Complimentary Banquet to Luther Burbank 



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hospitals for the alleviation of pain, universities for the pro- 

 motion of learning, institutions for the advancement of sci- 

 ence, asylums to shelter the homeless, and religious founda- 

 tions for the spread of enlightenment. The beneficiaries of 

 all this munificence may well imitate the verdure and the 

 fruits and the flowers and the harvests of the valley by not 

 upbraiding the gold which brings them into life with the 

 reproach that it was once a part of a glacier of wealth at the 

 high summit of financial achievement. 



The next toast of the evening is: "The Carnegie Insti- 

 tution, and What It Has Done for California." This toast 

 has been assigned to a director of the Institution, Judge W. 

 W. Morrow of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. 

 Judge Morrow has been called by official duty to Portland 

 and Seattle, but he has left for your edification a written 

 response to the toast assigned to him. That response will 

 now be read by the Secretary and General Manager of the 

 State Board of Trade, Mr. Arthur R. Briggs. 



Response, redding of paper of Judge W. W . Morrow. 



Mr. Arthur R. Briggs, General Manager California State 

 Board of Trade, Ferry Building, San Francisco. 



MY DEAR SIR: I regret exceedingly that I cannot be 

 present at the banquet to be given in honor of Mr. Luther 

 Burbank by the California State Board of Trade on the I4th 

 instant. It would afford me great pleasure to join with the 

 Board of Trade and its guests on that occasion in paying a 

 deserved tribute of respect to Mr. Burbank, who has accom- 

 plished so much for the benefit of California, and made the 



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