Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05
A Brilliant Galaxy of Great
Statesmen Meet in One
Small Yankee Town.
DEPEW ON IMMIGRATION.
The Banquet Orator Delivers Very
Racy Speech on Wealth.
M'KINLEY, HOWARDAND HALSTEAD
Citizen Parkinson, the Leader Of the Anti
Malta Figilantes,
SPEAKS TO THE BLOOMINGTON PEOPLE

WOODSTOCK, CONN, July 4.-Henry c.
Bowen gathered distinguished company of
American orators at Roseland Park to-day
for participation in the Fourth of July
celebration. Chauncey NJ. Depew, William
Mckinley, General Hawley, Senator AL
drich, General Howard and Murat Halstead
were on the list of speakers. John Wana-
moker telegraphed that he could not come.
Congressman Charles Russell, Of
Connecticut, welcomed all on be-
half of Mr.. Bowen, and then
introduced General Joseph R. Hawley as
the President of the day. General Hawley's
ton was the only topic of general import
ance to which he devoted his attention.
He insisted that every immigrant must
become true and thorough American.
They must not feed upon the venom which
has entered their souls as the result of for
eign oppression and tyranny. The General
gave the Bellamy philosophy kick, then
stopped.
General Howard's Tilt With a Statesman.
General o. O. Howard, the next speaker,
began bv praising the regular army. BE
said no member of it had ever proved dis
loyal
mo private ever did, perhaps, but a good
MANY officers proved disloyal," Interrupted
a Congressman on the platform.
They were not as numerous as the dis
loval members of Congress, tartly replied
the General
The poet of the occasion, Maurice Thomp-
son, was not present. In his absence the
poem was read by Clarence Bowen. Here
are few specimen stanzas:
&No;r hDyH
on stalwart Liberty!
Cast in what fiawless hero-mold
Those leaders of the free!
The hand of Heaven reached down and
sealed
The scroll of jefferson;
The world rang like stricken shield
When WebSters speech was done. q
There was a pause when Phillips rose,
start when Greeley wrote:
Then Whittiers verse and IlncOln's prose
The heart of Duty smote.
The guns of Gettysburg roared loud
Upon our Sacred Hill:
The flashes from that battle-cloud
We're bolts of Freedoms will.
When patriotic Grant from knightly Lee
Received the truant sword,
Upon its hilt hung Freedoms key,
Stamped with Hopes latest word.
Fling out our Flag to veil the sun,
Let Texas vie with Maine,
And Shiloh cry te Lexington
Ger mountain, stream and plain.
Chauncey NJ. Depew was honored with
three cheers when be was introduced He
said:
The Declaration of Independence was
not an accident; it was result 1t is the
quality of American liberty that it is the
solvent of all the dangers threatening the
State which other forms of Government
hold in check by force. Within so years
$4,000, 900 of people have come from foreign
lands and settled in the United States.
Every period has its own perils. 1t is safe
to say that they are fewer and less danger
Gus than ever before. Immigration is q
danger, but 1 would be willing to have
the formulation of the methods
by which it should be brought within safe
limitations, and restrictions to representa-
tives of Irish, German, Scandinavian and
Italian societies of the United States. We
want no contract labor to psuperize our
industries; no criminals to prey upon our
communities and fill our prisons; no lepers
10 debase our blood and deplete our hospital
funds, but we still have room for the honest,
the healthy, the Industrious and the intel
ligent l have no patience with the weak
kneed, spider-shanked, watery-brained dys-
peptics who despair of this republic. I
have no sympathy and only contempt for
watery patriotism.
The Wealth Problem.
1--WE are said to be in danger to the peril
of great wealth. Wealth is very we'll dis
tributed in this country. My experience
is, and have been connected for 25 years
as attorney and counsel with men of great
wealth, that eight-tenths of them lose the
fortunes of their lifetime. These are the
perils of corporations. But corporations
are the creatures of law, and the creator can
destroy or crush them as he pleases.'
Hon. n. W. Aldrich, of Rhode Island,
spoke of the industrial future of New Eng
land.
Major Mckinley was given a very candid
reception when he rose to speak. He said
be was not present to make tariff speech or
TO talk politics. He did not think that
was appropriate for the 4th of July. The
greater part of his remarks was confined to
a discussion of the lessons to be
drawn from what he termed the
three speech-making periods of our history.
They were the war for independence, the
adoption of the Constitution and the war
for the preservation of the Union. At the
conclusion of Major McKinley's remarks,
which were brief, three cheers were given
for the next Governor of Ohio" Murat
Halstead spoke next on ''The Preservation
OF the Peoples Inheritance" Rev. David
Gregg, Of Brooklyn, closed the speaking
with brilliant address on the subject of