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Show OGDEN BAR AT ANNLBANQLIET Lawyers and Their Wives Hold Fitting Celebration Celebra-tion of Washington's Birthday Prominent Men Respond to Toasts Banquet to Be Annual An-nual Affair. The members of tho Odon bar, with their wives and a number of Invited In-vited guests, held their flrBt annual banquet at the Reed hotel last night In celebration of Washington's birthday. birth-day. At the conclusion of tho feast and Its toasts, it was unanimously decided de-cided that the commlttco which had arranged the affair should be made a permanent one,,.and a banquet bo hold each year. Tho banquet board was spread for I one hundred diners and there wero but few vacant places when the crowd I was seated. All of the guests oa the program for toasts were present with ' the exception of ex-Mayor William Glasmann and A. R. Keywood, who found It Impossible to attend tho feast Tho guests assembled In the dining room at 5'30 o'clock, and John E Bagloy acted as toastmastor, introducing in-troducing the various speakors with many wlttlcjsms. . It was Attorney Bagley and Attorney H. H. Henderson who wero the real promoters of tho function, and much of tho credit for the pleasant success of it "belongs to them. Judge Howell's Addrss. The first speaker to be Introduced was Judge J. A. Howell, who spoke to some length on "Washington" as a Statesman," the Bpeaker recalling certain Instances in the life of the first president and tracing the development devel-opment of his statesmanship. He said: "As you sit about this festive board lot your thoughts fly backward a little lit-tle more than a century and a half, to be precise, to December, 1753, and picture to yourselves a trading post in an almost unbroken wilderness, at the point where a littlo creek called French creek Joins the Allegheny river, at what was then called Vcran-go, Vcran-go, in what Is now westorn Pennsylvania. Pennsyl-vania. There a French officer and the men under hlra had established a rude fort out of a trading house seized from the English. As tho Frenchman sat supping with hlB company com-pany there suddenly appeared, surrounded sur-rounded by his wild companions, a tall, muscular, stately major of the Virginia militia The Frenchman received re-ceived his unbidden guest with that politeness which is common to his race, but when the British officer attempted at-tempted to glean any information as to what his purpose there was, he received re-ceived no reply, until as the evening wore on and the wine flowed more freely, the Frenchman In his cups made the statement that the French were going to take possession of the Ohio, and, by God! they were going to keep it. "The visitor made no reply, but knowing his conduct afterwards wo can easily imagine what his thoughts were, for the Frenchman was none other than Joncalre, one of those intrepid in-trepid frontiersmen under Duquesne who were pushiD,? the boundaries of New France southward and eastward, and the visitor was no other than George Washington, sent by the canny can-ny old Scotch governor of Virginia, Dinwiddle, to roconnoltor what the French were doing in the west and to prepare tho way for the westward march of tho English across this continent. con-tinent. "It was almost a chance meeting and the circumstances of it aro simple, sim-ple, and yet this meeting wa6 pregnant preg-nant with tremendous results. From this meeting we can not only trace the settlement of tho west by the English, but) we can trace the very foundation of the American nation. It was a result of this meeting: that Washington was the first to realize the possibilities of the great and the undiscovered west, and from that moment mo-ment he made up his mind that the English-speaking race, if It was to maintain its position in this country, must have not only the Atlantic seaboard, sea-board, but the west, as It was then known, or as it might afterwards bo discovered, and especially the valleys val-leys of the Ohio and the Mississippi. He was tho original prophet of the great west his statesmanship first conceived that the English government govern-ment In this country must be continental conti-nental In its breadth. "That Is why in the following year he led the expedition again westward to this same re.? ion from Virginia, and fought the fight of Great Meadows, Mead-ows, fired the shot that wns heard around tho world, joined Braddock the following year In his Ill-fated expedition ex-pedition and finally was with General Forbes at tho capture of Fort Duquesne. Du-quesne. With the fight oji the Plains of Abraham, France's part In the development de-velopment of America ceased, and the though which Washington first had in mind at that meeting at the trading trad-ing post had come to pass and tho English were destined to rule this countr. "Then came the breach between the mother country and the colonies and Washington was engrossed of course with his duties as commander- (Contlnued on Page Six.) ..maHmefiBnBiiOmaB.mt OGDEN BAR AT A1UALJA1IET (Continued from Page Five.) In-chief of the forces of the Revolution, Revolu-tion, but as