Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-09-28
DIR. PARKHURsT breaches on THE
POLITICAL SITUATION.
FREE sILvERITEs OFFENDED.
Ey-BANKER w. r. ST. JOHN WAITS
NOT TO HEAR THE END.
This Is to Be n Busy Week at Canton
MIR. Bryan'a Schedule-General
Palmer on the Situation
Cy Leland in kan-
sas City.

New York Sept. 2I.-Rev. DIR. Charles H.
Parkhurst signalized his return from Eu-
rope to the pulpit of Madison Square Pres
byterian church to-day by preaching SER
mon on the political situation. The church
was filled. a number of silver men who dis
approve of the doctors views being in the
congregation. Some of these made unflat-
tering comments on leaving the church
after the sermon. When the doctor was
told of these comments, he remarked:
There is more In this thing than the sill
yer question, and some Sunday in the near
future / am going to speak my mind about
the treatment of labor by capital. / will
not mince words. either"
One of the visitors to the church was
Treasurer William P. ST. John, of the
Democratic national committee. He didn't
wait 10 hear all the doctor had to say.
..Mr ST. John is one of our deacons,"
said Dr. Parkhurst. after the service.
The preacher led up to what he had to
say about the campaign by an argument
in which he tried to show that it was i'm
possible to make anything without mater
ial. and impossible to build a structure
without a good foundation. Among other
things, he said:
I'VE are building forward into the future
without knowing what We are building
upon, or knowing whether we are building
u2on anything in particular that contains
In itself the Indispensable elements of per-
manence. Material commodities in the
shares of stocks and bonds. products of
the soil and manufactures have the same
intrinsic value in the United States that
tie. had six months ago. But the idea is
in the air that all of this is presently to be
dumped upon foundations too fictitious to
sustain themselves and still less to sustain
the enormous weight of our national econ
oInies that it is proposed to place upon
them. There is feeling that there are
eternal principles that it is proposed to
mix with an alloy chiefly of human inven-
ton, and that this incohe-ent conglomera-
tion is to be used in mortaring up under
veal and destiny, and stocks go down. OF
course they go down. and they will con-
tinue to go down till there Is restored the
conviction that the government is to be
set upon bottom that will not give.
Il am not here to argue financial ques-
tions, but the present situation in our
country Is an Illustration on a porten-
tous scale of the truth I am trying to
vigor nor strike with effect except as you
feel in the instant the everlasting fixity of
the rock our foot Is placed upon.
when confidence comes back. and conf
dence will return when the nation gets its
feet out of the quagmire and back to
granite. Traffic. not only. but all the re-
lations Of our great communal, life. are
conducted on the credit system, on a sys-
tenn of mutual confidence. and to-day that
mutual confidence does not exist. That is
the secret of our disquiet. Attempts are
being made to deliberately and in hot blood
crush out all lingering remains of that
mutual confidence, and this procedure I
dare to brand on this altar Of God as
and accursedly reasonable to our collec-
tive and national destiny