The record-union., 1897-07-28

gather in most valuable information,
and finally TO formulate wise recommen-
dations 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 a
matter of regret, but not of discourage
ment
THE two questions before the coun-
try in the last political campaign were
the tariff and the currency. One Of
them is already settled. Whatever the
merits or demerits of the new meas
ure in its particular items, it has be-
come the law of the land. The reve-
nues derived from it WILL after a possi-
bic brief interim, be ample for proper
Government expenditures, and if the
old aphorism be true that the revenue
Of the State is the State we may say
without exaggeration that the State
is re-established.
We have also reached a point where.
with absolute data furnished, commerce
and manufacture can make correct eS-
Inmates and go upon their respective
missions Of exchange and production
with new sense of security The re-
spOnsible party in power having sue
cessfully covered this one important is
sue, may be safely trusted to care
equally we'll for the other On the
financial side there is really no press
ing need for haste. There is certainly
no immediate occasion for anxiety.
With ample reserves in the public
treasury, with financial centers in
fun supply Of loanable funds, with in
terest invitingly low, with crop pros
poets most promising and a good mar
ket favOrably assured, with new min
eral resources coming into view, with
a territorial area sufficient to carry its
present population many times multi
piled, with a people advancing in the
elements of intelligence and character,
who dare indulge in doleful forecasts?
eve need not ignore the fact that
there are many wounds to be cured,
excited passion to be calmed and many
misunderstanding to be composed. Nor
is it passing strange that this should
be So Within the limits Of half a life
time industrial methods and processes
have been revolutionized, combinations
in labor and trade and manufacture
have superseded to a degree the former
processes of individual movement. 1t
is philosophical to believe that they are
all evOlutionary-tendin to a final and
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 meantime our statute laws
must learn not to Cypress the operation
of a natural law which is supreme over
all man-made laws, but they must
learn to justly check and punish those
who, grasping the new elements of
power, peIvert them into agencies OF
injustice and oppression The prob
lens of a democratic society rapidly
developing in an directions are many
and troublesome. They must be met
with patience We must not lose faith
nor abate in courage.
with enmity toward none, with
charity toward all. the almighty organ
ization must bring to their solution the
best that is in him of virtue and intelli-
gence. To you. the descendants of those
who in the early struggle for independ-
ence risked their fortunes, their lib
erty and their lives in the cause of self
government, no eXhortation is needed
TO spur you on in the efforts to pre-
serve and perpetuate the inheritance
your fathers transmitted to us. To
purify and pass into the future our Re
public unimpaired in its rich promise
to the children of men, is a work not
less inspiring. not less noteworthy of
noble and continuous labor than was
the work attempted and accomplished
by the fathers thereof"