The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-13

l
 Ex-G Governor J. Q. A. Bracket, presi-
 dent of the club, presided and in a quite lengthy speech presented Con
 gressman Boutelle as the first speaker
 Mir Boutelle was received with great l enthusiasm.
 Concerning the charges that had
 been made in certain democratic papers
 that if the republicans would fall in
 with the suggestions of President Cleve-
 land way could be found out of the 1 present difficulties, he said there had i been all sorts of false lights along
 shore. The only safety lantern that has
 appeared above the horizon was up-
 lifted in the house of representatives
 a week ago by the recognized leader of the republican party-Mr. Reed
 when he offered a proposition which would temporarily relieve the difficult | ties of the treasury and assure the
 maintenance of public credit We gave for that proposition the solid repub- l lican vote and when that proposition was pending one of the sound money l leaders on the democratic side, MT. | Hendrix of New York, telephoned to the
 chief magistrate his Judgment that by | combining features of the Springer bill | and the Reed proposition we could command the majority and come to the | relief of the treasury. Partisanship in- | tervened against patriotism, the order | was not given and when we went to | ballot not one solitary democrat re- | sponded to that olive branch from the | republican side. There has never been moment when the republicans have not been ready to unite upon any feasi- ble plan to come to the relief of the enfeebled credit of the treasury and
 many of us have strained our judgment
 so far as to even vote for the entire
 proposition of the democrats, l am | among the number after they had con-
 temptuously scorned our proposition.
 But, gentlemen, said the speaker,
 desire to suggest that in considering
 the present condition you bear in mind
 that the evil lies deeper than mere
 question of currency reform. There has
 been a persistent, determined, political purpose to divert public attention from
 tariff legislation that has been a dis
 grace to the party that originated it. To-day the trouble with the United
 States is simply the trouble that finds
 itself manifested in every bankruptcy
 court in the United States. It is the
 trouble of a fellow who is paying out
 more money than he is taking in And I would not be afraid to take contract here
 tonight that if you will give me a sys-
 tenn of legislation in which the energies of the country shall be in motion as they were in 1890 and 1892, and pour into the
 treasury more than 1t requires to pay the ordinary expenses of this govern ment, I will solve all the difficulties of your currency questions without trouble whatever. The whole trouble to-day is the empiricism of political quacks.
 Ex-Consul Sewall followed in scath- ing denunciation of President Cleve- lands foreign policy, which, he said, had caused many deserters from the democratic party. MT Sewall suggest ed Hon. Thomas B. Reed as the next president, Henry Cabot Lodge as secre- tary of state,and Congressman Boutelle for secretary of the navy. Then, he said, we should have foreign policy with some Americanism in it. His sug- gestions were loudly applauded.
 Other speakers of the evening were ex-Governor J. D. Long and Rev E. A. Horton, and an original poem was read by Gas Commissioner Clifford.
 Chicago, Feb. 12.-The eighth celebra- ton of the birth of Abraham Lin coin by the National Union took place this evening at the Auditorium. The celebration took the form of concert, and address appropriate to the occa- sion. At the conclusion of the musical entertainment the speaker of the even ing, Hon. Henry Watterson, was intro | duced. MT. Watterson spoke of the | early life of Lincoln, paid an incidental | tribute to Judge Douglass and then | narrated his personal recollections of | Lincoln. Continuing MT. Watterson said |
 "Throughout the wild contention that | preceded the war amid the lurid pas | sions that attended the war itself not | one bitter or narrow word escaped the | lips of Lincoln whilst there was hardly | day when he was not projecting his | big, sturdy personality between some | southern man or woman and danger. After the formal interview at the fa- nous Hampton Roads conference when the Confederate commissioners, Steph- ems, Campbell and Hunter, had travers- ed the field of discussion with MT. Lin coin and MT. Seward, MT. Lincoln took MI. 0LGpIlGllS dolNC dIluJ pldClllS HIS arm over his shoulder, pointed to a sheet of paper he held in his other hand and said:
 Stephens, write Union at the top of that page and you may write below else you please"
 In the preceding conversation MT. Lincoln had intimated that payment for the slaves was possible agreement for reunion. He based that statement upon a proposal he already had in hand to appropriate $4OO,OOO,0oO to this pur- pose. When we are dead and gone the private memorabilia of those who really knew what terms were offered the con ederacy-within ninety days of it's total collapse-will show that In the individual judgment of all of them the wisdom of the situation said accept. And why were they not accepted? It was the will of God that there should De a new birth of freedom, and this could only be reached by the complete and extinction of the very dea of slavery. God struck Lincoln town in the moment of his triumph to lttain it; God blighted the south to ob- ain it. Gods will be done! But let 10 southern man point his finger to me ,acalse I canoniZe Abraham Lincoln