New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-24
Mp DEPEW'S TIL BIRTHDAY

MIR. DEfEN
.v>n,,1 CELEBRATION BY THE MON
TALK CLUB. OF BROOKLYN
.,xrs M.KlNLEY. BROTHER OF THE PREslpENr'
AMT MESSAGE OF REGREr-MANY PROM
,xrsr MEN IN ATTENDANCE AT THE
n,SSER-rATRroTIsM FEATURE
OF THE EVENING
mr.. Denew birthday dinner was given AT 'he
,,.,,sut Club, In brooklyn last night lh's
urual affair. which for seven years has oeeh
=" 49,. ,oatures Of the clubs season. This
,,o date Of the dinner was identical with
,r,versarv Of Mr.. Depew's birth. 1t being
~, tn birthday The dinner TINS year
,,.a tie many successful predecessors ana
>.h IN the number and in the prominence OF
~. suests the record OF former years was sur
nessed The capacity Of the din'ne-room was
o,.ertaxed and tables had TO be SET N o'he'
rooms Abner Mckinley. brother OF 'he r'es'-
- .ho was expected 10 be present was un-
ohio 70 attend and sent a message OF regret
perhans the feature Of the evening lay in the
.,ronc prominence which the committee gave 10
.rIo,ic decorations. music and songs ]. C.
Dsr,psey the opera singer was present anu
,ad the diners in singing THE Star Spangled
r, and other patriotic songs. The dinner
uas opened by a prayer by the Rev. Dr. s d.
,,,Co,neu rector Of the Church OF the Holy
Trinity.
a. has been the custom in previous years. the
.r,v regular speaker on the programme was
.,. guest OF the evening, Chauncey NJ Depew
lust before his address the Depew birthday cake
was brought in and placed in the centre OF 'he
cables The cake was an uncommonly large one
ond contained twenty-one candles. symbolical or
A.. twenty-one years during which Mr. Depew
10. been a Regent of the State University. A
rumher Of the clubmen. dressed in the academic
cap and gown. served an escort for the cake
Mr.. Depews speech was in part as follows;
Gentlemen: 1t is a compliment as unique as 1t
4. gratifying that several hundred gentlemen rep
re.enting every department of American thought
and activity should for seven years in succession,
IN constantly increasing numbers. tender me a
birthday dinner. Coming here rs YOU do-clergy.
men Judges lawyers doctors. journalists, men OF
n sood feowshlp and some serious reflection you
illustrate that We Americans can escape from the
' Ssls ey Of n us OF
ing candidates for Office, and congratulating them
n'fcant gift or celebrating some honor which has
come 10 the recipient. and we have either felt or
Is thus rhetoricay decorated. but take it that
the blood never feels the eefrc touGn OF br5 10y $50
when with enthusiasm and spontanety the crowd
rise and o MN %i'h he 'ns' y good
fellow which nobody can deny.
AMERICAS ISOLATION.
Events have eliminated in Cuba and with Spain
IN such a way compelled action by the United
States The conduct OF the negotiations by the
President and the dignifed and mpregnable posi-
ton in which he has placed his country. are at
once OF patriotic pride and OF future SAFETY
for the United States. new and glorious cnapter
In American diplomacy. the humanity OF the Amer
lean people, and the mission OF liberty on this side
o: the Atlantic. has been written and acted BY
President Mckinley.
All our power and resources must he energized
for a short thorough and decisive compaign and
victory In the upon which we nave eh'efeo.
But with the Cuban irritation which has impeTiied
our interests threatened our tranquility and oeen
q constant menace TO our peace for half a century,
allayed by Spain out and Cuba free the future IS
The nations viii understand an American position
which the United States can maintain by SbeT
hostilities could be based can happen th9reafter
within the sphers Of 9gT n asngen to- his
countrymen becomes both prophet, ana nan, man
meanine that we should become entangled with
foreign Powers by excluding from the word foreign
Of our NEEDING with the affairs Of peoples on the
other side Of the great ocean ana corning ~ our
destiny which God intended should be benehcenty
ISOLATION and traditions with the Old World. CAP
spanish history presents the interesting condition
thai she has never been conquered by ar army OF
Pizarro in the New World has rarely. If ever sue.
ceeded in her foreign wars Her eighty-Inree YEAR
her famous Armada was lost In the British Chan-
rei Her contests with her colonies have always
ended in disaster Her wars nave been ITequeh''
and in most Of them for aggression or oppression
ANGLO-AMERICAN AMITY.
One happy effect OF the present crisis has been
the removal Of prejudice and the promotlon OF a
better understanding between the United states
and England applause The friendship OF the
English people for us during the Spanish contro-
versv mas done more to arouse like sentiments on
this side the ocean than anything In the history
OF the TWO countries America and Great bTiiain
are nearer to-day that alliance OF f.ngNsh-
speaking peoples which has been the idea OF many
statesmen and the dream OF oil men OF Iet'eIs OF
both countries than at any ,iie a Ia ir eli
ages men and women have tried 10 find out how 10
escape misery and TO secure happiness, bS,ncs.
ton and reflection have taught me that nhpp!H>ss
Is possible 10 everybody who seeks II rightly. 40
one at least is anxious TO climb the goaen s.ais;
although we are often quite willing that many
whom we know should try the experiment. hearo
Horace Greeley once remark 20 cierlcaI
who had interrupted his composyipb, on tho
ground that It would several miihohs 81 nu ,
man beings from going to hell that ne Woe enocb
give d cent, because there ola not "a'i e""h''
go there now Laughter)
THE VALUE OF LAUGHTER
have been often told that humor. anecdote ana
Wit are fatal 70 political progress business APP
rraciation We all know that tho solemn. the Gun
and the obtuse man captures by the impene"ao'e
dignity which walls In his mind ana maeinas' od
popular paudits for his suppose t" ba"k over my
sxty-odd years rather than anything OF nohoi IL y.
fame applause that might nave Coine I'M pnver
ing fase pai c ae5oe a ~, yn one 10 she'd tear
and have done my oest. "hetner IL r Wa ubo