New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-23
PART II.
DEC. 20, 1892.
IN THE PILGRIMS PRAISE.
sprECHES AT THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY
DINNER
,,ocrr,Turcs' DAY CALLS FORTH TRIBUTES TC
THE sTURDINEss AND VIRTUES OF THE
LANDS FIRST SETTLERS.

Iiora,yith are given in full the speeches delivered
Ia, night al the dinner OF the Ncw-hngla;1G
Sooietv at Shery's. The account of the AFFAIR
,iu he found on the first page OF The lrlOuhe
49, morning When the Viands had all bceh
,orvad Daniel g. Rollins president of the society,"
rappcd for order. lie sald
r,o,s Ncy-I,nglsnders II is matter for mutual
tsu,aii n tai cCnsd, rable fraction of the mem
,.r.n of the Pilgrim Socety in New-lork has effected
f,,l landing here to night. l congratulate each
=, v that ne is Iari ip.nt with every other in that
,,ocuer Il, undertaking. You have all seemed TO iind
This mug h4rbor very much 10 your liking thus fsr and
I promise that You will soon lie carried away INTO
g fresh woods and pastures new where you VIII be
sure 10 find SIN more abundant entertainment You
must however. curb your impotence for the fulhl
mon, of that promise while the president plays the
i,,,l urclninsr, role which the traditions of this
.pnual fs wal require him to fill lie Is not az out TO
dvaae ans # he speeches of this fine array OF spel
binders 10 and spebinders to left II him
by encroachng upon the topics with Wlch they are
nre.entlv to deal He knows his place. lie scarcely
dares 10 hope That ne fill ii and can only safely
ourt Noon rattling r0lnd in 1t, and upon avoiding
the temriaon 10 Oversep its boundaries. For although
,le narrow limits within which We are here shut
M obld the application Of the familiar Green-cotton
umbrella test for discrimination between Daniel and
tide n Ms there is ietwtcn himself and them this
spcnous aud radical distinction that the lions alone
MltnlCs Inc exalted pliNIlt-c 10 IoMs Hucn lnlISs.
Therefore your pr ling officer shall deem ii fitting
to say to you he will say in small voice and in few
words with some such sentiment respecting his pro
pcuncenlents as was entertained by the coal dealer
when he said to assistant who preparing load
for u customer, a little of this will % a great weigh.
daughter
II will accord with the custom established by my
predecessors for i, of the dinner If tell You
how old your society is. how big how prosperous and
he lite, inform H. In short. where IL Is at.
We celeb ac tonight the 272d anniversary of the land
Ing Of the Pilgrims Plymouth and the eighty
seventh anniversary of our own corporate existence in
New Iorh. In strong box have as the aggre-
cation OF our thrifty savings. divers securities and
1loIcys of Tie value OF over $4,000. ! am told by
cur whereof the Memory of not Il the
tary secretary that We number tonight over 1850
souls.
Just contrast for a moment the state Of this
ciey, rejoicing IN such multitude of stslwart sons.
with the irIprh cOhdluoh o! an aSeu couhe IN
Montana. Of whom the columns Of OF daily
newspapers lately made report. traveller in The
mountains 81 That STATE sought shelter from sudden
shower in log cabin lie reached il just the Old
about themselves for dinner. one of tneir
daughters presently arrived, then second, then an
other. III others st in Inc longer than that II the
presumably proud father: You have tine family OF
daug tefs. sir - W,n," SAID the old man. don't
know about that. we've Lad pretty hard luck With
dsrter: the cmmbley fe in last winter and killed all
Of 'em but nine.- laueLter) 49,. xou- pnc,,D osrs
OF Newlorl that in their desperate struggle for cX
lsnGe upon n isaed v!l their Ensll,h Dutc d,
have managed T. hold their own. and that the mem
lersp Of this society IS nearly double that Of its most
tOIrisling rival
TIE sOCIETY'S HAPPY HISTORY
il is Monteslucu believe. who pronounced the
sphorism Happy are the people whose annals are
uresOme.7 II that be true, may well claim 10
sweetest felicity. During the last year We have en-
loved tranquility at home. and orr relations with
foreign societies have been uniformly cordial 'ino"
various festive occasions when they have met TO
Suitably represented ,u and our has never
failed 10 receive the genuine and hearty Welcome which
We In turn shower on all our guests tonight. For
various causes, have myself been compelled at times
10 forge the privilege of personal participation In
these tribal gatherings: but one or the other OF my
two vice. Root or Hcaman the only vice, whose oX
stence I'll own up TO-, has actct in my stead, and
however BIZ has been the dash OF the breaking waves
Of hospitality. he has con,rved to breast then-to
stoma -ucn Iathcrtor IL one uses figures Of speech
lie should above all things be accurate. H.aughterJ
And now. gentlemen. with many thanks that you
have lately chosen t. preside yOur affairs for
the year that : hurrying swiftly to meet us, let me-
ask your at cHtiOn the real business Of this meeting
The reverend gentleman who is To respond TO our first
regular toast was the guest OF The society at is
seyenty-ir,t anniversary He declared then tlIat be
not strictly Pilgrim: lei me now assure him In
your name that he l. not in any sense stranger.
