The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-23
THE GRIM OLD PURITAN
Forefathers' Day Observed by the
New England Society.
WOLCOTT AND THE WEST
The Colorado Senator Sounds Note OF
Warning-The Beliefs Held by Mill
lions of westerners Cannot
All Be Wrong.

festival of the New England society
of the city of New York was held at
Delmonico's tonight. Four hundred
members of the society and their
friends, including many distinguished
men, were present. The tables We're de-
void of decorations except for the min
iature pyramids of yellow doughnuts
and rose red Baldwin apples. Through
out the evening the parlors of Delmon-
ico's We're thronged with New Eng
landers, representing every one of the
states so designated. An hour was
spent in social intercourse and al
though the dinner was set for o'clock
1t was o'clock when the guests seat
ed themselves.
Among those who sat at the guests
of homer table were ] Piarpcrt Nor
gan. Joseph Choate Gen. Wesley NJ ~
ritt, James Whitcomp Riley. Richard
Olney, Senator T. Q. Wolcott. Gov.
Frank Black, Senator Geo. F. Hoar,
President Chas. w. Elliott, Gen Nell
son \. Miles and Mayor Strong.
The dinner was made up of good old
New England dishes and during its
discussion a quartette, assisted by the
greater number of those present, sang
popular airs. The speeches began at
10 o'clock and Rev. Lyman Abbott re-
sponded to the toast Forefathers'
Day"
He declared that if Puritanism
reigned in Massachusetts at the pres
ent time it would not be safe for DR..
Elliott to remain there for a moment
and he himself would have to depart
for New Amsterdam.
Governor Black responded to the
toast, THE state of New York.
President Charles W. Elliott OF Hart
ford university said that the Puritan
spirit survives and that the descend
ents of the Puritans are now doing
fuG a PI1rlfAnG tlQDn-
selves had done.
Senator Edward o. Wolcott OF Color
ado received hearty applause when he
rose to respond to the toast the East
and the West"
seuator woicott.
Mr. Wolcott began with humorous
reference to the 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 for
Western Canada. Serious thought on
the subject of a possible cession of a
part of New England. Mr.. Wolcott said.
brought "a realization of what it would
mean to this people to face the possible
ity of changing by the shadow OF a nair
the contour of these states or the sacrl-
flee of chip of it's native granite, how
ever bare" He continued: Not only
does this sentiment Dervade 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 ag-
gressiveness In certain directions our
domestic differences are crystallized
| and not disintegrating. Fer more tnan
| a 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
/ broad. economic question and lo' We
/ emerge in 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 debt
| or against creditor. class against class,
/ but in a land pervaded with equal de-
! votion to what it's people believe is tha
| truest welfare of the country, great
| majorities in one section face equally
| great maiorities in another.
| THE West is not decadent, its views
are of men virile. Industrious and GENT
| inc, and the 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
! Northerner born who was old enough
to go to the war whom you will not see
/ on Decoration Day wearing proudly the
/ badge of his old corps. They are Amer
leans, to a proportion greater, far
| greater than in the East, native born
! American citizens The views they
4 cherish are held with practical una
nimity.
Cannot All BE Wrong.
so universal feeling as that which
! pervades the great West cannot be all
| wrong. You cannot dispose of a con-
| vietlon held by millions of intelligent
| people by calling ii craze. and some
4 >, - l..
\ to look for the truth where il is usually
hidden somewhere between extremes
Somehow ii is not really recognized
in the West that ability to reorganize a
| Western railroad and swell its stock
| and securities several millions every
time il is foreelosed necessarily indi-
| Gates an equal ability 90 determine tina
! wisest economic policy for the farmer
| who lives along the right of way. And
/ men who would no more dream of en-
I trusting their banker with the duty OF
| formulating their financial views than
/ they would of entrusting the man Of
| whom they bought a shotgun with the
| command of the armies OF their coun-
! Try are naturally inclined 10 fear that
! in this part Of the moral vineyard there
! is a tendency 70 assume that the pos
/ session Of great wealth means neces-
I sarily the possession of great wisdom.
1T Is only a few years ago that New
/ England was 'ur common proud of thar
Z West which her sons mad so largely
! peopled and her resources. lavishIy
/ venturea, had done 50 much 10 develop.
/ Perhaps they are only supersensitive
! WeSterners Who fancy they see in Ger
! tain quarters a subtle inclination 70
/ crlticise. an inability TO find much n
/ commend ana a tendency TO look still
( further 10 the Eastward for methods
I and ideals tit 10 follow. / hope IL Is all
/ A mistake. CCntentment cannot coma
70 this land by sections. and i can
I never come except under conditions
I which bear equally on the whole people.
Only the other day cabinet officer
came over here to enlighten one ~
your great commercial bodies. and with
4 gifted change OF imagination. quoted
Walt Whitman. told you how cur
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