New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-04

flowers and foliage plants. The programme
as follows:
Organ voluntary impromptu.
Quartet Lead Kindly Light '................ Buck
Mrs Ida Van Dyne Walker.
49,. 80. ., George Dalton. Exalted Ruler.
Jennie King Morrison.
Ode air Aud Lang syne"
The Rev DR.. Newell Dwight Hills
Alto solo The Better Land" Cowen
Address.
Justice John Woodward. .,.,.
Barytone SOLO Gogotha ID J. Conehois
Closing ceremonies
Quartet God spirit Bennett
The Rev Dr. Newell Dwight Hills
Horatio C. King
Justice Woodward In beginning his address spoke
Of the dead members and especially those who
were killed in the spanlsh-Amercan and in
the Philippines. He said:
Charity Was there ever such need for the dis
play Of this virtue as to-day? The smoke of con-
fict has not yet lifted from the battlefield; the
stiil ringing in our ears The passions OF men
have not yet had time to cool on the afterthought
welfare are already clamorrg for greedy recog-
milton and for shameless spoil It is crucial
virtue. II is a crisis In National life. Let us
be charitable and solve the problem Of hate by the
evolution Hate Is decay, death disintegration Let
In Cuba and Porto Rico are thousands OF fellow
human beings to whom the inestimable advantages
Of education were never given. In carrying them
cation shall we not also extend to them the long
suffering patience and the gentle forbearance that
is born OF charity? Their eyes so long used 10
the gloom Of tyranny will be dazzled by the sudden
truth they Will often stumble into devious paths
Let cover their shortcomings with the mantle of
charity and lead them slowly into the full light
where all things are clear so doing shall also
educate ourselves to ofter conception Of our
apply the charity Which begins at home
In the Philippines eight millions OF people OF
eventually become either eorporate part Of our
Nation or American subjects in colonial protec-
me 10 discuss I only know that it seems certain
and that when II happens we must be prepared to
must win the goodwin Of the e, Fp s1 so be-
will only by kindness and forbearance. ] have no
specific policy or method In mind that will solve
Fiiipinos themselves must be heard. and we must
teach them to fit themselves for least local self
WbcTe t5ey are taxed Nehef there nor here
must be untrue to the genius OF our government
ritory and colony Of our magnificent country must
ever be part Of harmonious whole. and must
is the Constitution that must be the foundation OF
OUR whole colonial policy as well as Of domestic
Referring to the question OF capital and labor. the
speaker said:
Monopolies. trusts and other business eomblna-
tions are often blesslng-often a curse. Yet they
are but the natural result Of the law Of the sur
Vval Of the fttest which operates with merciIess
severity from the lowest forms OF animal life 10
the highest. We are believe in a transition age
on the ascent through the slow and the destruct-
i've process OF Industrial adjustments to new con-
diliOns-to higher civilization. thousands OF our
fellow men are swept down in the fierce tide OF
progress unable TO keep abreast OF the current and
to overcome the disadvantages Of unpropltous cir
cUmstance Thousands, through no fault OF their
own, are in the throes OF despair the aeP6h OF
the individual In the scale OF existence. II takes
a vigorous manhood to keep step with the pace OF
the century. The weaklings OF our age should De
taught the gymnastics Of development and the
science of self-help.
Justice Woodward, after speaking of the suffer
ing in populous cities, declared that the world had
never seen such high and helpful philanthropy as
that which now existed. He added:
Let it then be the mission Of this body help
age to solve the stupendous problems Of our ciiza
ton Let us withhold from less fortunate broth
ers the charity OF sefhelp and opportunity-oppor-
tunity to follow the track OF personal aspiration to
the goal that each has set before him This Is the
charity that aids. and at the same time uphtts.
This is the charity which Christ came 10 teach
Let us ever keep it before us In this age OF com
mercial corruption. when men are bought Tor doi-
lars and principles are SOLD Tor gold.
Speaking Of the bench Justice Woodward said;
An able and incorruptible judiciary is the soul Of
the body polite and this soul can only be kept
G6uardians-the lawmakers-the voters OF the coun-
frv we have / believe. as able ana as pure a
Judiciary as there Is in the word-one that u thot-
Guehiv representative and sympathetic one that IS
guard IL too carefully. We cannot prize II 100
highly.