The sun., 1903-11-18

II some other measure will insure a mer-
chant marine then am for some & other ~ m meas as
sure merchant marine. then am for all such
measures.
ALLISON ON THE SENATE.
Before drinking to the next toast, said
Mr.. Jesup at the close of Secretary Shaws
speech, Il want to say that tonight the
perseverance of the Chamber has been
rewarded. For many years we have tried
craftsmanship Is known and honored by
every true American. have the pleasure
of presenting the Nestor of the American
Senate, the Hon. William b. Allison OF
| Iowa, who will respond to the toast, "The
United States Senate"
Senator Allison arose amid the cheers
and applause of the diners. When he got
chance he had little fun with Secretary
Shaw.
Il am sorry" he said, "that have not
| the faculty, which the Secretary Of the
| Treasury 30 eminently Possesses, Of interest
| ing you with anecdote or with sharp ortiz
cism and sharp sayings, and am also sorry
that the gentlemen who sit before me VIII
not have the opportunity Of having laid
| before them the manuscript Of what l am
about to say.
Il will be obliged to ask their indulgence
| and their benevolence in reporting what l
may say, and, If the experience Of the Secre-.
tary of the Treasury in the past is my good
ioiNullc lO-HlRHl, ALI VIII iih'S
better speech in the morning than l will
give you tonight lLaughter.l
| Senator Allison went on to give some
| thing of history Of the Senate and to de-
| fend its traditions and Methods Of doing
business from the criticisms which,
| he said, had been made of both. He spoke
| of the high character of the men who had
| always composed the Senate, OF the pa
triotisn which had always inspired its
! members. Said he:
can assure YOU that the Senate iss not only
will not seek to aggrandize to itself powers
| that the Constitution does not clearly give
se So that II The future re Ss Hs T the pss,
| viii not undertake, improvidently, to IN the
least degree impair the powers of the Execn-
or in securing arbitrations which will give
peace instead of war lApplause.l
Bishop Doanc's toast on Capital and
.abor" came next. In part the Bishop
seid'
BISHOP poANE ON THE REAL LABoRERs.
| am free 10 say, that know nothing what
ever about capital. except the capital which M
think do know something about labor
because have been aboring man for more
But want to start by saying that believe
It is true that the popular method OF using
the copulative conjunction which joins these
two words is an outrage upon grammar ana
upon truth, IT is constantly. and conttnu,,
copulative, and the two things are put to-
gcther by nature and by God 80 that no man
! can put them asunder in antagonlsm ana
opposition to each other.
If may 20 back to a more familiar do
main-I do not mean preachingnbut l mean
things with which am more familiar twenty
five years ago nobody said science and re-
ligion without incidentally supposing they
were speaking OF two things which stood IN
apposite and opposite relation to each other
Nnu sripnCe has DurSue0 its
vestIgations until it has discovered by proof
! that it stands on the edge OF impe1iet[a6le
because science has become religious and
| because re gion has become scientific. in that
no more undertakes to ga gTdoInd oolss seli uP6a 6a
existence of what Drummond called the
natural law in the spiritual world, science Is
today for science. fApplausel.
s" do not hesitate to say oapitla Is labor sI
and the abor s as tS t6ere are casse
| OF people in this world, idlers and laboring
| men ,, ,,-.,- -.,.
| in clubs and sometimes in corner groceries
They are the, unedible fungi OF humanity:
They the be ee
by the suicide of lives that have spent them
selves they are s or res
4'S Now ta0 who s'iS are are the wor king mem am
degrade Degrade our ST human @ nature into the lower
| part that Of the animals. l believe it stands
| true to day that the hardest workers in the
world are the men who work either with their
| souls or their brains or their hearts ana not
| the ones who work with their hands and
"' Priests. students and administrators Of
government, heads Of great railroads re a ana aIn1
| great fin an cal institutions leaders OF political
| and social reform, the legislators, no matter
where they are-these are the hard workers
| of the world because they do not work merely
with muscles that are rested by nights sleep,
but because they work with an unending and
unrestine toll night and day that sspsins ~
ThSy are, the workers Of the world world u !
| believe the hardest workers OF the world are
The men upon whom the burden and heat OF
'nT Tberefore, u am perfectly certain it is true
TO saw that the capitalists are the laboring
men, and upon that ground. II upon no other,
there can be no antagonism between the Two.
because in this respect they certainly are
'''I think on the other hand it is Just as true,
to-day that labor is capital and thar Sapltaal a.
| ia labor There is no drop OF sweat, there IS
| NOT n blow OF muscle that Is not in the interest
OF capital, because it makes The I wealth ,to q the ne
world ard a1S the coin'rement OF the wealth OF
They ar arc to be cessed absolutely and really
together as aborng nnw sn UH1Y me sbom1 bo
IT, are the men who are working, not merely
with brawn. but are working as well with
believe that Dewitt Clinton was harder
worker than any man that dug on his canal.
| tApplauSe.l j venture 10 suHRest, not as u
fact. hut as n suggcstion. that four things
borne in mind will put this copulative con
| junction between labor and capital in Its
| proper place: .o.,-..a
next place unsclfshncss, and next place that
| for which this Chamber OF Coipmerce has
stood Tor al these one hundred and fifty years.
and for which 30 many OF the leading men
| stand conspicuous in IL to-day. namely, the
love of country. patriotism. as over against
any self interest or any local interest IN the
| world ,. T.,
that Capita must be not only on the top.
| hut under the bottom OF every pillar that is
going TO stand You may call II by one name
when il is on top and by another name when
| Il is at the bottomit ia labor in every case,
| But the most beautiful futed column in the
| world that s,istains the most elaborate fabric
in the world will toppe and totter to its fall
| unless ccual honor is given and equal pains
taken not merely with the decoration of the
| rinthian- whatever it may be. OF the capi,
| mi column that is on top, but OF the capital
that stands underground. and CRIME. II
may be-, at the bottom, which merely means
! / think that labor upbuilds nhor,, and that
capital crowns labor. tGreat applause
Tie Rev DR.. Mackay responded to the
toast. Commercial Imagination 1r
| tLo Of tpn lIHb