Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-23
NEW ENGLANDERS
In Other States Gather Around
the Banquet Tables.
A Notable Meeting Of Kindred Spirits
at New York City.
Equally Enjoyable Gathering Meets
in Quaker City.

New York. Dec. 22.-The annual din.
| ner OF the New England Safety of the
City OF New York, held, tonight. in The
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., a more notable af-
fair has not been held during the oS
years since the Incorporation c. the
society. There We're 554 diners and the
distinguished speakers included Whit
law Reid, Andrew Carnegie. Rev. d.
Newell Dwight Hills, Gen. Fl. c. Cor
hin and II. NJ. sStuart-Wo:th!y. Tier
We're also presents as guests at the
main table Edmund Clarence Sted-
man, the retiring president Of the So
ciety; Rear Admiral Frederick Rod
gers, L. s. n; Gen. Stewart r.. Wood
ford, Col. Daniel f. Appleton. Horace
Russell, Former Secretary Cornelius \.
l'liss. j. Pierpont Morgan, William
Butler Duncan, president OF st An
drews' Society: VIM. T. Emmett of the
Society of Friendly Sons of st. Pat
rick; Robert G. Ogden, president of the
Pennsylvania Society, and Eober- T.
Harrison. president OF the Southern
Society.
Addressing the assembled New Eng
lenders, President s5tedman made a re-
port OF the financial standing Of the
society and Of tne neurology Of the
year. He paid high tribute to William
Earl Dodge, bis immediate pr5Geces-
sor IL office.
After a toast had been drunk to The
President of the United States" Whit
law Reid was introduced:
Mr.. Reid discussed the immigration
question at considerable length and then
passed to a consideration of national en-
pansion. On this point he said:
Shall we fine that safe course By roam
ing the oceans to drag i'll semitrOpical
and revolutionary communities to he
made states in the union equal With our
selves. with sometimes perhaps Il balance
Of power that may enable them to govern
us and the land of our faith =rs?
Such questions have burst upon us toe
suddenly out of our recent expansion 10
justify at the outset harsh criticism OF
any rash or ill-consiGored proposals that
may rise to the surface i'll the first frOth
Of public discussion. But venture 20
predict that the time will come within the
lives of many who row hear me when
the man who shall propose the incor-
poration as Il state into this government
Of the United States Of America OF any
island in the sea. the Philippines, the
Sandwich islands or Porto Rico or Gu
"a, will he haunted from political life as
l public enemy, whether he be animated
9'arely by lingering "reminiscences of the
ilBusters and the slavery propaganda OF
whether lie represent a sugar trust i'm
Wall street. or sage trust in the United
States Senate
Andrew Carnegie responded to the
cast scotland and New England
one in faith and deed. He said:
"Mr President. New England seems in
one respect to have been unfortunate. She
was surely christened wrongly at hel
birth. There must have been some mis-
take. Everything points to a case of sub
stitution. religiously, educationally or So
cially. She is Republican politically, non
conformist Teligiously, democratic social
ly, as Scotland is, and all her character
Isles, her snrewdnesS, tenaclty, 1ruganty.
indomitabie WILL her grip. her enthus-
iasms. her intellectually, are the same
as the Scotch. she is no child of tie soft
south plains of England. the gay land
scapcs and gardens Of roses, but of the
stern north. the land of tie moantain
md flood in every feature. Should she
EVER conclude to be re-chriStened attel
ler true mother and bear the proud name
low Scotland would be uplitteG.
old Scotland and New Scotland. as
hey always have stood in the past for the
anne causes. stand today prepared 10 d.
,r die as of vore in the future if neediul.
sor civil and religious liberty. national
Independence, for the royalty of man ana
n defence of these would march today to
stake the faggot, eXuitingly as their lore
'athprs did rejoicing in the sacrifice.
MIR. President and gentlemen, search
I'll the history and no two peoples can
10 found so much alike i'll their history,
characteristics. aims and achievements,
md so completely one in faith and deed.