Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-01
PLAIN WORDS BY MIR. HEWITT
His Pointed Address at the
Southern Society Dinner.
IS SENATOR HILL PICTURED ?
The Seignlorage Question is
Discussed.
Ex-Mayor Abram $. HewItt's Notable
Address at the Southern Society's
Banquet--1he sOutherners of To-day
are Not what Their Fathers Wore.
The supreme Bench appointment Not
Question OF Local Politics.

/ "Ap ANbt AHflT EhtnefN were
The supreme Bench appointment MOI
Question OF Local Politics.
Ex-Mayor Abram S. Hewitt of New
York, was called upon TO speak Friday
night at the dinner of the Southern
Society, in New York, in the place OF
Secretary Carlisle, who was unable to be
| present.
The toast he replied to was: "Thc
National Credit" He said in part:
If there is any man who fills me with
envy, and whose place would delight to
take IN public or private anywhere, it is
my old friend, John &. Carlisle. lie
comes nearer than any man have ever
known to being an intellectual nickel.in-
ihe.slot machine. Put the pennies in nj
| the top and the conclusion will come out
ut the bottom every time. If the premises
are wrong, however, YOU may be dead sure
that the conclusion will be equally wrong
| While MIR. Carlisle would naturally be the
friend OF sound currency and the national
| credit, still think that ii he had selected
his own Job he would have chosen some
| other line OF business than that in which
he now is. Never was prompt and sound
| DECISION more needed than in the recent
financial problem, Mr. Carlisle has acted
with courage, GOODNESS, skill and with sur.
cess. We owe him debt of gratitude for
what he has done. Mr.. Carlisle is not the
only one by many of the Southerners
| who have made themselves valuable. New
YORK Is full of Soutnerners who are doing
| its work.
But perhaps New York gain is the loss
OF the south. Certain ii is that the South
has lost what it had in the past. When /
compare the southern Representatives
now in our Legislative hall with the intel.
lectual giants OF former days who thrilled
senate aud House with The thunders Of
Their southern cloquencc and the splendur
OF their power and craftsmanship, | am
forced to the belief that the brain and soul
OF Dixie has either left that sunny land or
IS devoted 10 other pursuits than states
manship.
want 10 say here that this speech is nm.
prepared; that il ! had had time to think
It over and trim it down, | might not saw
things that perhaps it were wiser not to
say, but ! believe them, and as believe
them | speak them.
The Suutherner of to-day is not what
your fathers were. They were men of col.
lege training, of disciplined minds, men
Of nigh ideas, with the knowledge that
gives power and love of study and research
and the familiarity with history that are
the foundation of all true craftsmanship.
Not so the men of the South to- duv Tic
Southerners OF the present may be divided
INTO three classes; The men of brains who
nave come North: those who nave STAYED
at home and devoted themselves to indus.
trlal development because they were too
poor to come North; and those others who.
being III Tor nothing else, have turned their
attention to politics. And what is the re.
suit of the performances OF this latter
class2
one Southern man is battling to-day for
the idea OF his life. lie is trying to coin
the seigniorage, He might as well try TO
coin vacuum. His supporters are South
erners and hitherto undiscovered and
unclassllied species from the West. Can
you Imagine any other basis of national
credit than intrinsic value? The silver
dollar was not made to represent the
market value of dollar and less than the
run weight OF silver was put in it. The
difference between the real and the sham
value is the seigniorage, and this it is that
your Southerners propose to coin into
more money. II all the silver in the
Treasury were sold at market value, it
would cause deficit of 500 900 900. said
u was Ike coming vacuum. 1t is worse
ltls IKE trying TO coin negative quantity
on the other side of the vacuum. Yet
your representatives would do this thing.
Gentlemen, public credit cannot be main
tt'HNh hiiS5o iOu Idll lthCLl NOUF IrllOw
citizens of the South that there is no ROYAL
road to value. Get your Southern Renre-
sentatives to rise to the standard of those
great men who, from the foundation of
the government down to 1850 stood in the
Congress of the United States not only as
statesmen representing the whole country.
but as men who understood that the funda-
mental principles of value and property
were the creations of higher power.
which no man nv apt pf
undo or Overturn.
Other representatives of Southern in
terests have succumbed to tine fallacv that
the appointment to the Supreme Court
bench is local question to be settled
between the President and some local poll
tlclan had supposed that appointment
TO the Supreme Court was a matter of
national concern, to be filled without ref
erence to locality or partisan prejudices,
and not to be made u foot ball for ward
politicians to kick from one end of the
country to the other. Go and tell yuur
Southern people that Calhoun and Benton
and Hiycs and the grand old Southerners
OF former times would have abandoned
thelr senatorial honors and have gone
Duck home i'll sackcloth and ashes rather
than to have degraded the great commits.
sion which they held from their states
INTO serYilude to mere petty politician,
without craftsmanship, without breadth
or power of intellect, without character
without the right to speak for the great
State of New York.
know your SOutherners in Washington.
know them to be honest, truthful, gal
liant. But also know them to beipnurant
10 Is the only word that fits; blank Grass
ignorance. Almost in u solid body, with
few honorable exceptions, they gave their
votes TO the silver bill. That is the work
OF your south OF to-day. That is Southern