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assembly OF NOTABLES.
bird Annual Convention Of Amer
lean Manufacturers
alterations of the Men Who Have
Figured Actively In the Devei-
opment of American Trade
and Industry.

The moral strength, financial force
I'd intellectual caliber of a great bust
sss organization were conspicuously
evidence at the third annual con-
,ntion OF the National Association OF
manufacturers in New. York January
5, 26, 81. No strictly business gather
az has ever attracted wider or more
altering attention. Alike in the high
order of ability displayed in the
speeches and reports of the conven-
tion's regular sessions and in the bril-
liant addresses delivered at the annual
banquet in response TO the sentiments
underlined for that occasion, the as
sembly of the representative manufac-
turers OF the United States passes into
history as an event of exceptional in
terest.
IL has been remarked with much sat
isfaction by some of the free trade ed
itors that little or nothing was said at
either OF the sessions that bore directly
upon the protective tariff policy Of the
present federal administration. These
gentlemen are cordially welcome to
such comfort as they shall be able to de-
rive from the fact that the tariff, as
such, was little mentioned. II is un-
deniably true that the thought of the
convention was mainly occupied with
such kindred topics as reciprocity and
the establishment of the American mer-
chant marine, first cousins TO the tariff,
il might be said.
Yet there was one allusion to the
tariff which sounded the keynote OF the
conventions sentiment on that ques-
ton. II was when Mr.. McDougall, OF
Ohio, referred to the tariff as an ac-
complished fact, matter that had been
settled once for all, and not one to be
meddled with for years 20 come. The
emphatic approval with which this
statement was received by the conven-
ton showed how completely ii was in
accord with the general view. 1t also
serves to explain why the tariff was
seldom mentioned and never discussed.
Why should it be?
The interesting episodes OF the con-
vention were the admirable annual re-
port of President Search and his de-
served reelection by unanimous vote (;
the visit To and luncheon on board the
American line steamship st. Louis of a
large body of delegates as the guests
of President Griscom, of the Interna-
tional Navigation company; the adop-
ton of resolutions favoring the univer-
sal adoption of laws prohibiting the inn
portation and sale Of goods that are not
branded with the country Of origin;
favoring the establishment OF the pro-
posed international bank; indorsing
the second Pan-American congress TO
be held in Washington two years hence,
and urging the encouragement and
maintenance OF American lines OF
steamships as an indispensable requi-
site in the extension OF American com
lnerce; the special visit of the president
Of the United States for the purpose OF
attending the annual banquet at the
Astoria, with speeches by President Nc
Kinley, Theodore G. Search, Senator
Frye, Of Maine, Charles Emory Smith
and others, and the annual election OF
officers of the association.
In all IL was grand programme,
grandly carried out, as well by the
members of the association as by the
liberal and public-spirited business men
of New York, who were the hosts OF
the occasion. 1t was in many ways an
assembly of notables, for among the
men who have figured actively in the
development OF American industry and
trade to their splendid proportions OF
to-day none can be named who are OF
right more notable than the members
of the National Association of Manufac
turers.