The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-30

lear you ascribe leadership to me IapplaUsel
Tor it has been my duty and my pleasure, in
these long years to follow you applause and
cheersI, to learn from You wisdom in public
affairs, and to join with my countrymen in
aScrbnc to you not merely the great merit OF
leadership in the noblest Of profess
sions, but TO yield our admiration
for the singular success which has
given to you the opportunity to lead IN the three
most important cases ever pleaded by member
of the American bar Applause first, in resist
ing your own party in what you regarded the
impolicy, if not the madness Of impeachng
President cries of good, good, and cheerSI;
second, in maintaining before the greatest inter
national tribunal that has assembled in modern
times the rights of your country, and obtaining
redress for wrongs to her that grew out OF the
civil war IappiauseI; and third, perhaps avertlng
another civil war by pleading before an electoral
commission for peaceful settlement OF the
angrest political controversy that ever arose
between parties in the United States. Ap-
Ilause and cheers
II turn now from you, Mr. President, to
thank you, merchants and professional men,
leaders in the great and complex society OF
New York, to thank you for receiving
me. not merely at this festal board,
hut also in that far more impressive
reception which the close of this rainy day wit
messed in your broad and beautiful avenue.
could not | am sure, by any possible stretch OF
vanity take this large and generous demonstra
ton to myself 1t is given to me only as, for the
time, a representative of the principles which
YOU and hold in common touching those great
interests which underlie as we believe, the
prosperity of the Nation lapplausel.
and it is fitting that the commercial
metropolis of the continent should lead-it Is
fitting that this great city, seeoad only IN the
world, should give expression to the continent OF
IT'S views and its Judgment on the important
questions to be decided on Tuesday next by the
American people lcheersl; and ! venture-not
that. | know it so well you, but that |
ana spokesman for the present. venture
,f N,Npl~
your wealth and your vast influence, and your
magnificent prestige that 70 por cent. of thesen-
tire property of this city has been acquired since
Abraham Lincoln was inauguarated on the 4th
of March, 1861. l should not mention here tact
of percentage and of statistics if it did not carry
with it an argument and moral. The common
apprehension with regard to New \ DIRK Is that
it is simply great commercial clty-so great In
its exports and imports as to represent largely
the major part Of all that is exported from or
imported into the United States. That we all
know but are often prone to forget that
New York is the largest manufacturing city IN
the world, with perhaps, single exception. vi
the six thousand millions of manufactures annu-
ally produced in the United States, this great
Empire State furnishes one fifth-$l 200 OOO.OOO
of which this great Empire city produces $o0O,-
900 900; and from these facts comes That
great sympathy, that great indemnity of interest
which has removed previously existing conflicts
between what have been known as the manutac-
turing and commercial interests, and has taught
try unless the three great interests c0mpre-
hended-unless agriculture manufactures and
commerce are acting in harmony, the one with
the other, and joined together for common end
and for the common good Cheers.
1T is usually thought that a change OF gov
eminent means but little-that we come together
with our votes on given day and count them as
the sun goes down, and one party goes out and
another comes in; but, gentlemen, 1t Is worth
while TO remember that the United States
is proceeding today upon given ba-
ais of public policy, might even
say upon given series of public
policies We have a great financial system
have a great currency system we have an i'm
portant national credit, we have levying of
duties as has been so well described by your
distinguished president OF the evening" SO ad-
justed that the industries of the country are fos
tered and encouraged thereby; we have three
constitutional amendments that grew out of the
war, upon which at this hour, and in the
hours and the days and the weeks
and the years to follow. great issues hang
in the country. Are we, if we should be invited
to step down and out, and our opponents 10 step
up and in [laughtcrl, are we to understand that
these policies are to be reversed! lCrles OF
Yes, yes Then, if we are TO understand that
they are to be reversed, we should one and all
prepare for grand disaster Hear
hear and cheers. For single illustration,
let me recall to your minds that the repeal OF tea
lines in the national banking act would restore
to vitality and to vigor the old State bank sys-
tenn from which we had happily escaped, as we
thought, Tor all the remainder OF our lives. zap
plausel elf these policies are to be reversed you
will have TO reeast your accounts and review your
Iedgers ard prepare for anew, and, may say, a
dangerous departure; and if these policies are
not to be reversed, they viii certainly be better
maintained by the great party which originated
them and has thus far sustaipedthem with ylgor
and success. Applause
las | have already said speak of New
York as the great exporting ana importing city.
and from that, perhaps, We often give an eXag-
gerated Importance, relatively speaking, TO our
foreign trade; because this magnificent
metropolis never would have attained
its grandeur and wealth upon the foreign
trade alone. We should forget,
important as that trade is, representing the
enormous sum of fifteen hundred million dollars
annually, that it sinks into insignifcance and is
vast domestic exchanges of which New
York is the admitted CENTER and
which annually exceed twenty-five thou
sand millions of dollars. Applausc.l Our
foreign trade naturally brings to our consldera
ton the foreign relations Of this country so well
described by my distinguished friend as always
simple and sincere. Itais the safeguard of re-
publics that they are not adapted to war.
lCheers] mean aggressive war. lCheers- And
it is the safeguard of this Republic that, in de-
fensiye war VIC can defy the world. Loud
cheering This Nation to-day is in profound
peace with the world. Cheers. But in my
Judgment 1t has before it great duty which
will not only make that profound peace
permanent, but shall set such example as
will absolutely abolish war this continent,
and by great example and a lofty moral prece
dent shall ultimately abolish it other CONT
nents lGreat and long continued cheerinG.l l
am Justified In saying that every one Of the
seventeen independent powers of North and
South America is not only willing but
is ready and eager to enter into a
solemn compact, in Il congress that may be
called in the name Of peace to agree that if. I'M
happily, differences shall arise-as differences
will arise between men and nations-they shall
be settled upon the peaceful and Christian basis
OF arbitration great cheeriugl, and, as l have
often said before am glad to repeat, in this
great center of civilization and power. that IN
my Judgment, no national spectacle. no
international spectacle, no continental spectacle.