The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-12-18
H\STERIA. Is REPLY
No Cause for Fear. Secretary
Assures North Caro-
lima Diners.
WILSON TO BE SANTA
Cabinet Member Says New Cur
rncy Bill Will Be Christ
mas Gift.

Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels.
principal guest at the dinner OF the North
Carolina Society at the Plaza last night.
was told bv Congressman Martin w. Lit
teton that never In the seventeen years
tina. Mr.. I.ittleton has been in New York
has he known business SO depressed in
this city as 1t Is to-day. There is sense
OF depression easily perceived. he said. and
feeling Of dismay. Then he added
IL tell you tina; the Administration has
task OF extreme dei.cacy as 1t lays its
heavy hand more firmly on the backs and
shoulders OF men and corporations for the
purposes Of restraint. The task will be
that in the process OF imposing that re-
straInt upon those who are abusing their
opportunities We do not interfere too much
with the equally necessary liberty of
those who would dare to achieve"
In his response to the toast which Mr..
littleton thus introduced the Secretary
defended the Administration with earnest
ness and ascrbed all forebodings. all pes
smlsm TO the hysteria of which the
party in power had been accused
Two Kinda of Hyateria, He says.
There was the hystera of those who
hau been entrenched in power and benc-
hted long years by special legislation, he
said and there was the hysteria of news
papers which spontaneously and sNstc-
matically attributed all legislation to the
hysteria OF radicals in power
g,I . y
optimism. both believing that the innate
scod sense of the country would await
a fair test before deciding.
The North Csrolnans had at their din
rer two Cabinet members. several Ambas-
saiors. numerous high appointees OF Gov
.rnmcnt. including the man who is to col
l.ci the incom. tax.
MI littleton was called upon to pro-
pos the toast to Secretary Daniels. who
was the guest of honor. 1t was in this
little address that he touched on national
affairs Before doing 50 h. told how close
North Carolina and Tennessee We're, told
about Andrew johnson and then became
serious
Tho burdens Of the present Adminlstra'
ton are very great, and the consequences
in Government policies are serious AM
lasting he said. He added that by III
tariff and the currency change which Il
abou, to be effected it has struck AT
sensitive centre and has administered ;
shock Tho business Of the country ma
been affected by these two in'i'or'ah
,.eces Of legislation. he said.
..Third sensitive Point"
"Nn." ne continued. the Adm!n!stra
ito. proposes 10 overhaul the question o
,orp,.ate management n interstate affair
and the s.agle agency by which the busi
ness of this country l. done will thus b
dealt with by our Government maxim
the third sensitive point
II was "A brave Administration to handl
these important questions and shoulde
the responsibility. he said TIL" publ
therefore should bc patient and allow tim
to test the work.
New York" he added. is at this me
ment the centre OF the most rernarkab
resslmism | have ever known. There
A sense OF depression and dismay hei
that I have not seen before in this gre;
,ty during the seventeen years ] nav
known IT, This should not be ascribe
nor to the enactments into law OF u
various advanced II not revolutionaI
measures which have been enacted in Il
nation and the State"
II WAS then he spoke Of the sensitive
ness and the decacy Of the task, col
Guiding. ~ for one sincerely hope TN
the reward Of the Administration will
found after a thorough test in the pop'
lar approval
Mr. Lttieton then said that Secretai
Dan.eis had pleased all who knew him
his ability, by his grasp OF great pro-
lens and by his conservatism. The toa
was drunk standing,
After he had had some fun telling no
well the State had Jared during the la
wear politically Secretary Daniels becar
serious also. He said that within We
short time two distinguished men in III
city had denounced the new policies
government as hysterical.
Cncle Joe Cannon in Washington hi
I talked for two columns in the same stra
and Andrew Carnegie at the natior
captal had denounced the pcssimism
,hem all as "tommyrot"
In addition to this for the last I,
months there had been observable
newspapers the editors of which shou
lie leaders, a note OF pessimism whi
criticised every new suggestion of
party In power as hystera Th. trout
with all those newspapers and men "
that they were the hysterical ones.
'They are afflicted with hystcria bo