The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-12-25
.NOLCOTT TOTHE FASTENERS
COLORADO SENATOR DE-
FENDS THE WEST.
TIMELY sPEEcHIN GOTHAM
Says They Are Intoierant--we westernsrs
as Honest and Patriotic as Any
Assumption That Great wealth
and Great Wisdom Are Nee
essarliy Coincident Ques-
toned.


second annual festival of the New
England Society in the city of New
York was held at Delmonico's last
night Four hundred members of the
society and their friends, including
many distinguished men, were there
Among those who sat at the guests
of-honor table were: J. Pierpont
Morgan, Joseph H. Choate, General
Wesley Merritt, James Whitcomb
Riley, Richard Oluey. Senator Il. O.
Wolcott, Governor Frank Black, SEN
ator George f. Hoar, President
Charles w. Eliot, ex-senator George
r. Edmunds, General Nelson A. Miles
and Mayor William l.. Strong.
Mr. Wolcott said. in part: "In GER
tain directions our domestic differ
ences are crvstallizing and not disin-
tegratng For more than a genera
tion we have waited for the day when
parties would divide solely on nation
al questions, and when the old sec.
tional 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 lo we
iiAANi ~ tAbln viz AOANtoh AhAtANNhtA
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 align
ment Is not only debtor against cred
itor. class against class, but, in land
pervaded with equal devotion TO what
its people believed is the truest well
fare of the country, great majorities
in one section face equally great ma
| jorities 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 n Northerner born who was old
enough TO 20 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
greater, 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
all be wrong. You cannot dispose Of
a conviction held by millions of in
telligent people bv calling it a craze,
and some day you may find it worth
your while to look for the truth where
it is usually hidden-somewhere be-
tween extremes.
Somehow it is not really recog-
! nized in the West that ability TO reor-
ganlLe n Western railroad and swell
its stock athf securities several mill
| ions every time ~ is =. -sarlosed neces-
sarily indicates an equal ability TO de-
termine the wisest economic policy
for the farmer who lives along the
right Of way And men who would no
more dream Of entrusting their banker
/ with the duty of formulating their
financial views than they would OF en-
trusting the man OF whom they bought
a shotgun with the command of the
armies of their country are naturally
inclined TO fear that, in this part of
the moral vineyard, there is "a ten
dcncy TO assume that the possession of
great wealth means necessarily the
possession of great wisdom.
"Only the other day cabinet Off
Ger came over here TO enlighten one of
your great commercial bodies, and
with gifted Chicago imagination
quoted Walt Whitman, told you how
Tour fathers. when George III. was
king. dashed the cup from their lips,
a PRECEDENT ! am glad to see has not
been followed at this dinner. and
talked about obstruction at Wash
ington, having reference to the SEN
ate II is rather new use Of the
term TO call man who does not vote
as you want him to an obstructionist,
and i'm the last hundred years the bal
ance and check upon hasty Legislation
which the deliberations of the Senate
have furnished have been of infinite
advantage to the country
"The century now ending has been
full of growth and glory. 1t has
witnessed the republic rise from in
sign 6cance and poverty to wealth
and greatness. Most of us here to-
night can recall the dark days OF
doubt, and from them have seen the
people emerge triumphant, nation
of freedom, an free, a continents
. width moy divide us, but the same
, flag greets us at the dawn, the forty
five stars all blazoned alike on its
azure field, all yours and all ours. In
, days Of peace, as in time of war, the
altar of patriots is an altar Of sacri'
Gee, and, please God, we will start
the new century on its Journey 10 the
stars laden wi th the hopes and inspir
,tfo.r. ~ "a IoI oIprr- and rufta1 paot,la q