Manchester Democrat., 1909-09-08
RRlsRANE's eREA
SPEECH.
ARTHUR

fairs recently gave a dinner in New
York City to Lord NoIthcliffe, the
proprietor of a number of British
publications. Many short speeches
We're made. but none at all compar-
able with the one delivered by Ar
thur Brisbane, the editor-in-chief OF
Hearst's newspapers. Mr. Brisbane
is an unassrming, modest man, but
thinker of the first order. He has
faith in the common people and here
is his tribute to them on the above
mentioned occasion:
"This is fine gathering of power
full men, big fortunes, and great rep
utations. l want to say something
for the man that never had mil
lion dollars, never got on the pay
rod of millionaire.
81 don't want Northchffe to go back
to England believing that man with
out million in this Country might
as well hide under the table or jump
off the dock.
"The real American. nation, its
real ability, are hidden among those
unknown seventy-nine millions thai
never go to Delmonico's, nest of
whom know as little about ter
rapin as about birds nest soup.
Mr.. Harvey says very truly, "The
great reward must go to the man of
great ability" True. But what is
the great reward, and what do you
call great ability?
If l scatter money in the street
and thousand eager men dive to
get it, l am holding up one kind of
a reward, and call forth one kind of
ability.
But if a child is in danger of its
| life, and man risks his life to save
| it, that situation calls out differ
ant kind of ability, and reveals a
man who asks for a higher reward
than cash.
"We are paying too much 'atten-
tion here to the men that scramble
for pennies. for dollars and for mil
lions. They are able, strong men
but they are not the American ma
tlion, nor the best men in it.
Colonel Harvey says that if you
take ten thousand men out of this
country-the ablest ten thousand
the counry will fall to pieces. He
might as well say that if you take
ten apples off tree. the tree will
wither and fall. Not bi of it, You
men with money and power are the
pretty, shiny apples on the tree. The
sunlight, the warmth, the praise are
for you, but you are only the passing
frtit. The real tree is the thick
trunk. The real power is with those
in. the. roots hidden in the soil.
And in this nation. the real pow
er, the root of the nation is the mass
of people-too often. like the trees
roots hidden below in the dark and
cold But from these roots, from
the people comes all the real power.
And when this nation and you
prosperous men, face perilous sit
uation, as you have done in the past
and you will do in the future, you
will find the man to help you and
to save you. not at this table, not at
Delmonico's.
There was trouble before the civ
il war, serious trouble. Did the peo.
| pie call upon rich corporation law
yer or great banker? No. They
asked little country lawyer, with
nothing but good name, and a braiI
and hart to save the country.
>"When that man, Lincoln needed
help in his .sreat work, to whom die
he look? Wall Street was quite busy
as usual, picking up bargains ii
bonds.
General Grant was there anon,
the roots of the people, out of sight
unknown. He did not have a milliol
dollars, and Delmonico's prices wer
beyond his reach. But he had th,
great ability, and when the natiol
was ready ito offer him what is reall.
the great reward-honor and glory
he was ready.
"It will always be SO; the fore
is in the people. The strength o
the soup is at the bottom of th
boiling liquid. not in the prett
greasy, bubbling scum that floats O
top.
There are big men in the Unite
States waiting for the reward worth
of the men we have been talkin
about or looking at here. These trul
great men never had a bank a,
4 count, rot even a certificate of d,
posit, but they are the American n;
ton and they are America"
A cALL-AND AN oPPoRTUNIT'