New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-21
GEN. MOLINEUX THE GUEST
M TELLS G. A. R. DINERS HE'S TRIED
TO BE PARENT TO SONS WIFE.
.r,ERAI II. c. KING ATTACKS DIR. LYMAN
ABBOTT FOR WHAT HE CALLS
soCIALISTIC TENDENCIES

General Edward l.. Molneux was the guest Of
s,nor last night at the thirteenth annual dinner
EVEN by L. S. Grant Post. G. A. r.. to its as
lo.iate members at the Montauk Club, Brook
-, He was cheered he came in and several
Zines during the course of the dinner, which he
saened 70 enjoy hugely. 1t was his first public
o,nesrance since the acquittal Of his SON
Roland B. Molineux. When urged to speak
briefly he told of his trials during the last four
years and ended with this utterance concerning
Mrs Blanche c. Molineux. his sons wife who is
nreparing 10 get divorce in South Dakota:
There is a person in the United States who
nce told me that she was an orphan girl. If at
anv time any criticisms about her have been
uttered to I've said, I'll try to be a parent to
her.
General MCLeer, who preceded General Moli-
reux, spoke of him as follows:
# is great pleasure that we have him with
- here and can take him BY the hand and con-
graduate him on the great battle he has fought
with "fh bnoT General Monen IN ne last 5fr
nan gallant citizen and as a father who stood
50 noby by his son TO the end
General Molineux said:
As devoted stS4- as I am to the army want TO
one aI ng e FsgaTd i 70 the great fight Of my
70 nv comrades l.ss, and friends.
I have been treated more than kindly by the
crates want to sa that no an ever had so
many friends They have come up and taken me
sspssy Kindly toward the co 1iS a reel
% me during those trying four Years First
sid: "An praise to Almighty God. Who supported
b5y's absolute innocence. and were thus we'll
armed for the struggle l had a wife who was
lpralsed her as a specimen of true Yankee woman
And. secondly, in the words of General Grant. I
aid Vel night 1t out s on this line If It takes
ters And now think Of that other utterance OF
that great general Let us have peace"
Colonel George A. Price presided at the din
ner, which attended by two hundred vete-
and other citizens. The feature of the
speaking was the references made TO the labor
troubles, the lawlessness Of trades unions and
the possibility of a future conflict. The senti-
ment that in case of such a conflict the vete-
rams and their sons would stand out against
the lawless forces of socialism was cheered to
the echo again and again.
william L. FELTON,. principal of the Girls High
School in Brooklyn. struck the keynote of the
evening In the following:
You fought for free labor against slave labor.
As tanss seem to Be gong now the only difference
IS that one forced the laborers 10 work and the
much as possible from the laborers and the other
seeks 10 restrict the output In either case the la
your opinion of the conduct Of the militiamen who
obeyed the law of the State rather than the die
tates Of union, you viii say he did right.
General Stewart L. woodford spoke on "Our
Country" and the young man he calls his boy,
his adopted son. Lieutenant Frederick c. Tan
Ter, also spoke.
General Horatio c. King spoke against the
socialistic tendencies of the times He said:
II is the fundamental principle Of government
that man has a right to labor when. where and
FOR whom ne pleases at what wage he pleases.
When corporations go outside of law I would
: hr0ttle them. When the trades unions go outside
Of law / would throttle and destroy them. The
commander of the military forces I'm the
coal strike in Pennsylvania told that he
hampered and that Governor Stone hampered
ny the opportunities of leading politicians all
the country, asking him TO temporize. in view of
the November elections. If going to have
such cowardice : this in public life let have a
new army. Temporizng with laWlessness is an in
Vitation anarchy.
I recently told DR. Lyman Abbott that he
rreading on dangerous ground when he turned the
pages Of The Outlook toward socia ism. He
didn't get his modern ideas from Plymouth Church
nor his predecessor, Henry Ward Beecher. One
thing that has filled my mind in this crisis is a
longing for the return Of that grand old IF
had his clarion voice here II would ring out
against the movement against liberty. Unless
send men TO our legislative halls to fight against
the usidious advance Of socialism may have a
repetition OF the scenes Of 1851.