Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-25
BEECHER ON THE SITUATION.
He Talks About the Way that the Re
publican Party Gets Votes.
The following is an extract from Henry
Ward Beecher's great speech at the
BROOKLYN rink Wednesday night:

Brooklyn rink w ednesday night:
Looking forward, as the pilot looks, what
are our perilsf The war Is over. Applause.
The great questions that agitated the cOmmu
nifty are past. You can't bring them back.
There are, however, two great dangers that
betide our government. One Is the danger
that comes from the corruption of wealth; the
other, that which comes from the corruption
of Oo-lOug-held power. Great applause.
lt is a common prOyerD, "An honest man can
bear Watching-a dishonest man needs it."
Laughter THIS is just as true of politics as
Of common procedure. This IS the age Of en-
terprise, of production, of cOmmerce-Of mon
ey. All the world is a great, buzzing factory,
aud the making of money stands, OF all
things, the most conspicuous to the Wis
uaI sense. Russia and France failed in
their greatest wars and enterprises because
those countries were hOneycombed with Off
cial corruption. We are in danger from the
same cause. The heavens rain gold US;
every drop OF our summer showers is worth
more than dollar TO us. lApplause.l The
annual increase of wealth even among the Ia
boring people is over 0.OOO, 600, and they are
taxed 81, 100000 a year! Yet we have an or
ganizasiOn calling itself 'sprOtectiOn to the
wOrkingmanr 1t is great scheme of taxa
tion that rolls S4OO 600 OO0 year into the reser-
vOirs at Washington, and SlO0, 900 lies use
less there. Applause
in the mill-dam Of Washington is not en-
plOyed to grind out votes to-day for the ''Old
Republican party 1t Is. One of the greatest
dangers of our day is bribery. Voters are
bribed. Thousands Of men carry their hands
open for their dollar or their two dollars. and
put their vote IN for that price, and then wipe
their smudged faces and go home and say
their regular prayers. lLaughter.l Men
Eno9 EG9 TlSR haR it go 70 oneS 1eS MAKES fhe
mare go'-and the legislator! Laugh
ter IL is not possible for a man to
20 to the United States Senate unless
he or his friends have the quid pro quo. Now
and then there Is sumner, but they don't
grow on every bush. Laughter. The Sena-
go Nevada a
fornia. are not suffered TO go to W NashIngton
AZ their own expenses; or, If at their own eX-
penses, they take care of those that send them
there. Laughter. Our very courts receive
upOn their benches Judges placed there by
the influence OF gain-not for themselves, for
believe them as a body to be just men, but
their friends use pecuniarY inducements by
which they are sent to the bench.
To-day il is sought to buy candidate into
the Presidential chair with money. L have
been crcdibly informed that between one and
two million dollars have been rolled West to
gild the State of Ohio, and like stream is
pouring into Indiana. My early life was spent
in Indiana, nv elder children were born
there. and, in my heart, HO0sier is, as it
were. a brother to me, and anything that is
good for Indiana Ileases me. When, there
fore in the last great conflict word came that
Dorsey had succeeded IN carrying that state
for the Republican party, telt so grateful
that told Mr.. Murphy that would be glad
to 40 to a public dinner in honor Of Mr..
Dorsey. and | went-lnnocent as l was.
my fellOw-men and generosity have been the
occasion of more Of my trips and dOwnfalls
than any vices or any other Offenses. Re-
newed laughter and applause.1
When 1 see Mr.. Dudley abandoning his du-
ties in Washington and distributing money
with an unshamed hand-willing TO acknOwl-
edge that he is doing it'll say that the thing
is coming very nearly home 10 me, and that
one great danger in the near future is
that we shall have government that will
be hOneyCOmb bed with corruption pecunlarily.
a. a. e. oil UW@wuu Inn
tient are men become Of homely industry
how eager for unearned prOperties-hOw eager
for speculaUiOn, which is, in the main, an at
TEMPT TO cheat the devil. laughter Who
can count the reputable thieves that have
stolen trust funds and run OF with bonds
committed TO their custody-presldents,
cashiers. directors. clerks, agents; this one
leading deacon. that one a sunday school
euperinteudent; al of them Christians!
lGreat laughter Oh, if Christ were here,
would he not again begin TO drive out from
the temple Of our liberty those that were
money changers and that sold doves and
oxen and asses-and men.
Now, under such circumstances, / ask yOu,
which man will bt the most likely TO meet aud
resist this cantankerOus tendency-Mr. Blaine
/ or EIr. Cleveland2 Tremendous enthusiasm
and cheers for Cleveland.l What would Mr..
/ Blaine do for the reformg lie would not al
low Mr.. Dudley TO f0rsake the Pension Bu
reau in order to teach the people 10 worship
the golden calf, would heg Laughter He
would not allow Congress 10 donate lands to
\ I'll
ne would seize the Pacific railroads by the
fhrost and help Thurman and Edmunds to
drag them TO settlement, wouldn't he? [Great
laughter.
What is the tone of moral sense OF people
who when body OF men are anxious to re-
deem the government from corruption, call
rben PhariseesS as il TO seek 10 stem the tide
81 corruption was to say i am holier than
thou. am Pharisee." Who was the Pharl-
seeP In the earlier day he was the Puritan
Of the Jews. The Pharisees were tne men
thai a. the BahylOnish captivity undertook 70
keen fhelr OWI PEOPLE from idOlatry, ana help
them into the worship OF Jehoyah.
They were the Puritans Of the Orient
as the Englishmen were the Purltans of
the oecident. II vas the Puritan that gave
liberty to old England, and il was the Puritan
that brought liberty TO New England and laid
j the foundations Of the institutions on which
we stand. SO the Pharisees were the Puri-
tans. and am a Pharisee, thank God. Tire
mendOus applause. Whether AN a dude
| don't know. At this remark Mr.. Beecher as
sumad one Of the attitudes commonly ascribed
10 the dude. This suiting of the action to the
word elected uprOarious applause, which
| lasted several minutes.