The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-24
DepeW Talks to Vermont Sons
of Revolution
Says Discomfort Prevails as II
Never Has Before.
HE GAVE NO REASON.
But Declared People We're Bet
ter Off Than Before.
Declared Sordidness Not Senti-
ment Caused the Civil War.

Montpelier Vt. Nov 24-The Yer
mont society, Sons of the American
Revolution, assembled at the state house
yesterday afternoon and escorted
Chauncey NJ DepeW of New York to
Armory hail when he delivered a
lengthy address A military band,
headed the line, which contained about
a thousand members and guests, in
Guiding many ladies and members OF
the legislature.
In the course of his remarks, Mr. De
pew said; Nov, more than at any
time during the present generation, it
IS important to teach the principles
upon which our government was found
ed and the policies which have made it
great. The patriotic societies have be-
fore them most important work Their
first duty is to educate the people Both
those who have landed on our shores
from foreign countries and those of la
ter generations which have forgotten
the Revolution must be taught the dan
gers of mOv5 g the republic from the
safe mornings of the past.
THE hundred and seven years since
Washington Inaugural ton may be di-
Vided into three periods. We are now
entering upon the fourth. 1t is remark
able that each of these began with
threat against the republic as created
by the fathers The nation has come
safely out of each trial The first per
iod was one Of construction and hero
worship"
ia his review Of this period, Mr. De
that they should avoid European en-
tanglements At the same time, in the
JAY treaty with Great Britain, they
laid down the principles upon which
with skill, dignity and patriotism, Sec
rotary Olney has ended the Venezuelan
dispute.
The second period began with the
nulli6ca ton of the federal revenue laws
by South Carolina. The hero worship
of the time gave tremendous authority
to living leaders who possessed the PEG
afea1G Md L.
Ously met this requirement than An
drew Jackson. The generation which
came upon the stage between 1850 and
1860 knew little or nothing OF the EteVO-
lutiOnary war. Slavery more as an in
vestment and a business than as a
sentiment had the republic by the throat
and constantly threatened its dissOlu-
ton. Thus. this period which had for
gotten the Revolution, which had be-
come sordid and surrendered every
thing to profit in its rude awakening,
sacrificed millions of lives and billions
of treasure to maintain the Union upon
the foundations where the Revolution
ary fathers had placed it"
We then entered upOnea third period,
the spea ker said 1t was that of re-
construction. of invention and Of extra
ordinary accumulation Of national and
individual wealth. He referred briefly
TO the vast strides forward that had
been made in that time
He asserted that i'm the general up
lifting, the people, the whole people,
We're better educated, better clothed.
had fewer hours for labor. and had
larger wages than ever in the history
of the world But without our scarcely
knowing. and certainly not recognizing
its extent and the possibility Of con-
centrating it as a political force. dis
content had come upon the people as
never before.
In this connection, Mr.. Depew de-
clared the shifting standard of value is
not American, a paternal government is
not American and any effort to carry
the panDIa into classes when employer
ana employed are constantly changing
places is not American. Any assault
upon the independence of the judiciary
is not American. He spoke Of what he
sold the country owed to the supreme
court and to its Interpretations Of the
law. and closed with a patriotic appeal
to learn and teach the principles upon
which our government has grown.