New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-18

piness. as we'll the tightening OF ho physdo,s1,
burdens OF mankind Tho ancients typfhed the world
great BAN resting on the bent back OF soorfng
man. with tho substitution Of steam, magneas,m and
electricity for muscular power the laborer Is stralghto
Ing up, and the world with its heaviest burdens VIII
l1 time swing OF bis shoulders; snpRo srss IN '~
The toast of " The Press" which was assigned to
Murat Halstead, was passed over in the absence OF
Mr.. Halsead. the time allowed therefor being
otherwise filed in by tho operations OF T. I.
Ackert, IT,, and William Frisbee, who took several
Hash-light Photographic views Of the assembly.
GENERAL swAYNE'S WITTY SPEECH.
General Wager Swayne, the next speaker, had
for his subject " The Colonial Printer" He said
among other things:
are lawyers. Now, really, when one comes 70 70
feet on It, this is magnanmous Qanghterl because
The truth were tod i would be found at bas S
somewhat delayed lessened the necessity for the IN
yention Of printing qaughterl and had possibly, Or
Renewsd laughter.) 1t reminds me Of the exper
ence of Japanese who was at public dinner In TINS
had brought him How happy all these people are;
but Part here and part there they S01 non TSon
are they approaching subjects Of public execution
Laughterl "Not by any means.' More laughterl
Then, pay tell me whst is the private role OF these
Piled the friend ip nournfu tone but IN tone f t
was at the same time aPpreclative' they arc the
Life is a dieting process-whethor Il DO that Of .
cgeas Tco horse S Or s YGa aS TO Ss
touch unchecked but the result Of life is not, as we
commonly think Il, that our food becomes assmilatsd
Sin u.s. Sat We become assmiated With our food
We fashioned into the likeness OF that upon which
We feed. Take man away from all conmupicatlon
death sets n As, AS man 4; known b 0o the
SS@Rs' he IKE AfS Ss company he
and moral NATURE ss a. are s duly sonssSss
life There Is no homage to dead man, 80 like
that homage which makes him live 10 u.s. lAgpisusel
o Be- this day IS readable as any book English
soos enough to allow s0 ne to hunt over hall New
York Qauhterl-having lost my own copy-that little
autobiography, that's Benjamin Franklin Applause,
ROSWELL SMITH FOR THE PRESS
Roswell Smith in responding to "The Press"
said IN part:
s.; This yrs sSi3f 81 '1'ss Es: seems :
IA any Of your wild flights q iapey tlai hundred
men who arc Rere present, and Who have also been
gay and %Eo also
ibis business Of setting. Types The Question
books i1 and the time was when we were told By
our critics and BY our friends as well that we
selves, more highly than we ought WE'LL 1t Is true
that only those who attempt great things arc likely g
a book, such a tribute TO Americans and American
insutOns our friend Professor Bryce the English
Commonwealth We are admonished that should
appreciate ourselves, our privileges and our opportu-
T. II not true that the eyes of the world upon
ushere IN this continent that the centre of attraction,
s tSS e x as e' Us 1'S our
own opportunities, our own PRIVILEGES our own powers
for God and for humanity. as the franklin Of whom
you have heard to night attempted 20 90 and i always
arrow OF the man who aims at the sun; though he
may not be successful In reaching Il, VIII fly further
ard faster than II he aimed at something on the level
OF himself
WIT AND WISDOM FROM MR. HOWARD.
Joseph Howard. IT,. on rising to respond TO
the toast The Journalist" was received with
applause. He was witty and serious by turns. and
in either mood was equally felicitous. He said'
II may be difficult 10 bring you up ort Of the
&c Of Sy up on x the 70 Ss
tury Wy must speak 50 that We may sec ourselves
es We arc, and not as B., Franklin saw u.s., nor az
S D a noa 4; Tq Ssa ssSs a Us am
yitation 70 your dinner should have felt that life
when i1a saw Ills imperial Sbs over there, Gen.
eraI Ewing, who reminds so constantly of Roscoe
on About 1 Sm N SILVER G Jones' Sevsds and
beyond the reporters table. my other friend who SO
Soe SNg gSus an home h'n and sppSe
am hero not as Journalist, but as newspaper
sSiessoutlomsn has in 4. T. stewards emporium.
We are either dudes or workers. uaughterl. am
forgotten a The later FIR fTaSn Horace Greeley ons
Sat Sre psns not here ogh at IN
study to-day found written Ip I book e entitled ed
Dana written On February =. 1879; Mr. Dana wrote
that would be good scheme hsi to, 70 erect s
been raised. and ho suggested the names OF
several gentlemen assist In raising $4,000 more.
There IN Ond Tss Ea KOBE RS who arc Both
who do you think was the otheri The greatest mind
stood by hts friends like man. Henry Ward Beecher.
loud applause)
statue 20 Horace Greeey who did more for Journal
ISM untl politics cankered his soul. than any other
m'f i rsSsy TR1I bundle sss: w, one 9,
them 70 tho Editor Of The Press snd Why g aons
a The papsEI' anshtsr r It ESs 81 signed ned os
The Apostles great sS and good and ,, Ss5SIe4 r
& % Tai. sns GS and other military chap
@ .vo me only DIa anS Se1S
Sf he sassC6 tho printers q ne
Ss g. 'RR 1..tS's & g sss IS
dog Of NE By the tail Of distress M II over the rail
Of and land q on the hghw way Of
cether what Is therc the papers and magazines OF
he country cannot accomplish In the uplifting Of The
bnmam racei loud and longcontinued applause,
after which Mr. Towards hssih was drunk with en-
thusasm.l
A.D. F. RANDoLPH'S RESPONSE
AD. F, Randolph responded for, The Pub
lisher.p He started out with witty expression
of the embarrassment he felt at having to speak
directly after o journalist saying that all the
ane phrases that he had prepared had been
scattered by his immediate predecessor lie then
proceeded thus
I wanted 70 say that when was boy there was
such phrase as the poor printer That phrase has
gone ont There no poor printers: They arc all
rich II you say "a poor printer II means
snmethlng about his work, and not his
poeunsry condition (Laughterl What ! know
about printers than anything else Is as TO that
sitsns called "tine." (Langhter,l ! never saw
r. nrInter who was a modest man. tcries OF ~ h.')
never saw one who was not self conscous man.
Tho n,dnter knows that without his art the author
nv dIa in the manuscript, and that