The age-herald., 1901-12-11
Henry WaHerson Speaks of Mas sachusetts and Kentucky
 at Boston Banquet DUTY ID THE PHILIPPINES
Senator Hanna and Other Prominent Speakers Attend the Boston Merchants Entertainment
 Watterson Cheered.

Boston. December 10-The Boston Mer- chants Association met at the Vendome this evening in celebration of it's twenty fifth anniversary, and was entertained by four men of national reputation, who made splendid addresses. chiefly along political lines. Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith spoke on Reel procity:'' Hon. Kogaro Takahira, the Japanese minister, on Commercial Re- lations:" Senator Marcus A. Hanna, on "The Ship Subsidy Bill," and Hon. Henry and Massachusetts"
 During the evening General Collins held an impromptu reception and re- ceived many telegrams of congratula- ton.
 Lieutenant Governor John L. Bates, the first speaker, represented Governor Crane. Postmaster General Smiths reciprocity policy was as follows
 Let Congress define the rates and the restrictions and then within those re- strictions let the President, as the ex- ecutive power, to deal with the changing demands of trade or with the sometimes sudden emergencies of friendly or un- friendly nations"
 Mir. Smith also favored a ship sub sidy.
 Hon. Kogaro Takahira received genu- inc Am erican welcome, of which he show ed his appreciation.
 Col. Henry Watterson of Kentucky was greeted with three cheers when he arose to speak on Massachusetts and Kentucky"
 Speaking Of the two states, he said: Massachusetts and Kentucky. l Boston, I believe, is in Massachusetts, and the Bostonese, I am told, possess | the conceit of themselves. It is handy thing to have about the house. and in your case happens to be founded on fact. I at least shall not deny your claim to many good things which have come to pass since the birth of Benjamin Frank lin and on down to the completion of the subway and the new passenger stations. And yet back in the neck of woods where I abide there are those who think that Kentucky Is mo slouch." A story Is told of an old darky in slave-holding days who declared that his young master was the greatest man that ever lived. "Is he greater than Henry Clay?" ''Yas, sir" Greater than General Jackson?" Vas sir." Well, come now, Uncle Ephraim, you won't say that he is great CT than the Almighty?'' Uncle Ephriam
  say dat, sah; no, sah, but, he ber'y young yit.' Kentucky may not be all that Massachusetts Is; but Kentucky Is 'bery young yit!
 You have here the accretions of near ly three centuries of thinking and doing single century ago the hunters of Kentucky were threading their way by the light of pine-knot and rif1e-hash through the trackless canebrake and the perilous forest to plant the flag which you worship and I adore upon the first stage of its westward journey around the world.
 What Is Expansion.
 That which we call expansion-covet- ed by some, deplored and dreaded by others-is a fact. The newly acquired ter ritories are with us. and they are with us to stay: a century hence the flag will be floating where 1t now floats unless some power stronger than we are our selves turns up to drive us out. The very thought of the vista thus opened to us should give us pause, should chasten and make us humble in the sight of heaven, should appall us with the magnitude and multitude of its responsibilities, if we are to turn the opportunities they em- body only to the account of our avarice and pride: if we are to see in them only the advancement of our private fortunes, at the expense or the public duty and honor; if we are to tickle away our con- seriousness of wrong-doing with insincere platitudes about religion sd civilization and to sootfe our conscience whilst we rob and slay the helpless. with the con ceits of a self-deluding national vanity, then 1t had been well for us. and for our children. and our children's children that. Dewey had sailed away. though he had sailed without compass, or rudder or objective point, into the night of ever lasting nothing of the kind believe we shall prove a contradiction to all the bad examples of history to all the warning voices of philosophy to all the homeiy precepts of that conservatism which. founded in the truest love of country. yet takes no account of the revolution wrought by modern contrivance upon the character and movements of mankind. [ believe that the American Union came among the nations even as the Christ came among the sons of men.
 Senator Hanna was the last speaker He confined his remarks entirely to the ques- tion of the ship subsidy and the latest bill for that purpose.
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