Show ECKELS AT DENVER ItEakes an After Dinner Speech to Bankers and Their Guests Denver Colo Sept Comptroller of the Currency James H Uckela was the guest of honor at a banquet given this evening at the Brown Palace Hotel by the Denver Clearing House association associa-tion Over 100 distinguished citiaers of Colorado banker statesmen and others whore names are associated with tha upbuilldlng of this city and the state were present Comptroller Eckels made an after dinner speech to whIch close attention was pad by his hearers and at its close he was warmly applauded Mr Eckels began by emphasizing the fact that citizens of all parts of the country are actuated by the same t IIrlta desire for tbs good cf thc whoie country and that no matter hW fierce the fight between partisans may bs aged there Is no < I < jn3tC ct us weakening the foundations of the republic re-public I am not unmindful of the fart that a large majority of th citizens of this I state feel that they have in the economy econ-omy of commerce been sorely njiiisd in one of their great Wealth producing industries If such a result has ito lowed they have not been left wholly ivilhcvu compensating benefits nor have tnsy suifered more keenly than at various times in the countrys history his-tory as have others who have embarked em-barked in ctrtr lines bf undertaking hIf the citizen of Colorado has suffered suf-fered despite that fact he can boast of a territory more nearly possessed of all the things essential to the support sup-port or a people Iran any ante within I the borders of the UrJion The fields rf fruit and gram to which he may well point with pride hfr yield to toe husbandman upon the pan the pio duce for the laborer upon the moun tan vMla cr a thousand flue are grazing innumerable cattle and sheep tier gold will soon be greater In value than that cf any sister state Today within the narrow confines of a single camp and that of recen rlnuiiu d mined more than onetwentieth of the annual god product of ts wc1rI1 fifth of that found within the United States With ix Jess prcdigiaho hen copper silver lead coal anthracite and bituminous and petroleum have here found lodgment guaranteeing beyond peradventure of a aojbt gLeJtL1 riches to her people Mr Eckels closed with a prophecy that tae country is now entering upon ai era of a jenewcd prosptrty in which eaft west north and south alike will participate |