The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-23


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n HICAGO, Feb. 22.-chicago paid
fitting tribute today to the mem
DRY of Washington. All the banks,
the stock exchange and the board of
trade were closed, and many of the
large business houses observed the hol-
iday Flags fioated from the govern
ment buildings. clubs, schools and
many business blocks. and patriotic
exercises were held in many quarters
of the city In the morning an audi
ence of nearly 5000 school children
were present at a union celebration at
the Auditorium given under the aus
pices of the Union League club In the
afternoon ella borate public exercises
were held at the Auditorium under the
auspices OF the same club. There was
a large audience. After selections Of
patriotic music and an invocation by
DR.. Frank Gunsaulus, president Robert
Mather introduced Senator Beveridge
Of Indiana. who spoke at great length
on the necessity OF conservatism. The
speaker made vigorous defense of the
trusts.
other exercises were held during the
day by the lroquois and Minnehaha
clubs Tonight banquets were held at
the Marquette and Union League clubs.
AT the latter Baron d'Estournelles de
Constant, member of the French cham
Der of deputies and former French
minister in London. delivered the prin-
opal address. He sald:
America during the last fifty years
seemed to have been metamOrphOsed
as by the touch of magicians wand
Fifty years ago Europe fiattered her
self that she had discovered America.
Today she may continue to fiatter her
self, but her sef-satisfaction is not
unmixed with alarm. She is proud of
her discovery of America, but she is
alarmed at American discoveries. Fiji
~ years ago you were her customers;
today you have become her compeUi-
tors. You have increased your prOduc-
ton, both industrial and agricultural,
in few years TO such a point that
our European markets are crowded
with your merchandise, harVests, but
ters, fruits, tools, machinery. engines.
You have grown SO alarmingly
quick during these fifty years that it
seems to me you are not so very young
as we think. Your marvellous prog
TeSS. however, ought to surprise no
one; for we say in France, Good blood
cannot lie," and you have the best
blood in Europe. Ignorant people call
you Anglo-SaxOns, but you protest;
you know well that in your veins flows
the blood of the most energetic and
enterprising sons of the old world. No
doubt you have English blood, but the
English themselves admit that the
purest and best of their blood is Nor
man.
You have the blood of Holland, the
name of your president, Roosevelt, is
Dutch; you have the blood of Germany,
Denmark, Sweden, Norway. Italy. But
how much more have you the blood of
France
Your progress may, perhaps, alarm
Europe, but not France, guaranteed as
we are by the inimitable speciality Of
our productions, there is no real COM
petition possible between France and
the United States and it is Europe, not
France, that may be threatened by
American competition.
And yet, this need not be an econ
omic evil; it might become positive
good, for your progress will Oblige
European nations to abandon their old
fashioned ideas. their red tape, their
sterile antagOniSm, in order TO keep
to the level of your economical devel-
opment, or find themselves distanced
~, he nd he faur of
lean competition may be the beginning
Of European wisdom. You will have
rendered an inestimable service 10 hu-
manity if that so-cailed American
peril may be transformed into the
American cure" You will not cOnfine
yourselves to selling your goods to
Europe; you viii give us your example
the example of your energy and Of
your wisdom.
I'VE have today as much as ever, a
great role TO perform. The brother
hood of our two countries has been
fruitful in the past; we can make il
still more fruitful in the future. A
hundred years ago our fathers fought
for independence; their victory, great
as it was is not complete.
Our Washington, our Lafayette,
must never cease TO be our guide
Their voice bids US still to follow their
, flag, and still to continue their work
Let US harken to them. We are friends,
but it is not enough to be friends; let
US also be fellow soldiers. They gave
our descendants liberty. we must give
peace to ours"
Peoria. Ills, Feb. 22.-washington,
as a man, a soldier and as a states
man. was extolled at an enthusiastic
I banquet of the Creve Couer club held
tonight.
The address of Meade c. Detwefler Of
Pennsylvania, past grand exalted ruler
Of the Elks, responsive TO the toast
George Washington" was the first on
the programme and it was vociferous-
( ly applauded.
AT a time when the courts and
camps of the old world reeked with
corruption venality sank abashed from
the purity of Washington's life and
the rectitude of his official acts No
deeds of chicanery marked his public
career. No system of vicious politics
/ could find an existence in his admins
tratiOn. The purity OF his statesman
ship, devoid Of all desires for personal
gain, cannot be presented too forcibIy
10 the nation of today. In this era
! when partiSanship often takes preced-
ence of integrity, ability and justice
it would be well if all voters would
hew to the line in judging measures
and men by the Washington standard.
Towering above his military ability
surprising all his fine mental balance
Is the moral grandeur so seldom fully
developed in the professional soldier
which is the browning glory of Wash
ingtOn.
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no idle title 1t is the spontaneous
voieing OF the worlds verdict-its trib-
ute to the patriotism unmarried by a
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