The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-24
SENATOR REIO|CES
That HE HAS LIVED
ChanCey M. Depew Makes
Speech at a Dinner Given
in His Honor.
SEyENTY-SIX YEARS OLD
BIRTHDAY WAS CELEBRATED BY
McNTAUK CLUB OF BROOKLYN.

NV York, April 23.-"For a long life,
abpinding in good things, in a capacity
for enjoying everything in reciprocal
attachments and contributions with
mntitudes of men and women. in more
thln my share of health and of happi-
ness, l reverently thank God both that
am alive and that l have lived" was
was Senator Chaunsey Nj. Depews esti-
nate of what the world had amounted
Il in his life.
The senator was speaking at the
nineteenth annual dinner given him by
tie Montauk club of Brooklyn, in cele-
hation of his 18th birthday. Senator
lepew. apparently as hale and healthy
IS ever, said
Il read the other day of Ivan Kus-
man. who was admitted to the hospital
In St Petersburg at the age of 1SS. He
remembered NapOleOn's burning Of
Moscow and the few incidents that Oc-
cur in the career OF a Russian peasant.
He was an agricultural laborer for a
mere ptttance during this whole period
and could neither read nor write. This
is not an experience to be envied. 1t
enfOrces TennysOn's lines:
Better fifty years of Europe IMAM a
cycle of Cathay."
But on the contrary, when you
think of Auber composing his best
operas at SO and Manuel Garcia still
an instructor in vocal culture at 100
anu whittier Singing ltlHiOEldl SOHB >
at IS, you are in contact with men
who have lived and who know what IL
Ill amounts to.
View as to High Prices.
In regard to high prices and economi-
cal problems, he said:
More and more the United States,
because of cheaper cost. is bringing
into every department of human indus
try greater capital and larger employ
ment 1t has produced, on the one
hand, the gigantic corporation and on
the other, in self defense, the labor
unions. The problems growing out of
this development are the ones which
tnis generation 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 by government control.
Just now there is both suffering
and alarm because of high prices. I
have not much sympathy with those
who say that this condition is due to
national extravaganza. There was ire
mendous complaint Of high prices in
1885. There is on file in the treasury
department a copy book of the expense
of a clerk who wanted an increase in
salary because of the unusually high
cost of living. His family consisted of
fiv5 persons, and his food for the year
cost him S33S.10.
Food Cheaper Now.
The bureau of labor Of the govern
ment estimated last year that the food
for similar families would be S312.92.
This clerk says that his boots cost him
Sl45, his cotton Sheeting ten cents a
yard (bOth now are about the same
Irice); his lamp oil one dollar a gal
lon (nOw ten cents); backing of shoes,
ID cents a shine (nOw 3 cents); flour,
aght dollars a barrel (now seven)
transportation for himself and wife
from Washington to Martinsburg, Va,
and return S32.03 (nOw $500, Martins
burg being n miles from Washington;
An ordinary cooking stove, about SAG
tnOw about s1650), and a firlxin of
butter SlO.22 (nOw about S215O). Elk
travagance is a relative, not a positive
condition. Nobody would live now as
the whole country did in 1888 and 1885.
1.-The most beneficent changes which
have occurred during my time have
been ghe laws granting rights TO wO-
men, said the senator. GAS l used to
travel through the country on railway
inspection trips | noticed at every sta
ton q crowd of idlers. They knew the
names Of the trains, of the conductors
and the engineers, and were eager to
tell the waiting traveller whether or
not No. was late. l notice that they
disappeared at noon, and at about
o clock Upon inquiry, / found they
were supported by their wives. This
experience has done more than all
things else to bring me toward woman