New-York tribune., 1901-04-21
DEPEW AT MONTAUK CLUB.
dinner IN HONOR OF HIS BIRTHDAY
A SURPRISING CAKE.

But never skipped his dinner.
At the end of the dinner came the presentation Of
che birthday cake A large silver colored platter
was borne in by two cooks 1t bore a large cover
and seemed TO indicate the presence of nothing
more than a large birthday cake. When the cover
was lifted in front Of Senator Depew young girl
stood up, with small plush and lace covered cake
in her hands She said:
'Good-evening, Senatori How you? Shake!
AS usual, you take the CAKE (extending the cake).
And as official duties claim you STILL please pay at
tention TO our Montauk Bill
The little girl Miss May Eggleston, seven
years old, known the Little Mascot" She re-
ferred the closing words to William A. Avis. who
extended welcome to the Senator. Charles A
Moore president OF the club and POSTMASTER. then
introduced. rather presented, Mr.. Depew to the
club The Senator following the precedent of previ
Gus Depew dinners delivered the only speech Of the
evening He was heard amid great applause, and
said in part:
Twsntyys years there were few $50 5aiWsy %
and nk 0 in Il m essa M has Seh Seh
the development OF corporate combinations and
capitalzat tions It is nearly wonderful as the
Tbe possibity Of the Formation in any State
one Of the great necessaries Of commercial and
industrial people, with $500 1000 Of capital weud
and Popust majority in both houses of Congress
pages of large portion of the press of the United
States during the canvass of 1900 and brought out
upon the platform at every meeting of one party
was the octopus 1t frghtened millions Of voters
the dangers 10 themselves with It's leHlaCleS
spreading over and enveloping me c31nTy ouI tne
octopus Of the 1917 OF me P0pbs5 a
with a lion beside the real octopus Of March 1901
have reversed the November verdicts- And yet such
has been the march of public opinion owing to The
q few months that the formation of 81 100 900
con o sxtende9 edtoriai comment in the pages of
1.-THE Commoner.' The processes and the procession
Their ba eP pe66e eVer ars for results
~ crificsing methods listening predictions or
We witness. in this rapid evolution universal
effort nullify the maxim which has existed since
tfa6e In the highly Organized conditions of mod
society competition has grown to be the de-
pioneer in this movement Of the ruin OF rivals
the late A T. Stewart whose pathway was St5eIn
first singly and then in BLOCKS as ne necame
ndusSriaI world began recently to recognize as the
railway world had discovered years age that there
society. II works by closing the factories and
ruin Of towns and individuals and causing wide
spread distress among the worthy people whose
COMMUNITY OF INTERESTS
The new method. rather the new experiment, is
approval Of labor because of better wages and
to consumer or proved destructive to producer Its
danger Is the misuse OF power The same danger
survivor the field and it had the added terror of
army and battle comm1nity Of interest SEEKS 70
conserve the interests of the investor and of the
worker. and at the same time, by concentration of
mana cement and the endless economies possible in
the wUrking together under the one competent head
OF the various elements which make up the final
product that goes upon the market give the con-
sinner a better article at a lower price.
But these eVolutions and revolutions have sud-
another probem-that is gigantic fortunes The
arehaologists, digging the libraries of Asia
across the inventory Of Crcesus and found
that that miserable fraud Of millionaire, who has
been arousing the envy of generation after
ton for thousands Of years, worth only $780,
Oe Caesar, with the loot OF all the world, man
aged to get together enough at time pay an
Indebtedness 10 people who did dare deny his
oenands OF S2l,00OOG1. Fifty years ago there was
man in the world worth so, 200 go; there was
only man in the United States worth s. 900 0l0
there were NOT five worth S1.00O00o. a hundred
thousand dollars was counted fortune which
Of a supremely rich man. To-day, in Pittsburg
which is one of our minor cities, are seventy
worth over s1,000o00 apiece. When Commodore
Vanderbilt died, in 1876 his fortune Of s1o00o00o0
had passed the mark ever before reached, while
now there in country several who
worth between $500 O 00l and $500 09 COO and large
number who have reached the 100000 limit.
Every day there come TO me for employment the
and grandsons Of millionaire fathers and
grandfathers, whose fortunes have been lost IN
speculation squandered in riotous living large
number Of these fortunate citizens of wealth
throwing protection around the accumulation OF
contributions for education and benevolence
known in any other age country