The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-13
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CHICAGO CELEBRATION.
Poo Bah Pingree IL Guest of the Mar
Guctte Club.


CHICAGO, Feb. 12.-The Marquette
club tonight celebrated the anniver-
sary Of the birth Of Abraham Lincoln
by banquet at the Auditorium hotel
About six hundred were present the
majority of them being members Of the
club. The great banquet hall of the
hotel was decorated in lavish manner
with garlands, cut flowers ard the ma
tional colors. The banquet proper be-
gan early in the evening and it was
three hours later before the intellectual
portion Of the programme was reached
Eden G. Dewitt, the president Of the
club, made a short address and intro
duced as the first speaker Herman r
Wickersham, Of this city, who spoke
briefly on the history of the Marquette
club Mayor Swift made a neat adj
dress of welcome in behalf Of Chicago
and Gov. Tanner spoke in the same
strain for the state of Illinois. The list
Of speakers including a long list OF
governors of the state who spoke or
the following subjects: "The Duties of
Citizenship" Gov. Hastings, of Penn
sylvania; 1.-THE Grand Old Party" Gov
Llppett of Rhode Island; 'Towa-They
Said She was Doubtful" Gov. Drake. OF
Iowa; THE New Old Dominion" Gov,
Atkinson, of West Virginia; THE Far
mer in Politics." Gov. Mount, of In
diana; Republican Wisconsin," Gov.
Scofeld, Of Wisconsin; 'The Great
Northwest" Gov. Briggs, of North Da-
kota; Municipal Reform" Gov. Pin
gree, of Michigan. United States Sem
ator VIM. E. Mason, closed the pro-
gramme by a short address on 'Illi-
nois."
In the course Of his address, Gov
Pingree said: 81 assume that we all
love to draw a prize in life In our
private capacity we figure, 1 will as
sumo, for a contract with a. citv and
get it by paying the price. This as
sumes that the city fathers pocket the
price. Of course, if the contract is
for a street railway, the rates of fare
must stand very high, because. if
they do not our watered stock does not
go off our hands very easy. The game
is to show, in our contract, that we
can pull millions out Of the public,
Then we can get any amount Of wa
tered stock in the hands of a. guIlihle
public. This, of course, is speculation
and not business. 1t Is a kind of LOT
terry system. Almost everybody knows
it and admits 1t. We condemn If in
public and resort to it in private
speculation seems to have put on the
mask of business in the United States
The apparent rights of speculation
have increased taxation, but such
rights are more apparent than real
The excessive rate of fare and freight
transportation caused by speculation
are slowly gaining the earnings Of this
country and are also slowly Gripping
transportation because excess reacts.
when 1 say. that all true capital
is earnings Of the. country, l do nct
say anything new L only repeat il,
new words what LINCOLN said This is
what he said: F
Labor is prior to and indispensable to cant
tai. Capital IS only the fruit of labor. Capi-
tai could never have existed if labor had moi
first existed. Labor is the superior of cant.
tai and deserves much the higher considera-
tion.' IS ~
"I do not know Of better way f.
keep fresh thee memory of the illus
trious dead than to quote the words
that pointed to his work. I know of
no other way of keeping party alive
than doing the work Of the party.
1 know Of no other way Of keeping
capital alive than by keeping labor
alive. The true words of a true man
live forever The words of 1861 are true
Of today. The words live The work
lives. If the work is shirked, thu,
party dies If Lincolns words are sa-
cred, then the work is sacred. Let us
not live in the mere fame Of the words
and work of Lincoln. 1t is a nobler
way to continue that work"