The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-22
JERSEY CITY FLOU7HD
Mayor Seymour's Blatant
Speech at the Newark
Board of Trade
Dinner.
BUSINESS CRIES TO BE LET ALONE
Notable Speech by Secretary Nc
Adoo-Cordial Praise for
Grover Cleveland.
BUSINESS CRIES TO BE LET ALONE


ner was served in the upper hall of the
Essex Lyceum, which was profusely deco
rated with the national emblem. Presi
dent James S. Higbie acted as toastmaster
and seated on either side of him at a table
set at right angles to the other tables
were the speakers and several guests
Among those present from out of town
were Comptroller William c. Hancock
former Congressman James Buchanan
Barker Gummere, Jr., and Francis B. Lee
of Trenton, and P. Egenolf, President OF
the Board of Trade of Elizabeth The
Rev. DR.. Lewis Lamprnan invoked divine
blessing on the banquet, and those who
attended it. Senator Smith and Congress
man Pftney, who had accepted invitations
to respond to toasts, were kept away by
official duties, and sent regrets, and let
ters of regret were read by Secretary
Quinn from Governor Griggs, who was
attending the charity ball in Philadelphia
Congressman r. Wayne Parker, Senator
Sewell, F. Wolcott Jackson and William
Bryan Jennings. Between the speeches
songs were given by bass soloist Thomas
Bott and the Lyric Quartette, composed
of George Kerwin, Thomas Booth, Dr. H
J. +. Wallhauser and William Walsh.
The first toast on the list was The Ere
sident of the United States" to which
Senator Smith was expected to respond.
At the last moment it was learned that
he could not be present, and the Rev. De-
witt Galloupe, rector of ST. PauFs protest.
ant Episcopal Church, was requested at
very brief notice to take his place. MI;
GaHoupe's speech was most felcitous, luz
of wit and humor and he easily captured
his audience. He took pride, he said, In
responding to the toast because in his
mind Grover Cleveland stood for the one
saving element in American politics he
cfA hof, 4 ft<r a a 6 a
the courage OF his convictions. ana as iong
as such men should occupy the Presiden-
tial chair the country would De safe
.,the Only perfect man was crucifled more
than 1,S00 years ago, but ne Is man
who, whether right or wrong, mas me me
say that he believes that he IS right
Such a man, who has dared to- follow
the dictates of his conscience, IS the saw
ing element OF Amemcan a M solne p1ll5les s an
other man of the same kind, and so long
as such men are united on the fundamen-
tai principles of government the peopie
fear
Next came Assistant Secretary of the
Navy William McAdco, who was received
ness and Politics .
Adoo, IS a great industrial and business
centre. has always occupied very en-
viable position with reference to the har-
nionious relations between its labor and
capital, between those who plan and
those who work. those who direct and
those who carry out, those who labor and
those who pay. Although the industries
OF your city are very. great and Divers
those frictions and antagonisms which
have characterized the manufacturing
and business world in other parts of our
country. There ought to be reasons for
this, which, If carefully studied by those
of other cities, might be of use and bene-
IT venture to say that in no other city
in the United States of its size, employ
ing an equal number of laborers and
having an equal amount of invested CAPT
feeling and harmony of all interests as
in the city of Newark. OF course, you
have had, as you are bound to have,
minor disputes, and 1t would be unnatural
to expect that you are not influenced by
the general conditions of the country at
large. but think it safe to say that there
of action between labor and capital in
the city of Newark than in almost any
similar community in this country. /
tigation it would be found that this
healthful condition of affairs is brought
about by the interest and sympathy which
those who are in their employ, and the
civic pride of all the citizens in the
prosperity and good name for fair deal
ing and honest conduct which has always
characterized the community.
Through all ages we have heard of
the conflict between. labor and capital; :,
directs and manages, and the man of
hands and brains who carries out and
produces. OF late years, and especially
phase of this contention and antagon-4
ism between what, for the lack ofAbetter
terms terms we call ba5iness and politics. The
Of itself is sort of business as conduct .-
ed by us, exacts too much of business.
and business in return expects too much
of politics.
The cry of business when it is wise is
to be let alone, to be allowed to work
out It's course through natural means
legislation. Politics, on the other hand,
with sharp contention between rival par
ties and rival politicians, has always an
eye open for novelty and change if they
seem to come at all in the limits of prac-
ticability and popularity While this is
pre-eminently the age of concentration,
centralization and consolidation, both in
poHucs ana business, yet unless we can
educate the heart of man as well as his
head, the State is sure to go wrong. IN
the the war between colfectivism and in
OF the former, still the individual must
always be considered The walls cannot
be strong if the units that compose it are
Right here upon the subject of the
individual and the State 1T may be re-
marked that centralization of business
14et1
within the last twenty years. Indeed. the
consolidation Of Individual wealth into
the huge coTebiRations seems IN have
been carried beyond the bounds Of I'M
agination, and this centralizing idea. has
become SO prevalent and so fhoroughIv
dominant that we find it now applied
among nations themselves. So that in
Europe we have dreibunds and alliances
and balances of power, and great inter-
national political trusts among the now
ers themselves. into which, in spite Of
theories and warnings. we would at times
seem to be drifting ourselves. However.
no man can escape his moral obligations
to his feIlew.men by becoming the small
est or largest oogwheel In an enormous
corporate machine.
If justice and truth are to prevail as
the foundations of order and law the
sttizen, whether apolitician or business
Sman In the limited sense of which these
Terms are used, must answer each for
himself to his conscience and the higher
bowers as to how he has discharged his
Obligations and made use of his oppor-
;unftfes toward his fellow men. Believe
me my friends. there are higher laws,
md they will prevail amongst all statute
.i1sde fe II, but Industry
ind skill. and not law Of itself, produce
IN fBe great affairs and principles Of
ktvernehept should there be business citi-s
lens and moneyaess cltfxens2 Does bus.-:
tess aptF6ach the greater questions Of
eyernmest y too narrow sense7 Is it'