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PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 22.-Con- gressman oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama. chairman of the ways and means committee of the house, dellV- cred an address in this city tonight at the annual banquet of the State Society of Cincinnati. His subject was George Washington. and he said ir part
 Washington did not foresee all the perplexing problems with which We have to deal today. in our tariff or in our great corporations. in our cur rcncy. in our foreign possessions, or in a reconciliation of the rights of labor and capital; he did not forsee the vast task we all have, whether native or foreign born. of taking the rev material constantly coming to cur shores and assimilating 1t into our growth and moulding it into d loyal and intelligent support Of our institutions: he did not see the men ace of destructive socialism nor the extent to which, unfortunately. We were to go in substituting party in torest for political principle, though as to this he gave us paternal warn ! ing. Nevertheless he did forsee sui ncient of our problems to be able to l commend to us course the prin- c:ules of which. if steadily adhered | to. should bring us safely through all i the periIs to which We may be eX- posed While he did not outline the 1 bylaws, so to speak. that must, from | time to time be framed and adopted ! for the detailed life of this country. | he did understand, as no one else | understood. the organic principles up- i on which were to rest the security and the welfare of our national life. i And subject always to his urgent ad- vice against permanent alliances with foreign powers. like a high priest among men. he preached the gospel ! of tolerance, of benevolence, of peace. 1 Of reasonableness and of righteous ness towards all peoples.
 l "Washington's distinguishing com mon sense and practical turn of mind served him we'll in the administration lof his high office Few, if any, mere ! generalities or quiXotic schemes for faction were suggested by him; but, on the contrary. he seemed to be master of the underlying principles Of the business needs of the country as he had been of the plans of his campaigns At time when so many of us are disposed to put upon the statute books nostrums for relief
 from our industrial and financial and
 economic evils, it will be well for us
 to call to mind the striking contrast between the moderate volume and temperate character of laws enacted
 during his presidency and so much of our present day legislation of the experimental sort. reflecting often
 merely view of today that is likely
 to be the heresy of tomorrow, and
 attempting to deal with the objection
 able tendency before it is seen that it will not be arrested of itself, or before we have sufficient understand ing of it to be in a position to know or apply the appropriate remedy.
 There is a great need too for us in 1 this day when constitutional restraint
 has become irksome to many, never
 to turn deaf ear to the stirring ap-
 peal of Washington to his people
 that the department into which our
 government is cOnstitutionally divided
 shall be kept with determined hand
 within their respective boundaries.
 We have, however, problems of a
 serious nature confronting Us for so-
 lution. and doubtless they will in-
 crease as time goes on We, as peo-
 pie, have tolerated the doing of things
 which must be undone or made right
 and not condoned: We have at times
 set too much store by mere material
 success and judged as of minor con-
 sequence things which broaden and
 elevate and ennoble a nation We nave
 made compromise with things of evil
 import. We have, at times, been un-
 mindful of the rights of others as we
 have hurried on to the realization oi ambitious plans; and, in our indiffer- . ence to the demands of good citizen
 ship. we have been guilty of or ac- quiesced in a cource of conduct that has given rise to sullen expressions oi an unrest to which we cannot affor
 to be unconcerned listerrrs; for un-
 checked unrest is likely to breed dis
 content and discontent in it's turn dis
 order And, unless We frankly recog s nize this, we shall have no reasonable
 hope of correcting the conditions
 which arouse, if they do not altogeth
 CT justify, those expressions. anC
 which are a menace not only to ou continuing prosperity but to our self = respect and our repute in the world :. Again and again, as time goes on, il obedience to popular clamor, We shal f be tempted to enact statutes unjust t' labor or capital api not representa-; 1