Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-10-03
DR.. PARKHURST SPEAKS
EXPRESSES HIS VIEWS nv
POLITICAL SITUATION
Silver Men i'm the COngrerot;o
approved the Ideas Set Forth
by the Divine.

New York, Sept. 27.--Rev. DR., Cbar,..
Parkhurst signalized his return from n,
rope to the pulpit of the Madison So
Presbyterian church today by prearLinS
sermon on the political situation Tbo
church was tilIed a NUMBER OF silver NAV
who disapproved of the doctors views ha
ing In the congregation. Some OF tbaso
made untiattering comments on leaving
the church after the sermon.
When the doctor was told of these com.
ments. he remarked; There is more in
this thing than the silver question. and
some Sunday in the near future l am %.
ing to speak my mind about the treat.
ment of labor by capital. | will mt
mince words either
one of the visitors to the church WA,
Treasurer st. John of the democratic ma.
uonal committee. He did not wait TO
hear all the doctor had to say
Mr.. ST. John is one of our deacons
said Or. 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 1t was
impossible to make anything without ma
terial. and impossible to buid a structure
without a good foundation. Among other
things he said.
We are building forward into the flu.
ing upon, or knowing whether we are
building upon anything in particular that
contains in itself the indispensable ee-
ments of permanence. Material comm0d-
tiles In the shape of stocks and bonds
products Of the soil and manufactures
have the same intrinsic value In the
United States as they had six months
ago. But the idea is the fact that all
this is presently to be dumped upon
foundations too fictitious to sustain
themselves, and still less to sustain the
enormous weight of national economies
that it is proposed TO place upon them
There is a feeling that there are eter-
nal principles that it is proposed to mix
with an alloy chiefly of human invention,
and that this incoherent conglomeration
is to be used in mortaring up underneath
the terrific weight Of our national veal
and destiny, And stocks go down. Ot
course they go down, and they will con
tinue to go down until there is restored
the conviction that the government IS 10
be set upon Il bottom that will not give
| am not here to argue financial lueS'
lions, but the present situation IN our
country is an Illustration on portentous
scale of the truth l am trying TO dIlVe
hCme-that you can not move with VlsOI
nor strike with effect except as you Iee'
III the INSTANT the everlasting HAA'J W "
rock your foot IS planted upon.
National prosperity will come PACK
when confidence comes back, and conn
dence will return when the nation So'S
its feet out of the quagmire and back
granite. Traffic not only. but all the re-
lations Of our great communal lie ai'
conducted on the credit system, on syS
tenn of mutual confidence, and TO-DAY , enat
mutual confidence does not exist lh'''
is the secret Of our disquietude, ana az
tcmpts are being made deliberately "n1
in hot blood to crush out all lingering .i ~
mains of that mutual confidence anu ot t.r
procedure | dare to brand on TINS dl. 90
of God as thoroughly false to the spur
OF gospel and accursedly treasonaDie
our collective interests and national ue'
tiny."