The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-27

our way. The recommendation of the
president for commission was admir-
able in this, that it suggested a way by
which a body of wen trained and
thoughtful men could be provided to
consider, at leisure, without distraction
from other pressing themes, the i'm
portant subject of currency and bank
ing reforms. 1t at the same time opened
a forum to which could be admitted
every contributive suggestion from all
class and conditions of man. And
if there is anything dear to an Ameri-
cans heart it is the privilege of having
his say. Give him his say in court,
let his argument be heard, and then if
the jury is against him he rests salts
fed To these incidental moral ad-
vantages may be added the reasonable
expectation that the commission would
have been able to gather in most Valu-
able information and finally to formu
late wise recommendations worthy of
early and favorable consideration by
congress at the regular session next
winter.
That the bill (which passed the house
with promptness failed of recognition in
the senate may be matter OF regret,
but not one for discOurag agement. The
two questions before the country in the
last campaign were the tariff and the
currency. One of them is already set
tied. Whatever the merits or dement's
of the new measure in its particular
items, it has become the law of the
land. The revenues derived from it
will, after a possible brief interregnum,
penditures, and if the old aphorism be
true that the revenue of the state is
the state we may say without eXag-
geration that the state is sre-esta blished.
We have also reached a point where,
with absolute data furnished, COM
merce and manufacture can make COR
rect estimates and go upon their re-
spective missions of exchange and
production with a new sense of secur-
ity. The responsible party in power
having successfully covered this one
important issue, it may be safely trust
ed to care equally well for the other.
On the financial side there is really no
pressing need for haste. There is GER
tainly no immediate occasion for anxi-
ETY.. With ample reserves in the pub
lie treasury, with financial centerS in a
full supply of loanable funds, with in
terest invitingly low, with crop prospects
most promising and a good market IA
vorably assured, with new mineral
resources coming into view, with a ter
ritorial area sufficient to carry it's pres
ent population many times multiplied
with a people advancing in the ele-
ments of intelligence and character, who
dare indulge in dOleful forecasts?
We need not ignore the fact that
there are many wounds to be cured, eX-
cited passions to be calmed and many
misunderstanding to be composed. Nor
is it passing strange that this should be
SO. Within the limits of half lifetime
industrial methods and processes have
been reVOlu ullOnized, comb1nat tiOnS in Ia
Dor and trade and manufactures have
superseded to a degree the former pro-
cesses of individual movement. 1t is
philosophical to believe that they are
all eVolutionary-tending to final and
a higher general good, but in their i'm
mediate 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 SO great an evil. Time will do
much to restore and the natural laws
everywhere operating will bring in at
last their compensation. In the mean
time, our statute laws must learn-not
to represS the operation of a natural
law, which is supreme over man. made
laws, but they must learn to justly
check and punish those who, graSping
the elements of power, perVert
them into agonies of injustice and op-
preston. The problems of a demo-
cratic society rapidly developing in all
directions are many and troublesome.
They must be met with patience. We
must not lose faith nor abate in cOur-
age. with malice toward none, with
charity for all," each unit in the mighty
organiza ton must bring to their solu-
ton the best that is in him of virtue
and intelligence.
To you, the descendants of those who
in the early struggle for independence
risked their fortunes, their liberty and
ment no exhortation is needed to spur
you on in the efforts to preserve and
perpetuate the inheritance your fathers
transmitted to US. Purify and pass on
to the future our republic, unimpaired
in its rich promise to the children OF
men, is a work not less inspiring, not
less noteworthy of noble and continu-
and accomplished by the fathers there