Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
ADDRESS TOMONTAUK CLUB
Senator Is Reminiscent in Speech at
Birthday Celebration.
PAYS TRIBUTE TO ROOSEVELT
Saws He Became Woman Suffragist
by Viewing Man Loafers at Vii
lage Railway Stations.

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life, Astounding in good things, in
capacity of enjoying everything. in re-
ciprocal attachments and contributions
with mutitudes of men and women, In
more than my share of health and of
happiness, l reverently thank God both
that I am alive and that I have lived"
was Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew's esti-
mate Of what the world had all amount
ed to in his life. The senator was speak
ing at the nineteenth annual dinner
given him by the Montauk Club Of
Brooklyn In celebration of his seventy
sixth birthday. Senator Depew, appar-
emily as hale and hearty as ever. said:
Il read an account the other day of
Russian named Ivan Kusman. who was
admitted to the hospital in st. Peters
burg at the age Of 1873. He remembered
Napoleon's burning Of Moscow and the
few incidents that occur in the career
of a Russian peasant. He was an agri-
cultural laborer for mere pfttance DUR
ing this whole period, and could neither
enee to be envied. 1t enforces Tenny-
sons lines. better fifty years of Europe
than a cycle of Cathay. But. on the
contrary, when you think OF Auber com
posing his best operas at eighty-n1ne
and Manuel Garcia still an instructor In
vocal culture at 100, and Whittier sing
ing immortal songs at eighty-hve, you
are in contact with men who have lived
and who know what 1t all amounts to-.
Endorses Old Eastern Maxim.
There is an eastern maxim that every
man at forty is either fool or physi-
clan. 1t is eminently true. That old
Italian, Carnaro. who found all of his
associates in Venice dying at forty,
made up his mind that these tragedies
were due to excuses. He had the
strength of will to adopt a very severe
but frugal regimen both in eating and
drinking. At eighty he published his
experiences for the benefit Of those who
We're still dying or likely to die at forty.
At ninety and at 100 he repeated the
publication. and enforced the lesson of
the happiness which had come to him
with health and longevity. declaring the
same might be shared by every man.
His plan very simple. He selected
out of the many things he liked few
for his table, masticated thoroughly.
long before Fletcherism was known. and
limited the quantity by measurement
usually devoured. reduced his wine to
the minimum. and at that time tobacco
had not been discovered"
Addressing himself TO the question of
high prices and present day economic
problems. Senator Depew said:
More and more the United States be-
cause of cheaper cost is bringing into
every department of human industry
greater capital and larger employment.
1t has produced. on the one hand. the
gigantic corporation, and on the other, in
self-defense, the labor unions.
Controlled by Government.
THE problems growing out of this de-
velopment are the ones which this gener-
alton faces and of which the preceding
ones were ignorant. There can be no
reasonable doubt that the proper method
of dealing with these great questions is
not by government ownership. but gov
eminent control. Corporations are to
grow larger and combinations stronger.
1t is the inevitable tendency of the times.
The safety of the people Is to be in hav-
ing the hand of the government. through
responsible commissions and courts, upon
every process of organization and opera
ton, in frequent reports and publicity
in the press constantly informing the
people. and in the President and Congress,
governors and the legislatures, being in
constant and enlightened touch with the
situation. 1t is thus that we can promote
benefcent expansion. give opportunity
for individual initiative and prevent
monopolistic control.
Just now there is both suffering and
alarm because of high prices. I have not
much sympathy with those who say this
condition is due to national extrava-
gance There was tremendous complaint
of high prices in 1885. There is on file
In the Treasury Department a cOpybook
of the expenses of a clerk who wanted
increase in salary becase Of the un-
usually high cost of living. His family
consisted of five persons and his food for
the year cost him 1898 10. The bureau of
labor of the government estimated last
year that the food for similar family
now would be S312.92 This clerk says
that his boots cost him sS.75, his cotton
sheeting 10 cents a yard (both now are
about the same). his lamp OIL 81 gal
len NOW 10 cents), backing of shoes .
cents shine now cents), flour 50 a
barrel fnow so, transportation for him.
self and wife from Washington to Mar
tinsburg Va. and return, $32.03 (now
$500. Martinsburg being seventyseven
miles from Washington; an ordinary
cooking stove. SIC NOW about s165O, and
a frkin OF butter. $10.22 now about
$21.JO).
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