The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-02-13
Secretary Long and General SiCkleS
Among the Guests of the Club.
Work of Navy Department.

Boston. Feb. i3-The Middlesex club,
cies. celebrated Lincoln's birthday by a
banquet at Hotel Brunswick last evening.
The guests who addressed them we're SEQ
retary OF the Navy John ID. Long. Major
General Daniel 4. Sickles. Captain John
Boardman, ". s. A. and Roscoe Conkling
Bruce. a colored student and orator at
Harvard college.
The presiding officer. ex-Mayor Edgar
r. Champlin OF Cambridge. read from the
original manuscript of campaign speech
made by Abraham Lincoln in 1861. TO the
effect that public sentiment cannot be
withstood, for with II behind a principle
there can be no failure.
Hon. John l.. Bates, lieutenant govern
or OF Massachusetts,. spoke of each OF the
other guests in turn, welcoming each to
the Commonwealth, closing with a fine
tribute to Secretary Long, termng him
IAN unselfish patriot The cheering
which greeted this remark was such as to
be heard for blocks.
SECRETARY LONG.
Secretary Long was in very humorous
welcomed by the Middlesex club, because
the club Is Massachusetts,, and because
Il runs Massachusetts.
i bring you good tidings from Washing
ton. To be sure, We there are only the
expression OF your initiative and we are
carrying out. as l believe. in every de-
partment the ideals and the demands OF
the best sentiment OF Massachusetts. 1t
is interesting to note the difference be-
tween the political history of a year after
II has passed and is written I'm cold
type and the history of it as II
would be IL written only I'm the sensa-
tional headlines of the contemporaneous
enterprising press.
The great work OF government goes on
IN all its varied ranges; its varied trusts
are administered In the interests OF the
people; it's officials are as busy and as abb
sorbed In their regular duties as are the
members of any trade or vocation in Bos-
ton.
My own department. IL I may refer 10
II, Is serene. It's work goes on Congress
will not grant IL all the appropriation Il
asks but IL Is not a new thing for one
10 ask for more than one gets. What IL
spends is not dumped into the sea, but
goes for the employment OF labor. the de-
velopment Of Industry and that distribu-
ton OF money which is vital TO good
times
The state department has covered IT.
self with distinction. IL has won for us
the open door; A has obtained the respect
ard good wishes as never before OF the
other great powers OF the earth. There
seems almost TO be a rivalry among the
nations OF the world 20 assure us of their
kindly disposition not only now, but In
the past.
WITH GREAT INTERESTS.
The war department is dealing with the
great interests which are committed 20
its hands and II Secretary Root were
here he would assure YOU that the ad-
rninistration In the Philippines Is not n
failure, but is advancing every day to-
ward the pacification and good govern
men OF those islands.
Here too. the wise student looks not 20
the sporadic incident OF fight here or a
riot or murder there. but 20 the fact
that schools are established; that the
American teacher is in evidence In great
numbers; that courts are established;
that roads are built: that business grows
and that American civilization is there
90 stay and 90 bless
OF course. the cost OF Internal admins
tratiOn Is borne by tho island revenues
But why should Il not beg Ard what
could speak more for their welfare and
for their redemption from slsvish depend
ency7
The question of the Independence of
these islands. which Will one day be a
substantial and vital question. r. TODAY
an academic question. Men may make
speeches for party effect. but there A.
no party, there Is no community. in the
United states that for one moment in
tends 20 abandon or would take tho re-
sponsiblity OF abandoning the trust we
are now under 10 give those Islands the
pacihcation. the government and civili-
zation which we ourselves enjoy. doubt
~ a. Irsff
who do not accept this view.
WORK OF A GENERATION.
This 10 the rork net o. esv. but sf q
generation But when the tine cornss
that that trust IL executed and the ability