The sun., 1896-09-28
AcCURSEDLY TREAsONABLE.
Or. Parkhurst Doesn't MInce words About
the Assault on the Nation's Credit.

DR.. Park hurst Doesn't MInce words About
the Assault on the Nations Credit.
w. P. st. John. Popocrat pursebearer. thought
he would 60 and hear DR.. Park hurst preach
yesterday. He went. but, finding that he was
late, he did not enter tho church to hear the
sermon.
I'm quietness and in confidence shall be your
strength" was the text. DR.. Parkhurst said:
I'VE are building forward into the future
without knowing what we are building upon or
knowing whether we building upon any
thing in particular that contains in itself the
indispensable elements OF permanence. Ma
terial commodities in the shape of stocks.
products of the soil. and manufactures
have the same intrinsic value in the
United States to-day that they had six months
ago. but the idea is in the air that possibly all of
this Is presently to be dumped down upon foun-
dations too fictitious to sustain themselves and
still less to sustain the enormous weight of our
national economics that 1t Is proposed TO place
upon them. There is q feeling widely prevalent
that there are eternal principles that 1t is pro-
posed to mix with an alloy of cheap human in
venton, and that this incoherent conglomerate
is to be used in mortaring up underneath the
terrific weight of our national veal and destiny (;
and stocks go down.
"Of course they go down. and they will
continue down till there is restored the con-
yiction that the machinery OF government
is to be set up and run on a bottom that will
not give. The depreciation of values upon the
market means just what our text means-that
strength Is matter of being consciously
m Inn uSxssrss or .hdG can meyer
not here to argue financial questions. but tho
present situation in our country is an illustra-
tion on portentOus scale Of the truth am try
ing TO drive home-that you cannot move with
vgor or strike with effect except as you feel. on
soar foot is ri planted on National pf s@s
will come back when confidence comes back.
ann confidence VIII come back when the nation
gets its feet ont OF the uuagmire and back onto
granite. Yd9 NAV ,ov. ina. .ro, on,n,,n uo.
please touching the present situation; they will
Traffic not only, but all tho relations Of our
credit, system; that is to say. they are con-
Quoted on . system OF mutual confidence. and
That is the secret Of our disquiet and the ma
teriRl of our anxieties. And attempts are being
made, deliberate and hot booded, TO crush out
all lingering remains OF that mutual confidence,
and such procedure l dare to brand In this pull
pit Of God as thoroughly false TO the spirit Of
the Gospel and accursedly reasonable TO our
collective interest and national destiny.
% man Rn6ot may S be mn strong man 6pt the
not something stronger than the devil to brace
himsel against when tho devils blow comes
and when he undertakes to hit the devil back
This matter OF faith has nothing transcendental
about II. 1t 10 just the most everyday princi-
plies Of mechanics taken over into the moral
Leverage means fulcrum. You cannot be
lever and fulcrum both. There is no cant in
such expressions and the Bible runs over with
them: The Lord Is my rock and fortress They
are full OF moral meaning as fleet of British or
American lironclads lying In the Bosporus
would be full OF physical meaning to imperilled
Armenans in the city OF fConstantinople."
Sound money Democrats In RoekIaAd
County.
NYAcK, Sept.27.-The sound money Demo ocrats
o: Nyack. who will repudiate Bryan and Sewall
at the polls In November. have organized for
active work, and at their meeting last night
formed a strong club including some OF tho
most influential Democrats of the town. Nyack
has always been Democratic, but Bryan will
cast here this year. The club OF sound. money
officers; President, Joseph Hilton; yice-Presi-
dents, j. A. Bennett, L. Carroll, Jr., A. NJ Voor~
his, and BeRjamin Lander: Secretary, Capt: A.
NJ Boyd; Treasurer, Daniel d. sherman; Ex-
eSatiye Committee Edward Dewitt J; D; Jack
These ofhcers are all lifelong Democrats. and
WITHOUT any solicitation of names. It is expect
cd that the membership will run up TO nearly
800. II Is believed that there are At least 500
who VIII vote sgsinst Bryan, and that conse-
9uently old hoekland will this year go Rspub-
iicAn BY substantial meN1ty.