soon as peace was declared de-clared ho returned again to this subject sub-ject of connecting tho oast with the west, and it was as a direct result of his plans for the creation of waterways water-ways and highways leading from Virginia Vir-ginia and Maryland and Pennsylvania and the Ohio and the Mississippi that tho thought first came to his mind and the minds of others that there must be a more perfect union amongst tho states that had won their freedom, a thought pursued until un-til accomplished. So In thinking of Washington as a statesman, we must first think of him as the prophet of the west, and secondly we must think of him as the advocate of a stronger' union amongst the states. He stood for a continental union of states. "Let us now shift the scene to almost al-most tho close of the Revolutionary war. when practically there had been fought tho last battle that was necessary neces-sary to win freedom and men wero simply waiting for peace. There never had been a time and there never would again he a time when the fortunos of this country wero at "such a low obb, The various colonics colo-nics were bankrupt and disorganized, the continental congress of the confederacy con-federacy was weak and demoralized, thoro was no strong forco In the country except Washington and his army of veterans, and It was then that It was proposed that the states I and the confederacy should both be -wiped out and that he should be the king. JuBt' as Caesar was tendered tho crown by Antony, so was Washington Wash-ington tendered it by Colonel Nicola, But not hlf-heartcdly, like Caesar did, but resolutely and emphatically, did Washington refuse the crown. So in the third place wo are Indebted, not only to, the unselfishness and nobility no-bility of Washington, but to his wisdom, wis-dom, that Instead of this government commencing as a monarchy it commenced com-menced a republic. T say wisdom, because the personal empires established estab-lished by tho other great men of his- I tory have all crumbled to the dust, while the empire of the people found- ed by Washington will endure for all ,-time. ,-time. His statesmanship had ad- j vauced dne step, this government was to be a continental union of states forming a republic. ' "The years have again passed, the new nation has been formed and Washington Is tho first president. The congress has passed a law levying an excise tax upon distilled spirits, but thorc wero some In this country who had not vet even at that time, and did not until the end of the Civil war learn tho lesson that with tho passing of the continental congress and the establishment of the constitution, a real nation had been formed from the union of states. So somo of the western west-ern fronticrmen of Pennsylvania, engaged en-gaged In the manufacture of liquor, not only refused to pay the tax, but rebelled against the now nation and Washington at once called for volunteers volun-teers and placing himself at tho hoad of fifteen thousand men started to put down this rebellion There was no need for tho shedding of blood, for this pott) rebellion In a mean cause fell to pieces upon the threatened threat-ened approach of the army, but it Is an Important Incident, because It il. luotrates to us that Washington, when ho said at the close of that war that this must be an Indissoluble union of states with a federal head, meant what I he Baid, and It Is important to us In another way, because It was by following fol-lowing this example which Washington Washing-ton sot, that in another genoratlon a rebellion of suprome Importanco which If successful, would have meant the destruction of this nation, was put down by the- second great American, by Abraham Lincoln. So the statesmanship states-manship of "Washington conceived an indestructible and continental union of state3 forming a republic. "Finally let me recall to your minds another instance Franco and England Eng-land are again at war and the people peo-ple of this country. In their gratitude for the aid given them by France, are naturally sympathetic with that nation. na-tion. Moreover, France Is in the throes of a revolution in an effort to secure for Itself what seemed, but which turned out not to be a government govern-ment of the people such as had been established In this country, and therefore there-fore the great majority of the peoplo of this now nation felt they should join their forces with those of Franco. Against the opinion of the majority of his countrymen, Washington announced announc-ed tho doctrine that this nation must not become embroiled In any foreign quarrels. He iBHUed the Neutrality proclamation and held tho nation in check, because he realized that It was only by maintaining tho position of Isolation which geographically America Ameri-ca had that the nation could develop and grow. j "This foreign policy of Washington I was followed for a century by oijr ' statesman, until the United State9 became tho leading nation of the world, and then wo did not depart from It to tho oxtent of becoming embroiled in the dispute's of other nations, but only to the extent of ad. vanclng a step