The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-23
If MILES STANDISH Saw Us,
DEEPEN TELLS NEW ENGLtNDERS
WHAT HE'D PROBABLY SAY.
Reflections Of q Real Puritan on Our
Progress and Present Condition I'm.
agined for the New England society
1t Its Dinner-(anegie Not There.

pieces and corn and potatoes Tor table
decorations, the members Of the New
England Society, eoO strong. Eat down to
their ninetv-seventh annual festival at
the Waldorf-Astoria last night. The din
ner, or festival, IA the society likes to call
it's annual gathering. was one OF the largest
II has ever held. The tables were crowded
and in the galleries were hundreds Of
women.
The decorations Of the big white and
gold banquet hall were unusually elaborate.
About the dinner itself, everything smacked
Of New England and when it came to speech
making. the range of subjects didn't get
far beyond Puri,ans. Pilgrims and the
Nayaowcr.
lho president of the society. Edmund
Clarence Stedman presided. Among those
who sat at the guest table with him Were:
j. Pierpont Morgan, an ex-president of the
society; Henry L. Stoddard. Justice william
W. Goodrich, Henry Z. Rowland. William
Butler Duncan. Justice James A. OGorman.
Prof. Calvin Thomas, Gen. O. o. Howard,
the Rev. Joseph II. Twichell. Senator Chaun-
ccy NJ Depew Gen. Alfred +. Bates, Horace
g. Pratt. the Rev. DIR. l.. +. Chamberlain,
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Stuyvesant
Fish, Augustus Van Wyck, Horace Russell.
Walter = Logan and James W, Beekman.
MR. CARNEGIE KEPT AWAY BY COLD.
Andrew Carnegie was to have been one
Of the guests He had not only consented
To be present. but also to respond to the
toast. Scotland and New England in Faith
aud Deed" While attending the funeral
Of Mrs Grant on Sunday. however. MIR.
Carnegie caught cold. Last night he
sent word TO Mr.. Stedman that his doctors
forbade his going out. The society drank
the health of Mr.. Carnegie later IN the
evening, after they had toasted the Presi-
dent OF the United States.
TRIBUTE TO TOM REED.
After Mr.. Stedman had read greetings
to the society from the New Eng land So
cieties of other places, he spoke feelingly
Of the members the society has lost by
death during the year The late salem IL
Wales, he said, was man whose place !.
would he hard 10 I'LL in the many fields Of
his act ivities OF the death of ex-Speaker
Reed Mr. Stedman said:
In the loss OF Thomas Bracket Reed this
Geiy h are The n GTsi , of ion We
our ranks only two years ago Not few Of
H. here had Learned to delight in that nmhe
intellect that large housed >ou looking ont
from a chiid'- face with love OF love -corn
of scorn and contempt Tor all 'hihs' peril
naciou- and uudcrhanded
GEN HOWARD on sCoTCHMES
President Stetlman talked at some length
on what the society was doing and what
it hoped to achieve for all sons OF New
England young and old in the fut ure Then
he introduced the Rev. Joseph Hopkin.
Twichell, who spoke briefly To the toast
"Forefat hers Day"
Mr.. Twchell was followed by Gen. o. o.
Howard, who flied in the gap left by the
absence Of Mr.. Carnegie very satisfactorily
Gen Howard tried his best to stick to MIR
Carnegies toast, but couldn't forbear
saving that the best Scotchmen were those
who had been slightly improved by, inn
migration. He paid warm tribute, how
ever. to Mr.. Carnegie.
President Stedman next introduced Sena-
tor Depew, who was greeted with cheers
Senator Depews toast was: IF hyles
Standish We're Here" He said in uart;
SENATOR DEpEw's SPEECH.
The mos, striking figure in Macauays writ
that centre Of civilization 1000 years hence,
reflects upon the past. while he stands upon
soSrs nTrS Of PAU G"d2n ou f ha1s sn
me tho reverse of that picture. IL IL that
doughty old Puritan warrior ;, w9pt Niles h.
America OF to-day from the standpoint OF the
it, ilnds that the ,oi people who landed
on Plymouth Rock only -? years ago have
become "A nation OF so,rn.po OF people, that
flowers total of 200, or sli 500 TO thousand
billions OF dollars TINT the Plymouth houn-
nnEro US'e M,defn"ss nov reach from the
Atlantic TO the Pacific and IRON IN" tulf OF
McS co 70 the dt% frfl' a su Win tl", great ss
cities. thriving villages, hrosperous farms.
tnnnqfacturne centres md ,elt- aoy'rn,ng
norotis. happy and wealthy OF any nation IN
,Ia Gnds that this Republic is recognized
~ one of the foremost OF the great Powers
watch decide the de-tines Of the inhabitants
OF tho earth: that it i more respected and
more feared than any other nation: that il
has no king. no nobility. 70 classes. no PRIV
lercs. but. al are equal before the law; He
ii. hut II.
mont Of historians. philosophers and states
m.n thi@ maryellpu, structure and these
miraculous results have come from the open
Bible OF the Pilgrim and the compact entered
into IN til. cabin Of the Nlayfower, by which
decided 10 create a nation and found a gov
MED in the affairs of tie world. govern
nIent OF Just and cGual laws.
little shin on that epoch mnkne day. The
United States t. the example Of its creative
power Not Only American citizens are en-
loying it, blessings, but they are extended
wherever floats the nag OF the Jnion IN"
srrit OF con-t tint ional liberty. set free from
NC cabin Of as Hyo csrih hal
mined thrones. tyranuicS, >uperstito and
traditions Under its influence humanity
moro than in all the preceding ages of the
story of man
PHoBIRMs WE HAVE SOLVED.
Tho Senator pictured Capt. Standish
I'm uIiriug about the Indians, and learning
that they had beengot rid Of" Shy the process
learned from you. He quoted the COM
. ments sent by the pious John Robinson,
the pastor Of the Purit ans. al Leyden. when
he heard of the treacherous killing of a
whole tribe But how happy thing had
i, been that you had converted some before
you had killed any The business of that
mild rebuke, said the Senator, has been
appreciated by all the generations succeed
ing Standish who have dealt with the
Indian problem have converted them
first.
Then Senator Depew pictured Capt
Standish. born and bred a soldier. a being
astonished to hear that while in his inc
every third man was "a soldier, -the United
states has now reached hat position Of law
and liberty within itself and of peace with
tho world, that a large proportion Of the
citizens of the United States have never
seen a soldier of the Regular army, and
that army representing eighty millions
consists Of only seventy thousand men"
He took the captain to Boston, where he
would be rejoiced Ito find that Massachu-
setts had repudated the narrow theocracy
which governed her for fifty years." and
then brought him to New York where. after
having been released H. harmless lunatc
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