The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-10-20

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Though it was given as labor
banquet men of every walk of life.
were to be found among the six hun
dred diners who sat down to the tables
in the Palm Garden, on Fifty-eightl
street. Not only were the men Who
came to do honor to Watson represen-
tative OF every trade or profession bin
they were recruited from every polit
ical party.
William A. Coakley, general pres:-
dent CT the International Protectit
association, presided as toastmasteI
On his right sat Watson. OH his LETT
j. G. Phelps Stokes.
Among tie other men at the speak
ers' table was DR.. Girdner. Bryan's
most Intimate New York friend; James
j. Mahoney, once secretary of the All
bany county committee, Justice Her
rick's old organization; Judge Sheldon
OF Connecticut; George Honnecker, the
peoples party candidate for governo,
or New Jersey; j. w. Forrest, their:
state chairman; Gustave W. Thomp
son, formerly of the Citizens union.
4. V. Ingersoll. candidate for civil!
Justice IN Brooklyn; A.. j. Houlton
the peoples party candidate for gov
sernOr u New York: James. Huchana.,
former national president of tns;
housesmths' union; judge samae
Seabury of the city court; Neville 8.
.Pailiser, Judge Jeffrey of Utica. and
James A. Edgerton.
Secretary H. G. s. Stimson made
the announcement that the petition IN
surfing the appearance of the people s
party candidates on the ballot vas
filed at Albany yesterday with Lax,
signatures.
Inere were many women present
both on the floor and in the boxes
Ihey took active part in the applause
that rocked the Palm Garden.
There were ten long tables arrangett
and every one of them was flied, The
dining was over by $50 and the speech
making began.
Called Him Jefferson
Finally Toastmaster CoaKley pre..
scented Mr.. Watson and the enthusiasm
that had gone before seemed NOTHING
IN comparison. The Jefferson OF the
South the POSTMASTER styled him and
the phrase caught the crowd and they.
shouted 1t back amid their cheers
Mr. watson spoke as follows:
When Alexander Pope wrote the line,
"The proper study OF mankind is man, ;"
his thought was virtually the same as
that which, thousands of years before,
had found expression in the Greea
adage, Know thyself!"
When have studied myself | have
become acquainted with you. Win
= the master key of sympathy the doors
~ every human heart ale opened.
When ". Tough over book we may BE-
sure the writer ianRhed when on
eyes fill with tears we me-; he SUR
that the tears of the author DlisteIc0'
the page as he wrote it.
Victor Hugo declared that there was
not a single crime which he misnt
not at some time, have committed,
and Rousseau elaborated into book
form the record Of his follies, his
vices and his crimes. Thus in every
age and every way we see the em
phasis which nature puts upon the
great mystery Of human brotherhood.
Every morning we rush to devouy
the newspaper. 1t has become a pait
of our daily bread. Why? 1t tets
us what men and women are doing,
saying. suffering, achieving all o1al
the world.
Eat midnight We hear the cry 81
'Flre!' We leap from comfortable
beds. and rush to the scene where We
know that fellow nortals are IN dead
ly peril. A woman appears at some
upper window where the smoke poLrs
forth: a child screams in some room
where the fire is already licking its
greedy tongue, and a hundred mel
dash forward to save the unknoW n
woman, the unknown child-simply be-
cause it is a woman. simply becau &c
it is a child-and in the efforts to save
human life display greater amoull'
and a finer quality of courage thar
the Old Guard showed at Waterloo.
Real Brotherhood Of Man
Walt Whitman in the hospitals was
as true a soldier as any hero who
fought with Lee or Grant.
The Red Cross heroine who braves
h,,I1ote ord nocti1anco In Y,,ip.ctnr ~