The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-11
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CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW
The Principal Speaker Before the Ham
ilton Club on Chicago Day.

Chicago, October 10.-The annual Chicago
day celebration of the Hamilton club was.
held today in the auditorium theater.
Chauncey M Depew, as a guest of the
club, was the principal speaker, and the
hall was packed long before the hour set
for his appearance. Around the galleries.
in the boxes and the great arch above the
stage were flags and bunting surrounding
the sken coat of arms of the different
states, while portraits of military and
naval heroes were everywhere. Battle
songs and national anthems were given by
a chorus of 200 voices.
Mr. Depew was introduced amid wild APP
plause His opening remarks were as fol-
lows:
Certainly what has transpired since No
vember, 1896, astonishes even the American
people 1t does more; it astonishes even
the most imaginative and prophetic of
them 1t was not in the power of the hui
man mind to conceive the wonderful and
beneficial changes which would happen in
twenty-four months. - From industrial
paralysis has come Industrial activity;
from labor vainly seeking employment has
come employment seeking labor; from
capital hidden and locked up and unre-
munerative and worse than useless has
come capital flowing into channels which
added to the strength, prosperity and
wealth of the whole country from gloom
we are in the light and from despair We
are happy. But this is not all. From an
isolated nation, living within itself, seek
ing only the development of its resources
and unknown in the politics and policies
of other countries. we have become by a
series of VICTORIES which surpass the
achievements on sea or on land of any
period a great world power"
Mr.. Depew rejoiced in the obliteration of
sectional lines and sectional feeling He
sai6.
1--WE rejoice in the strengthening bonds of
national union. 1t was wise craftsmanship
and fervid patriotism which commissioned
as generals of our army in the war with
Spain Joe Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee. The
faded gray of the confederacy became
souvenir of a cause calamity fought and
happily lost, and the blue of the republic,
mighty and imperishable by the loyalty
and love of all it's citizens. But oblitera-
tons of every vestige of the passions Of the
civil war is only one of the fortunate re-
suits of this war. The grating friction be-
tween the east anu west mas uiSttk'pSei GU
The dude Is respected ON the plains and the
cowboy cheered in New York are only evil
dences of far deeper and most beneficial
sentiment. Along with the charge of the
Light brigade at Balaklava will live In
song the resistless rush of the Rough Rid
ers over the forts and entertainments on
the hill of San juan But that charge of
the Rough Riders broke down every Sec
tional barrier of our country. With the
products of our soil and industries carried
over the Atlantic to Europe and over the
Pacific to the Orient, Chicago, st. Paul, St.
Louis and Spokane, Duluth and Salt Lake
City are no longer the centers of interior
and isolated interests and opinions. They
are the reservoir and distributors of the
worlds commerce. A powerful navy and
an American merchant marine are as i'm
portant to them as to New York or San
Francisco or as to the Asiatic or Pacific
coasts. By the instantaneous Vontact by
telegraph and cable OF all commercial capt.
tails they are to be the ports from which
fleets are to sail over every sea, landing
with the products of American labor to
bring back the wealth that makes a pros
porous people and happy homesteads"