Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-16
OWEN RAPS TARIFF
Senator of Oklahoma Declares
System Is vitality Wrong.

THE tariff is plain stealing.
With these words as his text Senator
Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma made a
sweeping indictment against modern COM
mercialism and greed at the annual ban
auet of the Washington and Lee Untver-
sity Alumni Association, at the Shoreham
last night Mr.. Owen talked plainly and
to the point, and his address was the
feature of the festive occasion.
"I wish with all my heart" the senator
from Oklahoma said," that Joe Cannon
knew what the spirit of Washington and
Lee meant. I do not say that in the
spirit of claptrap. I wish our public
men. including Senator Aldrich, were
possessed of 1t. In the age when men
enter into a commercial conspiracy to
form a tariff, by virtue Of which they
may take that which does not belong to
them, we need it sorely. The tariff is
plain stealing. There is no other word
adequately to characterize it,
University President Speaks.
President George H. Denny of WASH
ington and Lee University said his anabi-
ton was not to build up a great univer-
sity. but a great college.
Prof. Alexander Lockhart Nelson, an
instructor at Washington and Lee. told
with touch of patl1os how Gen. Robert
Z. Lee had been invited to become presi-
dent of the university after he had sur
rendered his thin gray lines at Apo
mattox.
4. Lee. jr. grandson of the great Con-
federate leader. Mr.. Lee was toast
master. Toasts were responded to by
Chief Justice Shepard of the District
Court of Appeals. Representative Miles
Poindexter of Washington and DR.. H
Parker Willis.
Prof. Nelson's Review.
When Lee came to lexington and saw
what we had to Offer" said Prof Mel
son, his heart must have sunk within
him. The college was all but in ruins
1t had been sacked by a Federal army.
The countryside was PROSTATE, and the
college buildings seemed to have fallen
into tragic disrepair almost in sympathy
with the bleeding southland. But the
noble old general said nothing of what
was In his heart, except that the location
was fine, and entered upon his task with
cheerfulness That he succeeded in so
large measure, and gave new life and
spirit to our college, showed the STUFF out
OF which he was made
Need Of Endowment.
The purpose of the banquet was to en-
phasize the urgent need of an endow-
ment for Washington and Lee Univer-
sity; to invite the attention OF the peo-
pie of the United States, especially phi
lanthropists of wealth, to the proposition
of building up Washington and Lee Uni
versity as the best form of memorial
TO Robert e. Lee and to George Wash
ington. 1t was proposed that this meet
ing should emphasize the important
truth that the character Of George Wash
1ngton and the character Of Robert E.
Lee, idealized especially by this univer-
sity and its associations and legends. is
It's chief asset, containing the seeds OF
spiritual truth and Of patriotic virtue
that ought to be emphasized upon the
character of as many young men as pos
sible by enlarging the attendance at this
university and its influence by a great
endowment fund. II was urged that phi
lanthropists could sow no better seed
nor do themselves greater honor than
by connecting their names with the great
characters OF Washington and of Lee
and in making the principles for which
they stood the common property Of as
many young men as possible.
List of Guests.
The guests were:
Senator Robert L. Owen, Senator George
Z. Chamberlain, Representative Miles
Poindexter, Representative James L. Stay
den. Representative H. D. Flood, Rep,
resentative James Hay; George II. Denny,
president: Prof. Alexander L. Nelson.
Chief Justice Seth Shepard, Col. Robert
r. Lee, George F. Parker of New York,
Mortimer Wisdom of New Orleans, DR..
Fl. Parker Willis. DIR. w. T. Thorn, Ad-
Iniral r. c. Holiday, Glenn Brown, John
l. Campbell, secretary of the university:
istry of the university; Dr. William r.
Vance, Dr. Boice, Judge De Lacy, DIR.
w. j. Humphreys. Judge Strider, Mai.
Darlington. Messrs. ]. E. Hanger, Nee.
Hanger, Walker, Gordon. Harris, Hum
phreys. Lauck. r. w. Flournoy, Thorn
ton. Barclay. Alexander. Oberlin. F. II.
Iden, Trundle, Bays. Bagley, Champion,
Dunlop. Jones, G.. NJ. Brown Minetree,
Hodges. ". G. Iden, Chew. Kenny. Bry-
ant. Hoge. A. p. Lee, Lybrand. Barnes.
Addison, F1ournoy and Hynson.