Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-06-17

| tho pecus OF ancient Rome, no longer
form the pecuniary values which com.
pose modern wealth. The spirit oi
civilization has grown out of law, and
law has created obligations, which take
the form OF contracts, written and un-
written, in infinite variety, and the per
fornance of such obligations, the pow 81
OF the enforcement OF such contracts, il
the cornerstone OF modern property,
OF modern wealth, from the smallest in.
teger to its most vast consolidation,
from the wages for the simplest Inanua
labor to the payment of national debt.
And this right to contract, this ohliga.
tlon to execute contracts. this keoping
OF bargains between man and man, this
remedy and its compulsory recognition,
creates the keystone, the cornerstone,
OF modern wealth in all it's forms aud
ia called credit.
1t is essential, and not superstruc.
ture. political, financial, moral or
material, can permanently exist on any
other basis. Has public credit in this
country been assailed? Have political
organizations been openly organized
and theories OF action aruwed which
threaten to undermine all forms OF
credit by disoarding the standard of
and measure of value for Hll human
contracts upon which rhe property, the
wealth OF the world. in great or small
sums or amounts, exists? Unhappily,.
such questions must be answered In The
affirmative, not 10 wrath or III objurga-
ton, not with yindictive, but with
manly gravity and sincere determine.
tion to admit the truth, to face it, and
m q f, Ia, sal
better impulse OF conscience, OF patriot
ism, OF morality and religion, to follow
those laws of reason, duty. and political
health that shall strengthen the founda-
tion OF the, welfare and happiness of
every man. woman and child who lives
under the Government Of the United
States.
If am right-and who can doubt it?
in thus ineistiDg upon secure basis
for our Government, then it behooyes
the people OF tho United States to see
to it that no policies hostile or unfavora.
BILE TO the great and essential end of
civilized society are permitted to grow
or be carried out The greatest minds
which have contributed to medical
science have been those which faithfully
and humbly followed natural laws
which led to health. discarding nos.
trums and specifics and dangerous ex-
periments, of which the life OF the
patient was usually the penalty. And.
equally. there are laws for human as.
sociatiop, in following which the health
OF the body politic can he best secured
and prolonged. Government and laws
cannot make wealth, for 1t is only
human industry that can do so. There
is not ono discovery or invention which
has blessed mankind or advanced its
civilization which originated in the ex-
ercise OF governmental power, and 10
the mind and heart Of industrious in
dividuals has the Almighty Ruler
planted the seeds Of His permitted dis
coveries.
LABOR, NOT LAWS, CREATES WEALTH.
: It is not the function of governments
to make either individuals or classea
richer, Self-intsrest instructed by
natural desires, and not obstructed by
statutory bandages, is the natural spring
OF invention and industry. II the State
usurps these functions it is obvious
that the spring is attacked at its source,
and that Discrimination and favor will
poison its waters. Government must be
founded on Justice. and there must be
some hand to hold the scales Hloft out
OF the reach of the strong and the rapa-
cious and ambitious, otherwise the
weak, feeble and poorer members of
society have an additional weight
added 10 their inequalities. The true
nobility OF the A American system was
its just recognition of manhood and its
imitation of that Power that
Is no respecter of persons.
The great charter excludes "titles
Of nobility" and the wholo instrument
is luminous with the intent to prevent
fHvors or unequal burdens
among it's citizens. Therefore. earn
estly insist and prayerfully entreat my
TO take firm. early and un-
stand in opposition to
and denial OF every claim by legislative
or executive power which contains the
fatal principle that the sovereign power
Of taxation can be controlled or used
for private advantage. and any law
which is stained by such purposes and
has such results should be removed
from the statute hooks. 1t is a law of
political health that the results of law
ful industry should inurs to the hand |
Or brain that worked TO produce them,
and when the powers OF government are
for individual endeayor,
The virus OF Socialistic interference and |
The Tyranny which ia its inevitable |
enters the veins of the body |
polite.
| say this with the present proceed |
ngH of Congress in full view, and in a |
session in which the cornerstone of |
public safoty, the very keystone of |
public credit, hos not only received tha
,old respect of passing notice, but in |
such measures Of cruel and excessive
,axation are pending with threatened
SUCCESS, which must decrease our
oreign commerce, increase our COM
isolation, and ca ne retaliatory
egiBlatiqn by nations who are seeking
rieudly and reciprocal relations with
,ur people, Such measures are the
fruitful parents Of just discomfort
lmong the wage earning and agricul-
ural classes of our countrymen, and
blind are those who will not see the
Immediate danger they constitute to
he public credit.
We stand tonight near the very
financial heart of the Union, and
lowhere is the superstructure of
lational credit more lofty or grander, or
letter understood. l say the financial
ieart.' for it is TO the hearts as we'll as
O ibe heads of my countrynien that
make an appeal TO deny the legitimacy
4 taking public property for private
lse. For this ia what is distinctly
Ions when taxation is levied, which
onfessenly must prevent revenue de.
ived from importations from coming
nto the Treasury for the payment of
he axnnnsea of the povernnnBnt and tha