La Junta tribune., 1898-01-01
SPEECH BY WOLCOTT.
AT THE NEW ENGLAND DINNER.
Aunaal Gathering of Noted Men ~ Ds'-
moaieo's-The Colorado senator De-
clare. the People of the West Are
Honest

oud annual festival OF the New Eng
land Society OF the city of New York
was held at Delnnonico's tonight. Four
hundred members OF the society and
their friends, including many dlstin-
guished men, were present.
Among those who sat at the guests
OF honor table were J. Pierpont Nor
gan. Joseph II. Choate. General Wes-
ley Merritt James whitcomb Riley.
Richard Olney. Senator +. o. wolcott,
Governor Frank Black. Senator George
r. Hoar- President Charles w. Eliot.
General Nelson \. Miles and Mayor
William l. Strong.
The dinner WAS made up OF good. old
New England dishes, and during Its
discussion quartet. assisted by the
greater portion OF those present, sang
popular airs.
The speeches began at 10 o'clock, and
Rev DR. Lyman Abbott responded To
the toast. .Forefathers' Day" He de-
clnred that IL Puritnpism relgned in
Massachusetts at the present time II
would not be safe for DR. Elicit to re-
main there for a moment, and he him
self would have to depart for New Am
ster6nm-
Governor Black responded to the
toast, The State of New York"
Senator Edward o. wolcott of Colo
radc received hearty applause when
he Ipsc to respond To- the toast, -'rhe
East and the West
MIR Wolcott began with n humorous
reference TO the political resignation
with which the cxllcs from New Eng
lana bore their Punishment: then spoke
OF an alleged desire of the Canadian
government to acquire the state of
Maine and portions OF New Hainp-
shire and Vermont in exchange for ter
ritDry in western Canada. Serious
thought on the subject OF possible
cession Of n part OF New England Mr..
Wolcott said. brought "A realization of
w1at II would mean to this people to
face the possibility Of changing by the
SHADOW of hair the contour of these
states or the sacrifice of chip OF It's
native grani,e. however barren
lie continued:
"Not only does this sentiment per-
wade the land but we seem at times TO
ie developing an inclination TO invite
some other country TO differ with us
In order that we may demonstrate our
united aGgressiveness.
''ln certain directions our domestic
differences are crystallizlng and not
dtslntegr1tiug. For more than n gen
Grafton we have waited for the day
when parties would divide solely on ma
tional 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 n
hrond economic question. and 10. we
emerge from the contest threatened
with another bitter sectional division.
The far west. largely the child of the
east. and pulsing with it's blood. joins
Ia tt-tt fhs.S
ment Is not only debtor against cred
itor. class against class. hut in land
perraded with eanal devotion to what
its people believed Is the truest well
fare of the country, great ma jorities In
one section face equally great maiori-
ties in another.
The West Is not dccadent: its views
are OF men yiril,-. industrious and gen
ulne. and their beliefs are honest. They
would scoru any sort OF evasion of mn
obligation. They are patriotic men.
There is in the whole Far West hardly
n northerner born who was old enough
10 go 10 the war whom you will not see
on Decoration Day wearing proudly
the badge of his old corps. They are
Americans: 10 proportion greater. far
greater. than in the East. native born
American citizens. The views they
cherish are held with practical unanim-
i;y.
$50 universal feeling MS that which
pervades the grca; West canno, all be
wrong. You cannot dispose of con-
victlon held by millions of Intelligent,
people by calling 1t n craze and some
day you may find 1t worth your while
to look for the truth where /. is usually
hidden-somewhere between extremes.
Somehow 1t is no; really recognized
in the West that ability to recognize n
western railroad and swell Its stock
md securities several millions every
time II is forecloscd necessarily indi-
Gates an equal ability 10 determine the
wisest economic policy for the farmer
who lives along the riga; OF way And
men who would no more dream of en-
trusting their banker with the duty of
formulating their financial views than
they would OF command of the armies
of their country. are naturally in
clined TO fear that in this part of the
moral vineyard there Is a tendency to
assume that The possession of great
wealth mean; necessarily the possess
sion Of grent wisdom.
"It II only few years that New
England was uncommon proud Of t.lat
West which hei sons had SO largely
peopied and her resources, lavishly
ventured, had done SO much to develop.
Perhaps they are only super-sensitiye
westcrners who fancy they sec in GER
tam quarters n subtle change. an incli-
nation TO criticise. an inab .ity 10 find
much to commend and tendency TO
| look still further to the eastward for
methods and ideals fit to follow. /
hope It Is all mistake. Contentment
cannot come TO this land by sections,
and II can never come except under
conditions which bear equally on the
whole people. Only the other day a
Cabinet officer came over here to en-
tighten one OF your great commercial
bodies, and with n gifted Chicago I'M
agination. quoted Walt whitman.
told you how our fathers, when George
the Third was king. dashed the cup
from fltpfr lfps' n DrpCpdpnt I am rvlod