Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-19
National Republican, Ticket.
For President,
JAMES G. BLAINE,
OfMaine.
For Vice President,
JOHN A. LOGAN,
Of Illinois.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS.


INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
Rev. DR.. Ward Opens the Congregational
Session with Carefully Prepared and
Eloquent Inaugural Remarks.
concluded from yesterday.]
The country is waiting for. a leader, but
he must not be the chiefest of brood of
demagogues, nor the most cunning of q
tribe of manipulators, nor the most willy
OF race of diplomats, deftly handling
words and phrases with intent to deceive.
He must be man of clean hands
and pure heart, who hath not lifted up
his soul to vanity nor sworn deceitfully.
He must believe in . present God, who
not only created the earth and the men
upon it, but is now working with and by
these men, to redeem the earth from
evil. He must believe that the earth is
the Lords and be seeking for ways to
help the Lord to come to his own; Civ
ing thanks all tile time for the wondrous
truth that God wants his help. Some.
where there is such man now living
under Gods eye and training; he does
not dream that he is to be the dellverer,
though his heart aches, and cries out
from the desert of his exile that God will
send by whom he will send, for the ran
soming of the nation. And there are
hosts of young men that ought to be in
training to follow that leader when sud-
denly he comes bearing the rod of God
in his hand. There will be party that
can say to rum, your day of doom has
come. Die. That will find way to
teach Mormonism out of itself into pur.
ity and loyalty; that will be brave
enough to do simple justice to the In.
dian by the easy and obvious plan of
giving them the protection of law while
making them amenable to it. This party
too will have honest brains enough to
find and adhere to sound system of
finance, and it will know enough and be
brave enough to say and do something
with the tariff question that will be
worthy the name OF policy. When
they are brave enough to discuss the
subject without thinking of its bearing
on presidential campaign, they will
doubtless find that neither protection
nor free trade has the true eolution.
Plainly enough the few have no right to
compel the many to subsidize their busi-
ness. Equally plain is it fallacy that
the highest happiness of the citizen is
attained by living in a land where food
and clothing can be had at the lowest
possible cost. This begs the whole
question, and utterly ignores the fact
that man has moral and in.
tellectual nature which must be
satisfied before question of food
and clothing is even considered.
The tariff question can never be settled
except on the broad basis Of scripture.
Man shall not live by bread alone, but
by every word that proceedeth out of
the mouth of God. Politicians of course
sniff at this now, as mere pious drivel.
It is the mission of the christian scholar
to come up and take the politicians plan,
and teach the world the alphabet of
politics and political economy. This
new party might be brought into life
now. to be conquering power IN this
enough to defy party organizations, were
also wise enough in christian politics to
see that the very highest moral ground
is the only safe ground. 1t is the chris.
tian and he alone who has put himself
IN the line where great events are Aow-
ing, therefore he is the only one who is
by any possible combination of circum-
stances to look at things in their true
bearings. he only can discern the truth
and find the path Of safety. But on the
other hand the christian need not expect
to have this place of insight and rod of
power unless he deserves it by working
for it. In the days soon to come the
world is to be governed by christian
principles, administered by christian
men, but at the same time there is no
magic in these principles that will pre-.
clude the need of brains. Nor will
brains then, any more than now be OF
any avail unless they are developed. As
the christian statesman stands on plat
form, wider than any other, so he must
be. wider, stronger, better trained man
than any other. The ministry of to-day
calls for more thorough training than
ever before. This standard cannot be
lowered. It must rather go higher. The
politicians of the future must also take
the same advanced position. To be sure
no man can honestly put the ordering OF
his life into the hand of God, and openly
stand before the world as one of Gods
men, with being thereby made larger
man. 1t is also equally true that he
cannot because of this be excused from
learning the multiplication table if he is
to be q mathematician, or the rules oi
the grammer if he is to know Greek. So
too he is as mucn as ever compelled to
study history, and literature and politi
cal economy If he is to take q part
IN shaping the daily history oi
his country for in that day
intrigue, wire pulling and manipulating
will be known only as methods once sad
" common, these happily displaced BY
honest knowledge. unselfish duty. eff
cient integrity. Do you hear these
words as being pleasant sayings, and
like old war kilograms "highly important
il true,"' but in your heart disbelieve
such Q state Of things is impossible. The
reply is, it requires no prophets eye t.
see the light Of that day even now light
ing up the sky. Civil service, retrench
ment, reform, prohibition, these or,
advance guards Of the great army will
banners coming fast to take possession
OF the land. II We believe that such
time 10 ever to come, No help it to com,
the quicker. II We believe it to be nea
ct hand, and train ourselves to be read,
for it, We add wings to the speed OF II
coming. When it comes 90 that me,
can see it TO be really here, they can lool
back and discern the mark OF Code han,
all along the way. just - nov We CO,
see how he ell the while worked for th
overthrow OF slavery. Who better tha,
the trained christian scholar can rea.
correctly the signa Of the times % tho.
tafS paning BY, and % losc mono OF th
tmoossssn OF svsnts, and miaa no busl