The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-26

HONESTY n ORDER
Rev. DR.. H~athaWay's Ser
mon on the Dangers
Which Beset the
United States.
THE ANDRUs MURDER A STRAW
Tendencies of the Bryanite Cam
paign-Nill the People Re-
joice or Mourn?
THE ANDRUs MURDER A STRAW

The Rev. DR.. I. w. Hathaway, pastor
| of the Westminster Presbyterian Church,
| preached ssermon yesterday morning, IN
\ which he predicted that within a hundred
years from now the United States would
be no more. He said that the Government
| would be forgotten in that time, as it was
only an experiment, and the people would
| very soon try a new mode of ruling,
which would result in a dismal failure,
! and the United States would have to
adopt a new form of government.
His text was from Proverbs xxx: g.
when the righteous are in authority the
people ~rejoice, but when the wicked
beareth rule the people mourn"
He said in part
I'm a republic it is the voice of the
people expressed by the ballot that de-
termines who shall be called into places
of authority. Whether the righteous or
the wicked shall bear rule glad will be
the day when the political issues hail
be righteousness against ~wickedness:
when the chief issue shall be not COM
merclal but moral. When worldly ambi-
lions shal be subordinated to the demands
Of the Divine law IS expressed in the
golden rule and the eleventh m
ment.
zone week from next Tuesday, the
great election win take place when the
people of these United States shall choose
a Chief Magistrate and innumerable local
officials by which the people shall be
made either TO rejoice or to mourn. The
sovereign will of the people will be ex-
pressed as to whom they wish to rule
over them, and also what the general
policy of the administration shall be as
authorized in the party platform. a policy
that shall affect for veal or woe. 10000, 600
of American citizens. Some twelve mil
Lions of sovereign electors will come forth
from the farm and shop from Office and
study, from all avocations. rich and poor,
high and low, to exercise this kingly
p~rerogative. Each in the freedom of his
own VIII, guided by such intelligence and
conscience as he may possess to cast his
ballot which taken collectively shall de-
termine the verdict that shall shape the
policy and perhaps the destiny of this
great nation. A land consecrated to con-
stitutional liberty by the blood of our
fathers at Lexington. Bunker Hill and
Yorktown by our brothers on the many
battleffelds of our late Civil War. Words
fail to f1ttlngiy express the grandeur OF
the scene of a sovereign people casting
their ballots TO choose their rulers, deter
mine their policy and clothe them with
regal powers such as few crowned heads
ever possessed.
ITO be President of the United States
is to be called to be more than the peer
Of any ruler of the world past or present.
To be cltthed with constitutional powers
by consent of the people with authority
that surpasseS any that a hereditary king
or emperor dare assume, is a dignity that
defies adequate expression in mere words
and carries with it a trust and RESPONSE
bility too great for any man save as he
is sustained and guided by a s-uperhuman
sponsibiiity rests upon the individual
sovereign by whom this great dignity and
authority is bestowed. A government of
the people, by the people and for the PEG,
government, but one that can only be
successful in the hands of God fearing
people. The law of a successful Republic
must be in the conscience of the people.
Much Is said of the necessity of intelli-
gence. and many place intelligence as
the cornerstone of our republic, and,
therefore, the public school as the one
essential of good citizenship. While we
are in hearty accord with the value and
necessity of the public school and of the
absolute necessity of an educated, intel
ljgent people, yet this alone is of little
value. 1t is like a locomotive. perfect in
mechanism but without a driver. Edu-
cation is simply a steam power without
direction or control, and may be infin-
itely worse than ignorance.
you may call me an alarmist, a pes
simist, or whatever you choose, but I am
that the rocks which threaten our ship
of state are not few nor small. i see the
cloud rising as get but the size of a
mans hand, but which will swell to
such proportions, black and terrible with
selfish greed and unrighteous passions, as
shall shut out the sunlight of Heaven,
disrupt the Union and deluge this land
again with fratricidal blood. When such
deliberately planned murders as that of
Hamlin ]. Andrus, at Yonkers, Wednesday
morning last, simply because he was O
over which we are sitting and the fes-
tering hatred of class against class and
section against section. and The spirit of
anarchy, latent but deep, that finds ex-
emigrants from tyrannical monarchfes of
the cid world. but by Governors of SOW
ereign States of this Union, and at last
in the platform of a great political party,
and preached from the stump by the cam
dsdate who would be made by the suffrage
Of the people the Comma der-in- Chief of
our army and navy, and the head Of this
proud Republic, and If so, sworn in ad-
vance to overthrow the bulwark of con-
stitutional freedom wisely provided in
our Supreme Court and independent of all
National authority. When this spirit
shall rise until it finds among It's advo-
Gates Governors of great States, nomi-
and expressed anarchistic views, and
when platforms of great political parties
shall embody the same in order that they
may secure the vote of what III nope
is a majority of this twelve millions of
national jurymen. is 1t not time to sound
the note of alarm? Is it not time to
awaken TO the trend of events that
threaten our republic? Can we be blamed
for our doubts and fears? Should we
not be b-lameworthy If we failed to ex-
press them and warn the people?
This sentiment or spirit of anarchy
that has risen to such / & places Of ex-
preston may be utterly unreasonable,
may be wholly unrighteous, but neverthe-
less 1t exists. it is a fact. So that almost
the entire strength of Mr.. Bryan and his
coadjuters is not at all In the merits OF
silver, but wholly In the a~ntagonism Of
classes. 1t is a campaign of the poor
against the rich.
THE one ground of hope for this party.
Is that enough men will be moved, no
by any question of national policy, not by
a question of free trade, not even by
free silver, but by a desire to strike at
the well to do and the capital interests
Of the land. 1t Is wal upon capital waged
by a great political party, and resting
their hope of success In the majority OF
the voters of this great nation. Even the
possibility OF their success is enough to
alarm every lover of his country. The
inherent political forces begotten by
greed for gain and Of the spirit of the
worlds ambitions will certainly work our
ruin except they shall be 1eavened and
made obedient to q higher law. When