The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-25

NASlG CHuICueS dDOuDQ aDu where lue schools are the best in the world, should have lent themselves to this crazy at tempt at revolution and this passionate crusade of dishonor. Have there not been some matters in which New Eng land herself has been at fault to bring about this state of things in the past, and which the powerful influence of business men of New England can do something to cure in the future?
 The business men of New England can aid the cause of good government in the future as they have in the past by argument, by personal influence and by moderate contributions of money made above board and carefully re- stricted to honest ends But they can aid the cause of good government still more by bringing to bear the great weight of their opinion and their influ- ence. It is not strange that a Kansas or Nebraska farmer who reads the history of the section of the country to which he belongs should lend ready ear and become a docile disciple to a plan by which he can use the powers of government for his own advantage by getting rid of the burden of debt
 Tt is not strange that the example of gambling by tamperlng with the currency or in the stock market or wheat market should stir up the youth of the northwest to attempt little manipulation of the currency. I call upon the merchants of Boston, with whom financial integrity and financial honor have ever been the rule, to lend the influence of their great example and opinion to banish gambling from businss and to restore the management of our great corporations to the old path of strict and severe honesty When they have accomplished that they will find that the ears of their countrymen, counsel.
 "One other thing: I have been inn pressed in reading the manifestoes of MT. Jones, and the speeches of MT Bryan, with one fact. How little these men know of their countrymen. How little they know of the east and of the north. How little they know of Massa- chusetts Boston. Senator Morgan says their defeat has been caused by the money power and the solid negro vote in Indiana. He forgets the negro vote in the black belt of Alabama, cast one way and counted another
 "These men picture New England to themselves and describe it to their credulous people as a community made up of leeches and bloodsuckers and bloated aristocrats growing fat upon the blood they have squeezed from the oppressed people of the west and south. I should like to have them look into the faces of a Lowell audience or get acquainted with the men who work in the machine shops and the wire fac tories in Worcester and with their wives and children. I should like to re- mind them of the counsel of their own honored and lamented Lamar.
 My countrymen, know one another and you will love one another Broth CTS, devote yourselves to promoting this knowledge. Let us soften, if we can, the strife of party, the conflict of jarring interest, the anger of conflicting sections. Let us reach our brethren of the south and west that we can have no interest than Is not ours. The mer- chants and manufacturers of New England desire, of course, foreign com merce and a foreign market. But it is not in that direction that our highest prosperity lies, The one object of our desire, that by which New England must live or bear nos life, is a pros porous south and a prosperous west If you can teach the south and west this lesson the day of sectional hatred is over. The honor and prosperity of the whole country will be safe in the hands of the whole people,
 The next speaker was General Alger, who, in response to the toast, "Wrecks of the Rebellion" said in part:
 ''The three most important events in our nations history were the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the election of Abraham Lincsln in 1860, and no less in importance the election of Major Mckinley in 1896, all patriotic and in no sense partisan victories. Looking back to the second of these events a flood of memories crowds the brain, suggested by the sentiment to which I am to speak. 'Wrecks of the Rebellion We accept the name, al- though given in malice and with no thought of gratitude. Howard, Sickels, Schofeld, Dodge, Rosecrans, of the old corps commanders, are still living, thank God, 'wrecks of the rebellion TO party lines separating them; patri- ots then, patriots now, and around them are rallying a million loyal com- rades, patriots, but not partisans, de- voted to the flag, glorying in the great ness of the nation they helped to save. The widow, the broken hearted mother, the desolate home for all these years, found everywhere, are they not also 'wrecks of the rebellion?' Wrecks of the rebellion! Yes, physical wrecks, it may be, prematurely old they are, but manly men, patriotic, liberty-loving, God-fearing men, and he who casts slur upon their fair name should die in infamy.
 And now We ask, What of the night?' The patriotic people of this nation have won a. victory over law lessness, repudiation, dishonor. No party can justly claim the victory, but the law-abiding, peace-loving members of all parties can rejoice in our escape from a, great peril and know that they acted an important part in the rescue of our country from threatened disas- ter. The crisis, however, is not yet passed. Our lawmakers and execu- tives, by wise, conservative acts, must meet the needs of the people, and by
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