Weekly journal-miner., 1911-03-01

spirited orchestra; rollieking song: by a chorus of one hundred joy. crazed business and professional men; gustatory delights afforded by an ePicure chef through the medium of a six-eourse menu, and brilliant speeches coruscating with wit, logic and anecdote, were the component parts of the Business Mems Dinner, given last evening at 6:3O o'clock by the Yavapai Club, commemorative of Washington's Birthday.
 There have been other banquets at the Yavapai Club, but none quite so replete with good fellowship and ex- pressiOn of patriotic spirit as this. AZ orchestra played everything from a Granite street two-step to "Mareh- ing Through Georgia" with such in termediate melodies as "I Had Lit tie Hen,'' "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean," and "In My Fathers House. ' Then, to show their good will. if not reverence, the crowd would vocally burst forth in "He's Jolly Good Fellow.' whenever any late arrival obtruded his tardy pres enee in tine room, or whenever any speaker had concluded his seintillat- ing remarks. Staid business men lifted their raucous voices in synco- pated measures of melodic joy, in somewhat halting rhythm, with the accented thrum of the piano and the merry arpeggo of the flute Even the fair waitresses became infected with the spirit of the occasion and served the sueeulent salad and the fragrant cafe noir to the tuneful ca denee of the inspiring two-steps, HHas Anybody Here Seen Kelly" and the dreamy waltz of "Dream- land.' Under such environment, with the portrait of George Wash ington holding quiescent approval and the flags of the nation flutter ing inspiration, who could not help but to enjoy himself'
 But this was only a prelude to the oratorical symphony that follow ed the banquet and the season of vo- cal socialism. A. ". Edwards, whose face is like sphinx, but whose brain is that of a Materlinck or a Riehe lieu, arose and after subduing the surging spirits, by process of metempsychosi, introduced Hon. E. 'M. Doe. He delivered a logical, bril- liant and forceful address upon Washington, from whose preeepts he drew deductions as to the fallae- ious views of modern innovations in government, and especially applied them to the proposed Constitution of Arizona. Judge Does address was replete with lofty, patriotic thought, and his remarks were frequently punctuated with applause. He said:
 It is the part of wisdom for a peO- pie to honor, after death, the mem Ory of such of its citizens as in life have, from unselfish and patriotic motives, greatly striven and greatly achieved for their country's good, to the end that unselfish patriotism and a high standard of civic virtue may be fOstered among those who will hereafter be called upon to ad- minister the affairs of the nation and safeguard its interests. Owing to moral and mendefects cOmOn to humanity, no statesman who, by great and patriotic acts, has distinctly con tributed to the nations welfare, can hope for his full need of fame until death and time shall have at least assuaged the jealousies and hatreds of those contemporaries with and against whom he has battled in the arena of public life. Possibly an other reason for the statesman s fame being so largely posthumOus is. that behind any man possessed of the capacity for great leadership in na- tional affairs, must be large rec ord of successes and failures. It is by the conflicts of public life that the character and capacity for sue cessful leadership are best developed. The results of such victories and de feats tend to the requirement of forcefulness, resOureefulness, self-re- lianee. correct conclusions followed by prompt action, the capacity read fly to weigh men and measures and to mould the wills and minds of meA to its possessOr's purpose. It may well be, that when he has acquired any great degree of such character and capacity, he is called by death before his countrymen can justly weigh and appreciate his acts in the light of attendant results.
 Perhaps no man in public life has ever been the subject of more bitter attacks than Washington. His position in the army aroused the leslousies of other commanders, and