Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-12-09
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ASTORIA.
GAYNOR MADE fine TALK
CALLS ATTENTION TO GRATING
WHICH HAS BEEN DONE IN
THE PAST.
Says City Has Been Most Grossly
SIandered in Past Years and Asks
That Stop Be Put to 1t New
York IS Orderly, Decent and Well
Governed Now He Claims.
;Sy Associated Press

:By Associated press.)
New York, Dec. 8.-Secretary of
War Dickinson and William J. Gay
nor, mayor-elect of Greater New
York were the principal speakers to-
night at the annual dinner of the
Southern Society of New York at the
Waldorf Astoria. The secretary Of
war spoke of the north, the south
and the nation, but Judge Gaynor
confined himself almost solely to
municipal issues. Six hundred south
erners were present.
Judge Gaynor, in this, his first
public address, since his election,
said in part:
"The long line of officials and boss
es who made themselves millionaires
out of the government of this city,
some of whom live abroad and impu-
IDENTIFY visit us occasionally, now that
the statute of limitations has out
lawed their villianies, is a standing
disgrace to the moral tone of the
community"
Fastening to the defense Of the
city's name, Judge Gayor continued:
"This city has been most grossly
slandered for several years in respect
of it's morality, financial credit, or
otherwise. Let us put stop to that.
Mere scolds and sensationalists are
not to be suffered to give this city q
bad name. I am prepared to- say
from travel and other means Of in
formation that New York is the most
orderly, decent and moral large city
in the world"
DICKINSON'S SPEECH.
New York, Dec. 7.-Rising to the
toast "The Invasion of the North by
the South" the secretary prefaced his
remarks with a protest against the
custom of southerners in the north,
affirming in public gatherings their
loyalty to the United States.
"The time has come said the sec
retary, when there is not only no
good ground for, but conclusive reas-
on against, giving especial emphasis
as southerners to such declarations
BY implication they suggest doubt
where none should exist. They do
not reflect true appreciation of the
spirit of the day. We do not need
them to convince ourselves that the,
south with practical enanimity viii
storm or stress. If there are any
southern men who feel otherwise
they are too inconsequential to exert
any appreciable influence"
Proceeding to his topic Secretary
Dickinson said in part:
II have in mind an invasion entire
ly peaceable and conquests that are
civic When the canny Scot was in
corporated into the Kingdom of Great
Britain against his will, he got his
inning by moving into the enemy's
country and accommodating himself
to the new and inevitable order of
things. There was never deeper
hate than that which the Scots cher
ished for England but in time they
became a bulwark of strength to
Great Britain and achieved and main
tanned leadership which has been
one of the main sources of her great
ness
Using that as parallel the speak
er dwelt upon the impoverished con-
dition of the south Immediately fol-
lowing the war and then proceeded
to trace the invasion of northern
fields by southern men and women.
"The tide once set in did not sub
side when the causes that first gave
it impulse ceased to act" the speak
er continued. "In all the large pro-
gressive cities of the north, southern
men are a forceful part of the bust
ness, professional and social life and
this is especially true of the bound
ing commercial centers of the middle
and extreme west. Their names are
not obscure. The reputation of many
is International ~,~,~~, --~7s~~ .u-..--ree~-.
| II have sometimes thought that the
men Of the south wronged her by
leaving her in her poverty, and seek
ing new and happier surroundings
( and greater opportunities. and that in
this the south suffered great loss.
But there is wider vision that
shows there was compensation. The
achievements of southern men in the
north, while redounding to the happi-.
ness of the successful indiEiduals,
have wrought in a far more signifi-e
cant way for the welfare of the
country. 80 = - II =, ..}7 Ii F.. !
cit IS generally accepted that the
Civil War was a contest between
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