The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-22
TEV ENGLAND MEN AT DINNER
nit or THE True PLYMOUTH
POCE ALLOWED TO Re SEEN.
. Son a, Edward Everett Pleads fer n
Right OF Men TO Keep the Money They
uo,a Nade-S~ca,dcnts Heath Not
Druns, but ire Sovereign Peoples

The New EliNttA NSSApby IL DNNSAJA
,nrortAd a few genuine Yankees from
Massachusetts and Now Jersey to give tone
- ,be eraCal dinner, which was held last
n;vbt in tho Porch Mansion. Among the
p;lvrims from New England that had some
.h,po 10 say was William Everett, master OF
,e Adams School al Quincy, Mass, a son
SFdwa1lF Everett Ofthe New Jersey Puri-
..rs for;aer Assistant Attorney-Goneral
- the T'ri,ed States James NJ. Book was
the most prominent.
The quests Of the society made proper
aeisanCe on entering the Pouch Mansion
h.,ore a chunk Of the true rock, a bit OF
ranite that was clipped from Plymouth
pcck nv the Pilgrim Society OF Plymouth
.0d presented to tho New England Society
sr Brooklyn in 1891. IL is the proudest
,ossession Of the society and il exposed TO
,a uaye OF tho GU rious only on the COCA
son Of the annual dinner.
Tho Pn,ch Mansion was decorated with
rbrstmas green's and bunting. The ban
,er of the society bearing a picture OF
plvnonth Rock in water oolors hung over
,be guests table.
The dinner was essentially a Brooklyn
.sap. nearly every prominent resident
hDlnQ IDtIt Nv tbo O0ooRN*oa W -. &NoN
Borough Preeident Brooklyn over had. IL
was a neighboriy affair, since nearly every
hodv knew everybody else and was SO busy
sxohan ging personal news that the courses
sometimes got cold. A quartet relieved
,bs hard worked orchestra and made music
With about every tune from The Star
snanrled Banner" to bill Simmons II
ANYTHING, Bill simmons was in greater
nopularity, since Il was played four times
nv the orchestra to the Star Spangled
Banners once.
Az the table with the president Of the
socety, Elijah r. Kennedy, who wore all
his medals last night, were Mr.. Beck, Mr..
Everett, Prof. William Lyon Phelps OF Yale,
william H.. McElroy, the Rev. Nehemiah
Boynton, DR.. Peter L. Sohenck, president
Of the st. Nicholas Society, and George j.
O'Keefe of st. Patrick's Society.
President Kennedy cad the names OF
members Of the society that have died
within the last year, while the charter
members stood. Then Mr.. Kennedy intro
duced the Schoolmas ter Of Quincy, who
responded to the toast The Descendants
OF the Pilgrims-They Are Not shamed OK
Their Fathers Principles
Mr.. Everett told the banqueters that it
gave nm especial pledSure 10 ID pIeSelI az
scelebration of that kind, because it was the
ONLY function at which he was notintroduced
as the son of his father.
sAs a matter Of fact said he, my father
was not a descendant Of the Pilgrims and
am. Laughter There was not a drop of
Pilgrim blood in his veins.
Mr.. Everett said he considered IL provi-
Dental that his maternal ancestor, John
Rowland, was not drowned of the May
flower, since that misfortune would have
prevented his own attendance at the Inner.
As an instance of the strength OF the
Pilgrim tradition in New England to-day
he told a story of two Massachusetts chill
dren at play. Their mother in the next
room wondered what they were playing
until she heard the little boy say: Don't
CIV, Peregrine, We are only twenty miles
from land" They we're proudly sailing
the Mayfower and we're working her
toward Plymouth Rock.
The Pilgrims ought to have come to
New York" said MIR. Everett. They
really intended TO land here, hut their
Dutch skipper had bee brited TO land
them on the most barren spot possible
laughter 50 you see the Pilgrims
ought 10 have been the owners Of Man
haitian instead Of the Knickerbockers."
MIR. Everett defended the character OF
the Pilgrims with considerable feeling.
Thew were men Of prudence, and above all,
good So nse, he said, and did not deserve
the horrible" description that Carlyle
gave them, "GOd-intoxicated men,. he
thought il was unjust to say that they
frowned on the celebration OF Christmas,
since il was only because OF the terribly
hard tines the lack of food, and the eces-
sitv for every man to get out and work
that Gov. William Bradford did not waste
time in Christmas feasting.
THE glory Of the Pilgrims may be ex-
pressed in a single sentence" said Mr..
Everett, they we're not ashamed to be
DOOR"
Then the man from Massachusetts, pro-
tested against the proposition that the
Government should interfere with the
fortunes Of wealthy men, saying that it
was the fault of the nation that the prin-
ciple ambition in this country to-day seems
There il a general outcry against wealth
In these DAYS, v said Mr.. Everett. -All sorts
Of schemes are proposed by which the State
may get a man fortune after he has accu-
INFLATED il. 1t IL a strange idea TO me.
When men nave accumulated fortunes by
Intelligence and energy, why should the
State take their property away from them2
II would be appropriation Of unearned in
crement with a vengeance. IL is said hat
wealth is the cancer that is eating out u
vitals.
II that lis so whose fault is it? The,
nation itself has created an overestima-
ton Of wealth. Boys are taught 10 strive
for il before they are sent TO school, and
after they leave school they are urged
to accumulate fortunes. People are to
blame for apprenticing their ons 10 money
making alone. Then when these sons
become wealthy you call them pirates
and blame them for doing the very thing
that ordinary education in the United
States to-day teaches them to do Jap
plause1
James VI. Beck spoke to the toast, THE
Compact Of the M~ayhower.' He told the
banqueters that NJ amount OF legislation
would prevent business combinations, and
that the socia listic demand for the Gov
eminent to step in and attempt TO remedy
every evil is merely a passing frenzy. He
was warmly applauded.
The spirit OF the Puritans was a spirit
Of ~individualism," said Mr.. Beck. THAT
spirit Of ~individualism has been lost to the
present age, for ours is an age OF combina-
non, necessary combination.
II the people OF this day had had the
spirit Of their Revolutionary ancestors
who threw the tea into Boston harbor,"
said Mr.. Beck, they might have prevented
the power Of the trusts by refusing to buy
the articles the trusts sold. But no amount
Of legislation can stop combinations in
business.
= 'Jeferson would have been a9hast and,
doubt not, Alexander Hamilton would
have been amazed at the efforts Of the
GOVnrnmanf IN raUrt1afa the minufin of