New-York tribune., 1879-01-03
JOSEPH COOK On RESUMPTION.

AN ELOQUENT ADDRESS on THE NATIONS FINANCIAL
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF THE NEWSPAPERS
AND THE CLERGY on The RESULT.
The Rev. Joseph Cook spoke last evening,
III The prelude TO his lecture upon the resumption Of
specie payments. Association Hall was filled with a
laI ge audience. at O'CLOCK Mr. Cook ascended the
platform preceded by several gentlemen, among whom
wer, Professor Roswell d. Hitchcock, Bishop Harris.
the Rev Drs Stephen H. Tying, jr, aud Will.
lam OrmIstOn, President Brown, OF Hamilton College,
and Others Alter prayer and the singing OF hymn,
Professor Hitchcock announced tnat the first half OF the
course lectures by Mr.. COOkthat devoted 10 theO-
log cal be concluded with the evening
lecture Five lectures upon political and philosophical
subjects would follow. The first, ON Thursday evening
next would be upon Socialism and Universal Suffrage"
A soon Professor Hitchcock ceased speaking, Mr.
Cook sitting well forward in large armchair, be-
gan his prelude He spoke substantially as follows;
Resumption of specie payments 10y the United States
begins with the year Iappausc and what, accord
ing to many popular prophets, ought not 10 be- aud
could not be- already You take up yOur newspaper
and read: "God stands steady at par" That is news
YOU have for seventeen years 1t is great news
Applause. America kuces the frosty sods above
years only after the close Of conflict ye years in dura
on she lifts up her hands 10 heaven and receives as
Ne" Years present clean financial record ms gli
comes from Cod and not from seNenth-iate politicians
| tIdugntcr and applausc.l
surely u republic which universal suffrage is
times said to he failure, has 4 night 10 point with
abundant gratitude to Providence honest pride
to "A inauo u record uncXaupcd IN ancient modern
times In 1860 the public deJt Of II Uuitcd States
SG400O.OOv. IN 1866 ii Was T2,113,o0O, 900 In 1877
ana Iceland is r.IG25 900 900. Before ciyl
| knew little Or nUtnug OF internal taxation for
| Federal pun O>Cs. Durng that conHCi, such taxa
| tion raised above every present and every
pas example. The interest debt the highest
ia the word AttcI clO>c OF The NdpUicOuC wars,
thr ItOpcrjIcd classes IN Great BrImn refused bear
income tax for single year. Americans nave long
borne voluntarily unitr universal suffrage the burdens
| oi WA tuAatiun. In 1877 We exported much more
tsItI ls,iar f,f
! trade M our favor was 9lj2, 100000. The United
! -.ts has reduced lis Dalluna. debt eight more
! rapidly than Great Britain uid hers. Applause
" H. cfCH twelve months, says Mr. Gladstone, "AGCr-
has done what did in eight years her sell
mtLu sc-dCnlal aud vase fUicthOuEht for The future
have b.,u TO the least. eight old ours. An cuIAD
ciscd nation tolerated burdens wnlCn IN Great Britain
Iectcd ,asr, POSSESSED oil the representations dld
daIe To face. Ihe most unmitlga democracy kuOwn
cost lroscC.NC liabilities OF the state, WLCn the aTis
t.crdt.r aud p'uOcIaIc and mOnarcnlCal Government
OF The United Kingdom has been cOnteute. ignODly Il
Luud over to p"steIltI."
| WHAT PRODUCED THE VICTORY.
Most In .trucve been the popular movements by
| which tuis respondent financial result has beer
achieved ana almost equally Instructive those b.,
| which il has ocen opposed. How has financial wc1ed
mesa ia politics been prevented How was good hnancia
| sense under universal suffrage securedl The whO,
world has an in the to these questions
Eyewineoscs Of our history ior lheast five years srt