The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-23
SENATOR WOLCOTT
CHIEF SPEAKER
At the New England Society An
nual Feast.
THE EAST AND THE WEST"
The TFanSplanted COlOradian Speaks For
the Empire Of the West.
"#ERE'" ass'Eg .uE PATRIOTS
So
The East Ms 5, le the Most Wealth
But " : the Intelligence.
sTRe. AND PEACEFUL NATION
Why the South and West Combined Against
the East in the Late Struggle For Ma
tional Policy-The cenSry Full
of Growth and Glory.


annual festival of the New England society
in the city of New York was held at Del
monico's tonight. Four hundred members
of the society and their friends, including
many distinguished men, were present The
tables were devoid of decorations, except
for the miniature pyramids {, yellow
doughnuts and rosy-red Baldwin apples
Throughout the evening the parlors of
Delmonico's were thronged with New
Englanders, representing every one of the
states so designated.
An hour was spent in social intercourse
and although the dinner was set for 6:3O
o'clock, 1t was when the guests seated
themselves at the tables. Among those
who sat at the guests of honor table were,
]. Pierpont Morgan. Joseph II. Choate,
Gen. Wesley Merritt, James Whitcomb
Riley Richard olney, Senator Edward o.
Wolcott, Rev. DIR. Lyman Abbott, Gov.
Frank S. Black, Senator George F. Hoar,
President C. w. Elliott, Gen. Nelson Al
Miles and Mayor William L. Strong.
Old Fashion Dishes.
The dinner was made up of good old New
England dishes and during it's discussion a
quartette, assisted by the greater portion
of those present sang popular airs.
The speeches began at 10OS o'clock and
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott responded to the
toast "Forefathers' Day"
After DIR Abbott, Governor Black was
introduced, ann responded to the toast,
1.-THE State of New York"
Senator Edward o. Wolcott, of Colorado,
received hearty applause when he arose
to respond to the toast, 1.-The East and the
West" Mr.. Wolcott began with a humor-
Gus reference to the political resignation
with which the exiles from New England
bore their banishment; then spoke of an
alleged desire of the Canadian government
to acquire the state of Maine and portions
of New Hampshire and Vermont in ex-
change for territory in western Canada.
Serious thought on the subject of q possi-
BILE cession of part of New England, Mr..
Wolcott said brought "a realization of
what it would mean to this people to face
the possibility of changing by the shadow
of hair the contour of these states or
the sacrifice of a chip of its native granite,
however barren"
Inviting Trouble
He continued: mot only does this senti-
ment pervade the land, but we seem at
times to be developing an inclination to
invite some other country to differ with
us in order that we may demonstrate our
united dsaggressiveness.
"In certain directions our domestic diff
ferences are crystalizing and not disinte-
grating For more than generation We
have waited for the day when parties
would divide solely on national questions
and when the old sectional issues growing
out of the war and the race problem would
be buried. The time came. The parties
met on a broad economic question, and 10!
we merged from the contest threatened
with another bitter sectional division. The
far west largely the child of the east and
pulsing with its blood, joins hands with the
SOUTH The new alignment is not only
debtor against creditor, class against class,
but in a land pervaded with equal devo-
ton to what its people believed in the
truest welfare of the whole country great
maiorities in one section face equally great
majorities in another.
"The west is not decadent; its views are
of men virile, Industrious and genuine, and
their beliefs are honest. They would scorn
any sort of evasion of an obligation. They
are patriotic men. There is in the whole
far west hardly a northerner born who
was old enough to go to the war, whom
you will not see on Decoration Day wear
ing proudly the badge of his old corps.
They are Americans; to proportion great
er, far greater than in the east, native
born American citizens. The views they
cherish are held with practical unanimity.
80 universal feeling as that which
pervades the great west cannot be all
wrong.
Not All the Intelligence
"You cannot dispose of conviction held
by millions OF intelligent people by calling
it a craze and some day you may find 1T
worth YOUR while to look for the truth
where it is usually hidden-somewherc be-
tween extremes.
"somehow it is not readily recognized
by the west that ability to recognize
western railroad, and swell its stock aud
securities several millions every time 1t
foreclosed, necessarily indicates an equt
ability to determine the wisest econon.
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