The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-23

some Things He said in Response 10
Toast to His Health. . -

Toast to His Health. -., -
New York. April 22.-The Mon,ank Club
gave dinner tonight, in honor of Sena-
tor Chauncey NJ. Depew. About go mem
bers and guests sat down al the banquet
/ Il was Senator Depew's 18th birthday.
The club house was handsomely deco
rated. and Senator Depew got rousing
reception.
Senator Depew. in responding TO the
toast 10 his health said, in part:
"A hundred years ago the controversy
began for and against corporations as
method for the transaction of any BUSH
ness. Alexander Hamilton believed that
there were certain functions in the opera
tons Of commerce which could not be
carried ON by individuals, but must be by
semi-publie corporations. He foTesaw
that banking and transportation must
take this form. He passed through the
legislature the charter Of the Bank Of New
York. Aaron Burr, who was the leaders Of
the opposite party, saw his opportunity, be.
came the entf-monopolist champion, as
sailed this bank charter then the only
corporation in our state, as endangering
The liberties of the people and was tri-
umphantly elected to the Legislature. He
then procured a charter for a company to
meet the popular demand for pure water in
n
Clause under which he and his friends
organized the Manhattan Bank, which Gel
ebrated its one huhdredth anniversary last
week. Burr has left many descendants.
our platform on these birthdays has al
ways been as frank and free as a talk IN
the family on all questions of the hour.
The food Of eloquence at the Metropolitan
Opera House and the Grand Central Pal
ace suggests some subjects, which are not
staf ~
pursued. After reading ali the speeches,
some good, some Indifferent, some bad and
some incomprehensible, except on the theo-
ny best expressed by the slang phrase OF
my BoWery friends that the orator was
talking through his hat" l had this
thought. An attack of the grip this win
Ger ran my pulse down to fifty beats.a min
Ute. l found that al fifty beats
a minute the heart has not
the force to furnish the current
which win keep going the wheels Of the
thinking machinery. My doctor connected a
pin of strychnine, arsenic, asd other poi
sons, which If taken in the right number
brought the pulse up to seventy, and the
mental factory had the motive power for
it's work If, however, the patient should
take an overdose he would climb the
golden stairs. l thought many OF those
speakers and many Of the writers on these
subjects would be benefited by my doc
tors pills, and the world would be the
gamer If some Of them took an overdose.
1.-THE general propositions were, that Il
is a crime to make money; greater crime
TO keep il; that we live in an age Of the
grossest comunercialism; that our country
has a worse attack than any other; that
the worship of the dollar has destroyed
public spirit, patriotism, religion, noble
aims and high ideals. Shade of Jeffer-
soni These apostles claim to be your dis
ciples They teach the 100000 of Ameri-
can people who revere your memory that
such Is the result OF the principles, work
ed out In practice, in the government
which you and your immortal as
sociates founded. Madam Roland, as
as she stood at the foot OF
the scaffold waiting to he guillotined by
Robespierre aud the French revoluHonists,
exclaimed "Oh, Liberty, Liberty, what
crimes are committed in thy name!' |
wonder how many believe all this. l won
der how many who thus talk and write
believe the American peop.e can be
brought 70 indorse these views or that
they do not see the nonsense through the
firnsy veil of lurid rhetoric. II is an in
dsputable fact that the whole people Of
the United States were never so power
full or so prosperous, or collectively and
individually possessed so much in opportu-
nifty, in liberty, in education, In employ
ment, in wages, in men who from nothing
have become powers in the community
and boys who from poverty have secured
education and attained competence as to-
day
number of other speeches were made