New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-09
| SPEAKERS LAUD MORGAN
Had "PubIic Soul" Declares
Colonel Harvey.
OFFERED AID TO WILSON
Others Praise observation-disclosures
of Financier at Trust Com
panies' Dinner.

The spirit of the late J. Pierpont MOT
gan lowered over the third annual DAN
ouet of the Trust Companies of the
United States last night at the WaIdorl-
Astoria. Tributes to his skill as organ
-zer. patriot and greatest iinancler Oh MS
time were paid by Colonel George harvey
and Festus j. Wade, president OF 'he
Mercantile Trust Company OF 81. LOUIS
William c. Poillon was POSTMASTER, ana
q silent toast was drunk to Mr.. Morgan >
memory by the five hundred members OF
the trust company section Of the Ameri-
can Bankers Association present
In his address on "a Public Soui
Colonel Harvey took occasion TO com
ment i'm the highest terms on MI. Morgan
1T seems peculiarly ntting in speaking
OF the trust companies Of America MI
Harvey said, ito speak Of Mr.. Morgan
for he, like yourselves, was in truth
trustee rather than banker. lie was
trustee OF billions of money for millions
of people-the greatest trustee probably
the world has ever known. He possessed
what Carlyle pronounced the greatest
need OF the world-a public soul
As an Illustration Of Mr.. Morgan's deep
and broad patriotism, shown regardless
OF party differences or party antagonlsni'
Mr. Harvey told Of a conversation held
with the hnancier the day before MS
final departure from America.
1T is no secret, of course said Mt.
Harvey, that Mr.. Morgan, in common
with many others, never considered the
Democratic party fully capable of gov
erning this nation. Yet when the election
had taken place. when the inevitable had
happened ana, Using Speaker cannon
phrase. when Mr. Wilson had become MS
President as much as mine, perhaps, IN
fact. a little more. Mr.. Morgan said to me
with an emphasis that only quetude can
give:
when you see Mr.. Wilson. tell him
for me that if there should ever come a
time when he thinks any influence or re-
sources that | have can be used for the
country. they are wholly at his disposal
That and his comment to me on MS
appearance before the Congressional IN
vcstigaton committee in Washington, !
hated to go, but l am glad l went; |
think | did some good were revelations
Of his innermost thoughts and aspra-
tons.
Barring the usual leavetaking, those
words to Mr.. Wilson were the last words
heard from the lips of Mr.. Morgan.
They are the words of a true patriot, of
great. a very great, American. spoken
from the depths of a passionately loyal
heart Surely l can do no better than to
leave them with you to remember, 10 cher
ish and to feel so long as you all shall
live I'm this. our native land.
Colonel Harvey launched bolts of sar-
casm at Vice President Marshall, whom
he accused Of talking occasionally like
Mr.. Bryan I'm former days, through a
cooked hat" The occasion for Colonel
iIarvey's retorts was what he alleged
were the Vice Presidents undue criticism
of the "thoughtless rich
Mr.. Wade added TO the tribute accorded
Mr. Morgan when he declared.
Mr. Morgan was a man with a tenn
perance no pleasure could seduce and an
integrity no money could buy"
He followed his eulogy with a plea for
the recognition as an enemy OF society
of any individual who decries wealth be
cause it is wealth, and particularly amy
individual, be he paGpor or millionaire,
banker or artisan, manufacturer, farmer
or politician. who decrles the railroad
simply because il is railroad
Patrick Francis Murphy, the third
speaker. discussed banking from It's
humorous point " view.
Present at the guest table, in addition
TO the speakers, were Clark Williams,
Cornelius \. Pugsley, Arthur Reynolds.
George g. Van Tuyl, jr., the Rev. Cyrus
Townsend Brady. Ralph w. Cutler, Morti-
mer L. Schiff. Frank \. Nanderlp, Fran
els L. IIinc. f. II. Golf. William \. Nash,
James Speyer, Lawrence l.. Gillespie and
II l. Mcintosh