His brilliant In literature hi, noble efforts
in tn cause Of humanity have won The admiration and
affection o. all and have made hi name familiar
In months household words Those Of You
who have real land who has not p DR.. John Browns
alarming sketch Of Marjorie Fleming, tho child friend
Of FIR Walter scott. will remember the disraragng
terms On which the Of six years she character
ized certain u-y features Of the multiplication table.
In OF her delightful letters Sue SAYS: now
going 10 tel you the horrible and wrctchcd placse
Gas!el that my mul,iplicaio1 gives ne. You can't
C0nCi i've il The most dcvlliSl thing i eight times
eight and times 1t is what nature ltNelf
can't endure" daughter
,oae OF Us. In our scAooboy days, We're doubtless
OF Itle Maloes OPTION ana none Of can taiI
h, hid finished waloGing through the slough Of
deSpord whose EXTREMIST verge was reached at
rne time, Twelve AM found himself dancing mcrrlly
icfid Iflt 20 thr rNfhUic now OF ten times ~
ten: and all the res, that combined to form delicious
OASIS In tie midst Of a vast and dreary desert.
Pat with wat new meaning was that arid and
GoOless proposition ten time, Is ten endowed
twenty years or more ago. when at the instance as
You viii De pleored to De reminded. of Dr. Way
and nd inther our Dr. Hale Gg5isheh under TIE tc
eeru'E a. po|''iu AM 6engn Influence all over yer
reason more tan TO- other. because the lessons
II inculcatc have never been more elfectuav taught
BY any Of Gods children tlau they taught BY
our Pilgrim sires and have borne ripper fruit In
aMyotys lie and c,ndGct than they bore in theirs.
With what ine'T1rt truth II can DO sai1 OF them
"They looscf up and not down. They looked forward
aid rot hack They looked out and not in and
ask You 10 I'll yoqr fla ,ses in honor Of the first
DIR. HALE Oh FOREFATHERS' DAY.
The Rev DR. Edward Everett Hale arose in
response TO this introduction. and said
This object is one which is always old and always
new. We are every day getting at new hint
which helps us In the de ais Of our picture-eOme
thing from some scrooby from Lcyden or even from
our udNh cDbiliN-d tfl;ll winch we mad not before
as 70 TINS evcniful ycar beginning and there Is
no par, OF the world a. We have right here say.
where some one does not find sequel does not
STRIKE The stream which i0wcd from this little
TALL Nothing i more int'r"sfin" than the way In
which at once. from the beginning the men Of
me old col ny-a> We stl fondl' say in Massachu
s'us-dnd the men OF the Bay joined hands with
eich othtf Ihe' were not the same men their his
tory was not the same. the ind istres were not The
1lmr' Their ancient CUSTOM the same
ii'r" at fvmouth was this little group % Engsh
ilSahS: men who knew how TO judge wool. how 10
SPIN II. Overs of wool who made
l"sthn as II IL pleased God that She dgnitr OF the
nechan'cai arts should be shown In the very plant
Ing of an empire and here in the Bay were grouped
men wiom In England they would have called an
ouirr class; people who had been IN universities
peopIe VINO had been In the court. people who had
ii1ends al court and perhaps one man Of them of
we one 'ony. III The old WoT d. had seen man Of
re .ther colony. But this difference of the men is
SIMPLY external when thev come to their new
homes thev have life. because they have one duty
tn these shortest days Of the year gather 70
rcsNY our honor for the brave men and women who I'm
me vcrN dav of the beginning OF winter planted the
i1undhtisls OF an empire. And prosperous Mnssa-
hnrL md ,,aho IL. -.