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f I "I HIS arousing discourse by Dr. Tal
mage wtll excite interest by the
J manner in which it uuili come of
the great evil now abroad. The subject
to "Enemies Orerthrown ." and the text
tHaua lxviii., 1, "Let Cod ariae, let hi
oeaaxw dc scattered.
A procesaion was formed to carry the
ark, or sacred box, which, though only 3
feet inches in lens-th and 4 feet 3 inches
bb height and depth, was the symbol of
Uod s presence. As the leaders of the pro
cession lifted this ornamented and bril
liant box by two golden poles run through
four golden rings and started for Mount
Zioa all the people chanted the battle
ymn of my text, "Let God arise, let his
enemies be scattered."
The Cameronians of Scotland, outraged
hy James I who forced upon them reli--gioos
forms that were offensive, and by
me terrible persecution of Drumniond,
Dalsiel and Turner, and by the oppressive
laws of Charles I. and Charles II.. were
driven to proclaim war against tyrants
and went forth to fight for their religious
liberty, and the mountain heather became
red with carnage, and at Botbwell bridge
and Aird's Moss and Drumclog the battle
ymn and the battle shout of those glori
ous old Scotchmen was the text I have
chosen, "Let God arise, let his enemies be
scattered."
What a whirlwind of power was Oliver
Cromwell, and how with his soldiers,
named the "Ironsides," he went from vic
tory to victory! Opposing enemies melted
a he looked at them. He dismissed par
liament as easily as a schoolmaster a
school. He pointed his finger at Berkeley
rastle, and it was taken. He ordered Sir
Ralph Hopton, the general, to dismount,
and he dismounted. See Cromwell march
ing on with his army and hear the battle
cry of the "Ironsides," loud as a storm
and solemn as a death knell, standards
reeling before it and cavalry horses going
back on their haunches, and armies flying
at Marston Moor, at Winceby Field, at
Naseby, at Bridgewater and Dartmouth j
"Let God arise, let his enemies be scat-!
-teredr
What Battlecry.
jS!) you see my text is not like a compli
mentary and tasscied sword that you
sometimes see bung up in a parlor, a
word that wag never in battle and only to
be used on general training day, but more
like some weapon carefully bung up in
your home, telling its story of battles, for
my text hangs in the Scripture armory,
telling of the holy wars of 3,00 years in
which it has been carried, but still as keen
and mighty as when David first onsheath
" ed it. .It seems to me that in the church
" of God, and in all styles of reformatory
work, what we moat need now is a bat
tlecry. Ye raise our little stauaara ana
iitit n'n i trii nuine of some mnn who onlv
a few years ago began to live anil in a few
years will cease to live. We go into eon
" test against the armies of iniquity, de
' pending too much on human agencies. We
use for a battlecry the name of some brave
Christian reformer, but after awhile that
reformer dies or gets old or luses his cour
age and ben we take another battlecry,
and" this time perhaps we put the name of
some one who betrays the cause and sells
eat to the enemy. What we want for a
battlecry is the name of some leader who
will never betray us and will never sur
render, and will never die.
AH respect have I for brave men and
ouien. but if we ire to get the victory all
along the line we must take the hint of
the Gideonites, who wiped out the Be
douin Arabs, commonly called Midiamtes.
The Gideonites had a glorious leader in
Gideon, but what was the battlecry with
which they flung their enemies into the
worst defeat into which any army was
ever tumbled? It was "The sword of the
Lord and of. Gideon." 1'ut God first, who
ever you put second. If the army of the
American Revolution is to free America,
It must be, "The sword of the Lord and of
Washington," If the Germans want to
win the day at Sedan, it must be, "The
word of the Lord and Von Moitke." Wa
terloo was won for the English because
not only the armed men at the front, but
. the worshipers in the cathedrals at the
rear, were crying, "The sword of the Lord
aad of Wellington."
God First,
' The Methodists have gone in triumph
across nation after nation with the cry,
The sword of the Lord and of Wesley."
The Presbyterians nave gone from victory
to victory with the cry, "The sword of the
Lord aad of John Knox." The Baptists
have conquered millions after millions for
Christ with th cry, "The sword of the
Lord and Judson." The American Epis
- isiaalisaa have won their mighty way with
the erf, "Th sword of the Lord and of
; Bishop ITIlvaine." The victory is to those
Who pat God first. But, as we want a
kattlscry suited to all sects of religionists
' ad to all lands, I nominate as the battle
try of Christendom is the approaching
- Armageddon the words of my text, sound
ad before the ark ss it was carried to
Mount Boa, "Let God arise; let his ene-
- asisa to scattered."
