Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-07-06
BALLlNCER IS
BANQUETTED
Citizens Unite in Banquet at
Hotel Washington Mon
day Night
APPLAUD GUESTS SHEECH
Ex-Secretary Gives Interest
Address on His Experience
In the Cabinet

Il have the consolation of a con-
scientious rectitude and desire to
do for this people all that was with
in my power and intelligence" Those
words spoken by Hon. Richard A.
Ballinger at the banquet in his honor
Monday night, epitOmize his own at
titude toward his public career. And
the confidence that the citizens of
Grays HarbOr have in Mr.. Ballinger
and in his course was attested by the
loud applause that continually pune
tuated his informal address, and in
the hearty manner in which the six
ty-five good men and true drank to
his health at the beginning of the
dinner.
Never has there been in Aberdeen
more enthusiastic function for SO
eminent parsonage as the banquet
in honor of Mr.. Ballinger held at the
Hotel Washington Monday night. Six.
ty-five of the leading men on the Ear.
Dor, men representing all the indus
tries and professions, men who have
achieved success in the development
of this section, gathered to do honor
to the city's distinguished guest. The
banquet with it's elaborate menu, gen.
eral sociability, and after dinner
speaking, lasted nearly four hours.
Attorney J. B. Bridges served as
POSTMASTER. The responses from To-
cal speakers were short and infor.
NAL, yOicing mainly a tribute to Mr..
Ballinger J. J. Carney was called
on to speak to Political Consisten-
cy." E. E. Boner on preaching and
Practicing;" w. J. Patterson on "The
Greatest Evil in American Civiiza.
tom" G. c. Quackenbush on "Aber
deen-Rain or Shine, Wet or Dry"
Senator Poison on Panama Canal
and the Lumber Business" w. A.
Rupp on "The Way of Progress for
the Vest" State Treasurer ]. G.
Lewis on president Taft" Mr..
excited some comment
by proposing State Treasurer Lewis
for the next governor of Washing
ton. A health was drunk to President
Taft when his name was toasted.
The real speech of the evening OF
course, was the one made by ex-Sec-
rotary Ballinger. In many respects it
elected more response and met with
more favor than his formal address
morning. His speech at
the banquet seemed more direct and
personal and revealed the speaker
more intimately than the set speech
of the Fourth. His remarks we're in
formal and varied; but bore in gener-
al upon his policy as secretary of
the interior, and the circumstances
that led to his retirement. While
he did not name Mr.. PinchOt in the
course of his speech he referred to
him as "The apostle of humbuggery"
and stated, "When this man served
notice on me when l assumed office
that he would continue to run the de-
partment, l told him that as Ions as
l was secretary of the interior he
wouldn't have a damn thing to say.
That was perhaps the beginning of
MY troubles"
The digest of his speech was as
follows: 81 wish to pay tribute to
President Taft. for when | was in
office | ever felt him to be a bulwark
of strength. Were he politician
might long ago have been kicked into
the street and discarded. | remem-
Der that when the condition of my
health and finances demanded it, and
when had gone through the fight and
accomplished all that l could, and &C
cordingly asked to be relieved, PreSi
dent TATE arose and paced the floor
in anger and said, There is one thing
| want to know, whether you pro-
pose your resignation for my benefit.
If so, / cannot accept it, Naturally
l love Mr.. Taft.
THE country is in ferment of po-
litical fever for which there is no en-
cuse The people might as well pur-
sue their peaceful avOcations but
for the demagogues and the disin-
geruOus who try to pull up things
by the roots. The undertaking press
is also responsible for this condition.
Ii. regard to our natural resources
they are given us by God to be used.
We have a divine right to have ac-
cess to and to appropriate all that
is necessary for this generation The
homestead law has done more to ad-
vance the American people than any
other law on the statute books. In
regard to the railroad grants, if We
could look at the situation from the
standpoint of that day the grants were
justified.
I'VE have now come to the crossing
of the roads, and to departure from
the policies hitherto followed for the
disposition of the public lands. We
are believed in a proper cOnserva-
ton. Conservation means no more
than that which we have practiced,
economy, frugality and a decent re-
gard for natures bounties. l believe
in a reasonable and rational regard
for wealth of our resources. But how
are you going to develop them under
these new-fangled notions? To talk of
re-foresting the Nebraska plains is
the widest vargary of wild bureau
GRAFT
I'VE of the West are entitled to
cur patrimony just as the eastern
states enloYed theirs We in this