forward, demanding that the other nations of tho worll shall live up to tho standard we have set for ourselves And thus, to confine con-fine ourselves to our own time, wo have seen the last vestiges of the despotism des-potism of a foreign nation driven from the American continent by tho last president but two, by William McKInley. and wo have seen two great nations forced to quit a cruel war simply because of tho ipso dixit of tho last but ono, Theodore Roosevelt. nu unuiiy we now nave In the presidential chair a man who, however how-ever we may differ as to his internal policy, we can at least thank God for being an apostle of an universal peace for President Taft Is doing -what Washington would be doing under similar circumstances, he is leading the nations of the world In singing a dirge to war and strife and an anthem an-them of peace and good will amongst all tho nations of the earth. "And so, Mr. Toastmastor and ladles la-dles and gentlemen, to sum it all -up, in one sentence, to tho statesmanship of Washington we aro prlmarllv Indebted In-debted that there was bullded fbr us hero a continental, Indestructlblo and independent union of states forming a republic, which It Is our most sa- ' cred political duty to prescrvo for our children's children, to the end that i this may continue to bo the leading nation of the world.' J HarrlG on Washington. At the conclusion of Judge Howoll's toast, Judge N. J. Harris told of "Washington as a General." Judge Harris tracod the story of Washing- ton's military life and pictured the many campaigns In which the great i military knowledge of the American 1 I general won success from the British forces against heavy odds. The speaker gave credit for the success of Washington to tho General's force of 4C character, and said that It was his f strong character more than any other . thing which had made him the greatest great-est general of all time. i , Fell Talks of the Mayorship. Mayor A G. Fell, who responded to tho toast, "How I Like tho Mayorship jjo Far as I Have Gone," contended that he had not rgono far enough to 4 hardly know how he liked it, but that he had gone so far that there was no way of getting out of office now except ex-cept by the "golden stairs." Attorney T. D. Johnson, who re- sponded to the toast, "What I Know About Fees," alleged that he was the only lawyer in the city -with a fee out on interest. He said that he viewed fees from a business man's standpoint stand-point Following his "businesslike" "i advice on the all-Important matter of ( fjees, a motion was passed that when J the fee which the speaker referred to 5 i as being out on Interest .was Anally collected that It bo turned over to . j ' Mr. Johnson's wife. Path Strewn With Boulders. I Attorney Valentine Gideon respond- ed to ,the toast, "The Needs of the Hour." Mr. Gideon stated that the needs of the present hour were the same needs as those of the past, and ' that all questions which may now face the American people will be answered an-swered by the patriots of the country as they have been answered in the past. "The Younger j-embers of the Pro-fesh" Pro-fesh" was responded to very ably by Attorney W. AV. Harcombe, who confessed con-fessed that tho path of the young lawyer Is strewn with boulders. v "The Practice of Law the Road to Wealth," was given response by Attorney At-torney C. R. Holllngsworth, who de- clarcd that the Incomes of the members mem-bers of tho Ojden bar were so large that he could not give tho subject in five minutes. Following Is a list of the ladles on the reception committee: . Mrs. E. T. Hulanlskl, Mrs. George j Halyerson, Mrs. J. B. McCracken, Mrs. Joseph Chez, Mrs. A. R. Hev- f i wood, Mrs. C. C. Richards, Mrs. A. E. ' Pratt, Mrs. David Jensen, Mrs. Valen- tine Gideon, Mrs. J. N. Kimball and Miss Evelyn Hendershot. The Menu. An attractive menu prepared and j served under the direction of George j ' Moypr, the Reed hotel's' efficient , ' steward was as follows: J Tomato bisque, celery, ripe olives. I ' anchovies a la orly, fried mountain trout, beamaise sauce, pommos pallles. 1 fritters a la ncopolltan, saute sweet- I bread with mushroom::, en cnlsso, j, roas. shoulder of veal, currant jejly, 1; baked sugar cured ham, champagno j sauce, ondlve salad, beets In butter, j mashed potatoes, English plum pud- " dlngj hard and brandy sauce, cafe nolr. ne MemBers. t Tho following aro tho lawyers of V the Weber county bar; i' A. W. Agee, C. A. Bovd, J. E. Bag- ley, J. 3. Boreman, Joseph Chez, C. F. Cable, D. S. Cook, S. T. Corn, J. C. 1 Davis, J. H. DeVlne, Royal Eccles, It. S Farnsworth, J. m. Forrlstall. Valentine Val-entine Gideon, V. C. Gunnell, Cbas. R. Holljngsworth, A. R. Hoywood, J. G. Hoywood. E. T. Hulanlskl. Geo. l-L Halyerson, A. G. Horn, H. H. Henderson. Hender-son. W W Harcombe. N. J. Harris, J. A, Howell, F J. Hondershot. T. D. Johnson. Wndo Johnson, David Jensen, Jas, N Kimball, John D. Murphv, S. .; .' A. Maglnnls, Jas. B. McCracken. Geo ' McCormlck, Gco,-T. Marsh T R O'- 5, Connolly, A. E. Pratt, J F Pope C. "' C. Richards, w. H. Reeder Jr , II." H. J Rolapp. W. R. Skeen, J. g.' Willis j |