Aa far as our finite mind can judge, it
sneaks about tin for God to arise. Does
tt net seem to yen that toe abominations
of this earth hate gone far enough ? Was
tVre ever a tone when sin waa so defiant 7
were there tret before so many fista lift
ed toward Cod, tall lag him to come on If
dart? Look at the blasphemy abroad!
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pbemy. A man traveling in Russia was
supposed to be a clergyman. "Why do
you take me to be a clergyman T said the
man. "Ob," said the Russian, "all other
Americans swear." The crime is multi
plying in intensity. God very often shows
what he thinks of it, but for the most part
the fatality is hushed up. Among the
Adirondacks I met the funeral procession
of a man who two-days before had fallen
under a flash of lightning while boasting
aner a Sunday of work in the fields that
he bad cheated God out of one dav inr
how, and the man who worked with him
on the same Sabbath is still living, but a
nelpless invalid under the same flash.
tears ago in a Pittsburg prison two
men were talking about the Bible and
Christianity, and one of them, Thompson
by name, applied to Jesus Christ a very
low and villainous epithet, and as he was
uttering it he felL A physician was call
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ru, uui no neip coum oe given. Arter a
day lying with distended pupils and pal
sied tongue he passed out of this world.
In a cemetery in Sullivan Conntv. in New
York Bute, are eight headstones in a line
and all alike, and these are the facts: In
1N61 diphtheria raged in the village, and a
physician was remarkably successful in
curing his patients. So confident did he
become that he boasted that no case of
diphtheria conld stand before him, and
nnally defied Almighty God to produce a
case or oipntheria that he could not cure.
tiix youngest child soon after took the
disease and died, and one child after an
other until all the eight had died of diph-
vnena. ine Dlaspnemer challenged Al
mighty God, and God accepted the chal
lenge. Do not think that because God has
been silent in your case. O nrofane swear
er, that he is dead. Is there nothinr now
in the peculiar feeling of your tongue or
nothing in the numbness of your brain
that indicates that God may come to
avenge your blasphemies or Is already
avenging them? But these cases I have
uotictd. I believe, are only a few cases
where there are hundreds. Families keep
them quiet to avoid the horrible conspicu
ity. Physicians suppress them through
professional confidence. It Is a very, very,
Tery long roll that contains the names of
those who died with blasphemies on their
lips. I arraign profane swearing and
blasphemy, two names for the same thinir.
as being one of the gigantic crimes of this
land, and for its extirpation it does seem
as if it were about time for God to arise.
The Day of Drink.
Then look for a moment at the evil r
drunkenness. Whether you live in Wash
ington or -New York or Chicago or Cin
cinnati or Savannah or Boston or in any
of the cities of this land, count up the
saloons on that street as compared with
tue saloons five years ago, and see they
are growing far out of proportion to the
increase of the population. You people
who are so precise and particular lest
there should be some Imprudence and
rashness in attacking the rum traffic will
have your son some night pitched into
your front door dead drunk, or your
(laughter come home with her chil
dren because her husband fans by strong
drink been turned into a demoniac The
drink fiend bits despoiled whole streets of
good homes in all our cities. Fathers,
brothers, sons on the funeral pyre of
strong drink! Fasten tighter the victims!
Stir up the flames! File on the corpses!
More men, women and children fur the
sacrifice! Let us have whole generations
on fire of evil habit, and at the sound of
the cornet, flute, harp, saikbut. psaltery
nd dulcimer let all the people fall down
ar.u worsuip rung -ico;ioi, or you Khali
1 caiit into the fiery furnace under koine
political platform!
