The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-23

great and generous nation. The stern but
each nation shall be known by its fruits.
and TX there are no fruits, II the nation
has failed. IL matters but little whether
!. ~ mas Iaiied through meanness OF soul or
through lack Of robustness of character
we must judge a nation by the net re-
suits OF its life and activity. And so We
must judge the politics OF those who at
any time co0trol the destinies of a nation.
Therefore. ask you tonight TO look at
The results OF the policies championed by
President Mckinley on both the occasions
when he appealed to the people for their
SURFACES, and to see how well that appeal
is justified by the event Most certainly /
DO, not claim all the good that has be-
fallen US during the past six years as due
solely TO any human policy. No legisla-
tion however wise. no administration, how
ever effic1ent, can secure prosperity to a
people or greatness to a nation All that
can be done by the lawmaker and the adj
ministrator Is to give the best chance pos
sible for the people of the country them
selves TO show the stun that Is In them.
NO law can make a fool wise. weakling
and good administration of the laws can
give to strong. honest, brave men chance
TO do well.
M'KINLEY'S PLEDGES KEPT.
President Mckinley was elected in 1896
on the specific pledge that he would keep
the financial honor of the Nation unfair
nished and would put our economic system
on a stable basis. so that our people might
be given a chance TO secure the return OF
the prosperity. Both pledges have been so
we'll kept that as is but too often the case,
men are beginning to forget how much the
keeping OF them has meant. When people
have become very prosperous they tend to
become sluggishly Indifferent to the con-
tinuation Of the policies that brought about
their prosperity. At such times as these
IL Is, or course, mere law of nature that
some men prosper more than others, and
too often those who prosper less, in their
jealousy of their more fortunate brothers,
forget that all have prospered somewhat
Il ask you soberly to remember that the
complaint made at the present day of our
industrial or economic conditions never
takes the form of stating that any of our
people less well off than they were
seven or eight years back, before President
Mckinley came in and his policis had a
plant is that some people have received
more than their share of the good things of
the world. There was no such complaint
eight years ago, in the summer of 1894.
Complaint was not then that anyone had
prospered too much; it was not that no one
had prospered enough. Let each one of us
think of the affairs Of his own household
and his own life. let each of us compare
his standing now with his standing eight
years back, and then let him answer for
himself whether 1t is not true that the poll
cies for which William Mckinley stood in
1896 have justified themselves thrice over
by the results they have brought about
I'm 1900 the issues were in part the same.
but new ones had been added. Prosperity
had returned: the gold standard was as
sured; our tariff was remodeled on the
lines that have marked it at all periods
when our well being was greatest But as
must often happen. the President elected
on certain issues was obliged to face 9TH
ers entirely unforeseen. Rarely, indeed.
have our greatest men made issues-they
IL l1afr hxr
them as they arose. President Mckinley
faced the problems of the Spanish war and
those that followed 1t exactly as he faced
the problems of our economic and financial
needs AS a sequel to the war with Spain
we found ourselves in possession of the
Philippines under circumstances which rem
dered 1t necessary to subdue a formidable
insurrection, which made 1t impossible for
us with honor or with regard to the welfare
of the islands to withdraw therefrom. The
occasion was seized by the opponents of
the President for trying to raise new is
sue, on which they hoped they might be
more successful than the old. The
clamor raised against him was joined in,
not only by many honest men who were led
astray by a mistaken view imperfect
knowledge of the facts, but by all who
feared effort, who shrank from the rough
work of endeavor. The campaign of 1906
had to be fought largely upon the new is
it squarely.
THE GOSPEL OF HOPE.
1.-TWO years and eight months ago, before
his second nomination, he spoke as follows
eve believe that the century of free
government which the American people
have enjoyed has not rendered them irres-
olute and faithlesS, but has fitted them fol-
the great task of lifting up and assisting
TO better conditions and larger liberty those
distant peoples who, through the issues OF
battle. have become our wards Let us
fear rot. There is no occasion for faint
hearts; no excuse for regrets. NaCons do
not grow in strength, the cause of liberty
and law is not advanced by the doing OF
easy things. The harder the task the great
er will be the result, the benefit and the
honor. To doubt our power TO accomplish
it is TO lose faith in the soundness and
strength of our popular institutions. - A"
We have the new care and cannot shift II.
And, breaking up the camp of ease and iso-
lation, let us bravely and hopefully and
scberly continue the march of faithful serv-
ice, and falter not until the work is done.
The burden is our opportunity. The
| opportunity is greater than the burden.
There spoke the man who preached the
gospel Of hope as well as the gospel OF
| duty. and on the issue thus fairly drawn
| between those who said we would do our
| new work we'll and triumphantly and those
who said we would fail lamentably in the
| And now 1 ask you, two years after the
| victory, to look across the seas and judge
| for yourselves whether or not the promise
| has been kept. The prophets Of disaster
! falsifed by the event that it is actually
| difficult to arouse even a passing interest
| in their failure. To answer them now, tc
| review their attack on our army, is OF
| merely academic interest. They played
| their brief part of obstruction and clamor
| they said their say; and the current Of ouI
| life went over them and they sank under
| 1t as did their predecessors who, thirty-si1
| years before, had declared that another
/ and greater war was a failure, that an
| other and greater struggle for true liberty
was only contest for subjugation in which
| the United States could never succeed
STRAIN ON ARMY TERRIBLE.
1.-The instruction among the Filipinos hat
been absolutely quelled The war has beer
| brought to an end sooner than even the
most sanguine of us dared to hope The
world has not in recent years seen any
military task done with more soldierly en-
ergy and ability, and done, moreover, in g
| spirit of great humanity. The strain or
the army was terrible. for the condition:
| of climate and soil made their work haras
| sing to an extraordinary degree, and the
| foes in the field were treacherous and cruel
| not merely toward our men. but toward the
| great multitude of peaceful islanders who
| welcomed our rule. Under the strain o.
| well-nigh intolerable provocation there
| were shameful instances. as must harper
| in all wars, where the soldiers forgot them
| selves and retaliated evil for evil. Ever,
| effort has been made TO detect such cases
to punish the offenders, and to prevent an,