The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-23
Excellent Speeches by tho Hon. Chauncey NJ,
Depew and Justice Harlan Before the Mem
bers Of the Chicago Union League.
Senator Hawlcy Delivers an Address at
the Banquet Of the Michigan Club.
The National Democratic Committee Appoints
July as the Date for the Convention. but
Its Location Is Not Yet Determined.
CHICAGO UNION LEAGUE.
Speeches by Hon. Chsuncey NJ Depsw and
Justice Harlan.


Justice Harlan.
CHICAGO. Feb 22-Central Music. hall con-
tAined $500 people, this afternoon, to listen to
Chauncsy M. Depsw, OF Nav York. who was in
vited to address the Union League Club, Of this
city, at their celebration of WashinGton's birth
day. The platform Of the hall was handsomely
decorated with American flags. in the center be-
ing hung an original painting OF Washington
owned by q prominent citizen Of tho city, A
noticeable feature OF the audience was the large
attendance OF ladies' Fully one-third OF the
listeners were of tho gcntler sex. References
made to tho solidty tho Union. Abra ham Lin
coin aud the settlement OF the animosities be-
tween the North and South were heartily ap-
plauded.
In tho evening the Union League Club gave q
banquet to their invited guests ut the club
house. The dining-hal was beautifully deco
rated with smilax and roses, and fully i've hun
dred members and guests sat down TO enjoy tho
hoapitalitiss of the club. The BANQUET lasted
two hours. and then President Read introduced
Chauncey M. Depew as the frat speaker His
remarks were appreciated His qups and jokes
were applaudeo to the echo, and especially whom
he remarked that he had to come West to be ed
ucated. In the course of his speech Mr.. Depew
said:
"There is an intellectual awakening in this
land and its stimulants affect the well being
and the safety of life, and property, and law.
The trades-union is debating club . session OF
knights a congress of labor; the Sabbath picnic
is a school, not of divinity but of theology. The
questions discussed are vital in their proper So
luton to the state. society. and the church
The churches of all creeds and men OF every
faith doing magnifcent work in the con-
servation of the virtues and habits OF liberty,
but the preacher has lost his political influence
aud the priest much of the power he possessed
in the more primitive period.
the teachers Of disintegration, destruction
and infdety possesa the acuyity of propA-
gancists and the sef-sacrifcng spirit OF
martyrs. Their field is ignorance. their re-
cruiting sergeants distress. Only faith ground
ed in knowledge can meet these dangerous
ceaseless and corruptiug influences In the
midst OF these perils tho sheet anchor of tho
snip of state is the common school Before the
when it easy both to living and to
gain competence, when the best influences of
every settlement reached every part of IL, the
State met every requirement In furnishing. free
q fair business education. But now by tar the
larger part of our people have no common ances-
try in the Revolutionary war. and generation
has come it's majority which knows little of
the rebellion its results. Colonis,s from
Europe form communities both in city and
country, where they retain the language.
toms and traditions OF the fathsriand. and live
and die IN the belief tnat the government is their
enemy. To meet those conditions, the State
provides an education which does not educate.
Ignorance judges the invisible by the visible.
Turn the lights. Teach. first and last, Amer
icansm. Let no youth leave the school without
being thoroughly grounded in the history. the
principles and tho incalculabls blessings of
American liberty. Let the boys be the trained
settlers of constitutional freedom, the girls tho
Intelligent mothers of freemen. and the sons of
the Anarchists will become the bulwarks Of the
law.
American liberty must be protected against
hostile invasion. We welcome tho fugitives
ION sui1 nv rattr uhn C.ny
our asylum with the honest purpose OF making
it their homes We have room and hospitality
for emIgrants who come to our shores to better
their condition by the adoption of our citizen
ship, with all it's duties and responsibilities.
But we have no place for imported criminals,
paupers or pests. The revouronist who wants
to destroy the power of the majority with the
same dynamite with which he failed TO assassi-
maze the Emperor the Gar is a public enemy.
and must be treated. We are no longer
need of the surplus population CT the old
world and must carefully examine our guests.
The priceless gift of citizenship should never be
conferred until BY years OF probation the appli-
cant has proved himself worthy, and then a
rigid examination in open court should test his
knowledge of it's limitations, well as its priv
iieges, and his cordial acceptance OF both. 1t is
monstrous that the time of our courts and the
patience of ou- juries should be occupied and
tried in the repeated prosecution of persistent
disturbers of the peace who refuse to become
citizens. On the first convection by q jury they
should be expelled from the country.
s'TniS youngest of cities. destined to be
Of the greatest on the earth, in deadly peril of
fire and sack, with indomitabie spirit and lofty
courage saved civilization in American munici-
paities, and the nation by wise laws should pre-
vent any possible recurrence of the danger In
govern nent by majorities. the existence of the
system depends upon the purity of the ballot,
tho minority must know that it ia fairly beaten,
to.peacefuily accept It's defeat A crisis more
critical than the civil war has twice threatened
us because there was doubt as TO the honesty OF
the vote In the first Instance it was averted by
wise compromise, and in the second the fears
provided fallacious. But it is tho highest duty
TO provide every safeguard against Tepetitions
of such dangers. The whole power and machin-
cry of the State must be used for the unbought
and unntimidafed and the fair count.
Submission to the will of the majority has become
universally the accepted faith of the people; and
while that faith Is unshaken party will
appeal TO the only other alternative. arms
at Is the duty OF the general government in
all elections for Congress President to pro-
tect at every cost the voter and the ballot-box.
It ia the duty of every State to reduce to min
imum the opportunities for fraud upon the cti-
zen or the improper influencing of his choice.
1t is general and local scandal that the ex-
penses of the candidate have grown beyond the
means of the poor and honest man. No system
can be right or safe under which the treasures
of the opposing parties must be filed with sums
so vast that they equal the great accumulations
of prosperous corporations. The ballots should be
printed by the State and distributed at the public
cost under conditlons which would enable the
most ignorant voter to select his ticket without
help. and deposit it with knowing its
contents Dut nimsei1 men, as Tue Isepuoiic
grows IN power and population, its safety and
nerpetuity viii be assured by keeping pure the
channels through which the everincreasing
millions of freemen with more majestic and
impressive force express their will
On the tariff issue Ir. Depew said:
ssNinety. nine years ago, on the 4th day OF
July. 1889. George Washington signed the first
tariff act passed by the young Republic Polit-
ical Independence had been proclaimed by the
i'm mortal Declaration of 1T76, bnr the country
was still dependent upon Great Britain for every
article of manufacture in metals or fabrics
With more gloomy forebodines than those
caused by the separation of the empire was this
news received in England. 1t the emanc-
patton of raw materials and the birth of manu-
factnres in the United States, and without them
the Republic had no manifest destiny" At the
close OF exhaustng war, with unpaid,
and riotons armv, worthless cur
rency, shattered credit and an empty treasury
Alexander Hamilton, great in every DEPARTMENT
of mental activity. but the greatest of finance