The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-17

the Nation shall be so framed that a cease
less stream of gold, pouring into the treas
ury, Will prove to the gamblers in the Ma
TONS honor that any raid on the Nation S
gold will meet inevitable defeat He IA
Sors such tariff as viii prevent the Bill
Sykes, and the Fagins of finance from try
ing TO open the Republics treasury with a
greenback for Jimmy.
Now on the threshold of our career as the
first power of earth, is the time to per-
manently adjust our system of finance. The
American people have the most tremendous
tasks or history TO perform. They have the
mlghtlest commerce of the world to conduct.
They cannot halt their progress of wealth
and power to unsettle their money system
at the command of ignorance. Think of
monarch of the world with her financial
system periodically assaiedi Think of Hol-
land or Germany or France yet sending
their flag in every sea, with their money at
the mercy of politicians seeking for an is
sue. Sixteen to one is passed in our career
Why go back TO it like the victim of opium
to his deadly pipe? Now, when new rivers
of gold are pouring through the fields of
business, the foundation of all silver-stand-
is swept away. Why humble the meaning
less phrases of a tale that is told when the
golden future is before us, the world calls
us, its wealth awaits us and Gods COM
mand is on US? There are so many real
things to be done-canals to be dug, rail
ways to he laid forests to be felled, cities
TO be builded. unviolated fields to be titled,
priceless markets to be won ships to be
launched. peoples to be saved, civilization
10 ne proclaimed ana the nag OIL liberty nunS
to the eager air of every sea. Is this an
nour 10 waste upon tritiers with
mongers and prosperity wreckers? No!
1t is an hour to remember your duty
TO the home. It is moment to realize the
opportunities Fate has opened to this ia
vored people and to you. 1t is time to be-
think you of the conqu1ering march
think You Of your Nation and It's sovereign
ty of the seas. 1t is a time to remember
that the God of our fathers is our God and
that the gifts and the duties He gave to
them, enriched and multiplied, He renews
to us, their children. 1t is time to sustain
that devoted man, servant of the people and
or the most high God, who is guiding the
Republic out into the ocean of infinite pos
sibilities. 1t is a time to cheer the beloved
whole world is vocal with American loyalty
to the American government and William
MCKINLEY; its head and chief.
F'elloW-Amerfcans, we are Gods chosen
people. Yonder at Bunker Hill and York
town His providence was above us. AT New
Orleans and on ensanguined seas His hand
sustained US. Abraham Lincoln was His
minister; and His was the altar of freedom
the boys in blue set up on a hundred smok-
ing battlefelds. His power directed Dewey
in the east and He delivered the Spanish
fleet into our hands on Liberty'S natal day
as He delivered the elder Armada into the
hands of our English sres two centuries
ago. His great purposes are revealed in
the progress of the flag, which surpasses the
intentions of Congresses and Cabinets and
and pillar of fire by night, into situations
unforeseen by finite wisdom and duties I'M
expected by the unprophetic heart of selfish
ness. The American people cannot use a dis
honest medium of exchange; it is ours to set
the world it's example of right and honor.
We cannot fly from our world duties; it is
ours to execute the purpose of a fate that
has driven us to be greater than our small
intentions. We cannot retreat from any
soil where Providence has unfurled our ban
ner; 1t is ours to save that soil for liberty
and civilization. For liberty and civiliza-
ton and Gods promises fulfilled. the flag
must henceforth be the symbol and the sign
to all mankind.
Before the last lines of the speech had
died on the lips of the orator the crowd
set up roar of approval which drowned
the words. Men in all walks of life rushed
up to the stage to grasp the speakers hand
and congratulate him. Chairman Hernly's
face was wreathed in broad smile as he
rose to his feet to say to his neighbor that
the first gun fired in the local campaign had
been an effective one