The Holland Society of New York - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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32 confine him to such a toast 33 by any means tO , Q Dutch Dikes and Damsf But We may Interpret these works of Dutch energy HS SYH1-bols of Hrm. ness and stability g and the speaker shall say to' us what he pleases upon the subjectnwhich. I suspect is in his mind, namely, that cardinal virtue of the Dutch-Conservatism. No man is better Htted to speak 'upon conservatism than EX-President Cleve. land, whom I now have the pleasure of introducing to YOU. - Mr. Cleveland, on rising to make his address, was received with the heartiest demonstrations of ap. plange, The' assemblage stood up and waved their handkerchiefs' and united in the heartiest cheers. The band played, while everybody joined in sing. .ing For he 's a jolly Good Fellow I I The ad. dress was received with every indication of cordial approval. Perhaps no other address delivered in similar circumstances has been 'so widely published and commented upon 3 the papers in all the princi- pal cities of the country from Boston to San Fran- cisco published it in full, with remarks of approval or dissent, according to the opinion ,of the editorial writers upon the administration. policy in the Philippines. T i, T y T t ,nf ,os , iff .ff QQ. x f

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Qpy mar. .ISIIES for md Y0l1r U of the Centu ' Id heriiii 'illiam of lowledge e- -Many IY Which 1 HFC an rrinciples I by the ids. r the his- ess cour- rotion to lanhood, r people. has won .tions on he bene- be fruit- colonies, grateful liverSifYf 1n the State of New ersey December zo 1n the year of our Lord nlneteen hundred By 01-der of the Holland Society of New York On ending the reading of the address the PFCSI dent said Let us rise and dr1nk to the health of W1l helmina ueen of the Un1ted Netherlands which was done w1th the heartiest applause and cheers PRESIDENT VAN DYKF It 1S said on good au thor1ty that speech IS sllver and s1lence IS golden but there are men who know so well how to speak and how to be silent that both the1r s1lence and their speech may be taken on a solid gold bas1s At our first Holland Society D1nner wh1ch oc curred1n the year 1886 one of our guests whom we would have delighted most to honor and whom we most cord1ally 1nv1ted was the President of the Un1ted States But the occupant of the pres1den tial chair at that t1me was as I have heard a man of great expenence say to n1ght the hardest working man in the employ of the government and he could not be with us I am glad that now he IS not so very busy but that he can come and speak to us of those pr1nc1ples which underl1e our 1deals and our hopes and our asp1rat1ons 1n this country The Hrst toast as our Committee arranged It was Dutch D1kes and Dams They educed the Dutch Domain from the ocean s depths and changed dunes and morasses 1nto fert1le polders and bloom1ng gardens I prom1sed our d1st1ngu1shed fellow citizen that he should have cmfie blamfze 1n regard to the subject his own t1me and whatever he chose to say upon It I therefore do not prOp0SC

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