The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-28
Delivers an Address at the
Banquet
OF the National Manufacturers
Association
IN GREATER NEW YORK
Declares the Government Will
Pay Its Debts
In the Best Money Regardless
of the Contract.
In GREATER NEW YORK

New York, Jan. 2S.-The third annual
banquet of the National Association of
Manufacturers of the United States,
which took place last night at the Wal
dorf-AstOr hotel, was one of the largest
and most elaborate affairs of the kind
ever given in this city. One thousand
guests were seated at the tables
The banquet hall was magnificentIy
decorated, the tiers of boxes being
draped with silken banners. The pres
idents flag was suspended over the
head of the table from the presidents
box.
Seven long tables extended the length
of the room and 16 small tables were
placed on either side of the rows of the
long tables.
The tables were eIaborateIy decor
ated with flowers and pOtted plants.
The dais where the president and other
flowers. From the reception room up
the broad stairways to the banquet
room were lines of palms and ferns.
The menu cards were very elaborate.
They were volumes of vellum bound in
undressed kid, with monogram burn
ed into the corner, surrounded by a
scroll There were etchings Of ''Liber-
ty,'' THE Brooklyn Bridge" Indus
try a scene on Wall street, Com
merce and Transportation" and some
of the large buildings in New York. The
presidents menu card was the same
as that of the other guests, except that
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1.-The President in embossed gold on
the cover.
The widest enthusiasm prevailed
when President Mckinley was intro
duced. Men stood in their seats; won-
en- in the boxes waved their handker-
chiefs, and the uprOar drowned the
speakers voice. The cheering and
clapping of hands were redOubled when
a toast was drunk to the president
President Mckinley said:
Mr.. Toastmaster, Members of the
National Association of Manufacturers
and Guests: For the cordial character
of this greeting I return my thanks.
The genuineness of your welcome is
full compensation for having left
Washington at an unusually busy sea-
son in order to participate in this in
teresting meeting.
L scarcely need remind you that we
do not meet as strangers. Neither your
business organization nor your social
reunions are altogether unfamiliar to
me 1 have been with you before, not
as a guest. as now, but rather in the
capacity of host I recall that, as gov
ernor of the state Ohio, 1t was my
plea sure to welcome you to the city OF
Cincinnati on Jan. p, 1895, at the initial
convention of the Manufacturers asso-
citation.
Il well remember the occasion. 1t
was a cold day. You had lost every
thing but your pluck, or thought you
had Courage was the only friend your
grief could call it's own note with
Satisfaction your lIilpION00 dppGeA4 elAlSC
now. You are more cheerful. in the
colntenance more buOyant in spirit,
more hopeful in manner and more con-
fident in purpose.
''Then, too, there are more of you
here than there were at your first meet
ing. Distances are, of course, the same,
but travelling has been resumed. Your
speeches and resolutions in the first
convention were directed mainly to the
question of how to regain what you had
lost in the previous years, or, if that
was found impossible, then how to stop
further loss. But your object now, as
I gather it, is to go out and possess
what you have never had before. You
want to extend, not your notes, but
your business. I sympathized with your
purposes then; I am in full accord with
your intentions now
referred to, as reported in your pub
hshed proceedings, speaking both for