New-York tribune., 1910-01-21
TALK TO JEWELERS.
SPICE AFTER DINNER.
Hammers Aldermen
4 Senator's Confession.

The jewellers Of New York City enjoy
high seasoning at the end OF their annual
dinners. Last night, at the Waldorf. they
had their ffll. one variety came from
far west as the sun kissed peaks of
Arkansas, and others were home products.
not to mention a touch of tabasco from
Nebraska. But the whole was hot enough
for any melting pot of political creeds such
as the occasion developed
First. John Purroy Mitchell pitched into
that venerable institution. the Board of
Aldermen. and got off a little OF the steam
which the Tammany committee appoint
n.ents in that ocdy seem 10 be continually
generating In his soul. He was introduced
as the acting Mayor.
"The Board of Aldermen is a fairly an
cient institution said he. land perhaps for
that reason is deserving Of some respect but
for no other reason that have been able
to discover IN the records of it's activities in
recent years am beginning to wonder II
II wouldn't be better TO persuade the Legis-
lature in Albany to wipe the board and Its
president out of existence. The board has
become, or was recently, only place where
obstruction could be practised, body which
kept in office a. man who had been derelict
in his duties as an elected servant of the
people
The same party which was responsible
for that piece Of work is again in control
= of the board. thanks to the traitorous be-
havior of fusion member. 1t has taken
every vestige Of power out of the hands Of
the chair and out OF the hands of the
minority by its committee appointments. If
the people come to realize. the aldermen
will also realize that with that power comes
responsibility and unless they live up TO it.
in Spite ratiAoca cf fha
New York public their days are numbered"
The President of the Board of Aldermen
then went on to say that the real govern
ment of the city lay in the Board Of
Estimate, and he outlined the reforms
which the present board had in mind con-
cernlng the budget, rapid transit and the
Standardization Of specifications With re-
gard 70 these measures, he said, the Mayor
and the other members of the body were
one, and he confidently predicted that the
whole programme would be carried out to
the great satisfaction of the voters
Senator Norris Brown. Of Nebraska, who
is dealer in plated ware. said he would
not pretend to talk on that subject to the
IA Karat Club. as the jewellers organiza-
ton is STYLED. except in it's application TO
legislation
II know all about plated ware and gold
brick goods" he began-"that's how came
to get into the United States Senate. When
L got to Washington I found that there
were other fellows there who knew all
about these things, too.
There are nnety-two men in the United
States Senate, but the real Senate is com
posed of only one man. and he comes from
the State Of Rhode Island. He is not al
ways unanimous on the roll call, to be sure
but it happens that he never makes mo-
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his popularity.
Occasionally the United States Senate
hands out plated ware in the shape of
legislation. There are a number Of or
deals new member Of that august body
has to face. and when 7 went there two
years ago, ths first 7 had to face was the
rollcall. l heard my name called. and !
knew 1t was my name, but. in the language
of Adam Bede. 7 didn't know whether to
answer present or not guilty
The Senator had a serious side TO his
speech, however. and that comprised a
denunciation of the New York argument
against the income tax amendment That
argument he called plated ware "of the
grossest character"
JEFF DAVIS ExPLoDEs.
But for real torrid heat Senator Jeff
Davis. of Arkansas. had the others laid |
away in lavender. Theirs were hot shots
but his was the explosion Of a volcano
The toast he responded TO was The Dig |
nifty of Labor"
DO you believe, he burst forth. that |
the laboring man receives his Just rewards? |
If you do you can join any church on |
earth, for you are the best believers I eve- |
faced. Fifty-one men own % per cent OF |
the entire wealth of the nation They are |
headed by Rockefeller with $500, 600, 600, and |
you can't tell me that any man on earth |
ever made that amount of money honestly |
-Four thousand other men have fortunes |
ranging from one TO fifteen millions and |
togther with the ffty-one have mentioned |
they own STA per cent of the entire wealth |
of the nation. which is sl07,0oo 0oo,0oo. How
under such a state Of affairs can labor |
hope for its just reward?
Other speakers who added sizzling in |
gradients to the stew We're Rabbi Stephen |
s Wise, the Rev. DR.. Nehemiah Boynton |
Walter NJ. Chandler. lawyer, and Ad- |
1niral J. B Murdoch In token OF the ep. |