The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-19

Stu LOT ltC n0nOF OF the SgnNtOTSnlp. since
mat flows only from the discharge of the
dutles that great Office imposes. IT is just
as honorable to be a citizen of the Republic
as It Is to be a senator of the Republic
II the citizen does his duty as a citizen: the
cnly difference is that the senatorship is
more conspicuous than citizenShlp-it Is
KIND OF larger citizenship, combining with all
the duties of the private citizen the special
duties OF the representative citizen. ZAP
plause) II is not the bestowal of personal
honor or distinction on any man that should
influence the selection of a senator of the
United States. The honor, the prosperity
and the destiny of the American people are
the only considerations which should control
IN choosing the servants of the Republic
and so | thank you not for the honor
that | must earn for myself-but for having
commissioned me to give the best energies
or my life to the service of the American
people; and in so thanking you, thank you
as a soldier thanks his commander for
marking him to lead the charge or bear the
colors into action. Such soldier thinks, not
OF himself, but of the great army behind
MN ana Of the cause 1t represents. And so
a senator should think never of himself, but
oniy OF the Republic and of the perpetuity
and progress of free institutions among
mankind, which the Republic represents.
The American people, the whole American
people now, the American people throughout
all coming time, and the duty the American
people owe to the human race-these are the
only subjects deserving the attention of an
American statesman. Great applause)
FOR THE WHOLE PEOPLE.
''The American people! That term does
not mean a class Of the American people.
The business men of the country are not
the American people; the workingmen of
the land are not the American people; the
capitalists of the Nation are not the Ameri-
can people. No class has a monopoly of
citizenship. 1t takes all classes to make up
the great vital masterful, imperial people
of the American Republic. 1t takes all
classes to make up civilization itself. Fate
has woven the life and welfare of every
citizen of our sacred Nation into the life
ana welfare of every other citizen beneath
the flag We Americans are brothers, not
only by the ties of immortal memories com
mon to us ALL not only by the kinship of
glorious and of common hopes but by the
lndlssoluble bonds of necessity and condi-
ton. 1t is to the interest of the greatest
bank in New York that the smallest farmer
and humblest laborer of Indiana shall sue
ceed. The bank cannot prosper if the man
Gtacturer and the wholesaler do not prosper
These cannot prosper if the retailer does
not prosper too. And the retailer becomes
bankrupt the moment the farmer and the
laborer cease to pay him.
We are knit together by the constitution
OIL Things. We are welded into vast eco
mic unit by the fingers of destiny We
are fused into a great indivisible INSOFAR
able, and, therefore, indestructible nation
by the decree OF God himself And so the
l&wgiver must think of the whole in think
hig of a part. The true interests of a class
may dictate the rejection of its temporary
demands; for the true inter ests of any class
must necessarily be the real interests of all
the people. Any measures which are not
Tor the healing of the reople are poisonous
ard malign. The people, the whole people,
and nothing but the people, is the intel
lectual atmosphere in which a lawgiver
should live and move and have his being.
And so, gentlemen, l shall fearlessly stand
in the Senate of the United States for the
business interests of this country when that
means the welfare of all the people; / shall
fearlessly stand for the labor interests of
the land, when that me ans the prosperity of
all the people; / shall just as fearlessly
stand against the demands OF any class,
when those demands to do not involve the
interests OF the entire American people and
the ongoing of the imperial American Re
public.
WHAT VOX POPULI REALLY MEANS
"A legislator should represent the people
by standing for their permanent thought.
In doing this the statesman must look to
the continuous will of the people, and not
to their caprice. Vox populi vox Del is the
noblest truth in all the book of human lib
erty. But the voice of the people is discov-
cred in the persistent instincts of the race
in the great historic current of events, and
not in the passing passion of artificial ma
jorities. An eddy does not show the true
current of the river If this were not true
In human affairs, the crucifiXion was an act
of justice and slavery an institution of
righteousness. And so you have chosen me
to express in the American Senate the large
ard true purposes of the whole American
people, even though that means resistance
to their Transient fancies The immortal
Burke uttered the very gospel of statesman
ship, when. in his all but inspired speech
to the electors of Bristol, he said: 1t is not
Your fond desires or mine that can alter
the nature of things; by contending against
which what have we got, or shall ever get,
but defeat and shame? ] did not obey your
instructions. No! l conformed to the in
structions of truth and nature and MAIN
tanned your interests against your opinions
a Il n
such opinions as you and ] must have five
years hence. / was not to look at the flash
Of the day. / knew that you chose me- in
my place, along with others. to be a pillar
of the State, and not a weathercock on the
top of the edifice, exalted for my levity and
versatility, and of no use bsaE TO indicate the
shiftings of every fashionable gale
No man can remain a demagogue who
takes these words of Edmund Burke for
his decalogue. And they should blaze above
the portals of the American Congress to-
day.
For we are legislating for the future and
for the entire Nation. Our work touches the
universal and the eternal The local and
the temporary are minor chords to-day. 1t
is the duty of an American senator to act
with reference to the whole Republic. Your
senator is not the senator of Indiana alone.
According to the Constitution and accord
ing to the nature of nationhood he is sena-
tor of the United States from Indiana. No
demands of Indiana, which do not consist
with the welfare of the whole American
people, are valid demands. We, of Indiana,
are much interested in the safety of the
people of New York, in the prosperity of
the people of Nebraska, as in our own. The
local citizenship of our State is merged into
the supreme citizenship of our Nation. (Ap-
plause) The same flag waves over US that
floats above the Golden Gate.
THE UNIVERSAL AND ENDURING.
Il say all this because the day for the
provincial and the transient has passed in
American craftsmanship. To-day our destiny
is brooding over every sea. We are deal
ing with the world and with the unborn
years. We are dealing with the larger duties
that ever crowned and burdened human
brows. American craftsmanship must be
as American duty. And American states
manship will be all this if it draws it's in
spiration from the masterful American peo-
pie and their imperial history.
For the American people have never
taken fear for a counselor. They have
never taken doubt for guide. They
have obeyed the impulses of their blood.
They have hardened to the voice of our
God. They have surmounted tnsuperable
obstacles on the wings of a mighty faith;
they have solved fnsOLuble problems by the
sovereign rule Of liberty they have made
the bosom of the ocean and the heart of the
wilderness their home: they have subdued
American craftsmanship listen to the heart
beats of the American people in the present
hour and there viii be no confusion, no hes
itaton. no craven doubt (Great applause.)
into the storm-fringed horizon is with
US yet. The courage of Lexington and
Bunker Hill is with us yet. The
spirit of Hamilton and Jefferson and
Jackson and Seward and Grant is with us
yet. The unconCuerable heart of the pion-
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