The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-15
SOUTHERN ATTACK ON ROOT.
FILINGS AT tRO0SEyELT, TOO, AT
sOCIETysSr ANIMAL DINNER


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Ax.inaA NsEinS I've Many Laws
william Ihrber, a South Carolina Law
yer and pre Sideni OF the South Carolina
Sonis<y. stir pd UP the SouLhssn Society
and its Suasas laa nighI a. h annnA
dinner at the \Valdorf-Astoria by attacking
Elihu Root for bis Stats rights speech do
lfyursd by the ,Scor~sary u Stase haf
"wednesday niaN before 70 Pennsyt-
v~nians The s with OzroInisn took q
little ntns, also, Az President RoossUslk-
TArs wAs Wild ~iIpplanss from scms 800
ticns Of the grand lbaIlrooxn, hut thsro were
sIlrnt spots also. Apparently an al tho
diners were not IN n ecord with Mr.. Barber.
President Woodrow Wilson Of Pr1ncetoo
vss The principal spe aksr a. me ,Ss t"sst
f-Pptrotis1n,' in which hs Expressed 70
4 opdnion thar not NOR laws are neeood,
fhrt a smaller regard feF parsons IN tns al
administration Of tho LAWS We nave. Lno
received with marked approval and warm
i applause aw 4, IN.
Southern Society here and the most eiaD-
orats perhaps in its history. Inere were
present more than 900 member rs ana tneir
guests. The dinner was startsd win the
Traditional blAst from the soc1etys bugler,
and President M arion j. VerderS, decorated
with the scarlet collar OF the society LED
the way TO the tune Of Dixie.
With President Verdery on. the dals
ware the p~raSidents OF most OF the New
York societies, Albert p. Massey OF the
North Carolnal y. M. Gardenshfre OF the
Missouri, DIR. +. j. bowles OF the tanadlah,
Edward +. Darrell of st. Georges, Robert
Frater Munro of st. Andrew'st william
NJ. Polk of the Tennessee, j. Hampden
Robb of the PENNSYLVANIA, Joseph /. clark,
Thomas Ewing Howard X: Bayne,, gov
ernor of the N%iiginians; Major Edward
owen of the Confederate Veterans, Beden
Parker of the Georgia society, j. Nevett
Steele of the Maryland, Gen. Horace Porter,
President Wilson and Augustus Thomas;
The souvenir menu was remlnlscentottn
South from cover to cover. II was pound
In Confederate gray and contained por,
traits of the twelve past presidents framed
in palm, olive and oak leaves. A page
which the banqueters kept IN sight throuHh-
out the dinner ard FROM which they sang
ami husia Isl held a picture Of the old
Kentucky Home" ard a'verse.
They hun, no more for phe possum and the coon
On the meadow. the hll and the shore;
They sing no more by thu glimmer OF the moon
On the bench by the oldscabin door.
President Verdery started the speech
making with an apost sopne 10 the isdles'
of whom, in the galleries. there was a hand
some collection. He told the members that
the society was out of debt and had money
In the bank, and then PASSED to a short
eulogy Of the late Samuel Spencer, wEo was
a member of the Southeners.
Gen. Horace Porter, who spoke first,
oked up toward the galleries, which
doomed like poppy gardens, and told the
hanquetters that he was a firm believer IN
the Scriptural injunction for men TO set
1. their affections on things above. Then,
constantly Interrupted by laughter, he paid
tribute to the Southern girl, winding up
with this,
"Her feet are so small hat her boots
- = l. --Is.A.1 uufNh m ~fAnfhh7Iah "
laughter, applause and Rebel yells.
Gen Porter made a column or two of
epigrams which tickled the Southeners
immensely. He said that New York was
o city of men with settled incomes and I'M
settled minds. partaking OF original sin
hone up in quart bottles. He told them
that he had TO quit diplomacy because he
didn't want to be labelled like the IMMINENT
bottles in a drug store, FOR Internal Use
ONLY" Then he got them laughing with
half a dozen stories of the civil war. this one
among others:
In the final campaign with Grant, Gen.
Burnside, a perfect Chesterfield and ladies'
man, was reviewing his troops near the home
of a witty Southern woman. a Mrs. Tyler.
Pointing TO the men marching by, Gen. Burn
side said to her:
Madam. you never saw such a BODY of
men, eh2"
mot at liberty. " she replied. instantly.
AT the outset Of the civil war people NJ
North did not believe It would amour TO
much, Gen Porter went on. They thought
u was a labor trouble stirred up perhaps by
walking delegates, for, said he. were not all
on the other side -~non-unlon" mem
President Wilson Of Princeton followed
Gen Porter with his address on ~Patri-
otism." He took for his Inspiration a pas
sage in Tennyson's princess.
a nation sun. the rulers and the ruled.
SOME SENSE Of duty.
Something OF a faith.
some reverence for the laws ourselves have made,
Some pa tient force TO change them when we will,
some civic manhood. nrm against the crowd.
Each line" said President Wilson
aaffords a text for the matter l speak Of.
II requires constant fort of the magma
fion and constant Studious attention 70
fhe VARIETY OF conditions which diversity
the life Of the country from ocean 10 ocean
and an ever persistent catholioity OF sym
patby and judgment think Of his coun-
try as every citizen should, as a single
whole, a thing to be served not merely in
it's parts and In its separate interests, as
the States are intended to serve IL, but also
in ita entirety, as the Federal Government Is
Intended to serve it, keeping all interests
harmonious, all powers cooperatiVe-as a
nationcompact OF rulers and ruled, moving
together under those who make the laws
"A and bv reason Of the virtue OF those who
obey them" IApplause.l Then President
Wilson said:
And vet only upon such a conception can
an intelligent sense of duty be based. Cen
uine patriotism cannot be based upon a
sense Of private advantage or upon any calcu-
lation Of interest. II can be based only upon
a sense of duty. And duty must conceive its
object the country, the nation we would
serve.
I like 10 recall that passage OF De Tocque-
yifie's in which he marvels with eloquent
praise at the variety Of Information and ex-
cellence OF discretion which our polity did
not hesitate to demand OF !ts people. the
common people. II Is in this. rather than by
anything we have invented in the way Of
government form. that we have become dis
tinguished among nations. lApplsuse.l
Indeed. America has fallen to the ommo
place level OF all the other nations which
have preceded her and which now accom-
pany her in the race for leadership. II she
have not something OF a faith that makes
Of her public men idealists and Of her typical
~citisens men to whom principles seem ever
a sustaining motive Of action.
II there Ia any circumstance which should
4 deeply trouble US in the signs OF the time
IL Ia that we have found a. a ground OF sctioh
not sturdy desire to achieve what we have