The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-14
The New England Society Dinner
in New York.
JUDGE ROWLAND ON WAR
Toast Of President and Queen,
Rousing Speech of Col. Rose
Velt-Gen. Jos. Wheeler.

NEW YORK, Dec. 22-The New
England Society in the city of New
York dined last night in the great ball
room at the Waldorf-Astoria. Three
hundred or more men were seated at
fifteen tables, while almost as many
women graced the galleries above them
At the table at the head of the hall
on either side of the President of the
society, ex-Judge Henry S. Rowland
were seated the distinguished guests OF
the society. Among them were Col.
Theodore Roosevelt, Maj. Gen. Jos
Wheeler, Major-Gen. Shafter, Chaun-
cey M. Depew, Gen. Wallace Randolph
Supreme Court Justice Morgan J. o.
Brien, Elihu Root, Gov. Elisha Dyer of
Rhode Island, Joseph H. Choate, ].
Pierpont Morgan, eX-Secretary Cor
nelius y. Bliss, Augustus Thomas and
others.
JUDGE ROWLAND ON THE WAR.
In opening the speechmaking Judge
Rowland said in part:
The society gives evidence of the
wave of prosperity which is sweeping
over the land Its membership has in
creased, it has an invested fund in
first-class securities amounting to
$107, 600, and it's contributions to char
liable purposes are continued upon a
liberal scale. Forty members have died
during the year. Among them, it is no
eXaggeratiOn to say, was the most
valuable citizen of New York, for the
plished, Col George B. Waring, Jr.
Judge Rowland went on to mention
the names of Isaac H.Bromley, Charles
Butler, Henry M. Taber, George F.
Belts, Amos r. Etc, John F. Townsend
and other members of the society who
have died during the past year
1.-THE events of the past few MONTHS
Judge Rowland continued, "show that
the lifework of such a people as ours
is not growing to a close and the race
is not yet ready to be mustered out of
service. We sit in the presence of
those who have made history at an
unprecedented rate and have condens-
ed it into unexpected and tangible re-
suits We greet here the representa-
tives of the one institution of this
country of which we are unreservedly
proud (cheers), which in sixty days re-
vised the map of the world (applause) +,
caused us to review our studies in ge-
ography (applause), so that the direc-
ton to the future United States posses
sions will be to go to America, cross
the Continent and take the second
turning to the right daughter and
cheers); it changed the laws of pune
tuation when it brought the Colon to
a full stop CHEERS and laughter), gave
a new definition to an island as a body
of land surrounded by United States
battleships; swept the formidable navy
of an old and powerful country from
the sea and proved that the best life
insurance risks in the world which
would command the lowest premium
were those on the vessels Of the Amer
lean navy CHEERS and laughter), and
that Shakespeare was right when he
wrote:
Thrice is he armed who hath his
quarrel just,
And four times he who gets his blow
in fust
I'VE greet, too, the representatives
of the finest body of soldiers on this
broad earth, barring none, the United
States regulars who, on a hundred bat
tlefields have illustrated their valor
and devotion TO the f1ag-danger- blind,
accomplishing, though unrequited, and
faithful unto death. They have stood
against savage foes on wild frontier,
held sullen mobs in check, faced vetel~
an soldiers in battle, and have planted
the American flag in token of posses
sion ON the island colonies Of Spain;
and, when they wrote Ell Caney and
San Juan upon their colors, a memento
of magnificent valor, they inscribed
upon the rolls of fame the record of a
deed unsurpassed by the Old Guard at
Waterloo or the Light Brigade at Bala-
klava.
eve have hitherto claimed to be a
simple people and far removed from
imperialism, but, as a simple package
of dynamite is endowed with an in
definite capacity of sudden expansion
and as iron expands under heat and
men under fire, the irresistible forces
of nature will do their work upOn ma
tions until they fulfil their manifold
destiny. We must go forward or back
ward and we cannot go backward with
self-respect."
PRESIDENT AND QUEEN.
Judge Rowland then said:
And now, gentlemen, in opening the