The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-11

will have time to find out where he is at,
and then we will put him IN the Cover
nor's chair In the regular way. We are
a people of seventy-fve millions of tthe
most intelligent citizens to be found UNI
der any flag in the world, and we have
unlimited wealth. but with 1t all there
comes looming up great national ques-
lions which are to us objects Of interest.
Though we are but about oneItwentieth
of the population of the globe we manu-
facture one-third of its products and pay
out for our exports a million dollars a
day for every day in the year. There are
great problems to be solved; the question
Of national honor is a desperate thing
when it is at stake. We have come to be
the North Star of all the nations of the
earth and altogether too large to be small.
Liberty does not mean license; it means
restraint. You nave liberty of thought
and liberty of conscience, but 1t does not
do to be rash. Never before in the his
tory Of the world has there been such a
spectacle as is now displayed by the
statesmen of our country. They are act
ing firmly, yet not rashly, with a deter
mination to do only that which is right
and which the circumstances which con-
front them demand. Should one of the
white ctripes of our flag be darkened by
smoke from a foe, from the Pine Tree
State to the old battlefields of New Jer-
sey, down to the Palmetto State and
throughout the South, would roll up an
army five millions strong to protect that
flag and those red stripes would be made
deeper by the blood of our patriots. When
the vote was taken in Congress on the
roso1nfio,, n ppror,riofip q n fty million dol.
lars to strengthen the hands of President
Mckinley in maintaining the country's
honor. there was not one word uttered
but the vote aye. So much for our great
ness to the outside world"
The speaker referred to the vote of
Senator Smith in favor of the Teller reso-
luton, which carried with it the free
coinage of silver when the country is
pledged to sound money, and told in illus
tration an amusing anecdote, and con-
tinued: When fire, water and honor met.
fire and water each told where, if they
got separated. they could be found, but
Honor said: Seek me not. for If once
lost I never can be found Therefore,
the honor of this country must meyer be
lost. for if lost it is lost forever. When
President Mckinley declared that our OBJ
legations must be paid in the best money
in the world, he meant that they should
be paid in gold unless some better metal
should be discovered. In the question Of
the destruction of the Maine, President
Mckinley has proved himself a true
statesman, and by his craftsmanship the
country will profit"
The toast, why We Are Republicans
was given to Senator William NJ. john
son. He thought from what he had heard
tina no Republican could be happy In
Hudson county in the face of the Demo-
cratic majority, but he saw that has
not dampened their spirits, as he never
saw a more enthusiastic assemblage.
"Republicanism," he continued, lis
wrapped up in the history of the coun-
try. In the Civil War the Republican
party, aided by loyal Democrats. saved
the Union, and sustained the Government
furnishing a Lincoln, a Grant, a Hayes.
a Garfield, an Arthur and a Harrison. Tha
Republican party, when the safety OF the
country was threatened with anarchy and
unsafe financial creeds, repealed the dam
ger. Now again it is threatened, and
we must look to the Republican party to
bring it out safely. Democrats as well
as Republicans voted to sustain President
Mckinley because they had confidence In
him. Then why should anyone ask us
why we are Republicans? My only Won
der is why any patriotic man is outside
the Republican party"
Prosecutor James S.. Erwin responded
to the toast, t'Our County" This coun-
tyr he said, sis the Gibraltar of Democ-
racy, but the prevailing sentiment is that
it is not to remain so. The coming cam
paign will offer a glorious opportunity
fer the Republican party If it dominates
men from Governor down of such stand
ing that will command the votes of all
good citizens"
William H. Speer. Jr., responded to the
toast, Where are we at?" II have
found he said, "by experience that a poll
tician is a man who promises everything
to everybody and gives something to the
wrong man.; that politics and telephones
were invented to tell people the truth
without blushing, and a campaign a hys-
terica1 endeavor to persuade a whole
community that a portion of it is honest.
/ had been in great doubt as to where !
am at, but seriously there is only thing in
life worth having, and that is faith.
Without faith nothing good can be ac-
complished, and in order to have politics
honest POLITICIANS must De HoiSSi.
Former Mayor Peter F. Wanser made 4
brief address in praise of Governor Voor-
bees for his efforts in securing the pas
a of the bill to make Immediately
operative the equal tax act, and the
promptness with which he signed the bill
when passed, it being in his office only
two minutes when he attached his name.
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nance Commissioner Henry Brautigam,
who said that he could not speak on that.
as he had responded to the same toast
at a previous dinner. and he was too good
a Republican to be a repeater, and he
did not keep eloquence or tap. He COM
p;.mented ex-Mayor Wanser on his SER
vices in securing the passage of the tax
bill. his influence having enlisted the ac-
ton of the Governor.
Cresswell Mclaughlin vas the last
speaker. but not by any means the poor
est. His vein of humor was particularly
refreshing.
During the festivities Toastmaster
Carey earnestly doomed Foster NJ. Voor-
bees for the nomination for Governor and
Commissioner Brautigam for the next
Mayor of Jersey City, concluding his la
bors with the announcement that the
united Republicans of Greenville will have
an entertainment at Columbia Hall on
the evening Of March 2S. The company
formed in line and marching around
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