The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-23
THE MAKING Of A
NATIONAL SPIRIT
Alderman Speaks There
on in Words Of Music.
BANQUET IN NEW YORK
As a Guest OF the Chamber Of Com.
merce the President of virginias
University Responds to a
Toast Telling OF the
South's Hope.
BANQUET IN NEW YORK
,By the Associated Press.)


New York, NOV. 21.-The Chamber
Of Commerce held its one hundred
and thirty-seventh annuel banquet in
Delmonico's. Morris X. Jesup president
of the Chamber of Commerce, pre-
sided and with him sat Joseph III.
Choate, General Horace Porter Brig
adler General Frederick d. Grant,
Rear Admiral Joseph b. Coghlan, Gov
ernor Andrew j. Montague, of Vir-
ginia; Dr. Edwin a. Alderman. presi-
dent of the University of Virginia;
William Ridgely. Comptroller OF the
Currency; Alfred Mosey, c. NJ c..
and Lieutenant General Cnaffee.
The toast of the evening was to the
President of the Cnitea States and this
WAS followed by a toast TO the King
OF England. Then followed the toast
England and America" to which Mr..
Choats responded.
General Porter responded to the
toast The diplomatic and commercial
relations between the TWO great re-
publics." Governor Montague. OF
Virginia, spoke to the toast our uni
ted country and President Alderman
to the toast 1.-The making of a ma
tional spirit
Governor MontagIe said in part:
Our united country not only has
neace home but is now the peace
maker of the world. No partisan pre-
iudice should Withhold from the Presl-
dent the just homage for his diplomacy
So beneficentIy eXerted in ending the
bloody struggle in the Orient. we
have recently demonstrated that in
the presence of q foreign foe our coun-
try encounters no divisions, and ii
does not strain confidence nor tempt
imagination to predict that should q
greater foe break upon our shores
there would spring up in our midst d
natriotism so solid and an enthusiasm
so holy as to leave in darkness the
triumphs of former days.
The Address OF Alderman
President Alderman said:
The protective strength of democ-
racy conceive TO be. the accept
;tnce Of the washington type OF pubic
spirit as a working lorm OF patriotism
upon as large a scale in the social and
political order as the instinct for CO.
operation and combination has been
accepted in the indus trial world. BY
the measures in which United States
steel surpasses the blacksmiths shop in
efficiency by the measure in which
municipal government surpasses the
rural township in completely of poll
cease TO be regarded as a game, or
as war; or as a fixed code. or as Il
Ireasure-troye and come To be thought
Of as public function, us public
trust, not only in method and organ
ization but in moral responsibility In
short. as an industrial democracy has
carried TO high efficiency new philo-
sophy of business and politics so II
must reaffirm and reincarnate its old
nf ri +
ism re-adapted with intelligence To
vaster needs.
''Today's patriotism means vast
reaction from an unsocial and pre-
datory individualism to self-restraint
and consideration for the Federal
welfare. expressing itself in cry for
fairness and honor and sympathy in
use of power and wealth, as the state
of spirit and mind that alone can
safeguard republican ideals. Sound
public conscience aud valid public
opinion are the last unbreached strong
holds of our old democracy. In proof
of their soundness and authority,
claim that if there be q man in Amer
lea today who has an unjust fortune
end a pagan ideal of its uses, he will
not bask as costly in the self-respect
of his fellows nor have as much
fun as Croesus or as Louis XIV. Inc
gift of one hundred and seven million.
Of dollars in one year by private in
dividuals to the Federal welfare, q
colossal development of the sense OF
social obligation barely dreamed of by
Washington, is the testimony ON the
affirmative side of this opinion.
After isolation and submersion
through the virtues of self-reliance
and patience the Southern states are
now vigorous parts of the modern in