National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-10-18
Holland Shades.
Woodward g. Lothrop,
No. 1913 II Street Northwest.

Hollanders. founding New York, left their i'm.
preston on all the following generations.
What southern thoroughfare was ever smit.
ten by pestllence and our physicians did not
throw themselves on the sacrifice? What
foreign nation was ever struck with famine
aud our ships did not put out, laden with
Lreadstufts? What national struggle and oar
citizel.s did not pour their blood into the
trenches? What street of Damascus or Bey-
rout or Madras has not rcsoundGd with the
step of our missionaries? What gallery of art
and our painters have not hung In II their pie
lures What department of science or llteIa
ture and our scholars have not made to 1t con-
tributions?
need not talk to you of our public schools
where the children of the COrdwainer and the
mechanic and the glassblowcr sit side by side
with the favored sons OF miilionaireS and mer-
chant princes, Nor need tell You of the asy-
lums for the Insane on these sands, where
those who cnt themselves among the tombs
come forth clothed In their right mind. Nor
need ! tell you OF the asylums for the blind, the
deaf and the dumb, and the orphans, the
widows, tine outcast.
thank God for the place OF our residence,
and while there are thousand things that
ought TO be corrected, and many wrongs that
ought to be Ovcrthrown, while I thank God
for the past. look forward this morning to
glorious future. l think we ought-and take
Il for granted you are all Interested in this great
work of eyangeliZing the cities and saving the
world-we ought to toll with the sunlight in
our faces. We are not fighting In miserable
Bull Run OF defeat. We are on our way to final
victory. We are not following the rider on the
black horse, leading us down to death and
darkness and doom, but the rider on the white
horse, with the moon under his feet and the
hail!
knew there are sorrows and there are sins
Sn o ,f IN s sa sqbe nr AZ Uud syou es
we arc threshing our arms around us to keep
our thumbs from freezing. we think OF the
warm spring day that VIII after while come;
or In the dark winter night we look up and
see the northern lights, the windows OF heaven
illuminated by some great victory-juit so we
look up from the night OF suffering and sorrow
and wretchedness In our cities, and we see
light streaming through from the other side,
and we know we are on the way to morning
more more than that, ON the way 10 "a morning
want you TO understand, all you who are
toling for Christ, that the castles OF sin are all
going to be captured. Tho Victory for Christ
IN these great towns is going to be SO complete
that not man on earth, or an angel In heaven;
or devil in hell will dispute II. How. do
know? / know Just as certainly as God lives
and that this is holy truth. The old Bible Is
full oiit If the nation Is to be saved, of course,
all the cities are to be saved. II makes great
difference with you and with me whether we
are toiling on toward defeat or toiling on to-
ward victory,
Now In this municipal elevation of which
speak, have to remark there will be greater
financial prosperity than our cities have ever
seen. Some people seem to have a morbid
idea of the millennium, and they think when
the better time comes to our cities and the
world people VIII give their time up ~ psalm
singing aud the relating of their religious ex-
perienCc, md, as all social life viii be purified
there will be no hilarity and, as all business
Will be purified. th9re will be no enterprise.
There is no ground for such an absurd anticl-
patton In the time of which ! speak, whore
now one fortune IL made, there win be hun
dred fortunes made. We all know business
prosperity depends upon confidence between
which speak, and all double dealing, all dis
honesty ana all ifaui are gone out OF com.
established, and there will be better business
done, and larger fortunes gathered, and
mighiier successes achieved.
The great business disasters OF this country
have come from the work OF goddess spCCull-
tors and infamous stock gamblers. The great
foe TO business In New York and Brooklyn Is
crime. When the right shall have hurled
back inc wrong, aud shall have purified the
commercial code, and shall have Numbered
down fraudulent Establishments, and shall
have put Into the bands of honest men the
kCyso OF business, blessed time for the bargain
makers, l am not talking an abstraction,
I'm not making guess. / am telling you
Gods eternal truth.
In that day. Of which speak taxes will be
q mere nothing. Now our business men are
taxed for everything-city taxes, county taxes,
state taxes, United States taxes, stamp taxes,
license taxes, manufacturing tlxes-taxis,
n small fortune every year 10 pay their taxes.
What thstens on our great Industries this awful
load Crime, individual and Official. We
have TO pay the board of tho villains who are
incArCerated In our prisons. We have TO take
care of the orphans of those who plunged into
their graves through beastly indulgence. We
have to support the municipal governments,
which are vast and expensive lust in proper
tlOn as tho criminal prOciYitioS are vast and
tremendous. Who supports the almshouses,
and police stations and all the machinery OF
municipal government The taxpayers
And tell you Republicans and you Demo-
Gratis. that you do not let down the taXosan
let tho people up, we will form new party,
anti excessive taxation, anti'rum, antt-monOp'