Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-08-27

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changers and the seats of them that
sell doves are In the temple. / have
already alluded to Kipling, he is
but the chief of his tribe. Literature,
culture, universities are silent or ac-
lively asserting. The president of our
youngest great university has been for
three years the supple and handy tool
of the assassins of freedom In the
Philippines; with every breath pro-
claiming at once his ignorance and his
readiness to degrade his great Office.
The list of college and university dons
and attaches who are today lending
themselves to our downward courses Is
long; and l know of no college or
university, at least no one of great
prominence, which does not help to
swell the roll. If these men, some Of
them, omit the cant of God and des-
'hNyt Vic anu bCll gap
sion is inevitable, as evolution; that
commerce must have its way; that
those who cling to old faiths are as
ridiculous as Canute warning back the
advancing tides. See, they tell us, our
balance sheet of trade, our vast ac-
Iuti laf, al
tai and wealth, wealth overfowing in
public argesses--libraries, churches,
schools, universities out of hand! Are
not these the tokens of Gods smile!
And what is our answer, for | will
not shirk putting now to myself the
question. 1t is not probable that all
these great forces, all these powerful
and experienced leaders of thought and
action, are right, and you wrong? How
can you be confident against such ar
rays?
| l answer, of course, that we believe
on the most irrefragable proofs any
question is capable Of, that there are
moral laws as relentless and ire
sistible as the laws which govern anC
uphold the whole frame of the phys
ical world; laws, too, as celestial anC
eternal as those by which the moor
lifts and sways the tides of the seas
that among these immutable moral laws
Is that great, all-embracing one, S,
powerfully stated in the Bible, bu
equally impressiyely and clearly pro
claimed by all human experience, "B,
not deceived; God is not mocked; TO
whatsoever a man soweth, that shal
he also reap" that the fruit of tn
sword Is blood and wrath and des
tructlon; that the fruit of oppression /
weakness and danger; that the cement
ing bonds, the thrice-twisted cables o
human society, are not the sword, no
rapine, nor oppression, but peace, lov
and freedom; that the end of wicke,
courses is certain, and as fearful as /
Is certain; that our Spanish war wa
an unrighteOus one; that our easter
expansion and intermeddling are evi
only; that our Philippine war has bee
unutterably foolish, unnecessary an,
cruel; that our recent Cuban policy wa
naked tyranny and bald bad faith
Knowing these things, seeing thes
things, we stand by our knowledge AN,
? convictions, though we stand in min
GRITTY. or alone.
But we shall not long stand alone
The years OF my own life hay
stretched over, these not yet aged eye
have seen strange, disilluding change
of fortune In cases involving moral is
, sues. In 1856, from the gallery o
the Senate chamber at Washington,
boy, heard Lewis Cass tell Charlie
Sumner to his face that his speech
"The crime against Kansas" was 9TH
most unpatrlotlc, un-American speec
he ever listened to-" Only four year
later, as the shadows of our great Civ
: War were glooming around us, hear
, Lewis Cass. having Just thrown II
his portfolio of state In Buchanan
cabinet, beseecbing Charles Sumner i
= private to stand firm for the Union, an
= adjuring him by his hatred of SLAYER
to meet uniiinchingly the clearly con
( ing contest of force.
Many true American hearts now ST
= ent-puzzled or dazed by the rush @
y events, and by our official concealment
and terglversations-- yet stand wit
; us, and by our time-honored, tim,
tried republican principles, "whe
touched again, as surely as they wi
= be, by the better angels Of our II,