not make apologies for it to either my Republican or my Democratic friends. I am not so much a partisan that I am not desirous of doing what seems for the best interests of the country, without regard to party advantages, and I am confident you will find, as time goes on, that we acted wisely and soundly in passing the Federal Reserve Act.

"I thank you very much for this opportunity to meet so many old and good friends. I wish I had an opportunity to do it more frequently, and if something does not happen this summer, I am looking forward to a long vacation in your midst."

IN THE AUDITORIUM

At the formal dedicatory exercises in the Auditorium, Senator Weeks said: "Mr. President and Gentlemen. I don't know how the kind of greeting which you have given me would make a poet and a humorist like Brother Bangs feel, but it brings cheer to the heart of a politician. (Laughter.) We have heard much to-night about stealing thunder. I have no thunder to steal, if I had any it would have been gone long ago. But I have had thoughts similar to those expressed by some of the other speakers. One of them with the views of Brother Fitzgerald. He noticed the same thing I had remarked, that he and I were sitting among Republicans. That Congressman Gallivan and former Congressman Foss were sitting on the other side of the room. I had thought of going over to their side of the table, not because it is necessary for me to prove my political fealty, but because I wanted to show my political fairness, and I should have gone if I had known just where to place Brother Foss. (Uproarious laughter and applause.) Perhaps under the circumstances, and I would do so if there were room, I should take my place in front of the table.

"To one who is accustomed to soliloquize in the United States Senate, in the presence of vacant benches and empty galleries, an audience like this requires more than the usual amount of assurance, and such an audience should be sufficient to indicate to any speaker that he should carefully prepare what he is going to say before he appears before it. If I had followed my inclination I should have done what these other gentlemen did, dictated what I was to say and have read it to you.

"But I had a lesson on that subject some years ago which I have not forgotten. We all of us get the most critical and the fairest advice that we have from any source from our wives. On one occasion I had prepared a paper and read it to an audience in my wife's presence. When we returned to our home I asked her what she thought of it. She said she could criticise it in three ways. One was I ought to speak extemporaneously; it sounded better. Second, that I read very badly and should never read a paper to an audience; and in the third place, she said: 'I thought that the paper you read to-night was not worth reading.'

"Now I do not wish it to be understood that I am going to deliver an address which the program says I am, because the hour is too late. I know you are anxious to go to your homes, but your courtesy will

compel you to remain in your seats for a little time while I indulge in a few thoughts that have come to me as applicable to this occasionwhich have not already been uttered.

"I joined this Club more than seven years ago because I was told that there was to be no politics, no religion, no condition in life of any kind which was to bar any man who was respectable from its membership. I had belonged to political clubs, and do now; I had belonged to social clubs and do now; I had belonged to other clubs of various kinds and do now. But in every case there was not that breadth of spirit and fellowship which I believed would obtain within the walls of this Club.

"I have had the opportunity of working with the common laborer in the field, and with all classes of men, including those who are called captains of industry, and I have had an opportunity to engage in public service with those who are representing their States in the United States Senate, up to those who represent the city of Newton in her Board of Aldermen. As a result I learned long ago that the wisest man can learn something from the most ignorant man, and that there is no one from whom we can not get some inspiration or some thought which will not be of benefit to us in our every-day affairs.

"And again, the ideas represented by this Club appealed to me because my whole principle in life had been to get people together, to exchange views so that we may see the things from the other fellow's viewpoint, and as a result have for him a better sense of justice and fairness than we could if we tried to view his contention from our own standpoint.

"I believe that policy represents common sense, and therefore that there is common sense as well as moral integrity behind the idea which was used in establishing this Club. We have progressed in this respect as we do in all others. We did not have such clubs twenty-five years ago. The conditions, perhaps, were different in those days. Men associated with those who belonged to the same faction or belonged to the same party, or to the same church, or to some other similar organization or system, as a result they did not get in touch with those who had dissimilar ideas which were created and developed by a different point of view.

"Now we are to be congratulated that we have this great organization in the city of Boston, and I have no doubt it has already done a great amount of good. I want to hold up to you a finger of warning, however, in one respect.

"You are moving into this splendid building. It seems adequate for every purpose for which it is to be used. Just now you have on a tremendous impetus. But there will come days when there may be a setback in the Club's enthusiasm; if so don't forget that the idea is sound and is worth following up to the end of time-that is, to bring all kinds of men in this community into harmony with one another. That policy should be carried into the broader affairs of national life, and it is on that phase of the subject that I want to say a word.

ABOLITION OF PREJUDICE

"Before I went to Congress I had very distinct prejudices against some men, and I am afraid prejudices against some sections of the country, but I had traveled more or less so that even then I believed that the wisest thing the Government could do would be to send its newly elected Senators and Representatives to every section of the country, that they might as far as possible become acquainted with the needs of other sections.

"We go to Washington, as a matter of fact, as the direct and personal attorneys of the State and district which we are elected to represent. We go there to carry out the ideas and the views and the wishes of the people who have elected us. But we find very soon that there are other men there equally honest, equally earnest, in representing their sections of the country. Very often the things which their people want are not exactly the things which you want or which the people of this New England section seem to require for their best interests, so we commence to harmonize our views. If we are broad and liberal in our handling of public questions we gradually modify our views so that we may help to do those things which are not essentially for the best interest of New England, but are for the best interest of all the people of the whole country.

