The Press., 1890-07-24

Issued, ETery Thursday Evening. SENATOR HAwLEYs ADDRESS AT WOOL
 STOCK JULY 4TH.
 I have something of a speech in my mind that I had some doubt about deliver ing at this late time, but want to give these boys little lesson in geography. HowImany states are there in this union If you have not read the morning papers you will be bothered to tell me. We had forty-two the day before yesterday. To- day we have forty.three and came pretty near having another. It is most extra ordinary thing to find how large the nation has become over night. Idaho and Wy omiug thought it would be nice thing to have the act signed on the Fourth of July. The Idaho bill passed, and the president was willing to arrange to have it signed to- day ,butla general law was found on the statute book providing that when new state shall be added to the union the gov ernment flags shall not be changed until so hungry to have legal right to put an- other star on the flag that she said, "Sign the bill on the third of July so that we can have our star on tomorrow" But in the case of Wyoming it was found necessary to put inl an amendment of minor importance to the bill relating to the great Yellowstone Park 1; and the house was so busy yester- day afternoon, that it broke up for want of quorum, so that it did not finally concur | with that minor senate amendment, and Wyoming will have to wait until next week, and then we shall have forty four states in thls glorious union. By and by after New Mexico and Arizona and Utah are ready to come in we shall have forty seven states within a few years. Three or four years ago my able colleague, Senator Plaft, came 10 the chairmanship of the committee on territories. and it became his duty to report these successive bills for the admission of new states, to open the de- bate and make the leading argument in favor in each case, to answer all criticisms, objections and complaints, and conduct the measure through hours and days oi debate, No such honor has come to g senator or ,a member of congress in the his tory of this government as has been the fortune of Senator Platt, who has been in attendance at the birth of six states of the union. As7 ~" Ef
 I read a few days ago-not that expect to be amusing at all, possibly little in structiye, and because have something tc say that would like to have go with tht usual report into the columns of the Inde. pendent for it's readers-at the Harvard commencement, on the 26th of June, dur ing those exercises eight days ago, dis tinguished Episcopal bishop delivered ar address, in general, concerning the polit ical condition and the political efforts o the country. We welcome those who ap ply the knife firmly but in loving spiri to the evils that inevitably develop al times; but I profoundly grieve when hear men of eminent station and scholar ship and ability speaking hopelessly o this great and wonderful nation-this gooi nation asitI rbeliyeg it to be-picking uf incidental occurrences and slight tenden cies among small fragments of the people and declaring them to be-. the condition O. the people. We have a people who have had their Judases and their Benedict Ar holds. But suppose we dld we have { l mighty respect for the twelve disciples l tho there was Judas; and we are i'm measurably proud of the Revolution, altho there was an Arnold -and we were proud of what he did before he became traitor They might find some five or six thousand or even T millions of people running wild il this country but the great mass of 65,
 
 with two boys quarreiing in the parlor car Take the great view. Look at the grow ing mills. Look at the thirteen states now practically forty -four states. Lool at our wonderful growth. But that i merely material, matter of inevitable de veiopment. Look at the marvellous in crease in wealth, in invention, in all th things that make labor easier, and bles the homes and the community. Lock a
 what makes national honor and glory. What was the late war Was it to cap ture another nation or to revenge any fan cied wrong? No; it was great mora uprising by millions of men who had de l ltern1ined to make one united nation de voted to the doctrine. of universal ibert, and justice. Has the world ever witnesse' , such devotion No king compelled it. I
 was from the hearts of the people, and tn
 cause they espoused succeeded and to day our country has a national credit un surpassed in all the world. Its bonds } with equal rates ofinterest, have been sol at higher prices than those of any othe nation. Nor is it a warlke nation. It ha ! no quarrel and it seeks none; and il
 whatever c oncerns the progress of justic and civilization in all international mat 9 ters it is among the foremost nations c !. the earth. Be patient with the wrong that arise occasionally, with this driftin r at times toward some heresy. The grea jury of our people has to consider thes ' things. The Thousands of newspapers vii ! gradually give all the arguments on bot 'i sides, and tie intelligence of the peopl
 will soon find out which is the right side A mistake may occur for month or year, but before 1t is finally adopted tn , great verdict willsbe that which is right ,, Fl lind the fault with Bishop Potter that h is too nasty to generalize. I would nc have noticed his remarks, however, if had not been for the purpose of correctin ] lhis views about the soldiers and the per . fsion laws.
 ef In his speech at Cambridge, the bisho 1 said WI
 "The honorable provision for those wh
 suffered and were disabled in their country ldefense, threatens, under the selfish and UT Iscrup lous naanipu pulation of those who see the degrada tiQn Of their fellow-citizens shol 9 and easy road to political supremacy, to bt lcome panperizing system, whose least an most innocent consequence is the ruinou
 burden which it is destined, sooner or latel to saddle upon the pub ic treasury"
 Now, there, is sense in all this and
 certain justice in some parts but wait z le sNeyer was there phariseeism of philai I throphy in which personal aggrandizeme1 } more impudently masqueraded in the garner : of grateful patriotism than our halls of COT . z OrAea have, afAfv presented n