New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-21

Jesup Alfred Yam sanvcord FREDERICK p ,, Tan
ington, Augustus D. Juilliard and General Arson L.
D~J Edward simmons presiding Bernard G; Gun t,r.
Their James S Insns. Edwin II; shethar Charles
+, Coin. samuel shsthaH Prentice On s net
C na John B. ,Oi DatcheT Felix Campbell Julian d.
Farchild: Eugene G. Blackford Ellis H. RGDerS'
Edward kemp John Harssn RhqsdSs ,.p FOsisr
eric Gunther. Arthur H. Hearn, George u schanck.
George a. Heap W FS2n Fn Forest
ii. Parker John A. Mccall, John MGAnerney' VII
Julius Bernhcim. abraham G Bern6em, Gustav
II. Schwab, Samuel Thorne Robert =, MaG.aS, HOW
are E George P RuteSge Gibson Presdng Frank /
Pommer DAME. McKeever. Louis Stern Georgs +
E Ewaa Feis@a1n Hart b BT9ndrei Robert G
Smith GeqIse Honkns W Hdsman Jdss3S s
Stout David B. Iyson, Edward F G Young
S %sm DpSd clair IA
Charles r. Miller John Munroe Ernest W W.1
SIENNA ranS LOUIS iS wiHdndller Fiz Aches John
F: Degcner, Kalman Haas Henry A. Landgra =!
Nelson. Ebenezer' $ Mason, Henry, {. Swords.
Warner Van Norden John Il Mannng Et so%sn
Edward A. Wickes Frederick T. Adams and George
FNFrederic Cromwell presiding: Jordan l. Mott.
George Gray Ward. samuel Sachs, James n Jar,
y 5shn A Hsnry bFaRs on M G
Eugene Arnstein John II. Washburn a. swan
NJ.
Thomas A. Mcintyre. William 4. Nash. George II
Southland, William Rowland, Stephen W. R9ach'
f Ernss i ba;ann james loeb christopher g
Shayne Herbert Booth King. Edgar Leaycra AT
1dc Francis l.. Hine, Thomas T. Eckert and Charles
r. Henderson
The Committee of Arrangements did excellent
work and left no ground for fault-fnding in any
quarter The dinner was so good and everybody
felt so happy that the time passed rapidly. and
bcfo no me- k
ing began.
PRESIDENT ORR'S INTRODUCTORY.
Then. amid the blue wreaths Of smoke that
were curling upward and amid an outburst or
applause. President Orr spoke in part as fol-
lows
Gentlemen: Aside from the magnificent municipal
victory in behalf of good government won at inc
polls on the 9th day Of Novembe; stoa redette,
day forevermore in the annals OF TINS good city OF
New York-and for which doxoogles OF pra.se anu
tha1ksgvng hsye snny lry bnk am JUST
fled In saving that meet mere tC-niSnt uhueT
and tha in rendering and receiving mutual congrat
ulations upon having attained as an ASSOCIATION tlc
one hundred and twenty-sixth anniversary OF our
Chartered existence we have every reason to on
courage each other with the assurance tnat ne
low member the Mayor elect applause, would wish
me TO add the municipal skes-are clearing around
II is true that there are yet some dark clouds 10
be seen here and there the horizon. and that The
the distance. but we hopeful and confident that
the strain is over and that the experiences OF the
last eighteen months will be used as dangeTInarks
10 guard and guide in the future and that out OF
all the hard times both here and elsewhere, per-
manent good VIII come. tApplause)
I doubt not that many minds have been engaged
In sitting the tangled masses OF arrangements ana
upheavals that eliminated In what Will be known in
hjsory as the great panic of 1893. and have deter
mined TO their satisfaction, the primal cause
Of all the trouble.
THE CHIEF MENACE.
cannot help believing that thoughtful consider
alton OF this whole question OF National peril must
lead to the conviction that the paramount menace
of the present day the growth, prosperity and
happiness of this lair land OF comes not from
strikes, or social disorder or financial embarrass-
ment or tariff compiled rions-bad as they all are in
their way-but from a growing tendency to vehal
and incompetent legislation both National. State
and municipal. which tends 10 paraiyze with its
whitening touch the moral forces OF the nation
IL VIII be remembered that some time ago our
fellow member that outspoken. fearless gentleman
Abram s. Hewitt. criticised IN some PAGES ior
what he said this subject re.ative TO southern
representation. To my mind. tuser criticism
would have been that he only erred In confnng his
etrctures "a single cardinal point of the Common
wealth. instead of making them Apply TO many otner
points of the National compass. Sooner or later we
will driven by the force OF circumstance TO I'M
derstand and | think the lesson IL coming to us
method OF wardng off these seasons Of distress,
these periods OF National anguish-for know OF no
miidcr TO give 70 the rough times we nave
lately passed through-is TO hold our individual In
tcress far enough of from u. 80 as TO enable us to
enlarge the range Of our moral vision and see 10