Against such campaigns the
Southern whites are banded.
Grady said in 'ss sixteen Southern States
cast 81 per cent. of their vote and six New
England States but 63 per cent. of theirs.
The negro has learned that the ballot box
which promised most yields him the least,
and at last has realized that his best friends
are his neighbors, and with whose prosperity
his own is bound up.
II would be we'll if northern partisans
would understand that the negro voto can
never control in the South. If there be any
human power which cannot be withstood it
10 the banded intelligence and responsibility
of free community. Upon that power the
South relies and they do not upon the cow
srdly menace of mask or shotgun. Force Of
bills will not avail; the North may surren-
der its liberties to the federal election law,
but never again will a single State, North or
South, be delivered to the control of an
ignorant and inferior race The speaker
believed the problem would be solved by
the people most bound in honor to its solu-
ton.
He Asked Of his hearers First. patience;
second, confidence third sympathy fourth,
give us your sons a. hostages, that they may
help swell the Anglo-Saxon current until it
can carry without danger this black infusion;
fifth, loyalty to Republic that knows no
south, no north, no east, no west, and en-
dears with equal and patriotic love every foot
Of our soil and every State of our Union"
Grady was also received with great enthu-
siasm.
Andrew Carnegie gave brief exposition
of the wonderful progress made by this
country in the past 30 years. and declared
his belief in the future prosperity
Carnegie was followed by Hon. W. L
Putnam, the late democratic candidate for
governor of Maine, who spoke briefly upon
the merchant marine and fisheries, emphasiz-
ing his well known views upon those subjects.