The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28

TI'ecomn,mendations worthy of early and Ma
vorable consideration by Congress at the
regular session next winter
r,th nat E- me Dill which passed the House
gIth promplness failed of recognition In the
Senate may be a matter of regret but not
6 6nvo tor encouragement. What might
nave oeen accomplished through q commits
sion may be achieved without one. Nor
ought we to speak or think unkindIy OF a
pouy Wnlch has so assiduously toiled in the
WIZ oI d new body of law, concerning a
matter so charged with conflicting opinions
ana ana opposing interests as is any tariff act.
ne TWO questions before the country in
the last POLITICAL campaign were the tariff
and the currency One of them is already
settled. Whatever the merits or dement's
OF the new measure in its particular items
1t has become the law of the land The
revenues derived from 1t will. after a pos
eminent expenditures. and if the old
aphorism be true, that the revenue OF the
state is the state we may say without exc
aggeration that the state is re-estabHshed.
we have also reached a point where
with absolute data furnished commerce.
and manufacture can make correct esti-
mates and go upon their respective mis-
sions of exchange and production with
new sense of security. The responsible
this one important issue may be safely
trusted to care equally well for the other
NO NEED FOR HASTE.
ION the financial side there is really no
pressing need for haste. There is certainly
nc immediate occasion for anxiety. With
financial centers in full supply of loanable
funds; with interest invitingly low; with
crop prospects most promising, and a good
market favorably assured; with new min
eral resources coming into view; With a ter
ritorial area sufficient to carry it's present
population many times multiplied; with a
people advancing in the elements of inteli-
gence and character, who dare indulge in
doleful forecasts?
I'VE need not ignore the fact that there
are many wounds to be cured excited
passion to be Gained, and many misunder-
standings TO be composed. Nor rs il passing
strange that this should be Within the
limits of half a lifetime industrial methods
and processes have been reVoutionzed,
features have superseded to a degree the
former processes of individual movement.
1t is philosophical to believe that they are
all neutrality-suspicious. to hnal and
higher general good-but in their immediate
effects they produce incidental injury in
many directions. Perceiving the injury, the
hurt cry out and cannot be persuaded that
any good can come out of great an evil.
Time will do much to restore and the nat
ural laws, everywhere operating, VIII bring
in at least their compensation.
In the meantime our statute laws must
ural law which is supreme over man-made
laws, but they must learn to justly check
and punish those who, grasping the new
elements of power, perVert them into ago.
MES of injustice and oppression.
The problems of a democratic society.
rapidly deyeloR,inIg IN all directions are
with patience We must not lose faith nor
abate in courage With malice toward
none with charity for all, each unit in the
mighty organism must bring to their solu-
ton the best that is in him of virtue and
intelligence. Upon the wise and great the
duty weighs with corresponding force, but
upon the masses also it presses according 70
their measure of responsibility.
ITO you, the descendants of those who in
the early struggle for independence risked
their fortunes, their liberty and their lives
in the cause of self-government, no exhorta-
ton is needed to spur you on in the eff
fort to preserve and perpetuate the inner
itance your fathers transmitted to us. To
purify and pass on to the future our repub-
lie unimpaired in its rich promise to our
children, is a work not less inspiring, not
less worthy of noble and continuous labor
than was the work aimed at and accom-
plished by the fathers thereof"
Others who made addresses were Gov
ernor Wolcott, Mayor Josiah Quincy, Col.
Henry L. Higginson and Charles Hamlin.