The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-14

Tariff and The Thieves OF Lombard and
wall Street franked to them by their rep
resentataves. 1 am convinced that there can
be no new South until, in some way, the
farmers raising cotton are taught that
wealth and prosperity are the fruits of d.
versity and industry, and recognize in the
printed speech of the average representa-
tive from Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi
political gold brick.
"Oh, why did Henry Grady die! Why was
mat nand palsled and that tongue silenced!
How years ago, from this very. city, his
us the fires Of hope for the people among
whom he lived. The Southern States could
Well spare carloads Of professional poll
ticians who preach hateful and exploded
heresies simply to hold their jobs but it
was grievious loss, indeed, when that
brave, that chtValrOus knight, gifted be-
yond his fellows, came and told us of the
coming OF the new morning and then sank
and was lost to US and his countrymen for
ever. But the South will yet be free
Speeches never spoken, embalmed in type
under the leave to print rule, cannot sue
cessfully contest with dollars as good as
gold now going by the million from New
England and the Middle States to the mines
and fields and forests of old Dixie.
we recently had little currency episode
IN Congress. 1t was precipitated by the
Weeping Willow of Colorado, and was
eagerly seized on by the Democrats in Con-
gress. Strange as it may seem, it had to
do with the paying of the national debt
democrats so seldom interest themselves in
the payment of national obligations that
this move attracted universal attention
But their interest was all discounted when
the proposition they made set forth.
In the race or the verdict of the people rem
dered at the polls one year ago, those gen.
tlemen proposed to commit the government
TO q cheap and every-varying currency.
Ihlnk Oh 1t. BY majority of fifteen, the
Senate of the United States declared that
it was in favor of taking up a metal that
had been kicked out of the back door of
every civilized and enlightened nation on
earth, coming every 40 cents worth of it
INTO dollar and compelling the Nations
creditors TO take it at its face in gold. By
voting down in connection with the resolu-
tfons an amendment that all forms of our
currency should be kept at a parity, the
supporters OF the resolution conceded that
TO give 1t the form and force of law meant
q cheap, and dishonet. and rotten currency.
BY voting down an amendment that all of
our obligations should be paid in the best
money in the world, they conceded that to
give that resolution the form and force of
law meant cheap, and dishonest and rot
ten currency.
THE TELLERITE VOTE DISSECTED.
And while that body was preparing that
record of shamelessness, it had the impu-
dence to talk about the people, The peo-
pie! Twenty of the forty-seven votes that
were cast for that resolution represent less
population by two hundred thousand than
live in the State of Indiana. Six of them
represent only few more people than live
IN the congressional district I have the
honor to represent. Represent the Ameri-
can people! No! No more than those three
tailors in Tooley street represented the peo-
pie of England. Those twenty votes repre-
sented arid plains and cactus plants, and
desert wastes and coyotes, and silver mines
They were reinforced largely by senators
from the South who read their fate In the
development of the protection sentiment in
that splendid territory, and who grasp and
grab at anything that promises a prolonged
tenure of office.
well, the serpent scotched by the people
year ago and thus warmed into life was
brought over to the House. and we took a
club and broke It's back And now they saw
tney are going TO take that broken-backed
year. All right. Let them do it. The peo-
pie will soon decide whether they want
Uncle Sam pictured as an honest man with
an open countenance or as a pickpocket and
thief. They will not hesitate in deciding
whom they want to make money plans for
them-the tobacco chewers who sit on store
boxes ana nnancier while their wives take
In washing or men who have made a sue
cess in life. There is no better time to set
tie 1t than now, right now, and in the next
Take your resolution of personal and ma
tional shame, Mr.. Teller, and submit it to
the great West, and they will hurl it back
IN your face with the brand of its ilegiti-
macy stamped all over it. The people are
honest They know what is right and they
Will 90 1t. They are always suspicious of a
business man who advertises his familiarity
with the bankruptcy law. They know that
an attorney who has the reputation of be-
ing nothing but technical lawyer has
thieves for his clients, and they hate men
who pay their debts with the statute Of
limitations. 10 the suggestion that the gov
eminent has the legal and moral right to
pay its debts in deprecated currency they
VIII say that no debt, personal national
IS truly discharged that does not satisfy
the conscience as well as balance the ledger
In 1878 in the wilderness of southern In
diana, in q rude, foorless hut, the wind
coming i'll through the crevices in the wall
a mother died She was of lowIy birth She
was the victim of poverty and hard usage
For months she had been stopped, and
plnched, and miserable, and sad. She was
suddenly stricken. She knew she was GO
ing TO die. There was no doctor nearer than
thirty-fiVe miles. Two little children heart
broken, stood by her bedside weeping while
they received her blessing and her admoni-
ton to love their kindred and worship
God Out of rude boards hewn from the
forest the husband and father made coffin
ana with no ceremony other than the SObs
of that motherlesS boy and girl aged nine
and eleven years, by names Sarah and Abra-
nam, the earth closed over that cold and
fragile form forever A pioneer funeral in
the forest eighty years ago. Little did that
mother think that ragged. hapless boy was
destined to become the liberator of race
of men.
ITO my mind the saddest, most sorrow
full, most pathetic incident in all history is
the death and burial of Iincoln'S mother
NO wonder he was sad No wonder he was
sorrowful. No wonder his heart was as
tender and responsive as that of a little
child We know what made him melan-
choly Whence he derived his greatness
God, and God alone, knows. | think it
came from nature and from beyond the sky
me century IN which he lived was rich in
men and mind, but the century has given
the world but one name that is sweet and
gentle alike in hut and palace-IincoInI
Abraham Lincoln! Pure, noble, glorious,