The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-24
NATAL DAY OF
 WASHINGTON Is Celebrated in Many
 Places. H0AR SPEAKS IN CHICAGO Massachusetts Senator Makes Profound Address. President Francis of the St. Louis Worlds Fair the Guest of Honor at Dinner Given in
 London.
HOAR SPEAKS IN CHICAGO

Chicago, Feb. 23.-The anniversary of the birth of George Washington was gen. orally observed in Chicago today. the particular celebration being that under the auspices of the Union League Club this afternoon at the auditorium. Sena- tor Hoar of Massachusetts was the orator of the day and delivered eulogy on Washington before an audience of 4'ooo. Senator Hoar said in part:
 Edward Everett in. great oration before the war, called upon his country men, as 1t seemed for a time, in vain. to forget to turn a deaf ear to unpatriotic counsels, to the mad cry of treason and aisunion and return once more to the patriotic counsels of Washington. It seemed, for a time. as though the appeal was unheeded. But the spasm of popular madness and rage passed by. Washing ton resumed his place again as our su- preme counsellor and leader. He became once more the example and idol of every American soldier and statesman. and the farewell address became once again the political bible of every American. Doubt not that this shall happen again and again. Other temptations will come to us and party spirit, like Satan sitting at the
 
 counsel in the ear of the people. Popular excitement will be kindled by the lust of empire and passion for conquest. The eyes of the peoples may be dazzled by false and tinsel military glory. But while the portrait of Washington hangs in ev- CT village, while his statues adorn our chief cities, while his monument Is found In every State while his life is on the shelf of every home, while the detail of his greater career Is studied in every uni versity; while his image is in the heart of every youth. the people will come back again to the wise, sober and just coun- sci in following whichslie the path to a true glory and true safety. The AmeIf- can people will never long go astray so long as to every great question of na- tional policy or national duty they know what Washington would have said and know what Washington did say.
 Meaning of the Tag.
 "The orator of today puts his emphasis on glory, on empire. on power, on wealth. We live under and love. and we still shed our hearts blood for the same flag which hoated over our fathers. and for which they were ready to die. But 1t sometimes happens that the flag has a different mea ming. whether 1t floats over the Capi- tol O. the snip of war. or the regiment on the march or the public assembly. We no longer speak of it except coldly and formally, as the symbol of liberty, but only as the symbol of power, or of a false, cheap. tlnsel glory.
 "T think the popular reverence for Washington and Lincoln and for Sumter and fer Webster, is not abated. But yet few political speakers quote today the great sentences which made them so fa- nous, or the great principles to which they advocated their lives.
 The fate of the nation depends in the last resort on individual character. Ev- 1rything in human government, like ev- srvthing in individual conduct, depends, In the end, upon the sense of duty. What evsr safeguards may ne established how ever complicated or we'll adjusted the necha nism. you come to a place some where where safety depends upon some ,ody having the will to do right when 1t s in his power and may be his interest 0 do wrong When the people were con- Iiccring the adoption of the Constitution of the United States one of our wisest statesmen said that the real and only se- curity for a republic Is when the rulers hare the same interest as the people If they have not, constitutional restraints will break down somewhere, except for the sense of duty of the rulers"
 In the evening the principal event was the banquet at the Union League Clut where Senator Hoar was the guest. ot honor. Other speakers of the evening were President Bancroft of the Union League Club, President Eliot of Harvard University. the Rev. Frank w. Gunsau- fus and Bishop Gailor of Tennessee.
 In his speech at the night banquet, Sen ltor Hoar said:
 Roast for Mir Root.
 "A great paper has said that gentle man who would be !n General Washing tons company now would be in very bad company because the counsel which he gave lis countrymen who he was alive would be very bad for his countrymer new And see that my excellent friend MT. Root, Secretary of War. thinks some. thing of the same way about Abraham Lincoln. He says that reconstruction and achievements which followed the war have been a failure Well. now, I fee very kindly. indeed, tovAard Mir Root He is a good blade of tempered steel fir the hands of any President whom he will faithfully serve, and Mir. Root also comes from good, honest, old Concord stock There was never yet anything bad came out of that Nazareth. But there are things that some men cans do and some things that they cannot. and I do nO think the American people will ever em plov Mrs Root or give him at anw rate monopoly or a trust in the business tC do their thinking for them in question: of righteousness and liberty do no think that when he goes out of office h, will get a place with any of the grea morning papers to supply their reader. with the latest news from the Philippin, TSlandS"