The morning call., 1890-10-09

that the restraints Of law should be reserved
for the turbulent and disorderly. What is it
that makes your communities peaceful2
What makes those farm hands safe? 1t is
not the policeman; it is not the soldier. 1t
is this great and all-pervading American
sentiment that eXalts the law, stands with
threatening warning to aw-breakers, and,
ABOVE all, 1t is that perVading thought that
gives to every man what is his and claims
only Wiial is due. [Great applause.l
LOYALTY To THE WRITTEN LAW
"The war was only fought that the law
might not lose its sanction and its sanctity.
If we had suffered that loss dismemberment
would have been a lesser one. But we
taught those who resisted the law and
taught the world that the great sentiment of
loyalty to our written law was so strong in
tnlS country that no associations, conSplra-
cles or combinations could overturn it, [Goodl
good! and applause. Our Government will
not tall to 90 on in its increasing career OF
development, IN population, III wealth, III IN
telligence and morality SO long as we hold up
everyw here, in every l,callty, in cOmmunl-
ties and in the nation this great thought:
Every man shall keep the law which secures
him in his own rights, and shall not trampe
upon the rights OF another. Let us divide
upon tariffs and finance but let there never
be a division among the American people
uuon this questIon-that nowhere shall the
law be overturned in the interests of any
body. If it fails of the benefcent purpose
which should br the object of all law then
let the people modify il while it is law,
and While it is The law let US insist that it
shall be observed LAppIause. When we
turn from that aud allow any other stand
ard Of living to be whyre is our security? If
my convenience, if the convenience of
class to which | may belong, is to take the
place OF the law, where is Sqnr security?
Where Is mine when some one else makes
their convenience more sacred, more power
full than the. Law Of the land?
THE ROCK OF SECURITY.
Il believe to-day that the great rock of our
security is this deeply inbeQded thought in
the American heart that it is not here, as in
many OF our Spanish-American countries
which sometimes give their devotion to Il
man, for We give ours to the constitution
to the 1ng. LGreat applause. So it was
that IN that hour OF gloom, when the richest
contribution OF all tHe gems that Illinois has
set in our national diadtm, Abraham Lin
coin prolonged plausel tell in that hour
OF the consummation oil his work by the
hand Of an assassin, Garfield, who was to
meet Ike fate, might well say TO the trem-
ping and dI>mayed people on the streets Of
New York, Lincoln is dead, but the Coy
ernmeut at Washington still lives" Great
applause. To my fellow-citiZeuS 10 all
these who, through your Mayor, nave ex-
tended your greeting, 10 all who are here as
Sembled, ] TetuTn my most sincere thanks
L do not look on such assemblies as this
without emotion. They touch me, and | be-
ieve they teach me, and l am sure tile les
SOIS are wholesome lessons. We have had
here to-day IN this procession of veterans
a-ed and feeble many of them-a RETROSPECT
that Is part of the great story of the past,
written III glorious letters on the llmament
that Is spread above the world; ana in the
sweet children who have followed we read
the future.
LOVE FOR THE FLAG
GLOW s,y, OF If was in tho nrocession to-dav
TO see them bearing i, their infant hands
these same banners that these veterans car
ried amid the shock of battIe and dying of
men. had occasion at the centennial rele.
brati0a OF tAe Inauguration of Washington
IN New York, being impressed 10y the great
+ u'SpIay OF national colOrs, TO make at ban
qUet Tue suggestion that the hags should be
t4ktu INTO the schOoi-houses; and am glad
" huo" t'at IN tIdt STATE lhere Is daily Il
l.''ie uIlI4 u children VINO pay honor TO the
HaS,
bqt, my friends, the Constitution provides
mat L shall annually give information to
congress OF the state OF the Union, and
make suci recommendations as l may thluk
wise, ana 1t has generally. think. been un-
utrStood that inns ailInauve provision con-
talnS also negative, and implies that the
PRESIDENT IS to give no one else except Con-
Gress any Information as 10 the state OF
lle Union, ana that he shall especially
make no SUGGESTIONS. Laughter and ap-
PlauSe'l confess JAat N would give Inc
great pleasure, y the occasion were appro-
pirate, 70 give You some information OF the
state o1 the Chi"n' as L see It, ana to make
sollle f SUGGESTIONS as 10 What would think
MVulu oG WISE is aleeIlEs Tue state OF the
G:'loil' Dut Noutu Hot On an occasion ike
tHi9, "HtH an greeted mere oy friends ana
leIio"-clLizrllS ol an sIadeS oI thought IN
loltIics ana Ia the cLluFeA' say one word that
G0ul1 mar the HARMONY oil tins great
union. trust we are aiI met mere together
To-Day as loyal, loving American citizens,
ana over an our uFlsloAS ana ulHerenceS
ileTe Is thlS great arrh OF love ana loyalty
Dlhdlhg US together lApplauSe'I
CORNERSTONE CEREMONIES.
At the conclusion of the meeting tile party
repaired 10 Knox College. where the corner
stone of the Alumni Hall was to be laid by
the President DIR. Newton Bateman, PreS-
dent of Knox College, pronounced an invo-
cation and Professor Hilton CUmstock read
sketch Of the origin and growth OF the
college. Professor j. a. Adams then intro
duced the President, who spoke as follows:
My fel,ow-citizens: Education was early
IN the thought OF the trainers Of Our Con>ti-
tuition; as one Of the best, II not the only
guarantee III their perprtuatl0n. Washing
ton, as well a the founder OF this venerable
and useful Institution of learning, expressed
his appreciation and interest in the estab-
lishment of colleges and universities. How
shall one be a safe citizen where the people
are rulers who is not intelligent? How
shall he understand those great questions
affecting tie public welfare Witilouta broad
intellectual culture in his youth? We are
then, eugagt d in a patriotic work as we lay
this cornerstone of this new edifice, part Of
an institution that has had a great career Of
usefulness in the past and is now entering a
field of enlarged usefulness. We lay this
cornerstone and rededicate this institution
to truth, purity and loyalty and love of God"
[Applause.l
Following this the cornerstone was placed
in position, and the President, with mortar,
carefully closed IL and covered the seams
win % nloiIdl. itI 1iGht appltause greeted tils
pedloi l4 nidiice' "hicn Thought tne ceremonies
" "n enu ,-..,.,,,,- - ...
1hb hhuNloN OF VETERANS.
Inc party theh went 10 the hotel Tor din
neT, anu at CLOCK reunion oil Inc FIrSt
Brlgade, the Presidents old command. was
held at the Opera House President Harri-
son was escorted from the hotel TO the scene
OF the reunion by a committee headed by
General Daniel Dustin, United States Sub
treasurer OF Chica@0, ana formerly colonel
OF the One Hundred and Filth Illinois In
nd