Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-16
OMAHA BANQUETS
ARCHBISHOP HARTY
New Catholic Dignitary Prom
ises to Work for the Wei
fare of All.
GETS GREAT RECEPTION

No. ~ NAs@-@&A - ~
Il am man and nothing that
touches human nature is estranged
from me" is the way Archbishop
Harty. guest last night at citizens
banquet i'll the Hotel Fontenellc.
chose to assure the people that he
will put forth his best efforts in
their behalf
God has made a wonderful world"
said the archbishop, But he has made
nothing in it SO precious as man.
Therefore | shall be most deeply con-
eerned in men and women, as distn-
guished from the affairs of men and
women. The people of Omaha will
always find me where the peoole OF
the Philippines ever found me
standing on the platform of Christian
democracy-making myself all things
TO all men"
Representative business men were
at the banquet. Gurdon w. Wattles.
president of the Omaha & Council
Bluffs Street Railway company, well
coined the Distinguished prelate to
Omaha. Chief Justice Morrissey OF
the Nebraska supreme court, said he
was glad to have such a man as the
archbishop to cooperate with the
citizens of the state in its moral, men
tai and material progress. Other
speakers expressed similar sentiments
of warm cordiality. T. J. Mahoney,
POSTMASTER, introduced Archbishop
Harty with a praiseful eulogy of his
record as all American citizen and
churchman.
Archbishop's Speech.
Archbishop Harty said
1T was in far-off Manila spark
ling like pearl in the islands of the
Pacific, and from the lips of an
Omaha man who was visiting me,
that I heard for the first time the
slogan: Grow With Growing
Omaha The expression made slight
impress on my mind then, for ! did
not think at that time that kind
providence had appointed that |
should grow with growing Omaha
Were | asked to summarize what
| think of Omaha, l would say: 1t is
a city advancing in population, NOR
ais, wealth and. knowledge; May God
preserve it till time shall be no more.
"The cordial welcome which you
have accorded me this evening, Mr..
Toatsmaster, In your own name and
in that of this representative gath
ering, will live and last and grow as
a fragrant and fruitful memory for
me while the years come and go.
Man to Man. IL
Il esteem this occasion as one OF
the happiest incidents in my life; for,
gentlemen, it affords me an oppor-
tunity to stand among you, to become
acquainted with each one of you, to
join hands with you as one OF your
selves, and as a man with his fellow
men to share in your counsels and
your labors for the building UP of
greater and d better Omaha.
Il have come to you from the land
OF perpetual summer, from the land
of the palm trees, a land teeming
with natural wealth-both agricul-
tural and mineral-the and where the
most precious hard woods grow, and
hemp, sugar, tobacco and coprax
abound. | have come from the
Philippine people whom | love and
whose kindness to ME ] can never
forget.
Whatever success | have made in
the far east, | feel impelled to trace
it not to myself, but to the sympathy
which bound me to the Philippine
people. This was the secret of the
marvellous cooperation which they
towards me in building up
schools, academies and colleges,
homes for delinquent boys and girls
refugees for the mentally deficient,
hospitals built, on the best models,
and all these institutions constructed
on modern ines, broad. deep, and an
swcring to the present needs of hu-
man life.
Secular Work.
'And not only in matters directly
pertaining to the Office of bishop,
but also in things that are very re-
motely connected with it was this CO.
operation shown. This sympathetic
cooperation of the Philippines en-
abled me not only to inculcate the
spirit of thrift, but also to afford
them all opportunity of practicing it.
found it necessary to gather around
me ag roup of men who have built
up great banker in the United
States "the most liberal bank charter
in the world" This bank, now grown
into one of the soundest financial in
stitutions i'll the far east, enables the
farmer to move his crops and has be-
come the foundation of many indus
tries which in turn employ thousands
Of men, and as consequence is
into many home comforts
unknown there in former days.
"As to the attitude of the Philip