Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-13
Fuller. an old college friend, the Lincoln
Club banquet and address.
Beveridee on TarinfCommission.


Senator Albert ]. Beverage before the
Marquette Club on the occasion Of the
celebration of Lncoln's birthday last
| night. He said:
"A committee of Congress working but
for a few months. buttonholed each in
slant by interests asking special favors.
cannot find out the facts upon which to
base our tariff duties. A committee can
not classify these thousands of articles
SO that the people will know what rates
they bear. Three hundred thousand dis
putes as to what class articles belong
have occurred in the last ten years. Only
experts, working all the time, make plain
classifications. Let Congress legislate. fix
duties. determine policies: let commits
sion investigate, find facts and make
classifications.
How could any big business compete
with it's rivals If it's directors tried to do
it's clerical work and find out all the facts
on which 1t is run? How compete with its
rivals If its directors worked only a few
months every ten years. as Congress does
with the tariff, while it's rivals had ex
perts doing the same work all the timer"
Lands at College Anniversary.
BALTIMORE, February 13-Morgan
College observed it's fortieth anniversary
last night and at the same time cele-
brated the anniversary of the birth of
Abraham Lincoln. Judge Thomas Ireland
Elliott presided in the absence of ex-
Mayor Hooper. who was unavoidably be-
lated. Judge Elliott in a neat speech in
| troduced Representative Charles B. Lam
dis Of Indiana as the orator of the even
ing.
Mr.. Lands began his address with a
graphic picture of Lincoln's trip on a fiat
boat to New Orleans in 1882, where.
among other amazing sights. he saw a
muiatto girl sold from an auction block.
He walked away with his three compan-
ions. and with flashing eyes he registered
an oath before high heaven that If he
ever had a chance to hit that custom he
would hit it hard. Next he spoke of a
farmer in Illinois in 1856 who had a load
Of wood to sell for s., but which he had
to haul home again. THAT was U. S.
Grant. who six years later commanded
men brought to the front by the logic of
destiny. Both were men, and only men,
but they We're men who measured up to
the fullest standard of humanity"
Mr.. Lands followed Lincolns early life
as a lank boy lying on puncheon floor in
log hut, before the open fire. reading
'Plgrim's Progress" ''Aesop's Fables"
and Weems' Life of Washington" when
he drank In his souls passion for the
American Union. He pictured Lincoln at
the White House in a cabinet crisis in
1862 when he shook hands with Stanton
and made him Secretary of War. He fol-
lowed Lincoln's great career, in which.
like Washington, Jackson, Mckinley and
Roosevelt, he battled against enemies
without and foes within his own camp.
He told how Lincoln had been ridiculed by
the London Punch for four years, and
then had done penaEce in sackcloth and
ashes over his dead clay and how the
Gettysburg address Of the unlettered,
lank schoOlboy, now hanging in Oxford
University, is a sample of the purest Eng
lish.
Holiday in Indiana.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. February 49,
The anniversary Of Abraham Lincoln's
birth, made legal holiday in Indiana by
the last legislature, was observed yester-
day by the closing Of banks and all state
and city institutions. Flags were dis
played at all schools and informal exer-
cises in honor of Lincoln were held.
Patriotic Scene in Chicago.
CHICAGO, February 13.-Reference to
possibility of war led to a scene of pa
triotic ardor at the Lincoln celebration of
the Illinois Athletic Club last night. Gen.
w. H. Carter, U. S. A., and Gen. E. c.
Young. Illinois National Guard, were
among the speakers. Alexander Sullivan
in an address following said:
eff the time comes when our flag is as
sailed Eve may rest assured the Illinois
Athletic Club will be a recruiting ground
for volunteers. Nobody Is expecting dl.l,-
l am sure nobody wants them, but If they
do come we all know that we are pre-
pared for-well, anybody.
In the time of our great trial Abra-
ham Lincoln came forth to lead us to
victory and we have no lack of great and
capable men today. The presence Of the
soldiers here this evening is sufficient to
show Chicago would be well represented
in an emergency. What is more, the
Illinois club will do her duty come what
WILL
The great dining hall, which was filled
with picturesque gathering of club
members and uniformed soldiers, young
and old, was instantly a scene of enthu-
siasm, the silken flags that adorned the
tables were seized and waved in the air.
the soldiers forgetting their parade uni
forms and gold lace to throw their arms
about in the air and cheer as loudly as
their lungs would permit
Hughes and Harlan on Lincoln.
NEW YORK, February 13.-The Re-
publican Club, celebrating for the twenty
second time the anniversary of the birth
of Lincoln, gave a dinner In the Waldorf
Astoria ballroom last night. There were
many democrats present, among them be-
ing Representative Morris Sheppard, Dis
trict Attorney Jerome. Senator SAKE and
Court Justice Victor J. Bowling.
The incident Of the dinner was the
speech of Gov. Hughes, who was enthusi-
astically greeted when he entered. and
was cheered again when he arose to
speak.
Next to the governors speech perhaps
the speech which attracted most atten-
ton was John Maynard Harlan's. Mr..
Harlan is a son of Justice Harlan Of the
United States Supreme Court. He let 1T
be known in good, strong English that he
was for Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. ROose-
velt's policies, and that Mr.. Roosevelt
was a fine expression in himself Of the
ideals Of the republican party.
Knox Cheered at Pittsburg.
PITTSBURG. February 13.-More than
400 business men of Pittsburg heard Sem
ator Knox discuss '"Our Commercial Flu
ture" at the Lincoln day banquet of the
chamber of commerce in the Hotel Schen-
ley last night. The affair was the greatest
ever held by the chamber. Senator Knox
was loudly cheered and, this being his
home town. loudly acclaimed as the next
President He did not touch on this in
his speech. Representative James Francis
Burke was POSTMASTER.
The other speakers were Representative
J. Sloat Fassett, New York, ''Interna-
tional Trade and Merchant Marine; Sen
Business Men Of History" and Senator
J. P. Dolliver, Iowa. Abraham Lincoln.
REPRESENTATIVE Brick Talks.