The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-28

New York, Jan. 27.-The third annual
banquet of the National Association of
Manufacturers OF the United States,
which took place tonight at the Wal
dorf-Astoria hotel, was one of the larg-
est and most elaborate affairs of the
kind ever given in this city. One thou
sand guests were seated at the ia
bleS.
The fact that President Mckinley
would be present caused a rush for
tickets.
President Mckinley was driven from
the Windsor hotel and was received at
the WaldOrf-Astoria at $50 p. m. by
the committee of merchants, and at
once was taken to the royal cham
bers." Half an hour later he appeared
in the reception room, where he held a
levee for more than an hour.
MAGNIFICENCE ALL AROUND.
The banquet hall was magnifcently
decorated, the tiers of boxes being
draped with silken banners. The pres
ident's flag was suspended over the
head of the table from the presidents
box. Seven long tables extended the
length of the room, and Is small tables
were placed on either side of the rows
of long tables In the Astor gallery an
tables were deliberately decorated with
flowers and potted plants. The dais
where the president and other guests
sat was also adorned with many flow
ers. From the reception room, up the
broad staircase, to the banquet room,
were lines of palms and ferns.
Owing to the double banquet rooms,
there was much confusion in making
the assignment of the guests to their
seats at the tables.
The march to the banquet hall began
at 7:15, and lasted until almost 1:30, be-
ing a struggling line. President Nc
Kinley, with the committee of thirty
six, marched into the hail. the band !
playing, Hail to the Chief"
The menu cards were very elaborate |
The presidents menu card was the |
same as that of the other guests, ex-
cept that the edges were in gold and the !
words, THE President" were embossed |
in gold on the cover.
WARNER MILLER.
At 1890 o'clock, Warner Miller raped
for order. He referred to the youth of |
the association, and said the meeting /
would be productive Of more good than |
anything that had been held in this
country for some time. He said there
was nothing political in the organiZa-
ton. The chief end of the organization,
he uGGldIGQ. WAS 10 6AlGnu lHe COIl-
merce of the United States abroad.
This association" he said would
advocate another department in the
cabinet, namely, a secretary of COM
Mr.. Miller then introduced Theodore
c. Search, president of the association,
who spoke briefly.
The widest enthusiasm prevailed
when President Mckinley was intro
duced. Men stood on their seats; wo-
men in the boxes waved their hand
kerchiefs, and the uproar drowned the
speakers voices. The cheering and
clapping of hands were redoubled when
a toast was drunk to the president
TKINLEY'S ADDRESS.
President Mckinley, in part, said:
For the cordial character of this
greeting I return my thanks. The
genuineness of your welcome is full of
for having left Wash
ington at an unusually busy season in
order to participate in this interest
ing meeting.
National politics can encourage in
1ustry and commerce, but il remains
for the people to project and carry
them on If these policies stimulate
industrial development and energy, the
people can be safely trusted to do the
rest. The government, however, is re-
stricted in its power to promote indus
try. 1t can aid commerce, but not :
create it 1t can widen and deepen
its rivers, improve its harbors and
develop its great national waterways
DESIRABLE MARKETS. ,
Much profitable trade is still I'M {
enjoyed by our people because of their /
present insufficient facilities for reach I
ng desirable markets. Much of it is I
ost because of lack of Information l
and ignorance of the conditions and I
needs of other nations. We must know I
lust what other people want before q
We can supply their wants. We must $
understand exactly how to reach them /
With least expense. if we would enter I
nto the most adventurous business re-
atoms with them. {
Il is a good rule, if buyers will not I
,ome to us for us to go to them 1t
s our duty to make American enter :
)rise and industrial ambition as well !
Is achievement. terms of respect and :
praise, not only at home, but among
he family of nations the world over =
BEST MONEY.
There IS another duty resting upon t
he national government-to coin o
money and regulate the value thereof. s
This duty requires that our govern
nent shall regulate the value of its
money by the highest standards of
commercial honesty and national
lonor. The money of the United States
5 and must forever be unouestioned t
nd unassailable. If doubts remain
hey must be removed. If weak places u
re discovered they must be strength G
ned. Nothing should ever tempt us: q
viii ever tempt us-to scale G
own the sacred debt of the nation p
through a legal technicality Whatever a
lay be the language of the contract, +
he United States viii discharge all it's 7
in the currency recognized
s the best throughout the civilized
'orld at the time of payment. l.
Nor viii we ever consent that the '
ages of labor or its frugal savings be
called down by permitting payment in
ollars OF less value than the dollars
ccepted as the best in every enlighten- s,
nation of the earth. Under exist h
IL conditions, our citizens cannot be =
REUSED if they do not redouble their -
forts to secure such financial legisla- II
on as will place their honorable inten-
ons beyond dispute.
SETTLE IT NOW.
All those who represent, as you do, :,
ie great conservative and the progress .
We business interests of the country, D
we It, not only to themselves, but TO C
lie people, to insist upon the settlement II
this great question now, or else to p'
ice the alternative that it must be d
gain submitted for arbitration at the 9
Ills. This is our plain duty to more
ian 1000. 900 voters who, 10 months
90. won 4 great political battle on the
sue, among others, that the United V
.ates government would not permit a
)ubt to exist anywhere concerning the V