The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-25
MISSOURI S0CIETY'S
NOTABLE BANQUET.
Continued from Page One. This Part.

| fame" concluded the Senator, "the sons
| and daughters of Missouri have wrought
| and brought forth their contributions TO the
| nations glory. With craftsmanship and
| Jurisprudence. with oratory and martial
| achievement, with literature, music and
| art. are associated Missouri names which
| rank among the most illustrous in Ameri-
| can history. 1t Is a noble State. my friends,
You hail from.
But l need not tell you this for you
! have seen with your own eyes. You know
the State: you know what nature has done
| for 1t and what art has done for it: and
you know the people. 1t is the same State
| the same old home you have known since
| you were boys. 1t has grown wonderfully.
| it is larger, there is more Of 1t; but 1t Is
| the same old State. Missouri manhood and
womanhood is unchanged.
And those of US who remain at home,
| still giving our hands and hearts and
| thought to the upbulding OF the State. are
| not forgetful of those who have wandered
away and are striving in other fields. AS
you are proud of Missouri, 80 Missouri is
| proud Of you. her absent sons; who even
here in the worlds greatest metropolis are
demonstrating to the world of what ster-
ling stuff Missouri men are made. But
| remember the latch-string is always out
for you here, but we have better things for
you at home. Come home. then, some day;
come all in bunch. together, Come some
Christmas Day when hearts are light and
lips are merry. when sleigh bells are tink-
ling In the morning starlight and church
bells are ringing in the dawn of the glad
dest day in human history-come, and all to-
sether We will have grand old time at
home in old Missouri
When the applause which followed the
closing utterances of Senator Stone died
away. President Thomas. referring to Mr.
stones mention of the mule and Napoleon,
said that a friend of his who returned from
Pari recently told of the ordinance which
made dealers to hang horse meat over
their doors.
When asked If it was not served in table
d'hote, his friend replied: NO: you have to
order 1t a In carte"
r, In the absence of Representatives Charles
r. JOY, who was to respond to the toast
characteristics of M.ssourians," and D. A.
De De- Armond. who was selected to reply to
stepped into the breech. Mr.. Kerens said
that Senator-elect Stone had covered the
State OF Missouri so fully that he did not
say. Il take 1t the State will be safe In his
hands" said Mr.. Kerens. Il thought the
Governor would tell us about the push and
there" Wv
PUSH AND PULL.
An uproar followed Mr.. Kerens's sally.
Thomas in his following introductory speech
to repeat the couplet of Mr.. Henry NJ.
Blossom. formerly of Missouri:
Success Is swing to door swung to,
And the lobby's always full:
xnd sef In 1 by The the oS9 door %sea
Representative Richard Barthodt was
then introduced to respond to the toast
Who We Are" Mr.. Thomas, had made
in Bartholdts district, and Mr. Bartholdt
In reply said that the reason for this is
trict where are not gathered nightly any
number of men who believe they can repre-
sent the district more acceptably than he
can.
PARTuoI DTS cpErCp
In his address. Representative Bartholdt
said:
President Grant once said on an occa-
sion of this kind. he always preferred to
have the first say. because then he could
enjoy the embarrassment. the discomfort
and the struggles OF all the succeeding
speakers.
On this score let me assure the gentle
men who preceded me that l am entirely
comfortable and very much at home here.
In fact, having been twice citizen of New
Iork, am almost as much at home among
New Workers. in Missouri as / am among
Missourians in New York. The only diff
you came from Missouri to New York. 1
went twice from the Empire State back to
imperial Missouri and l cannot help hut
think that I have chosen the better part.
But according to the toast assigned 10
me am to tell you not where We are at,
put who We are. Well, since We are no
Indians We must all be immigrants the
descendants. of immigrants Only 800 years
settle, in considerable numbers on Ameri-
can soil. 1t makes little difference who
came sooner and who came later. for meas
ured by eternity, this period is but second
OF time. And no matter whether We are
from one State or country. or two States.
State. to-day We all have but one country;
we are one and all. heart and soul, Ameri-
cans; Missourians. second. New Workers
third. but Americans first, last and all the
time.
II go still further. say We all spring
from the same source and are descendants
OF the same race; We are children. too.
or the same spirit, the restless spirit Of
migration which like hope itself. springs
eternal in the human heart. Man started
from the Himalayas, in middle Asia. in a
westerly direction. and after thousands OF
years is still wandering. Persia. Arabia
Palestine, Egypt Phoenicia, Greece and
Rome in rotation became his home: then
Northern and Western Europe until, in
search Of a waterway to India, he dis
covered America The 800 years of coloniza-
tion Of this vast continent completed, he
proceeds to where the greatest Missourian,