The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-14
ITS ANNUAL BANQUET
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ing credits, it is better to be conserva-
tive than radical and TO provide treas
ury reserves for the day of panic than
pank asset notes for the day OF specu-
lation.
Let us build IN the foundation of
our present monetary stratum by the
enactment into law of the president S
recommendation, rather than tear it
down by complex and radical legislation
which would be in the highest degree
experimental.
This country is now emerging from
the greatest industrial depression
through which it has ever passed. The
foundation of prosperity is confidence.
Builded upon the confidence of man
in his fellow men and upon the conf
dence of the community in the stability
and integrity of its medium of ex-
change. are the credits of the country
which are so intimate connected with
that activity of profitable exchanges
which characteriZes national pros
perity.
I'VE do not want confidence destroy
ed. We do not want radical or revo-
lut1onary experiments with the cur
rency. Nothing would more unfavora-
Oily affect the credits of the country,
now in such healthy state, than radical
currency legislation. We must make
reforms in our currency, but those re-
forms need not and must not involve
the risk of commercial disaster. The
recommendation of the president when
enacted into law does not involve a
change in the currency now in circu-
latlon. in which the people have full
confidence; but it provides for its safety
SO that If panic does come again, it
VIII not be because of mistrust in gov
eminent currency nor can such panic
materially injure the credit of that
currency.
I'VE will make no mistake upon this
great question in allowing the presi-
dent. for no one of our public men has
better judged or better followed the en-
lightened sentiment of the nation. AS
wise and conservative statesman, he
has always been faithful to the inter-
est of the people. and for that reason
ne has their confidence Like Lincoln,
he follows the thoughts and leads the
voice of the people He bore the ire
mendous physical and moral burdens of
COMMUNICATIVE of the army and
navy of the United States in foreign
war, simply, quietly and successfully.
He turns once again to the problems
of peace, and we find that the glory of
martial achievement and the applause
OF the world have not changed the cool,
conservative, and yet exorable methods
of his thoughts and actions in public
matters.
Let us take the step in currency re-
form which he recommends, and thus
redeem the obligations to the people
which We're assumed in the election of
1896"
John Charlton, NJ. P, member of the
American joint high commission, spoke
on Abraham Lincoln" His remarks
were warmly received. He said:
"On every hand evidences abound
showing that an era of bet
ter feeling between the United
States and Great Britain has arrived.
and the fact that one of her majesty's
commissioners of the Anglo-American
commission has the honor to respond
at this dinner to the sentiment If
Abraham Lincolni' by the kind invi-
tation of the officers of the Marquette
club, is one of these significations I
beg to introduce the few words of
eulogy which l shall pronounce upon
the memory of one who in my estima-
ton was the greatest of Americans,
by the briefest allusion to the happy
condition of sentiment now prevailing
among all classes of the citizens of the
two great Anglo-Saxon nations.
THE subjects of her majesty look
with pride upon your history. The
mother of nations has planted COM
monwealths, the germs Of future en-
pires in various parts of the world. One
Of these germs has already developed
into the greatest empire of modern
times. We watch your career with
pride. We are disposed and anxious to
be your friends. When the dramatic
first act in the Spanish war opened
with the thunder of guns of Dewev's
squadron, and at one blow the Span
ish possessions in the East were 1t the
mercy of American arms, We smiled
with satisfaction, and, reverting to the
memory of the heroic deeds of our own
grim sea-kings in the past, were proud
to know that gallant sires had worthy
sons. When the swift events of the me-
morable struggle had closed and Spain
was bereaved of her colonial possess
sions and crushed as the small dust In
the balance. we welcomed the advent
of new force whose potent voice
should be hereafter heard in the affairs
of the oldest empires. and. having given
you the benefit of our best wishes and
perhaps of more than our best wishes
during that struggle, we now welcome
you as a cO-worker with ourselves in
the business of carrying civilization and
liberty to remote and barbarous lands
In the words of one of your own great
poets let it be said, and said with added
emphasis:
GA newer page in the worlds history
is thine,
Fear and friendly hope and envy watch
the issue,
While the lines by which thou shalt be
judged
Are written down.
IT trust that page of history will be
fairer than any page in the past, and
that the lines by which you shall be
Judged, when the records of time are
completed shall be lines which shall
record high aspirations, noble deeds,
and abundant fruits of blessing to man.
America has given to history many
eminent names. Two of these rank with
the most exalted of earth's famous men,
whether of antiquity or modern days,
and in the case Of neither has the
guerdon of fame been purchased at the
cost of honor or of selfish thirst FOR
power; neither has tramped upon the
rights of his fellow men: neither has
earned the execration or sinned against
the interests of humanity.
George Washington may fairly be
said to have been an English gentle
man. He was born and reared in a
British colony. He was English in edu-
cation, instincts and tastes. He served
with distinction under the British flag,
He prided uDOn English descent and