The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-23
Tale of Two Dinners.

= The first event of importance-at
s least the daily press Of Salt Lake gives
d 1t such in scare head lines-is the ban
quet of the New York chamber of COM
merce at Delmonico's. 1t was the one
: hundred and thirty third time that the
merchants of New York got from be-
hind the counter to put their legs un-
der a table, drink champagne and
listen TO speeches wise and otherwise.
That of itself is worth treasuring away
in the almanac Of memory, which goes
back to the days when the legs under
the banquet table were silky, albeit un-
steady, and the shoes encasing the
shapely extremities more ornamental
than gamblers shirt front. 1t goes
back to the days of the old-fashioned
Dutch burghers and their descendants,
the Van Rensselaers, the Roosevelts,
all the other Vans and their descen-
dants. who took more comfort out of
a noggin of Holland gin than the best
brands of champagne Delmonico now
sets out for their successors in trade
1t brings us, later on, to the banquets
in which New York merchants had for
company such guests as jefferson, and
Clinton, and Clay, and old Dan Web |
ster, who would usually wind up
speech on the Importance of paying off |
| the national debt by ramming his hand |
| in his pocket and Offering to pay it |
! himself. None of the brilliant galaxy |
| OF latter-day statesmen at this last
Delmonico banquet could hold can
die to Daniel Webster.
In these days, too, when toasts were
offered TO the Spirit of Liberty, the
orator could point to our own country
as the best example, and lift his glass
TO the success of independence for the
Greeks and cheer for the patriots OF
Hungary. No thought then of q change
when America would deny to others
what she enjoyed herself; no thought.
then, that an expression of sympathy
for weak nation as against strong
would be stified in an American con-
gress' as were the Boer resolutions; no
looking around the other end of the
world, then, for islands in the seas TO
buy from tyrants and exchange the
slavery of their inhabitants from one
master to another through the force of
the bayonet!
O. % @H
Grouped around the banquet table
at Delmonico's according to the tele-
graphic report were Ambassador Jo-
seph H. Choate, John Hay, secretary Of {
state; Senator McLaurin of South Caro- |
lima. Whitelaw Reid, Governor elect I
Cummins of Iowa. Senator c. NJ De- 4
pew, Rev. DR.. Donald Sage Mackay. c
Andrew Carnegie, Mayor-elect Seth t
Low, Lieutenant General Nelson A.
Miles j. Pierpont Morgan, William e. Il
Dodge, Major General John II. Brooke. t
Carl Schurz. Alexander F. Orr Gov b
Arnor Odell and Rear Admiral Albert S, n
Barker. That's a fine setting for an a
intellectual tiara, certainly. taking in e
diplomacy politics, monopoly, gospel a
and military fuss and feathers. WHY II
5hoate's name appeared before that of p
Hays In the stunning galaxy can be g
only accounted for on the supposition HI
hat an ambassador to England is C
greater than an American secretary OF
II state. However, as Hays spoke first, OF
he error of the Anglo-American tele- b,
graph reporter can be overlooked. pC
Naturally the vision of Secretary W
lay extended over our recently ac- til
luired possessions, and the great flu 81
ure waiting for their inhabitants if IN
hey would be see us eye 10 eve. 1--WE OF
ave opened our doors to the people of flu
iawah'' said Mr.. Hay, land accepted OF
he responsibility of the Philippines re
'hich Providence imposed on us" This wi
taking liberties with Providence gr
'hich could be easily turned from wi
Iasphemy into humor by the only
hauncey Depew. Incidentally Mr.
lay alluded to the isthmian canal. but
lade no mention of the treaty.. iust
oncluded, which bears his name. II ii''
just as well he did not, considerinr w
is really the treaty which the Unit tht
states senate suggested in opposI- ha
on to the plans of both Mr.. HAY and CTR
ord Pauncefote. sid
Inc paragraph which the daily press fee
insiders the most important in Mr. thi
avs peroration, so much so that II all
enclosed in border type, is this: s,'
No wantonness of strength win eyar trn
duce us Omitted States) to drive hv
ira bargain with another nation he No
use II is weak, nor will any fear of ing
noble criticism tempt us to insult or inn
~ great power because it is ing
endly" ~ Is wb
Ihat is nice Jingle of words. but tiai
they allied with our past and only 90 20
cent history? No one conversant with are
inside facts leading up to the
eaty of Paris viii assert that Spaip A
'lded up the Philippines willingly for L
enty million dollars. It's delegates car
liked their signature to the docu- Pc pc
mt of transfer with sad hearts and sha
listened eyes. And. so far as the us
Ter temptation" goes, the defy sent
Great Britain by Grover Cleveland que
emit the Venezuelan affair is the only acc
ng which commends him to old 81
hion Democrats and genuine Amer in
ms. NOR
We take Mr.. Hays word for it that S soat
fear of ignoble criticism viii tempt p,
to insult or defy great power be- is a
Use 1t is strong, or even because it is of
sndly This was so while McKin LOO
- may De SO While self.