I indict tliis evil as the regicide, the
fratricide, the patricide, the matricide, the
uxorcide, of the century. Yet under what
Innocent and delusive and mirthful names
alcoholism deceives the people! It is a
"cordial." It is "bitters." It is an "eye
opener." It is an "appetiser." It is a
"digester." It is aa "invigorator,"- It is
a "settler." It is a "nightcap," Why
jon't thej put on the right IhMs "Ks
seuce of Perdition," "Conscience Stupe
fier," "Five Drams of Heartache," "Tears
of OrpliHuage, "Blood gf Souls," "Scabs
of an Eternal Leprot-y," "Venom of the
Worm That Never Dies?" Oifly once in
awhile is there anything in the title of
liquors to even bint their atrocity,, as in
the case of "sonr mash." That I sec ad
vertised all over. It is an honest name
and any one can understand it. "Hour
mash!" That is, it makes a man's disposi
tion sonr, and his associations sour, and
his prospects sour, and then it is good to
mush his body, and mash his soul, and
mash his business, and mash his family
"Sour mash!" One honest name at last
for an intoxicant! But through lying la
bels of many of the apothecaries shops.
good people, who are only a little under
tone in health and wanting some invigora
tion, have unwittingly got on their tongue
the fangs of this cobra that stings to death
to large a ratio of the human race,
The JJeadly Cup.
Others are ruined by the comtnoj and
all destructive habit of treating custom
ers. And it is a treat on their coming to
town, and a treat while the bargaining
progresses, and a treat when the purchase
is made, and a treat as be leaves town,
Others, to drown their troubles, submerge
themselves with this worse trouble. Oh,
the world is battered and bruised and
blasted with this growing evil! It is more
and more intrenched and fortified. They
have millions of dollars subscribed to mar
shal and advance the alcoholic forces..
They nominate and elect and govern the
vast majority of the office holders of this
country. On their side they have enlisted
the mightiest political power of the cen
turies, and behind them stand all the myr
midons of the nether world, satanic, A pot
lyonic and diabolic. It is beyond all hu
man effort to overthrow this Bs stile of de
canters or capture this Gibraltar of rum
Jugs, And while I spprove of all human
agencies of reform I would utterly de
spair if we bad nothing else. But what
cheers me is that our best troops are yet
to come. Our chief artillery Is In reserve,
Our grealest commander has not yet fully
Ukea the field. If all bell is on their side,
all heaven is on our side. Now "Let God
arise, and let hie enemies be scattered."
Then look at the impurities of these
great cities. Erer and anon there are In
the newspapers explosions of social life
that make the story of Sodom quite re
spectable, "for such thlaga," Christ says,
"were more taltnibU for Sodom aad Oo
orrah" tbaa far tha Ctoraatae aod Beth.
smfcntt of gmtie Ught, It to M aaasMl
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sit.ons with two or three families, ur
fined ladies willing solemnly to marry th
very swine of society If they be wealthy.
The Bible all aflame with denunciation
against an impure life, but many of the
American rqinistry uttering not one point
blank word against A is iniquity lest some
old libertine throw up his church pew.
Machinery organized in all the cities of
the United States and Canada by which to
put yearly in the grinding mill of this in
iquity thousands of the unsuspecting of
the country farm houses, one procuress
confessing in the courts that she had sup
plied the infernal market with 150 victims
in six months. Ob, for 500 newspapers in
America to swing open the door of this
lazsr house of social corruption! Ex
posure must come before extirpation.
The Cry of Bin.
While the city van carries the scum of
this sin from the prison to the police
court morning by morning it is full time,
if we do not want high American life to
become like that of the court of Louis
XV., to put millionaire Lotharios and the
Pompadours of your brownstone palaces
into a van of popular indignation and
drive them out of respectable associations.
What prospect of social purification can
there be as long as st summer watering
places It is usual to see a young woman
of excellent rearing stand and simper and
giggle and roll up her eyes sideways bo
fore one of those first-class satyrs of fash
ionable life and on the ballroom floor oin
him in the dance, the maternal chaperon
meanwhile beaming from the window on
the scene? Matches are made in heaven,
they say. Not such matches, for the
brimstone indies tes the opposite region.
The evil is overshadowing all ov cities.
By some these immoralities are called
peccadillos, gallantries, eccentricities, and
are relegated to the realms of jocularity,
and few efforts are being made against
them. God bless the "White Cross" move
ment, as it is called an organisation
making a mighty assault on this evil!
God forward the tracts on this subject
distributed by the religious tract societies
of the land! God help parents is the
great work tbey are doing in trying to
start their children with pure principles!
God help all legislators in their attempt to
prohibit this crime!
The Iay of Jads-ment.
But is this all? Then it is only a ques
tion of time when the last vestige oX pur
ity and home will vanish out of sight.
Human arms, human pens, human voices,
human talents, are not sufficient. I begin
to look up. I listen for artillery rumbling
down the sapphire boulevards of heaven.
