The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-23

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 Baltimore, Md, ..,......... 1,640,3l7
 New York, N. Y.."........ 1,322,S05
 Philadelphia, Pa. .,....... 942,42S
 The total commerce of Cleveland, for eign and coastwise, Is ten million net
 tons. and that of New York but two millions more.
 More than million persons born in Ohio reside in the states west of 1t, anSl~ ninety-six thousand of Ohio's children
 live in Kentucky, West Virginia and
 Pennsylvania,
 the great war came from Ohio, and
 Cleveland gave her full share.
 Your brethren of New England con-
 tinue to be attracted to you. Nine
 thousand natives of Massachusetts and
 six thousand of Connecticut are among
 the citizens of Ohio; 440,000 of Ohio's
 people have come to her from other states.
 It is said that qualified observer
 can trace in northern Ohio the south
 ern line of the Western Reserve. In it he is in New England, Indeed, fellow
 citizens, l am afraid that the Western
 Reserve is more truly Connecticut than
 Connecticut itself. The census informs
 us that but thirty-one per cent. of the
 people of Ohio are of foreign birth, or
 the children of one or both foreign pa-
 rents; while fifty-one per cent of Con- necticut people are in that category Bancroft said of the Western Reserve that the average grade of intelligence exceeded that of any other equal num-
 Der of people on the globe,
 After speaking of Connecticuts no inconsiderable part in the settlement and development of Ohio and the great west General Hawley touched
 upon the forces and tendencies which have shaped our countrys growth in the past quarter century and spoke in an ethical vien of law, liberty,
 honor, justic ard truth as being un- changeable, while doubt exists in re- ligion, politics and social organization. He pointed out that if the conclusions of the American people as jury are not in accordance with general right and justice. the great republic will af- ter all be a failure. Continuing he said: Listen to some of the demands
 that are made upon this nation. Af- ter defaming without limit the execu- tive, judicial and legislative branches
 of our government, men will turn shortly upon us and demand that the labors and duties and responsibilities
 of the thing called government be amazingly and indefinitely enlarged.
 It is demanded of us that the national
 government shall assume the charge
 of the enormous railway system of the country, because it is matter of uni versal interest and importance and its labors cannot be conducted without
 concentrated organization. Yet the
 railway system of the country stretches
 1S0,OO0 miles and represents not less
 than eleven thousand. millions of ob- ligation in varied forms. Shall this
 vast property be confiscated and taken into national control and manage ment?"
 He also referred to the demands
 made by some persons that the govern
 rnent assume the control of the tele-
 graph and telephone; that presidents,
 senators and federal judges be elected
 by popular vote; that there be refer
 endum of important statutes; and that a debased currency be adopted. He
 then impressed upon his hearers the
 necessity of every man, who has the right of franchise, studying these
 questions and otherwise realizing that
 in him is vested part of the sover- eighty which is here divided among 100000 men instead of being vested
 i'll king. Speaking of national sys- tems of finance he said that whatever the civilized world accepts as full and
 final payment is the only payment this l nation will ever consent to tender In this relation he said: "The shores of
 history are strewn with countless schemes of national taxation and finance. The crystallzed common sense Of centuries teaches us that the
 fundamental rule of all finance, is, tell the truth, keep your promises" He then further elaborated on the
 necessity of sound and honesty cur rency Turning next to government. he said that a sense of the majesty and authority of laws made by the people was indispensable to the success of a republic; that our statutes were the
 result or popular consideration and de- hoerate representative legislative en
 actment; and that while these are con-
 monpiace truisms, times come when their reiteration is required.
 He spoke of the modern corporation for the benefit of every form of indus trial effort as invaluable and indispen- ble as well as very powerful
 Speaking of the bitter controyersi,s as which rage around the great industrial corporations, he said that although | remedies are proposed, discussed and enacted by legislative bodies, the true and final solution will never be total and complete while human nature re- mains as it Is, but we can by slow pro- cesses approximate harmonious rela.. tion, and as time passes and all men advance, morally and intellectually. violent clashing will diminish. The Golden Rule will bring us nearer and | nearer to universal peace and happi- ness in this as in all things.
 In conclusion he said that if the re- public Is to be perpetuated it must be by much hard and not very romantic work continuously for generations. We shall need in America the steady sense and devotion of our ancestors. If the good men will not do the work the worse men will take care of it. Evil minded men will be audacious; better men must be more so. The democratic
 government is the most laborious and
 expensive.
 Indispensable political labors are not always agreeable. So much greater is the honor. That tower of strength