New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-08
TO JUDGE DAILY.
REMARKS OF WILLIAM WINTER Al me
CATHOLIC CLUB ON SAT-
IrRnAY NIGHT.

Thu snoech ~ William Winter at the dinner OF
the Catholic Club in honor OF Justice Joseph T.
DAILY on Saturday was as follows:
Mr. President, and Gentlemen OF the Catho,ic
club: Speech il said to be silver, silence 10 pe
golden and since ever believer IN inc soi.u
Standard II would be my preference 10 fei 1'sh
silent-,o listen not to speak. Bu;, since you WIS"
1t be otherwise. Will say lew Worus Wi ,J
of public speaking, they must ne very feW'' ~, 1o
thank you for your kind greeting and i1r ,s .i q
festvaI With which deeply sympa -becavnssSe
lis purpose is to express affection Tor a u nohle
eSreGg For he Hrvege Of being present on
his occasion am indebted to no merit VI my, y is
tnncujshed guest-a Friendship which beglh .nis
thirty years ago, has never known si,s nnd more
precious as those years have drifcd away orn oa s
KIND imitation p Seeor dds:, f and also let me add
considering the name and The ch6TnGIgT 1i Fo''
bond Of soee5y a" b ;hnt of reFon
not only that Of fTie9 1ih stands the Catholic
f'tmrcb and 70 think of the Catholic Church rs 10
think Of the oldest; the mos Se'e emong men
am not churchman of any kind that poss ntc1 u
my msfortnne; bnt an ~ hat wise august, aus
tere vet tendery human ecclesiastcal power
hnman affairs and provdent for all men of learn
Ing Imagination and sensibty throughout the
the centuries. has made architecture the living
symbol OF celestial aspiration ana IN PoS,a! Mtu
lie voice of God. | say that am not church.
man: but | would also say that the best hours Gi
nv iife have been hours of meditation passed IN
the glorious cathedras and among the sHGlnS
ecclesiastical ruins Of England have worSh g
bury: in Lincoln and Durham; in Ely, ana III
s grass and the White daisies were waving in the
summer wind. and nave looked upon those gray
sna the most graceful ever devised
by human art.-round which the sheeted IVY
sins perpetual requiem. have seen the shadows
Of evening slowly gather and softly fall over the
s saSSnth the Ine nead of Fountains Abbey in
Is sequestored and melancholy solitude where an,
Gent Ripon dreams. in the spacious and verdant
VALLEY. Of tn, skelI. ! have unused uPon Neteyi;
srd @ Sb% And at ana nS hon
have stood in the grim and gloomy chancel OF 81:
Hebrid@s. and looked inward 10 the cold stars.
and heard the voices of the birds of night mingled
WIZ WS the aG Mh S Wh many
and wild thoughts, have fingered and pondered
branc ce was always presentwthe remembrance that
it was the Catholic Church that created those
breath Of a divine life. and hallowed them forever:
and thus thinking. have felt the unspeakable
pathos OF her long exile from the temples that her
passionate devotion prompted and her loving labor
reared. II was natural that | should be allured
voaries OF this Catholic Club to whom such relics
are sacred and TO whom such thoughts. however
1t was especially natural that | should be at;
tracted 10 this society assembled 10 honor an old
friend who in every walk of life has borne himself
with dignity and ability, and who stands now
without blemish and without reproaCh, at the Whlte
summit Of his noble career Rich In scholarship,
copiOus and delicate in humor accomplished in
jurisprudence. eloquent. faithful and just Judge
DAILY merits every plaudt that respect can prompt
or love utter. l am indeed grateful TO he al
lowed to add my humble homage TO your more clio,
quent and more worthy tribute In my youth |
was a lawyer. member of the Suffolk bar In Bos
Ton Though never in practice, when Goodrich and
Loring Hallett and Prince. Bartlett and Rufus
Choate contended in the forum. and when Nash
and Bigelow and MetCalfe and Shaw were Illus
trious upon the bench Joel Parker Emory WASH
burn and Theophilus Parsons had been my teachers.
and II learned nothing else in those distant days,
learned 10 reverence the glorious science OF the
law and TO appreciate the attributes OF a great
Jurst.
II is a comfort TO think that such homage as you
are Offering tonight has not been withheld TIL II
could no longer crafty the mind cheer the heart
of the friend whom you delight to honor. Tributes
of this kind amid the tumult of our busy cviliza-
ton are not too frequent. The day declines; the
darkness draws on: the Old Guard is fast passing
away. Its members may well be mindful Of each
other while there is yet time. I did not intend
speech. but only to express my sympathy and my
gratitude; ard I cannot more fully say what /
feel than by reading one OF my poems which, al
though not originally intended for an OCCASION
may perhaps be considered appropriate here
Mr.. Winter then read his poem. entitled "The
Signal Light