Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-09-21
GLORIOUS MEETING
AT MAIN STREET RINK
LAST NIGHT.

President Schurman Of Cornell Uniye,
sity. and President OF the Philippin
Commission, Addresses Magnif
cent Audience-The Most Conyins
ing Arguments on the Philippn
Question - Audience Delighted
Fred Lands Starts a Cyclone at III
Close.
There was the very best music, bJ
the Richmond City band; there wa
splendid playing by the Richmond
Bugle Corps; there was a delegation
from Earlham college; there was en-
thusiasm to burn, there was an audi
ence of 2, 800 people all at the Main
street rink last night. But that was
not all. There was a speech that
covered the Philippine question from
the very beginning up TO the present
and no honest man could honestly
condemn the administration 5 policy,
after the speech was ended. The
speech was by President Jacob
Gould Schurman, president of Cor
nell University, and late president
of the Philippine commission APP
pointed by President Mckinley.
At an early hour the crowd began
to gather, and before the hall was
packed. There were not fewer than
two and a half thousand people, at
least thousand of whom were ladies',
gathered in front of the speakers
stand. lt was a splendid audience
otherwise even than in point of mum
bers. 1t was a representative Rich
mond audience, and nothing better
could be said of it. The Earlham
college delegation furnished a lot of
pyrotechnical yells, and had seats
directly in front of the speakers
stand. The Richmond city band
played beautifully under the leader
ship OF Prof. Frank Butler, and
everybody was in the best OF good
humor. Enthusiasm was present and
in evidence before the speakers ar
rived. When they did at last file to
the stage, accompanied by John NJ.
WeStcott, donor of the rink, Presi-
dent Mills, chairman of the meeting,
and others, there was a storm of
cheers from every portion of the
packed auditorium. When the noise
had in measure subsidized, County :
Chairman Swain stepped To the front
and announced the Tanner meeting |
for. Thursday evening of next week |
the Foulke meeting for October l, |
and introduced President Mills, |
chairman of the meeting, who made |
an excellent and timely Introductory |
speech presenting President jacob |
Gould Schurman of Cornell Uni
versity to the audience Then the
speech of President Schurman began,
and brief abstract of it is as fol
lows:
The issue of the campaign is the
maintenance of the prosperity of the
people and the honor and good name
of the nation. Under Republican
control the blight which fo4r years ago
blasted the activities of labor and
paralyzed the movements of capital
has given place to the bloom and |
fruitage of ! splendid prosperity, {
which lies before YOU in every heia OF
transportation ana eX-
change. The farmer, the mechanic
and the merchant, the consumer ana
the producer. the man who receives
wages and the man who pays wages,
all alike rejoice in the good times
which encompass them as with an
atmosphere of JOYOUS abundance.
Under Republican control, too,
the financial integrity of the nation,
which Democrats menaced with a
program of Reputation, has been
kept unsullied. and, in obedience TO
the polestar of national honor ana
duty, the sovereignty of our new
possessions has been lnvlolaoly
The Republican party
comes before you, therefore, with
n record of high and homo "a
BILE achievements, and it solicltS
to continue them four
wears longer. 1t desires to do IN the
future what it has done iii the past.
Its promises today are guaranteed
by It's performances of yesterday. 1t
has no new .isms to lay before the
lovers of novelty, no fads to beguile
the eredulous and unwary. Its sim
nile prooram is the conservation of
that prosperity YOU now enjoy under
the protective tariff and the gold
standard, and the maintenance OF the
nation 5 authority wherever il is re
sisted and of its honor and prestige
wherever the American name Is
known. That ; all; nothing more.
Yet, also. nothing lessl And, Tor
one. | can not believe that the Amer
lean people will fling away prosperity
or renounce the economic and hnan-
cial conditions on which il rests.
find il impossible to imagine them |
embracing the insane and immoral
vapary of free silver, whose true
character has been revealed not only |
bv the demonstrations of reason, out |
.,ow also bv the lessons of expert |
enee. And | know for an absolute
CERTAINTY that Americans will not |
null down the flag where 1t has been
raised by solemn treaty, where inter
national law expects 1t ana wnere II
Is inperiouslv demanded Tor the pro
lection of the life and property OF the
people over whom il waves IN bless
ing.
Besides establishing stable gov
erument in the Philippines, the Nan
sas City platform would promise IN
Sependanee under American protec-
tiou to the Filipinos. Is the promise
to be made 70 the Tagalogs, or TO the
yisayans. or TO the Iloea-
nos or to the Moros, or 20
some OF the other tribes OF the Phil-
ippines2 And even though Mr.
BRYAN had discovered the tribe TO
which he would delegate our soFer-
eignity and pledge our protection: l
should like TO ask what Is TO De
gained bv binding ourselves with
promises and declamations IN regard
to a future which is obscure and must
no remote II Is the business Of