Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-12-26
MIGHTY DOLLAR WANAMAKER
Advocates the Liberal Use OF Money In
Politics.

Advocates the Liberal Use OF Money In
Politics.
PHILADELPHIA, December 25.-AmODl
the guests at the ninth annual festival o.
the New England Society of Pennsylva
nis, were Postmaster General John Wsns
maker, Rev. Lyman Abbott, Hon. w. G.
P. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, Benjamin
ButterwOrth, of Ohio, General Horace Por'
ter, of New York, and W. NJ. Singerly. In
his response to toast, Mr.. Wanamaker
said, in part;
"I am reading the papers closely, and !
think you abuse yourselves terribly. This
city was once, and more than once, the
capital of the nation. 1t was the home OF
Ben Franklin, the first Postmaster Gener-
el, who could not sleep at night with 40
postofices, while row there are 10000.
What shall you do for this nation, which
takes in four new States in single day,
and will take in Canada, Cuba and the
sugar islands when they are ready? Send
Your best men to do your couDtry's busi-
ness. Pat Yourself into politics. That
may seem strange thing for a business
man to say; but you can leave your busi-
ness for an afternoon to 90 to a matinee,
and could 20 to Councils as well. You can
leave your business for six months trip
abroad, and can't you 90 to Congress or
the Legislature as well?"
"Put your money into politics-to endow
great political schools for teaching political
economy and to establish great newspa-
pers that shall not be afraid to speak the
truth or correct q mistake when they make
one. Pat your money into elections.
The great expenses that are necessary can
not be paid by moonshine OI shouting, so
let those who want pure Government
put their hands in their pockets and make
personal and public subscriptions. Shoot
that man on the spot who spends penny
for dishonest elections, but put men as
thick as grasshOppers over the State to see
that there is an honest ballot and an hon
est count"
Congressman W. G. P. Breckinridge,
who was greeted with long-continued
cheers and hand. clsppiDg rs he arose to
speak after "A brief and eloquent introduc.
ton by Rev. DIR. BOsTdman, responded to
the toast, "Our Country" Referring TO
some statements by Postmaster General
Wansmaker he said that he agreed with
him that it would be better for the people
of the North and the South If they were
franker and braver with ZACH other, and
he continued:
II thank the President for the kind
statement that | have tried to bring the
two sections OF our country together since
the unhappy war. l feel at home in Phi a.
delphia, and in the midst of the war OF
the Confederacy, when l was a young
soldier under the stars and bars, there
never was an hour when / did not wish
for Philsdelphia's glory and prosperity,
as for every other city and State of the
Union also. II the OOnfederacy had sue
ceeded it would not have been followed
by two hostile cOnfederacies, but by
broader government. God willed other
wise, however, and having done what
could for the Confederacy l returned to
the allegiance of American citizenship,
believing that every Southern soldier
should help to build up an American
union that should be broad and free"
Mr.. Breckenridge declared that the
Southern States had held together because
they believed that the North WAS hostile
to them. The fundamental truth with
which men should face the negro problem
WAS that Christ had died for the colored
man as we'll as for the white man.
'Ws are SOLID" continued the eloquent
Kentuckian, because we believe thai
YOU desire not to understand the race
problem in the South. 1t is a question Of
civilization with u.s. l cordially sgret
with the Postmaster General that it would
be good thing if you would send South
your best men, which you have not done
by long shot. We want you to under
stand us, and, if you can't help us, to lei
us do for that poor colored race what Ii
kind and generous and Just.