The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-13
.pENNSY SOCIETY'S
ANNUAL DINNER
Speakers included Bishop Potter,
Assistant Attorney-GeneraI Beck
and Andrew Carnegie.
(By Associated Press, }

NEW YORK. Dec 12---The second an
nual dinne, Of the Pennsylvania Society
of New York, was held ct the Waldorf
Astoria this evening The room held fully
two hundred ana seventy-1ve members
and guests,
The speakers included Eishep Henry c.
Potter, president of the society. James y.
Beck. assistant att;rrey general of the
United States, who spoke on THE United
States Andrew Carnegie. on Industrial
Pennsylvania; Wirston Spencer Church
i'll, on William Penn
Mr. Carnegie said ne felt about Penn
sylvania Webster did about Aiassachu-
setts. which neaded no eulosy- There
she stands" said he ''She speaks for
herself. Her past at least is secure, her
present and her future are rohe the less
SO. Pennsylvania probably is the richest
territory in mineral wealth upon the face
OF the earth in coal, anthracite, bftuminous
and coknS. in oil and natural gas: she is
inrivalled in textile manufactures There
are more yards of carpet woven in and
around Philadelphia than IN the whole of
Great Britain and the State Of Pennsyl-
vania makes more steel than the whole
OF Great Britain.
PENNSYLVANIA SECURE
TT is sad to see how Immaculate virtue
goes unrewarded in this wicked world
In political matters there Is no State that
suffers 50 much from the cause; none IS
so immaculate; SO splepdidly virtuous as
our own State of Pennsylvania, The party
managers may have doubts OF New York,
doubts of Indiana. even DOUBTS Of Ohio.
but nothing can tempt Pennsylvania
from the true faith, and knowing that she
will do right, TREY ignore all her claims
and that is the reason why it is taken for
grarsed THAT Pennsylvania cannot pro-
duce great men. The average great man
is only great because OF his great office.
81 see before me at least two ex-gov-
ernors of Pennsylvania who would have
been President but for the supremely un-
aprroacFiao!e virtue of our State. The
Constitution OF the United States was
manufactured and Independence Hal oeii,
in Pennsylvania. and it is there the oel
hangs that proclaimed liberty to an cue
people That Pennsylvania Hantsfactursu
that bell AMI the Constitution Is tae
.y,.ork ps,icfh Mr.. Gladstone pro-
nounced the greatest which nao essf
been struck off at one time by the Draln
and power OF man. and that fs What I
believe The TRADITIONS of the fathers are
under trial to-day. Doubts are cast upon
them. The great princtpies 1or tue sil-
dication OF which this Goyesnmene was
sfcn1nferI. the rights OF man, are out OF
"a shion for a time. So be at. They Will
come hack again in due time, Govern
rnent of the people: Government for the
neonIe and by the people is not to perish
fron, the face OF the earth. and the prin-
cfnles which Jefferson proclaimed in the
5DecIarat:nn of Inferoenf1ence gwen TO the
world from Pennsylvania are to be Inn
mortal. and Beers Chinese. and all races
.of men. htgh and low. are some day to
ad,nt and defend the principle that Gov
sernrnent derives It just powers from the
consent of the governed The stars and
strtnss which first foated from Independ-
ence Hall. and stiA hoaty there. is never
permanently to float over ANYTHING. but
free men all equal under the law and
s.tizens OF the Union. ono and indlyisable" !"