The record-union., 1892-04-29


has been Tor many years-divioed INTO three
special features: First-Partial attention TO
business; mostly hiring it well done Sec
ond-Serving on begging committees for
charitable undertakings and useful enter
prises. Third-Going to san Francisco.
Now, the first keeps a man in practice and
from rusting. and at the same time prepares
other minds to get the run OF the business
SO they can unfold and evolute the boss TO a
better business or a better world. The beg
g1ng committee keeps one In line with the
needs of a world; educateS one to give; gives
good growth to u business soul, and keeps one
in touch with the people, especially with those
who give. The great number required of
these committees, neceSSitating q change of
their personnel so often, is the reason that
there is much charity and much good olive
and-let-liyef feeling among the business men
of this city. The sacramento merchant goes
| to san Francisco (alone). His going is actu-
ated by about the same motives as those that
sent the colored man of TO the woods, viz: to
escape local annoyances, and to seek obscurity
to see If he cannot scare up something.
"Reveries of a Banker"-(Music from
Mendelssohn). Response by Frank Mil
Ter, who said:
hr. Chairman: can imagine that our guest
IN the year / S40 had occasion to 90 10 some
little old banker, who wore glasst s. and to ask
Tor a loan of 5000. The banker must have
stuuled the case carefully, because fifty years
ago bankers were anxious dixie horse-raisers)
to begin with promising Youngsters and to
avoid such as were certain to be failures
lie saw Lefore him then young man who
GtISoSoS't IlulCdllOlS OIL 1ubufe success.
HIS stature, good looks, good health and his
strength were favorable guarantees for phys
ICll endurance is half the battle in this world.
he saw that young Huntington dixie Admiral
Nelson) was eager TO perceive coming events
nlteen minutes quicker than anyone else,
and that he could work and think longer and
better than the average man.
SO the wise old banker probably made the
loan tWlth two lndorserS) and made mental
memorandum that the borrower would live
at least fifty years longer and become worth
the enormous of - On
Ihe marvellous progress OF the world has
mace that bankers estimate somewhat short
ments of power noticed by him kept that
young man abreast with the moving flood for
halt Il century while Others dropped aside or
were overwhelmed.
Here wish TO ask his attention and YOURS
mind.
Many men will give So worth of work in
one day for S3 wages per diem; but the en-
lI)yer is entitled 10 n profit even on labor
ana seeks men who will give So SO of work
1or 30. The man who will put O per cent
bonus into his work will some day get the
| benefit Of bis ambition and lie promoted over
the man who did not This is u severe truth
out tnere is something harder yet in life. 1t
Is thls: y mans work may require him to
even risk his life VIII he do it?
We know that Bonaparte led his soldiers
to death and victory by a system of rewards
ana pensions to the survivors. In civil life
there can be no pensions. Each worker must
insure against death and save for old age
I-tlCIl lIittn Is HIS own master, ana all
freedom ana all the care that the word master
implies. Thus it may seem as if in civil life
there is small incentive for extreme devotion
10 duty ana not enough stimulus to cause one
10 hazard his existence on q matter OF prin-
clple. stu, IN every mans life there comes Il
moment OF danger of some kind and he must
meet it bravely or live coward. 1t is essen
Ilal that the bank clerk shall not go -tobOg-
gaming IN Canada; that the ofice-hoIder shall
fepel brides; that the doctor shall grappe
with contagion, and that the engine-drlYer
hp
SO the question follows-How shall the peo-
pie OF the land become imbued with a sturdy
ambition as powerful as that held by the
soldier?
To me the answer is plain. We must realize
ana publish these facts that the path of duty
is the shortest road TO success: that some of us
VIII lall on The road by cruel fate; that the sur
NlNors VIII struggle through and be very richly
rewarded; that the guest of this evening is an
example OF these facts and the living repre-
sentative OF several men who started with as
GOOD prospects as his; that in some one for
tunate thing of health or mind he has excelIed
all the others in a small degree and has escaped
many dangers which laid low his schoolmates
II our young men do not see these facts and
thlnk that Huntington. Hopkins, Stanford
ana Crocker came to riches by chance and
without using to the utmost all of their
splendid abilities, then Will the coming gen.
Grafton be gamblers and BUYERS of lottery
tickets; they will be selfish, lazy and cruel.
The study OF these railroad magnates is
most prohtable and interesting, and l think
it should be begun with this motto, which
SeelllS 10 nave D66n adopted by them:
do all things, large and small q little bet
ter and n little sooner than anyone else, and
avoid big Mistakes
The next sentiment was, "Our Boys,
the Coming Citizens" music, 'Star-
| spangled Banner"), response by Hon.
Grove l.. Johnson.
The speaker said the bows of to-day
would be the men of Tomorrow 1t was
the once boys of the country who had
made 1t what 1t was, and it is our boys of
| to-day, and their boys that are to come,
who are to guide the nations destinies in
the future. he spoke of the grand
achievements of the boys of the past, and
eloquently pictured those which the boys
of the future are to accomplish "Our
boys" he said, will be called upon to
meet greater trial than that entaifed by
the late civil war--a trial that will pene-
trate every hamlet and home in the land
That struggle will be war between capital
and labor, and the boys OF to-day should
be trained and strengthened so as to meet
it bravely. The remedy, the speaker be-
lieved, existed in the building up of a
sentiment that America is better for Amer
leans than any other race. America has
no place for anarchists nor those who
have no regard for the law. Our bows
can take up the work as given to them.
and make this country for the people
and for Americans. He had faith that
they would be equal to the emergency.
They could well pattern by the example
of their honored guest before them. Ap-
plause.
The last regular toast of the evening
was, "The Prosperity of California;
(music, American, to which William
II. Mills was called upon to respond,
MIR. Mills was in his usual happy vein,
and kept his hearers in constant roars of
laughter throughout his remarks. Cali
fornla, he said, was never really born,
or int
! irregular way-she first simply grew
from Territory into a State (Which he
illustrated by story. Sacramento is the
proud Capital of this prosperous State.
and her early history is the history of the
earliest civilization of the State. Sacra-
mento was the beginning of the State of
| California, and has produced a number
of eminent men, and women, too. 1t
was the birthplace of Mary Anderson
/ and Sibyl Sanderson. DIR. SchIiemann,
| the greatest archRologist of the day, once
! kept store in the city of Sacramento.
! Mr.. Mills then referred to George Ken
| nan, the great traveller, whose exposure
/ of affairs in Russia had called the atten-
tion of the civilized world to the horrors
Of the Siberian exile system, who was
| formerly an humble telegraph operator in
! Sacramento.
! The first actress, the first songstress.
! the most eminent archpologist and tra-
| Yeler and Wrlter-aS well as one of the
greatest tinanciers of the day in the per-
/ son of the guest of the evening-are
something of which Sacramento has rea-
| son TO be proud.
! Mr.. Mills paid an eloquent tribute to
! the ability and determination of the four
! Sacramento citizens whose genius con-
/ ceived the idea of the great transconti-
mental railroad, and whose energy
achieved its completion. Railroads de-
! velop country. and thus create de-
uland for population, which in turn
! brings prosperity. But Californians
! should have faith in the future Of their
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