Evening star., 1925-05-03
SEES WORLD RULED
BY MIDDLE CLASS
Depew, Honored by Mon
tauk Club, Receives Greet
ings From Coolidge.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May democracy
rules the world, and will continue to
rule 1t, through the middle classes,
Chauncey NJ. Depew told his hosts at
one of his ninety-first birthday ami
versary celebrations tonight
The occasion was the thirty-fourth
annual dinner given in the former
Senator's honor by the Montauk Club.
Rrooslvn. an occasion which brought
the assertion from the club president,
William H English, that mo other
man in this, or any other country, has
had his birthday celebrated in a man
ner such as this"
There was a congratulatory lelter
from President Coolidge, written to
Mr.. English, in which the Chief EX-
ecutive wrote:
Coolidge Sends Greetings.
"I hope it may be the pleasant duty
of myself and my successors 10 go on
sending congratulations for the con-
tiuuing recurrence of this occasion for
a great many years to come. Ihe al
fection which his multitude OF frlends
entertained for Senator Depew Is
testimony that after all, republics are
wishes to the Senator, which ne Is
strictly enjoined to share equ1taply
with Mrs. Depew.'
Speaking on "the world at 81,
Mr. Depew began with recital OF the
progress Of the world since the IN
auguration of the Montauk Club birth
day dinners, since which 'one year
bevond a third of century has passed.
BENJAMIN Harrison was President OF
the United States then, he remlnued
his hearers. He rehearsed briefly the
histories of the men who followed
Cleveland. "the loYable Mckinley,
then that human dynamo, Roose
yelt": Taft, Woodrow Wilson, who
when he went abroad during the
World War had more power in world
affairs than any man ever possessed ;
Harding. prince of good fellows, ana
now Coolidge, whose policies OF thrift
and of economy and of debt reductlon
for lowering the burden or taxes must
become, not the policies OF any party,
but the popular principles OF economic
success.
In contrast, he reviewed the happen
ings in the Old World In the same
period, tracing the careers OF the no"
fallen houses of Hapsburg, Hohen-
zollern and Romanoff.
lis now under the domination and
control in one way or another. of a
democratic spirit The only exception
to the power of the people. as we
understand It, In various countries, Is
Russia. There a few men are strlV-
ing to build a government upon
class. They are leaders who nave
grasped every source OF power ana
distrust even that class after they
have exterminated by terrorism all
others" ;,
other parts Of the world, he said,
are governed, mot by people OF In
herited authority, but by the business
men and bankers of the world
These are the new ruling forces, ne
continued. and their powers grow day
by day. While they may be material
istic In their views, and may lack
idealistic and ethical theories" they
are for law and order. he said. and
for that supreme element of stability
and justice, the independence and dig
nifty of the individual" This move
ment, Mr.. Depew asserted, Is no ordl-
nary concentration of power In a class
or in a business. ~"but a demonstra-
ton that the real power in this world
ton that the real power in this world,
ments, is the middle class.
Reviews World Progress.
To what he termed a series OF spe-
cial providences" he attributed sue
cession Of inventions and Industrial
DEVELOPMENTS which met the demands
of an ever er-growing population. making
this mot the same world at all, in an
economic sense, as the one to which
I was born 81 years ago. He re-
viewed succinctly, the progress OF
material and industrial development
in this country within the span of his
lifetime, enumerating the factors that
have brought the Nation to worldwide
leadership. The country's conspicu-
ously successful men, the nonagene-
rian said, have owed their success pri-
marily to their faith in the country.
The improvement Of the relation
ship between capital and labor, Mr..
Depew held to be 'the greatest and
most beneficial change which has oc-
Cured in our time" whereupon he
gave a brief review of the progress of
negotiations between the two ele-
mentS.
He had come to the conclusion, Mr..
Depew said, that the only guides to
success are character, health and hap
piness, and concluded that longevity
is largely a matter Of curb1ng appe-
tites until temperance and moderation
become habits, and from this review
which | have made Of the world at
large, / am more firmly con.
vinced than ever that this is mighty
good world to live in, inhabited by
mighty companionable and lovable
people, and 1 want to stay here as
long as I can"