New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-09-07


railway stock or a government security.
We're getting along very well when we come
down to the pure simple substance e. ms ST
make mention of the fact that that state 81
Illinois giving up all the bed of the lake to the
centre of the lake granted to the ILLINOIS KAN
road every foot of land that they should re
claim that was adjacent to their track, and
that grant. # il had stood. would have beeh
worth five times the whole Illinois Central sys-
tern II was tried in court and the court Sald
that the sovereign state could not divert hselI
by legislative enactment of that power exer-
cised for the benefit of the people. That was d
good decision; it was right and proper. in TINS
great era of development and prosperity, as We
have leaped in the production of mine ana rae
tory products and gone on until we produce ore
third of all this civilized earth's products Whle
in the market ourselves for ninety-odd per cent
Of il and the small fraction going abroad-Well.
and there, self interest lying at the bottom OF
every mans effort that abuses should nave
crepr in? The only wonder is that more abuses
did not creep in than have crept in: but 90 you
know that this Anglo Saxon people. this Amer
lean people this Caucasian race Tor TWO tlou-
sand years and down 10 the present time nave
been in the lead. whether III business. IN WIS
dom, sometimes in error but when III error the
error had to be repaired, going on from one
generation to another. lettering their condltlon
and advancing their civilization. and in the time
since the United States attained her independ-
ence, she has become the great protective power
I have indicated.
You know that notwithstanding all that and
the abuses that have crept in we are called
upon to repair and eradicate various other
things that this American people has accom-
There can be no demand that the people make.
and make in earnest and insist upon under our
form of government but what sooner or later
il Will come about in the right way. Now,
then. they can say that are having some
financial trouble. Possibly So hut never were
the people of this country so prosperous as they
are to-day Take the savings banks and the
national banks and the building and loan asSo-
ciations-take all these Institutions and when
You measure them up you will ind that they
represent the savings of the people, S2oooo.Voo,-
600 surplus after have lived. and lived BET
ter than any people on earth ever lived hefore.
What's the of talking about our gong 10
destruction? II seems to me never was much
of a narksnan with rife: mine was always
the shotgun and I had 10 have lazy squirrel
I have been blazing away with the shotgun this
afternoon. scattering good deal, but you nave
encouraged me in ii
In conclusion let US look each other in the
face and that without regard to any party. be
cause parties are only organizations to enable a
majority TO register its will, without regard 10
party without regard to person. Let US do as
the Lord commanded Moses TO DO Wheh ne
spoke from the clouds and said TO Moses; TEL
the people to go forward" Let us go forward
In Introducing Baron Rosen Mr.. Evarts
ferred in eulogistic terms 10 Russia and her
sympathy with the Union during the Civil War,
He spoke of the partial return America had been
able TO make in her part in bringing about the
peaca negotiations between Russia and Japan
He added: Now that we are sending our feet
to the Pacific. perhaps we may be able to sym
patilize more with his country in the future
Russian
that kept the diners convuIsed with laughter.
The best l can do he said. lis TO derive in
spiration from the name of the league. To have
the courage TO get on ones feet after listening to
the great and grand speech of the Governor of
the state requires that man should be con-
sidered game" The ambassador laughinSly re-
ferred TO the efforts of the league 10 regulate"
a mans inalenable right under the Vermont
constitution fish and hunt II have read the
Constitution of the United States" he added.
hut find there no provision for regulating the
pursuit Of happiness"
Governor Proctor and others also spoke.
IN former years this dinner of the Fish and
Game League has been the occasion Of much
quiet discussion of the politics of the State of
Vermont. It was evident to-day that the diners
were not forgetting that next year there will
be a convention 10 nominate Republican can
didate for the Presidency. One Vermonter de-
clared that the sentiment for Governor Hughes
in his state was strong, and that the members
OF the league were more than glad TO have had
such an excellent chance 70 Judge him at first
hand
There was meeting Of the joint commissions
appointed by the states of New York and Yer
mont tonight, 20 consider plans for celebrat
Eng next year the 39oth anniversary OF the dis
covery OF Lake Chamrlain
The party -ctil leave Bluff Point tomorrow
morning in yachts for Isle La Motto. where they
viii be the guests of ex-Lieutenant Governor
Fisk at luncheon. They will leave the island in
time TO reach Burlington Vt. a. about o'clock
in the afternoon. making a stop at Juniper
Island The Commercial Club will tender the
party drive about that city. In the evening
they will be the guests Of the Ethan Allen Club
at an informal reception Sunday morning the
Valcour will carry the party south. Fort Ticon-
deroga and Crown Point being the objective
points Returning at night, the party will dis
band