Evening journal., 1894-03-30

the committee of arrangements. On
tue presidents left; were Bishop Cole
man, of the Diocese of Delaware, aud the
other speakers of the evening President
Mullen made a warm address of welcome
and spoke cheerfully of the growth OF
the board, expressing his hopes that the
organization would take new life this
year and prosper even beyond expectation.
Before the guests we're seated, Bush, p
Coleman asked a blessing Then kruse
4 Spencer. the successors to Robert
Graves, served the following menu,
while an orchestra consisting OF Messrs.
Albert. Beggs and Pierson, played some
sprightly music:
Oyster en Coquille
Soup aux Quene ne Boeut.
Olives. Sated Almonds.
Lobster Outlets.
Sauce a Ia BechameL
Hot B0ned Truhled Turkey.
Potato Bouleits. Asparagus.
oman Punch
Chicken CrOQuette.
Celery.
Mayonnaise Dressing.
Nesslerode Pudding. Fancy Cakes.
Roquefort. Crackers.
Cigars.
When Mr.. Wiman was introduced, as
the dinner was appr osching its end, he was
greeted with deafening applause that
lasted until his graceful bowing bad
ceased and his face assumed a serious
look while he begnn an able and polished
speech on "What is the Matter With the
Iimes2'
"Hamlet's exclamation that q he time
is out Of joint seems applicable at this
period There is something wrong IN
the body polite. the cause and cure for
which the wisest men vainly csst about
to discover. That in a country so
capable of such abundance of food, fibre
aud fuel, as to have q universal excess Of
production, resulting IN prices never
known to be SO low, in the face of which
should be so much want, SO much
anxiety for labor, so serious a reduction
Of wages, such q decline 10 public
revenues, so limited an output Of manu-
factures aud such a restriction in trans
portstion. in comparison with previous
periods, is a startling revelation that
there is something wrong with the time
That a whilwin0 OF disaster should have
swept over a land as prosperous when the
whole world had been in gited to observe
its progress-that a nation OF forty ns
tions, occupying all latitudes. all eli
mates, producing almost all products,
peopled with the most industrious, The
most intelligent and the most contented
people on the face of the earth-that this
great constellation of eommonwealths
should reach a period in which they
should stand still in their onward growth
is revelation of great significance II
is significant because it affects every
industrial concern, all sorts and condi
tious of mankind on this continent, as,
indeed, largely elsewhere, because there
is no one thing in the current and natu-
raj history of the world quite so i'm
portant to IL as the condition and pro-
gress of this hemisphere.
Political Parties Blame Each other.
"The common practice Of one poliica
party is to blame the other for all the illi
that occur to the country. The economic
policy pursued is supposed to bring about
the results realized by the country
at large in commerce, in production
in manufactures andin finance But II
the presence of consequences so seriou
, as TO imperil the financial safety Of man,
monetary institutions. as to decrease th
output Of manufactures from thirty O
City per cent, and above all to lessen tn
purchasing aud debit paying power o
3 three fourths of the people, aitogethe
. unaffected by political policy, is TO reves
r the fact that something beyond Legislation
is the cause OF our trouble. and II
= something beyond legislation will b
found the cure.
All Depends on the Farmer.
Z Another thing that is to blame 70
these hard times is the enormous grOwtl
of the cities and comparatively slot
4 growth of the country After all, ID
y friends. the bread that you are to-nigh
comes from the farmer. The farmers ar
n our producers. They possess the powe
q TO increase OF decrease Yet in the las
q decade the cities have grown go per cent
d while the farms have grown only 10 pc
cent Is it any wonder there is depres
sion and stsgnation in the citiesr Is
sny wonder that the charities Of ou
metropolis are taxed to their utmost
{, take care of the thousands in idle
= ness2 That. New York has 81 %
penniless people to be supported
The fact that the farmer on whom "
= AL depend, is unable to hold his own wit
other countries. and works the yea
y round for profit SO meagre as to bay
little or nothing to spend, is the gre'
y and potent cause of trouble When
u Is realized that the farmer aud sthos
in villages and towns Immediately d.
/ HNn0Nuh NA nm ANAa N0oo WV
the population, it will be az once realize
q how impossible 1t is that times shoul
~ improve until the purchasing power
% the farmer and those dependent o
% him improves
y las it is now, unfortunately, the fsrm'
% is met at the point Of exchange Wit
y obstacles difficult to surmonnt. o.
l. thing that haudicaps him pisiably is th
interest on $l7 so duty paid for every tC
Of steel rails used in our millions of mil'
of western railways over which he no
20 ships his grain. That interest will ha'
y y 20 be paid as long as grass grows az
- water runs, In high freight rates.
a Have stopped for a REIMBURSEMENT.
$, Another great force in developing Il
y, country has been It's natural resource
aud while these great forces still sxls