Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-02
THE BUTLER CLUB.

The Twenty-Ninth Anniversary of the Occupation of New Orleans by General Butler and the Union Army Celebrated at Young's in Boston Last Night.
 BOSTON, May 1.-The dinner of the Butler club at Young's this evening was | brilliant event. It was commemorative of the twenty-ninth anniversary of the occupation of New Orleans by General Butler and the Union army. More than 150 members and guests were present and nearly all attended the reception at 4:30. At business meeting earlier the president, secretary and treasurer were reelected. Governor Russell was present at the reception and regretting that pre- vious engagement at Fall River would pre- vent his remaining to dinner, briefly ex- pressed his wishes for General Buffers prolonged life and happiness.
 At 5:30 President N. A. Plympton, with the general on his arm, led the procession to the dining hall General Butler sat be- hind a mound of roses, the gift of General Sherwin of Portland. On his right sat General N F. Banks, Senator W. A. Pfeffer, Hon. Charles L. Woodbury, Hon. Joseph H. O'Neill, Speaker W. E. Barrett, w. M. Bunting, B. M. Lin nell, Secretary J. Mitchell Calvin, Colonel J. w. Coveney, Hon. Thomas Riley, Hon. Albion Littell and Frank R. Sherwin of Portland. On President Plympton's left were Corporal James Tan ner, ex-Governor J: Q. A. Bracket, Hon. F. T. Greenhalge, Hon G. s. Merrill, John c. Linehan of New Hampshire, Chaplain A. A. Ellsworth, Colonel A. 0. Drinkwa- ter, W. w. Sias, Hon. c. D. Palmer, c. N. Wallace, General Douglass Frasier and Colonel J. H. Chadwick. The German or chestra furnished music during the even ing. Shortly before 2 o'clock President Plympton opened the speaking with brief tribute to General Buffers service during the war. Senator Pfeffer of Kan sas was the first speaker and began with last year on the western mortgage ques- ton. The senator prefaced his treatment of his subject, "The Farmers alliance, Its Objects and Aims" by a brief discussion of mortgages. He said substantially: We are not repudiators
 We expect to pay if our creditors will be patient. Just now we are not able and are not different in that respect from others here. We are not anarchists; we want to build up, not to destroy. By the time we got money, although you get but six per cent. it costs us ten. Yet our la bor increases, but three per cent. We are no worse than they in Nebraska, in the Dakotas and Minnesota. Even in your own hill towns there are not as many farms as 100 years ago. In Pennsylvania a sen ator could buy land for $25 an acre that he could not have got for S90 five years ago. Our railroads are assessed at $1 on every $S of capitalization, but our farms at one-third their true value; our indebtedness is S18,00O,000 under that margin. The question is submitted to you of the east is not to organize a new party, but whether it is not to your interest as we'll as ours that the rates of interest on money be renewed. The secretary of the treasury is thinking of two per cent. bond. Strike us with such a mortgage and we will pay every debt we owe In a dozen years. The movement begins among farmers, not lawyers, toilers, not bankers. Don't understand me this is a move ment of demagogue and cast-of republi- cans. The political movement you hear of is not the alliance, though that is at the bottom of it. There is no alliance party. Within two years there will be new in dependent political movement called the national party, because we believe in the government controlling the transporta- ton, the issue of money and in getting money to the people without it's being | freighted with interest rates they cannot afford to pay. The senator spoke forty | five minutes, was attentively listened to | and cheered as he left to address another | meeting at Faneuil hall.