New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-13
LINCOLN AND M'KINLEY.
POSTMASTER-GENE SMITH ADDRESS
Els THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB
IN BROOKLYN

IN BROOKLYN.
Postmaster-GeneraI Charles Emory Smith
the principal speaker at the eleventh annual Lin
coins Birthday dinner the Union League Club.
in Brooklyn Three hundred diners applauded. and
all the speakers expressed sentiments giving honor
to Lincoln and praise to President McKineys pol
icy Each speaker turned his remarks into a
prophecy and expression OF hope for the future
The dinner was said TO be one of the most sue
cessfu Lincoln dinners held by the club.
William E. Pulsifer president of he club. acted as
postmaster
The speakers and their topics were Postmaster
General Charles Emory Smith Abraham Lincoln
Congressman Marriott Brosius. of Pennsylvania
The Moral Hero Chester s. Lord, THE Editors
George T Carey. ex-Unted States Consul to the
Netherlands The New Commercial Era, and the
Rev. DR. John Riley Thompson, "Recollections or
Lincoln"
President Pusifer applauded frequently In
his opening address. He said among other things
Our territory now stretches away to the ice fields
of the Arctic Ocean and INCLUDES an empire one
est in mineral resources known to the world. 1t
reaches away into the Pacific, taking IN the ma,
waan Islands, new possessions, with an area
Of seven thousand square miles Ana To-Day our our
Philippines, where God willing, it shall remain SO
long as human being either asks OF heeu9 INC
protection Of our glorious banner
POSTMASTER GENERAL SMITHS WORDS.
Postmaster-G General Smith said In part
The sublime epic of Abraham Lncoln's life and
death gains new rhythmic power and broader
meaning the years go by. More and more man
we looked back to the Revolutionary period as the
centuries our chiIdrens children will look back to
the mighty struggle for Union and liberty as the
Lincoln as the supreme type Of American con-
Others played great and noble parts. but Lincoln
will remain the grandest figure OF the crucial t
period of American history. His supremacy at
first questioned came to be acknowledge ana uh IN
challenged Washington was suTrpunded cI by i Ge
genius and Jefferson with his political MAST 70
nd %h MS ER born Of 1
chief You cannot think Of Lincoln a as any aer IEaT
He copied from no model and founded on no
example. He blended and accentuated the recG 5
world pre-eminently the American of Americans
In praise OF President Mckinley he said:
We face National duty now as clear and S5 cont %61
want war but when it came he dauntlessly met us
high Obligations and through ITS tIla eXaheu ,n
ADVANCEMENT Of the Republic And equally Gr the is
Ike Lnc9n in his moral atTbG nS b and 6s
but when the duty comes he is equally fulfilling
Of American liberty Where Lincoln left it pure and
unsullied and carrying i forward to wider sway
As Lincoln was the berator of the slaves, so
philippines and in Cuba. II Lincoln was living to-
William Mckinley has done.
CONGRESSMAN BRosIUs's REMARKS.
coming century he said:
1t will be a century of great intellectual and
neral awakening and NJ ton g0wR Much fruit
manshIp Will mount to higher levels; patriotism will
be so in fashion that no mans voice or hand Will
may float in triumph and honor; economists VIII
leaps and bounds; the hope of soldier and sage,
philosopher and statesman-international arbitra-
VIII prevail hroaghout the CHRISTIAN wor ae ne%
glory Will come TO the Republic In the triumph OF
exemplifcation of which the United States is lead
I see this Republic in the vanguard of the world
standing distinctly for humanity. liberty. Justice
7s s adyancng in harmony with that pFovdene
under a higher social regime. l see the greater
America welding with Just and benevolent hand
the sceptre of commercial and financial empire, her
see an American monetary system covering and
blessing every land under the flag with an album
chasing power to everv other. and all convertible
the option OF the holder into the best coin the
world knows.
THE INFLUENCE OF NEWSPAPERS.
Chester S. Lord spoke to the toast The Ed
itors" After paying his respects to the sensational
newspapers he said:
Nsxerthele SIS would not have you Judge al, all
now are attracting attention any more than
would have you judge all clergymen by the one
cashiers by the one cashier who steals. Every
you cram into newspaper the more copies of that
newspaper will be sold and every editor knows
that the most subtle temptation that besetS him
Is the temptation to print the things that should
not be printed and that temptation is all the more
acute for the reason that he knows the people
want to read them. Aye there's the rubl the
people want to read them
Letters of regret received from President
William Mckinley Secretary OF the Navy John D.
Long. Governor Roosevelt Senators Patt and De-
pew, of New-York Senator Stephen B. Elkins of
West Virginia; Senator Perkins Of California:
Senator Joseph B. Foraker. of Ohio: Congressman
Littlefeld. of Maine; State Senator Nevada n
Stranahan, Of New-York, and ex-Mayors Wurster
and Schieren, of Brooklyn.