The age-herald., 1898-03-20
ANNIVERSARY OF
 LORD NORTH'S FALL Marked By a Banquet Presided Over By Chauncey Depew. PICTURE OF TWO LEADERS Washington and North, the Man and the Despot -Haughty Spain Was the Last Nation
 to Recognize Independence
 of America.

New York, March 19.-This Is the ann;- versary of the downfall of Lord North's ministry, and tonight, marking the ocea. sion, the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution sat at thei. annual banquet in this city. The most mo- table feature of the occasion was the presi- dent of the society, Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, who took occasion to make refer ence to Spain and her mode of colonial government. MT. Depew said:
 Tn 1732 two boys were born who were destined to influence beyond any other men of their period and almost of any period the history of the world and the happiness of the human race. One had all the advantages that birth, rank, education and position could give him in Great Britain and the other had the same opportunities in the new world. The one was Lord North, the other George Washington. Lord North was a believer in the autocratic authority of the middle ages. Washington breathed the air of freedom in the fields and the forests of the new world. On the farrn, at the hustings In the legislature, in politics and in war, he mingled with the peopie.
 Learned Their Intelligence
 "He early learned their intelligence and capacity for self,government. The lesson
  him by example and precept until, far be- ycnd his years or his contempo rarles, he knew the meaning of liberty and law. Lcrd North by enforcing the edlct5 of ar bitrary power, created a revolt which lost to the British crown the. greater part of its colonial possessions and inaugurated the era of political expansion and created the democracy which drove him from power and ultimately elevated to the con trol of the destinies of his country, tne masses of his countrymen whom he so dlstrusted and despised. Wilmington guided a revolt against authority so wisely, so ccnservatively and with such fairness tnat upon the ruins of the government ne de- stroyed and of the laws which ne oelieu he built republic with the rights or ire, of liberty of happiness ana or riopefS s,si so embedded in its constitution that the lnstl- tuition of the United States alone of all the na ations of Christendom have survived the shock of social and political evoiuuons or the nineteenth century.
 Compared With Washington
 After 100 years Lord North IS remeln- bered only because of his antagonism 10 free institutions. After 100 years, Wash ineton is reyerenced as the founder Of the most benficent government the world mas ever known and as the foremost man ID all the elements of patriotism, herolsm anu statecraft of his own time and or every age. One power alone in Europe sympa-
 
 their attack upon their rights Of the Amer ican people, one power alone in Europe held off until the 1ast-until long atter Great Britain herself had acted-in the recognition of the independence or the United States. That power was Spain' She had at that time the most magnificent oi colonial empires, she possessed nearly one half and the most productive half of the continent of North America, the whole Of the isthmus, the whole of South America and nearly all the islands of the adjoining seas She feared that the example or the American revolution would spread to her own colonies. Had she learned the lesson of the American revolution she might still have been a great power. That lesson or tha American revolution in colonial empire was home rule and self-government for the people of the colonies and the working of their own destineies according to the conditions of the country in which they lived This lesson cost Great Britain the fairest of her possessions, but by adopting the policy which 1t taught, her colonies now encircle the globe. Spain has persist enhtly clung to the ideas of Lord North, and. worse than that, to the Roman pro- consular system, which recognized pros- porous colonies only as opportunities for the rapacity of imperial rulers. The spirit of the age has broken her power, has wrested from her her marvellous possess sions and has reduced the empire of ouarter of the globe to few fertile islands in the Atlantic and the Pacific. Too late she recognizes, when all is lost in Cuha, the folly of her past and of her present. With the independence of Cuba will dis appear from the face of the earth the last remnant of that kind of power which was represented by Lord North and fell with his ministry"
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