Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-11-14
BUSINESS MEN FEAST
Foreign Guests Honored at
Washington.
SPEECHES BY SHAW AND YOUNG
EeneraI who Fought In Philippines
Warmly Defends the Army and
Denounces Writers In Un~
mensured Terms.

WASHINGTON, Nov. IA BAN
last night in honor of the representa-
lives of foreign commercial bodies who
came to America to attend the dedica-
lion OF the New York Chamber of Com
merce building and who are in Wash
lngton from the metropolis for a short
visit
The table was set In oval shaped
form and was decorated in large yell
ow chrysanthemUms and American
Beauty roses. Mr.. A. Barton Hepburn,
the chairman of the committee of re
ception of the New York chamber of
commerce, sat at the head of the ta-
BILE, with Ambassador Cambon of
France on his right and Ambassador
Herbert of Great Britain on his left,
while to the right and left of the am
bassadors were seated respectively
Prince PIess and Count Quadt of the
German embassy. Mr.. Hepburn intro
duced the speakers, among whom We're
Secretary Shaw and Major General
Young. Mr. Shaw said in part:
Speaking for that department which
Is supposed more than any other to rep
resent the business interests of the ma
ton, take great and peculiar pleasure
In bidding welcome to the capital of
the greatest American republic repre-
sentatives of so many Of. the leading
commercial nations Of the world. Such
a gathering as this would have been
impossible q century ago. In the crea-
ton of sentiment rendering this event
both natural and agreeable and in the
evolution of conditions making interna-
donal banquets possible commerce has
played most important part"
The spread of intelligence and the
prudence of commerce, he added, were
making for international peace, and,
continuing, he said:
s"rhe consent of rulers to engage in
wars involving the expenditure of we'll
nigh Hmitless blood and treasure has
not always been difficult to obtain.
Statesmen have not always trembled
as they have declared war and made
appropriations for its maintenance. But
commerce trembles. 1t counts the cost.
Commerce is not wanting in ambition,
but it is never ambitious to squander
the Accommodations of centuries in re-
buking the injury of day. And SO,
gentlemen of the chamber of commerce
of the Empire State, our hosts, and dis
dnguished guests from foreign cham
bers, felicitate you all and thank my
God that the day has come when ma
tons shall no longer war without cause,
when great navies are no longer looked
upon as threatening the peace of the
world and when ornaments and forth
fications have lost much of their ter
ror.''
YOUNG DEFENDS THE ARMY.
General S. B. IL Young in speaking
on .sOur Soldiers In the Philippines
said that much comment on the army
in the Philippines had passed beyond
the limits of criticism and descended
to absolute utilization. He said that
the statements came from unreliable
persons and from comparatively few
individuals. The complaints did not
come from the Filipino people or from
the foreign press, but originated with
our own people and were against our
own soldiers. He continued:
mo one was more anxious to have
the soldiers behave properly than were
our generals in the field. These defam-
ers of our patriotic soldiers were never
numerous, but for time were noisy,
and some of our good people believed
there was some truth in their state
ments There were a few good people
that sincerely believed that a voyage
across the Pacific actually had turned
their brothers and lovers, fathers and
uncles into bloodthirsty savages. All
of the army's defamers were densely
ignorant of what constitutes the laws
of war.
'sThe election is now passed, and
those who expected to gain political