Show I I i I I i 1 ARMY CANTEEN CANTEN is fAVORED BY GRANT General Says He Wilt Will Wi Advocate S It So Long as Outside Dens Exist Exist 1 uw York lee Dec 10 Seven Seven e en n hundred hundred and fifty guests tl ut attended the thc cl eighth annual dinner of or the National Civic S Federation In hi the Hotel Hotd Astor stor tonight and an accor according to those In attendance It was as one of or the most successful ban ban- quote ever evet held hc 1 b by the association Plo President l Belmont who was to be bo present ent at al the da day session ar arrived arrived 01 ar- ar rived in the evening o from Chicago and anti Introduced E. E M. M 1 In Ingalls ant chairman of or the executive bOlI board Mr 11 Belmont elmont re referred re- re erred to a visit at 31 Mr Carnegie's Carnegles home a few tew years ago ao when he was vas accused eLl eLlor of or predicting hard times Ho lie le did not 1 pre predict them but the they were hero now At the thc mention menton of ur Mr Carnegie's name namu he lie was wa looked for fOl and It I was then learned that ho he had sent word ho could not alen attend being I indisposed n Edward Ed Ed- E ward IL harriman who ho was vas scheduled to talk tunc also sent word wor early carly In the theda da day that ho could not bo be present General Grunt General Frederick D. D Grant was as among the speakers Ills talk was on ou the army canteen The Tho general said sai he favored favole the tho canteen 1 as tho the lessor lestur of two t evils while he himself was a total toll abstainer He lie explained that during the canteen days the men drank on tho the post premises an anti and when tho the canteens were abolished there were ros- ros orlof established about th the array army barracks He Ito suggested that the federation take talc a a. n hand in iii tr trying to establish re-establish Io tho the canteen He lie le referred to tu the Increase In martial courts artal since the thc canteen had been leen abolished He lIe le closed cute b by saying ho he would be an a advocate of canteens canteen until the authorities abolished tho the dons of Iniquity that surrounded lc aln evilly army posts John Mitchell of oC the lie Mine Workers spoke of ot tho good Good work worl done by the federation In arbitrating labor lalor troubles 8 an and gave It credit for fOI averting a strike In the thO su c anthracite fields two years ago aso S Mr Ur un lit UI Labor Samuel was ras tho the last lust speak speak- er I. I Mr 11 Aid ld he hesitated to sound w what at might bo ho 10 a u discordant note lie le said sah however h he would like to know more about the United States Steel corporations corporation's sharing profit sharing plan Ho lie 11 asked what whal were the wa wages es of ot the thc thomen men before It went into effect and what whal hat the they wore vere now nu nule He Lie le sal that hul It I scorned 1 to him film an important and anti pertinent per Ier- question queston Since I have been Icen In New York to toda today today to- to da day sal said Mr lr Gumert I HI have been approached a 0 dozen times lines by IY bankers financiers capitalists In open oVon conversation conversation conver conver- ston In written communications an and andIn 1 In whispers whIsper lo to the effect that wages ur s must mUHl como come down that thal the laboring man must make Iown up his mind to bear his share of vt th the hard times times- And Amid 11 I turned to these men an and 1 I asked them whether H the lie soil of or our country In is less the treasures beneath the soil noil HOI less loss valuable men's mens minds less fertile laboring men less industrious Wherefore I asked them Is Js tho the reason or necessity to thus thug at attack at at- tack tacIt the American standard standal of oC our workingmen to tu Cut it The Tho history of or industry denieD demon demonstrates umon- umon strates strate that every such reduction of ot otwa wa wages es Intended to meet such sueh conditions condl- condl tona as now noW exist has lies only onh accentuated th t. t this situation made mute matters wor worse worie e. e When CI you ou reduce the thu laboring mans man's mUl's earning capacity you ou reduce his consuming concerning power lower and thereby Intensify what chiat wa N aS already Lu bad enough So I say Bay to tho ho employers to to the tho bank era the lawyers lawers the manufacturers manufacturers the lie mine operators to all ul emp employers em em- p that If It the they now attempt to toI I reduce duce wa wages ef thc they are aro not nul going to have the e easy 8 tiling sailing they had hal a fow Cow years cars a ago o for tor tho ho American workingman working working- man mun has come to tho thu tic conclusion that I If I for an any reason the financial tion lon is as it Is is-cind is 18 and I J shall thal not suggest sugi sug- sug gest an any reason tonight tonight tonight-it It It was vas wal nut not at any rate due to an any fault faul on tho part hart of or the thu working people The They have ma made e up UI their minds that tile they aro not going to bo be 10 the chief sufferers because bo- bo cause of an artificial panic or of on oi caused h by the blunders of or those in charge 0 ot tho the In finances ucc of the country JL J L |