The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-12
MEN NOT MONEY
NATIONAL BASIS,
DECLARES PASTOR
The Rev. John Mcdowell Speaks
at Mason Material Dealers
Annual Banquet.

the Pafk presbyterian Cnurch, al
dressed the Mason Material Dealers
Association of New Jersey at its fifth
annual banquet in the Manhattan
Hotel, New York, last evening on
Foundation" Mr.. Mcdowell spoke IN
part as follows:
What then should be the foundation OF
our, business system? What shall we
sources, however great these may be. MOI
our opportunities, however large they may
be. Not our ability, however unmatched
this may be. Character is the My safe
foundation for a business system which
seeks permanence and power. ! Our security
companies have learned this. You read
the list of questions which they put to a
man seeking a security bond. Every one
of them Is aimed at the inner man, they
sound his character.
ledger it is doubtless important that she
should know his income, but IT is vastly
important that he should know his philoso-
satisfaction will 1t be to her that he has
a large income II he does not believe in
paying his board bill?
A mans view of life determines his char
acter, aud his character will measure his
reliability. There are many men today
doing a large business on a small capital,
measured in terms of dollars; but meas
ured In terms Of character and reliability.
they have unlimited capital. Let us then
lay 1t down as a fact that a mans view
acter is, after all, the only adequate
foundation for a commercial system.
There is higher law. This law Is the law of
type Of Individual power; cooperation de-
velops social relations. AS society advances
from barbarisIn 1t completes less and CO.
operates more. we are learning To-Day tnat
Competition may have been the life Of trade
in the past. but history shows. very clearly
that 1t has been the death of morals and
good fellowship: Men are coming to see
that there Is a unity Of interests among
men. That obedience to this law of unity
of interests is the only sure guarantee of
ultimate peace and true success.
The POSTMASTER vas Walter G.
| Shultz, of Hoboken. Other toasts were
responded to, as follows: Harmony"
Charles d. Warner, Chicago. editor
Dealers Building Material Record;
'Progress," Hon. John w. Griggs. Pat
erson; United Effort" Hon. William
III. Speer, Jersey City. 'The Lion in
the. Way" James w. Wardrop, secre-
tary National Builders Supply Asso-
citation.
There were two hundred at dinner.
Griggs Speaks.
Former Governor Griggs, in respond
ing to. the toast of Progress" said
hat he deplored the recent attitude of
the courts in listening to the public
clamor. He said that i'm five States
forty-five restrictive measures had been
adopted. which crippled the railroads.
He pointed to the $29, 000, 900 fine i'm
posed upon the Standard Oil Company
for rebating as a specimen and meas
ures of a similar character, and that
such acts were responsible for the dis
turbance in business. The effort to
regulate trade through commissions,
were also injurious to trade. he
claimed. He advocated association
work and believed the right way was
constructive legislation, and not de-
structive, and urged business men to
organize in order to protect their in
t%erest, and in that way they could re-
move the ~unsupportable conditions.
Newark Firms Represented.
Among the Newark concerns repre-
scented were Tomkins Brothers, Cook
& Genung, Wolf, Stewart & Co, Henry
Ogden & Son Co., Marcus Sayre & Co.,
Frederick Bowden and Charles e.
Townley; East Orange. by James t.
Pierson & Co.; Orange, by Spottis-
Lwoode-Cusack Company; South Orange.
by the H. B. Halsey Company; Verona.
by STayback-van Orden Co.; Upper
Montclair, by Osborne & Marsellis Co;
Harrison, by David Harper and Van
Keuren & Son; Bloomfield. by Ogden
&c Cadmus; Elizabeth, by T. +, & H.
G. Sayre, j. & 8. s. Thompson, Neu-
reiter & Horre, Milford Coal and Lum-
Der Company; Elizabethport, by F. J..
& A. Heidritter; Passaic, by S. M.
Birch Lumber. Company, Anderson
Lumber Company and Campbell, Nor
rell & Co.; Paterson. by John Agnero,
Martin Goble, e. M. Rodrock, H. M.
Post and Christopher Kelly; Norris
town. by G. w. Ennis & Co.; Madison,
Green & Pierson and Joseph M. Smith
Company; Summit, by T. B. Miller &
Co. and Sutphens Bros; Bayonne, by
James Brady's Sons Company, and
Somerville, by Sargent BEus. is
The officers of the association Gre:
President, Walter c. Schultz, Hoboken;
Independents. Charles Agnew. Pater-
son; j. C. Richardson. Trenton; treas
urer, Horace P. Cook. Newark; ad-
visory board, Charles w. Ennis. Morris
town; George w. Tomkins, Newark;
board of trustees, Henry N. Sayre,
Newark; James p. Hall. Jersey City; ]
M. Campbell, Passaic; Uriah #. Wash
burn, Jersey City; Edwin Demarest
Tenafiy; George A. Smock, Asbury
Park; M. P. Stephens, Summit; r. L
r.. Cadmus. Bloomfield; Ambrose Tom
kins Newark; Daniel Edwards, Long
Branch; Selah Schoonmaker, Somer-
vile; George W. Horre. Elizabeth; M
#. Ellis, Basking Ridge; w. G. Salmon
Boonton; j. d. Loizeaux. Plainfeld
Horace s. Osborne. Upper Montclair;
Amos G. Bolton, Perth Amboy; M. T
Brewster, Ridgeield Park.