The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-14
LANDS TALKS PLAINLY
ELOQUENT AND FORCEFUL SPEECH
BIZ AN INDIANA CONGRESSMAN.
The ssDeIphian Orator. Makes Hit i'm
Boston at the MiddIesex Club
Lincoln Banquet.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

district of Indiana in Congress, was one of
the speakers last night at the Lincoln birth
day celebration of the Middlesex Club. Mr..
Lands has been dubbed the "Delphian ora
tor because he recently made hit in the
House when he denounced the method of adj
ministering the civil-servce law. Last night
he also made hit by his forcible, breezy
way of stating facts. His address follows:
Mr.. Toast master and Gentlemen of the
Middlesex Club want TO thank you for
this cordial greeting. l can assure you l
prize this moment and the high compliment
implied in your invitation. AS country
newspaper man, sitting in my modest sane
tum on the Wabash, in Indiana, have read
of your club and have filed in scrap books
the eloquent utteranCes of distinguished
men who have here distributed oratorlcal
gems while speaking for progress and pros
perity and national glory.
Il was going to say that this was my
first visit 10 Boston. Literally, this would
have been true; figuratively, not. YeSter-
day was the first time ever set foot within
the splendid bounds of Massachusetts, but
| have been here before, as a little child.
as a youth, as a man from the landing or
the Pilgrim fathers to the present-in fancy,
time and time again. / have been through 1t
all with tears and cheers, depressed and
buoyant. But tonight, In the neSh, race
to face, greet you; A REPUBLICAN from
setts Two great States, almost thousanp
miles apart, and yet one people, one natlOn.
Pass westward, and more States, and yet,
with Massachusetts, one people, one nation.
Pass on westward, and other States, ana
vet with Massachusetts, one people and one
nation. An indestructible and lndivlsible
Union-the dream and hope of " ebster-the
passion of Abraham Lincoln. A,
lone utterance of wild and dashing and
reckless candidate for the presidency IN the
last campaign startled me, like an electric
shock. He shouted in one of his speeches
to the assembled thousands This is strus-
gle of the West and South against the
East! And that was taken up and was the
cry of his followers. In my mind the most
reprehensible feature of that campaign was
the attempt to array section against sec
ton, class against class, the rich against
the poor, the borrower against the lender:
the laborer against the capitalist west OF
the Allegheny mountains there was studied,
unconcealed effort to arouse malice and en-
Wy and prejudice against New England. BUT
ii did not win Thank God it did not WIN.
Out In the Western and Middle States we
love New England. We love her for Ply
mouth Rock and Lexington and Bunker
Hill. We love her for Theodore Parker,
Wendell Phillips and Charles Sumner, whose
names suggest forecful reasoning, cogent
logic intellectual courage and granueuir,
and whose lives and works and thoughts
have become the priceless legacy or human
liberty forever. We love her for those sweet
and gentle singers. Longtellow anu Will liho
tier We love her for her brave sons, VINO
side by side with Tndiana's best and braVest
fought for freedom, and in death won I'M
mortal glory away down South In Dixie.
LET no man who speaks of section in this
American republic go unreDuked rope anu
pray that the time will never be when the
Rocky mountain States may not come 10
New England, children to the land that
holds the sacred dust Of parents, ana III
awe and reverence stand at the tombs or
your illustrious dead. Danish the thought
that the time will ever be when the sons
and daughters of New England cannot come
to indiana and Illinois and stand in patriot
ism and love at the graves OF Oliver L. Nor
ton and Abraham Lincoln.
PHARISEES OF THE HOUSE.
"This is a Republican club, and it does
not appear out of place to talk politics. AS
I said a few moments ago, l am a news
paper man and have seen many sides OF
human strength and human weakness, but,
Mr.. Chairman, l must confess that never
had the slightest conception of the hypoc-
risy and pretense of the Democratic party
until sat and watched the daily antics of
the political aggregation that sits on the
east side of the main aisle of the House OF
REPRESENTATIVES. 1t would have been a
great place for jeremiah to have distribut-
ed his lamentations. Never since the flood
has there assembled in so small q space SO
many Pharisees and false prophets. Al the
extraordinary session the Dingley Dill was
born amid their walls and their prophecles
of dire distress, but, in spite OF 1t ali, con-
ditions soon began to resemble the conQl-
tons we had in 1892, when the Mckinney
law was in force and Benjamin Harrison
was President of the United states. Inc
day after Mckinley was elected the cham,
smirk and inquire Where Is your pros
perity?' They demanded it Immediately.
They acted as though the republican party
could set the national hen the morning aiI-
er the election and serve Democracy WIN
spring chicken out of the same nest the
same evening. Then Mckinley was inaug-
urated and again they inquired Where is
your prosperity Then the House passed
the Dingley bill and they inquired Where
is YOUR prosperity? and they kept up TINS
imDudent inquiry laughing about it and
Joking about it. Then the Senate passed the
bill and it was baptized with the signature
of William Mckinley and then prosperity
commenced coming. A way had been pro-
Vided and ii came. In Indiana, throughout
the States, like the gentle dew from heaven
and almost in night, from field and Tor
est, from factory and mine, from hand ana
heart and brain it came, showerlng It's
blessings upon the children of men.
kansas no longer bleeds, except at the
mouth Of Jerry Simpson. In less than ore
year after Mckinley was elected her farm
products registered in Vaiue TWO nunureu
and seventy millions of dollars and her ex-
hibit at the Omaha exhibition will be rolls
of Cancelled mortgages representing twenty
five millions of dollars.
Indiana, too, is happy. one hundred ana
fifty thousand men are working in her fac
tories, and agriculture, her greatest pride
and source of wealth, gave to the world
two hundred and fifty millions in value this
last year. From all the States come words
of cheer, and these words of cheer inturiate
the heterogeneous and Streaked political
mass that joined hands in the last cam
paign. There is daily beauty in Republic
an prosperity that makes them ugly. They
do not want prosperity. The Populist and
free-silver Democrat recognize that for
them prosperity is but another word for
death and political dissolution. And they
do not want to die, for death means silence,
and nothing is more horrible to the cham
pions of 16 to L than the thought of being
doomed to a condition of endless silence.
1.-THE leaders of these allied forces have
consumed days in the House of Representa-
tives in calling attention to the strikes in
New England and the low price of cotton
in the South, and shouting Justify There is
no prosperity Lam informed that the cot
ton mills of New England have been forced
why? Because hundreds of factories have
been planted by the cotton fields down in
the CarolinaS and other Southern States,
and. with long hours and cheap labor, they
are able to undersell New England. And
why is cotton cheap? Because in recent
years the cotton crop has been phenomenal
this last two years millions of bales in
excess of the normal crop.
THE SOUTHERN FARMER.
1.-THE Southern agriculturist knows little
else than cotton. If he would prosper he
must read il he would get out of the rut
he must experiment. Cotton, cotton, cot
ton, year after year, eXhausts the soil, and
that portion of the crop that does not go
for labor goes for fertilizer. The Northern
farmer fertlizes with his brain by rotat-
ing his crops In this way he varies the
products of the soil and limits the supply.
The Northern farmer reads, he studies, he
discusses, he experiments, he grows. and
in him, we have the keen intelligent, broad
diana farmer with the Southern farmer.
The Indiana farmer sits in his home. made