Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-03
Z rHANKsaIrlNa srnMor.
The Rev. Charles r.. Murray Discusses ths
Outcome of the Recent Election.

Outcoth6 OF the Recent Eiectiou.
The Rev. Charles e, Murray, ID. D.,
preached powerful Thanksgiving Day
sermon in ST. Andrews Church Thurs
day morning His text was Psalms
CHI, 1, "BleHs the Lord 0 my soul;
and all that is within me, bless His
holy name'' Especially striking was
his reference to the favorable outcome
Of the recent election. After quoting
from the Presidents Thanksgiving
proclamation these words, .fTbe people
OF the United States should never be
unmindful of the gratitude they owe
the God OF nations for his watchful
care which has shielded them from dire
disaster, he continued:
For long and anxious weeks, we have
been wondering not whether tho re-
public should be governed according to
this or that view of political economy,
but as to whether the republic itself
was to endure; and the nation draws
an immense sigh of relief in contem.
| plating the escape from the danger
which threatened il, from the dishonor
that lay before it.
The impressiveness of the popular
triumph is greatly emphasized by the
| fact that it was not ia times of pros
perity that the American people deliy-
| cred their verdict in favor of public
and private honesty and against all in
sidious temptations held out to the
restless and discontinued elements Of
society; they were times of severe buei-
ness depression, when capital and
labor both lacked sufficient rewards;
when men wanted change and wore
given the alluring promises of one
which would relieve the debtor of half
| hi h,,.J I,,h -, 30 ha
creditor in some inexplicable way I'M
told advantages which would enable
the farmers to sell their harveets at en-
HANGED prices. which would create new
demands for labor, and so give employ
ment and better wages to all that
wanted them. But shrewd common
sense Of the American people perceived
that they were Elusive and delusive
| promife' that they were temptations
to national dishonor and disaster; they
| promised prosperity upon such decep-
| tive basis as the real prosperity of q
people was never yet founded upon.
The result of the contest has mani
Tested once again that in any great
emergency in their affairs, the Ameri-
can people can assuredlv be depended
upon to do the right as their conscience
and intelligence tell them what is
right; for the battle was fought and
the victory won by the intelligence, the
conscience, the patriotism of the na-
tion. Men of each and every party
were alike inspired by the highest
ideals Of patriotism to put aside par
tisanship and in this great crisis in
their country history to put country to
the front and keep it there, invulner-
ably in public virtue and unimpeach-
able financial integrity. Defeat would
have been national calamity; it would
have made American financial honor
the scoff of the world and American
credit as contemplate in its weakness
and worthlessness az that of South
American republic; it would have re-
moved the supports OF law and order
and the sacred right Of American
citizenship. liberty, prosperity, and
happiness. Itwuuld have shackled our
courts, and hound our judges in the
corrupt web of political expediency; it
would have arrayed citizen against citi-
zen in political and social warfare; it
would have divided the people in masses
and classes upon the lines of property
alone. 1t would have inaugurated the
common recognition of Socialism or
anarchy itself, by the government
Such were some of the evils averted by
the verdict of November Sd, rendered
by the American people fer public
. morality and for the honor of the ma
ton; it was the people who won the tri
! umph, and of whatever party they were
theirs is the honor, and theirs will be
the reward in the assurance of national
integrity immovahly established, tine
, revival of industry, the restoration OF
! public and private credit upon the
enduring solid basis of honest sound
money; the activity of trade and the
wages of labor. Rich and powerful as
: isolate itself from the great trading
nations-our best customers-by an act
of national dishonesty and perfidy.
: The American political situation il
! we'll understood in other countries anG
the faintest possibility of Reputation
4 has caused anxiety among foreign in
yestors in American securities. y
The result of the election has already
realized the expectation of those who
heralded the President elect as the ad
vance agent of prosperity. Business
long buried under heavy weight O
y dread and uncertainty is now under
8 going healthfu! revival; the cause o
g dread and distruRt has been removed
reputation has been defeated, the re
II public has been preserved, civilization
. has been saved from threatened revolu
" tion. Europe rejoices as much as vi
y do ia the defeat of the anarchistic ele
j. ments. Our standing in the interna
:. tional markets is better than ever be
. fore. Our national credit is higher
u America becomes once more felt
l. for the investment of foreign capital
y Hoarding has ceased. Gold is rsturn
q ing to the treasury and tho banks ar,
q resuming again its former free circula
!! ton. Withdrawn deposits are beins
returned to the banks; the strain il
T. the money market is removed; rates o
J. interest have become normal; inercan
+ tile paper is again being bought closeC
70 factories are being reopened. Mills run
10 ming on half time have now begul
J; to run on full time. Merchants err
r. beginning to buy freely to repleuisl
"a depleted stocks, hundreds of enterprise
10 that we're contingent upon the election
III Ct the sound money candidate hay
y now been started: the daily papers in
Or stead of cbrnnicling failures are no,
~ printing columns about resumption q
ar business. From all parts of the coun
TO try come the sounds of rejoicing an,
10 revival of trade. Despair has give
N place to confidence There il deepe
w patriotism, and II renewed faith in tn
OF country, her institutions and her future