"Very frequently, I have no doubt, your Senators and Representatives are criticised because of some action which they have taken, or some vote which they have cast, because it has seemed to you that they might have obtained action which would have been of greater interest or value to this particular Commonwealth or to the particular interest which you have in view. But you must remember at all times that if your Senators and Representatives are wise they are going to so act that they will harmonize and bring about the action which is going to be for the best interest of everybody, but if on the other hand they are going to cast selfish votes or do selfish acts, they are certainly going to lose their influence with their associates, and create a prejudice against the section where you live, which will be inimical to its interests producing a result, very much more serious than the vote which you may have criticised.

WARNING TO NEW ENGLAND

"I presume it is a delicate subject to mention, but I remember some years ago when almost everybody in Massachusetts was advocating the removal of the duty on hides. I went to Congress with the idea that we ought to remove the duty from hides, which duty was part of the great fiscal policy of the Government. The people of Massachusetts did not ask that this fiscal policy should be revised, but that one item in it should be changed to benefit them, which, however, might not benefit some other people in some other section of the country. I am not going to argue whether it did benefit us or whether it did harm to other people

in removing this duty, but I want to say to you that in my judgment the Representatives of Massachusetts, and I am one of them, never did a more harmful thing to all the interests of the people of New England than when we advocated the removal of that particular duty.

"Why? Not because the duty itself was particularly important, but because the people in other sections of the country who believed in protection said, 'It is not fair, you are not doing the fair thing by us. We stand by protection because we believe in it as a principle. You are standing by protection because it is a matter of local interest, and you are now trying to do the thing which will give you some advantage over us in connection with the policy.'

"I submit the question to every Representative and Senator from New England who has represented New England since that time, if I am not right in saying that it was unwise to try to do a thing which might have given us some slight advantage, but which brought down on our heads the criticism of unfairness from those with whom we have been associated from whom we must get a great many of the things which this Commonwealth and this section of the country need in order to make it prosperous.

"That is what I have meant by saying that we must compromise our views and adapt them to the views and the wishes of the people in other parts of the country. We never get legislation which will exactly conforin to our interests, we never pass legislation which will exactly carry out any one man's views. It is always a result of compromise. Not of trade, as some men might say, but of giving here and taking there, so that the net result will be the best possible that can be obtained.

"Therefore, you can see that getting together and harmonizing your local differences, as for example, between capital and labor, or between this interest and that interest, is exactly what it has been found necessary to do in the broader field of national affairs, if we are going to do the things which are for the best interest of this great Commonwealth.

"We need some things in New England. If we are not going to be limited to a summer resort in the near future, we have got to do those things which will make our manufacturing interests successful, and which will create the building up and the operation of a great merchant marine. We have in this section of the country for many years been leaders in several manufacturing industries which are peculiar to this climate, and in which our people excel. We were at one time great leaders in the building and sailing of ships. Those are the two things which we probably can do better than most other people, and we should follow such a course in Congress, that we can obtain from other sections of the country the assistance which we need in developing those two great industries, as well as in the many minor ones which will occur to you.

"The thought which I want to leave with you is that a club like this is a probable harmonizer, that in order to get the best results from any enterprise we must adjust our interests so that they will conform as far

as possible with the wishes and interest of others. And if we carry that policy into the National field we will obtain like results, these resulting in the best possible conditions for this great Commonwealth which we all represent." (Applause.)

In accordance with the notice in the last issue of the BULLETIN, the two addresses made by Senator John W. Weeks at the dedication of the new Club House, March 11th, are printed herewith. Owing to the Senator's absence in the West, it was impossible to secure the manuscript in time for the April number.

Thursday, March 25

SONS OF MEMBERS' NIGHT

Vice-President James W. Rollins greeted the members and guests, and introduced as the toastmaster of the evening Mr. George S. Smith.

TOASTMASTER GEORGE S. SMITH

"Young Men, Young Friends. The City Club with open heart and hands extends to you and your closest chums, your fathers, a wealth of welcome, which is most sincere and is your just due.

"A year ago we initiated this function, which we call the Sons of Members' Night, and, at that time, it seemed somewhat of an experiment, but immediately following the exercises of that evening and percolating all the way down through the succeeding twelve months, have come many, many requests from the fathers that we repeat it, and so, beginning with to-night we believe we are justified in hoping that this Sons of Members' Night will be an annual function in the annals and activities of the Boston City Club. (Applause.)

"We promise never to summons men to come here and preach to you, because we would not for one moment insult your intelligence, nor presume upon those God-given faculties of yours that allow you to discriminate between right and wrong, but rather our endeavor always will be to invite men to present to you those questions that are always of educational value, particularly coming from those men who are living the experiences whereof they recite to you.

"So to-night, if the speakers will allow the presiding officer just to throw out an outline of what will be presented to you, he will say that we want to give you a glint of municipal administration by one who knows. We want to give you a glint as to the making of State laws by one who knows. We want to give you a little touch of the conduct of business by one who knows, and we close by taking you, for a few moments, into the educational field, accompanied by one who knows.

"Therefore, the first speaker whom I will present is an all-around