New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-01
PENNSYL TANIANS AT DINNER.
CHARLES EMORY SMITH SPEAKS AT
THE SOCIETY'S FIRST ANNUAL
CELEBRATION
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY MEMBERS SIT
DOWN AT THE wALDORF-AsTORIA-
PRESIDENT M'K1NLEY's COURSE.


Two hundred and fifty members o. the Penn
syvania Society attended the first annual meeting
Of that body at the Waldorf-Astoria last night
The dinner was A great success. Postmaster Gen
eral Charles Emory Smith the principal speaker
He responded TO the toast The President OF the
United States Other speakers were Congressman
G. W Stone o., Pennsylvania. ex-Congressman J.
VI. Curry. Of Alabama Tunis G. Bergen n Brook
lyn' Hampton l. Carson. OF Philadelphia. Fred
erick Peery Powers the Rev Dr. : p Mcconnell
o. Brooklyn. and John Drew. the actor
Vice-Presldent Henry Robinson Towne presided
in the absence u Bishop Potter. the president o.,
the society. Among the well known people present
were Or Truman 7 Backus. of Brooklyn. Judge
Blanchard. Charles Dana Gibson. Charles : Har
per. Captain Merrill Miller and the Rev. Madison
c. Peters
A letter Of regret from Captain Lamberton. Of
the cruiser Olympia. was read
Postmaster General Smith spoke IN part as FOL
lows.
CHARLES EMORY SMITHS SPEECH
on behalf Of tho President thank YOU for this
which you have received a. As member OF his
ofcial family r. would not Do becoming In ne 20
speak Of him As would Ike and as / would DO
under other circumstances.
The war Was beyond human foresight. and if-
human skill To haul down the flag and beat a re-
heightened respect Of that sudden rcvc.ation oS
American power. and would make our country an
our wonderful productive capacity out
stripped our own needs. Shall We then stop our
new outlets and broader markets There are two
natural outlets which. with sagaclous foresight
markets The hrst is our own continent field as
yet largely unoulufated The second outlet Is the
ientai trade as II throws OF the shackles x rs
ancient isolation ~ thousands 81 millions Does
any thinking man who has rever@ntiy studied our
r,,iirg Hard In ,s and ifs splen
~ fff.rf F4H| he
T5icS ~ On '' ,h, sie ~ 8e ej0be have given he
loirs '.s 70 Soh amerGa and on the oiber Side
- b h NJ m H. ,seessior ~ he philin
Important as ;. the commercial aspect il is sec
ondarv and inci,iental Foremost is The command
command is clear and Imperative oh We ask the
consent Of the Cihans 20 save them from starva-
tom Must ask the consent Of the Filipnos 10
save them from anarchy Must ask any con-
cent 10 exercise our rightfu sovereignty ana fulfil
the obligation II international duty? But who pre-
sumes 10 say that We have not the consent q The
Fiipinos that ar in revolt The great body ~
those rude people accept or authority and our
flag floats there by the tight Of an undisplted title
and oy the high commission Of civilization.
and complex task which has fallen 10 any Pres-
dent within our time. With what hgn patrlotisrn,
wisdom and success he has net IT'S dlculi require
wonderful home industrial development. which. IN
rs fui contamination ana as Us a1gIs se4T' eT
panson The three distinctive and pre-ern rert rep
resentatives II Tho American system - home de-
veiopmcrf. standing forth conspcuously through
the successive stages from its practical nausrra-
lion % It's complete fr.tio7. are Henry clay Hor-
ace Greeley and William Mckinley Clay. the I'M
passioned orator and The beloved personihcaton
~ the independent American spirit. was The real
founder ~ the system. Greeley was its ardent IN
waverine and naatchess controversialst and prQpa-
gardist But the later constructive work Uhich
brought the cr0WIing triumph and the full fruits
81 American Industrial Independence and suprem-
acv was due. more than 20 any other inditidlal 70
the unfaltering championship Of William Mckinney,
who bv common consent. embodied and fypuet the
policy beyond all others ~ our dag. Ana II is the
renlarka BE distinction q his career rare even IN
the lives ~ those called 10 lofty missions. that he
should be the central figure N two great historic
movements and that having been most consp'cu-
ouslv identified with The frii realization ~ our
home Industrial mastery he should now he ne
Nations APPOINTED leader IN its succeeding out
growth az commercial and ciynzins expansion