The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
SOUTHERN DINNER
SPEECH BY WILLIAM B. HORN-
 BLOWER IN NEW YORK.

ConeentratinE Power at Washington,
 He Says, Will Pave the Way For Time of Corruption. New York Sun.
 The New York Southern Society had it's twentieth annual dinner te the Wal
 dorf-Astoria last night. and managed
 to preserve even in the discouraging atmosphere of a glittering hotel some thing of the atmosphere O. the South.
 Jasamine and magnolia festooned the portraits of distinguished Southerners.
 The songs were all of the South, and
 they were sung with tremendous en- thusiasm. There were present 400 of the society and its guests.
 President Marion J. Verdery propos- ed the health of the President of the United States. It was drunk standing
 and amid cheers. Then MT. Verdery. lowing toward the gallery full of
 brightly gowned women, said:
 Turning from things of earth earthly, I ask you to look at this splen- did constellation of Southern stars.
 brighter than any that shine in the Southern Cross (Cheers and applarse.) Enthroned where you are, ladies, rival ling the beauty of Galatea, ask you to emulate her silence. Ladies and gentlemen, at this season I give you
 Christmas to you all and God bless US every one.'"
 William B. Hornblower. the guest of honor, spoke on American Common
 Sense" He said:
 We are surprised every now and then by waves of emotionaiism in this country, waves which threaten to sweep away our standards. but always
 American common sense beats back
 these waves and things work out all
 right. There was such a wave after the war, when an effort was made to
 reverse the pyramid of Southern soci- ety and prop up the monstrosity by Northern bayonets. but common sense ] compelled the Government to assert ! itself The impeachment of Andrew John
 son was another such wave of emo- l tionalism. If Johnson had been im- | peached this country would have been | turned into a South America. parties | deposing Presidents whenever ths | President refused to be subservient | Here are three names-names of men | not recognized perhaps as they should be-Senators Trumbull of Illinois, Fes- 1 senden of Maine and Grimes of Iowa | Those men stood fast by the Constitu- | ton in that day, and they deserve | to rank with that other triumviratc of the nations great-Hamilton. Madf- | son and Jay.
 Then there came waves of financial
 heresies which appeared for a time to
 endanger our whole financial fabric;
 but common sense swept away the | isms and ologies and spared US dis | grace. Then came the Spanish Amer | fcan war and another period of emo- l tionalism, this time that of expansion I am not going to talk about the Phil 1 ippines. We've got them, and I guess 1 we'll have to keep them. I feel like | this on the Philippines: A client of mine came into my off1ce the other day. looking solemn
 Whats the matterT' said ]. My colored coachman has died and
 remembered me in his will" said he. "Oh that was nice of him." said.
 Nice he'll" said my client. "He
 has made me testamentary guardian of
 his ten minor children"
 Now we are in another wave of emotionalism. The people are shocke ed
 by recent revelations. The cry goes up: Let us have Federal control of
 the railroads and the corporations.
 Federal control of the insurance com
 panies and Federal control of most
 everything in sight. Well. still be-
 lieve the Constitution means what it
 says: Rights not expressly granted
 to the Federal Government are reserv-
 ed to the States and the people there-
 of" (Applause.)
 This is now a Democratic heresy, I
 suppose. I can't discuss the political and economic side of these matters. but here's a phase of the situation, an alarming one. It Is largely the reason