TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING. in 



onl_\' (juestion will l)e. what is for the welfare of Connecti- 

 cut? (Applause.) Connecticut honored him and 1 know 

 he hopes to honor Connecticut. It is a great state we live 

 in, I say. it is very resourceful ; its financial interests are 

 the greatest in the country per capita, its investments are 

 Hie best. It is conservative, but we are proud of Connecti- 

 cut, which reminds me of the story of a fellow from Ameri- 

 ca who went over to England, and he had some friends in 

 London who wanted to show him the cit_\' and the town. 

 They started out to show him all the great cathedrals, and 

 they came to W'estminster Abbey, and they said : "Just 

 look at this, isn't this one of the finest things you ever 

 saw?" He waved them aside and said: "Oh, pshaw, we 

 have got lots of those in America." They looked at each 

 other and then they said to him: "We will show you some 

 monuments," and they show^ed him those vast towering- 

 monuments to the British generals who had fought, bled 

 and died for England. He said: "That is not a patch to 

 the Bunker Hill monument at Boston, or the Washington 

 monument at Washington." Then they went on to show 

 him the great and interesting buildings, but to him nothing 

 in the world was equal to America and its sky-scrapers. 

 Well, they finally felt a little non-plussed, so they had a 

 whispered conversation, and it was agreed they would take 

 him out to dinner that night, but it wasn't a dinner like this. 

 They had this material that comes in bottles, and they set 

 out a plan to get their friend very — well, make him so tJiat 

 everything would look good to him. (Laughter.) I think 

 someone must know what I mean. They had this beauti- 

 ful dinner and they got him all loaded up. so to s])eak, s(^ 

 everything looked good to him. .\nd finall\' they hit upon 

 this plan to belittle and put America to shame. So the\' kept 

 pouring out the wine, and he kept imbibing, and tinally h.e 

 felt drowsy and finally fell asleep and was absolutely un- 

 conscious, and then they said: "We have shown him 

 something he can't find in America, and they made up the 

 further plan then to take him out to the nearest cemetery. 



