Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-04
CHEERING WORDS.
Flow from the Lips of Secretary
of the Treasury Gage.
SPEAKS AT A CINCINNATI BANQUET.
He Predicts an EARLY Settlement of
the Tariff Question by Congress
and Believes Industrial Revival
VIII Soon Come.

Cincinnati, May 2o.-The GROWING
event of the visit of the commercial
clubs was the banquet Friday night at
the Clifton mansion of Alexander Nc
Donald who was host for the Cincinnati
club. The dinner was most BETTING the
dignity of such clubs. Lucien Wulsn,
president of the Cincinnati club, opened
the speaking with an address of well
come. The first response was by Je-
rome Jones, president of the Boston
club. He was followed by Presidents
Glessner, of the Chicago club, and West,
of the ST. Louis club.
Messnse from the President.
Secretary Gage was vociferously APP
plauded as he rose to speak. He said
in beginning his remarks that before
coming he had called on the president
and asked permission to say for the ad-
ministration that there must be proper
revenue raised and there must be a
sound system of currency established.
The president said: "That is exactly
what l want you to say" Secretary
Gage said in part:
Tariff and Finance.
LAS 1 listen to the words passing from
| lip to lip of the members of the CONNER.
! cial clubs gathered here, I discover two
particular themes which have first place
| in the thoughts of ALL These two themes
are the tariff and the public finances. Up
| on the settlement of these two questions
| enterprise waits and industry languishes
Over so times have been asked: 'Wher
will the tariff discussion end and the
measure proposed receive the final vote
| which will formulate the measure into
law?' Over so times mere 1 have beer
asked: Have the financial reforms. fol
which the people struggled in November
last. been forgotten?' Now. 1t Is not to be
| wondered at that you who have so Ions
borne the burden of anxiety and fear, wht
have so long waited and watched for tn,
restoration OF conditions upon which som,
secure estimate of tomorrow can be made
should grow nervous and impatient ovel
every act. or word. which seems to sugges
doubt or delay in the establishment O.
| such conditions.
| Has Faith in Congress.
IT have thought that on this occasion
could do no better service than to give yo,
| needed reinsurance and hope. AS to tn,
| great fabric now before congress. know
as the tariff bill, have nothing to say IL
| detail. want to bear testimony, however
to the zeal and good faith of those in boil
They are fully conscious of their great re
| sponsibtlities, and are working faithful.
| to discharge them. Nor do think that tn
| opponents of these measures are likely t.
| oppose with willful and unjust obstruc
tions the course of legislation. Protest
| there will be more or less; fencing for posi-
| ton must be expected, but having nov
come into contact with many of the repre-
| sentatives of the people in both houses o
congress. l deem it my duty to bear wit
| ness. so far as it may have value. to tn
| honorable and patriotic motives that In
spire the minds of the great majority
whether upon one side of the house or tn
other. and l prophesy an early result in thu
| national councils to which this great com
mercial question Is now committed.
Danger In Distrust.
II make these remarks not to defend
body for whom l hold no commission t
speak, but to correct, In one direction If
may, the operation of an injurious senti
| ment-a sentiment which is sowing evi
seeds in many directions. 1t is dividing
classes, destroying unity and breeding
| hatred The one word for that sentimen
is 'dstrust. Faith and courage lead t
conquest and victory. Distrust paralyze
and destroys.
Has Not been Forgotten.
LAS to the financial question to which
have already referred. / want to conten
myself with few words. am glad tina
| tney may De WOTuS OIL assurance. IL an
of you harbor the suspicion that the admin
istration, but just now installed into the re
sponsibilities of high office. has forgotten
or Is likely to forget, the mandate of tn
people, whose voice in behalf of homes
money and sound finances rang out lou
and clear in November last, put that sus
picion aside. 1t Is unjust and Vi
founded. In good time and in prope
order the affirmative evidences of my dec
laration Will appear. In the meantime, m
friends. do your part to help those charge
with legislative and administrative duties
Do not let the inertia engendered by fea
and distruSt creep over you.
Words of Assurance.
1--WE have been passing through perio
of great trial, and nobly have we endure
the strain. The future is not dark wit
forebodings. 1t is Illuminated with ia
tional hope. The revival of industry
near, and with the establishment of a rev
enue law sufficient to bring into the treas
ury an amount adequate to meet the rea
sonable needs of our government, and wit
the establishment of our finances on
sound and enduring basis, nothing no,
foreseen can delay the. recovery of pas
. losses and the Inauguration of new fol
4 ward movement along the lines of materis
, advancement and social progress, whic
we may humbly trust Is in the benevoler
mind of God to bestow upon the America
people"
Of for Home.
Mr.. Elihu Thompson, of Boston, III
dertook the severe task of talking afte
dinner on scientific SUBJECTIVE re
cent advances i'll electrical science
: and succeeded in enlisting the mos
j keen interest by very startling pres
! entation of the new discoveries in elet
g tricity. He predicted that very 500
the problem of the interconyertibilit
of metals would be solved by electri
! discoveries. An address by Frankli
, MacNeagh, of Chicago, was followed b
a number of impromptu speeches. Th
banquet closed at midnight, when til
special trains We're in waiting to carr
the guests to Boston, Chicago and S
Louis