I watch to see if in the morning Light
there be not flash of descending scituitersv
Oh, for God! Does it not treat time for
his appearance? Is it uot time lor all
lands to cry out, "I.et God arise, and let;
bis enemies be scattered?"
I got a letter asking uie if I td not
think that the earthquake in one of our
c'ties wa the Divine chastisement n
that city for its sins. That lettcs I an
swered by saying that if ali our Aau'rican
cities got all the punishment they deserve
tor tbeir horrible impurities rb earth
would long ago have cracked, opeuing
crevice transcontinental and taken down
ail our cities so far under that the tin of
our church spires would be ."K) feet ts-low
the surface. It is of the Lord's mercies
that we have aot been consumed.
Not only are the uITairs of this world
so a-twist, a-jangie ami rackiid that there
seems a need of the Divine- antimrance.
but there is another reason. Have you
not noticed that in the history of this
planet God turns a leaf about every 2.()
years? God turned a leaf, and this world
was fitted for human residence. About,
2.IKK1 more years passed along, and God)
turned another leaf, and it was the deluge, j
About 2,)N more years pasM-d on. and it:
a the Nativity. Almost Zfi'tt more
years passed by, and be will proimhiy kiu !
urn auother leaf. hat it skull be I con-'
not say. It may be the detu.ii.tion of all I
these monstrosities of turpitude and the I
(Stabliiiitnient of rigbteoUiiie in ai! the,
earth. Ue can do it, and be will do it.
I am as confident as if it were already ac- i
roinplished. How easily he can do it my 1
text suggests. It does not ask Cod to I
hurl a great thunderbolt of his power, but j
just to tiam from the throne on which he :
hits, llnly that will be necessary. "Ieti
God arie!" !
Redemption. I
It will be no exertion of omnipotence.'
It will be no bending or bracing for a
mighty lift. It will be no sending down 1
the sky of the white borne cavalry of
heaven or rumbling war chariots. He will
only rise. Now he is sitting in the ma
jesty and patience of his reign. He is
from his throne watching the mustering
of all the forces of blasphemy and drunk
enness and impurity and fraud and Sab
bath breaking, and when they have done
their worst and are most surely organ
ized he will bestir himself and saj : "My
enemies hare denied me king enough, and
their cup of iniquity is full. I have given
them all opportunity for repentance, This
dispensation of patience is ended, and the
faith of the good shall be tried no longer."
And now God begins to rise, and what
mountains give way under his right foot
I know not; but, standing in the full radi
ance and grandeur of his nature, he looks
this way and that, and bow bis enemies
are scattered! Blasphemers, white snd
dumb, reel down to their doom, and those
w ho have traffick4 in that which destroys
the bodies ana souis or men ana tainilies
will fly with cut foot on the down grade
of broken decanters, and the polluters of
society that did their bad work with large
fortunes and bigb social sphere will over
take in their descent the degraded rabble
of underground city life ss they tumble
over the eternal precipices, and the world
shall be left clear and clean for the friends
of humanity and the worshipers of Al
niighly God. The last thorn plucked off,
the world will be left a blooming rose on
the bosom of that Christ who. came to
gardeniae It The earth that stood snarl
ing with its tigerish' passion, thrusting
out Its raging claws, shall lie down a
lamb at the feet of the Lamb of God,
who took away the sius of the world.
And now the best thing I can wish for
you, snd the best thing I can wish for my
self, is that we may be found his warm
and undisguised and enthusiastic friends
in that hour when God shall rise and his
enemies shall he scattered.
Copy ri g bt
The Nation that Is Sure. When a
nation is true to G(xl and bis principles,
knowing no compromise, no hesitation;
whpn It loves tuoae principles. Incar
nate them In Its laws and Institutions,
aid, so far as It la In Its power, Insists
upon other nations honoring them, that
people la always sure to win the day.
Bar. Dr. Dwrld Gregg, Presbyterian,
Brooklyn, M. T.
Course smiling Wisdom to only
ZlCRim OP THE AGE
CLOAKED UNDER THE TERM,
"SOUND MONEY."
(Tpoa Pretraae of Prsoorrlfisi the Hon
esty of the Carrcocy the Money Traat
eka to Fasten Unoa the World an
Appreciating standard.
The terra "sound money" ia used by
the advocates of a single gold staudard
to cloak the moot gigantic crime of the
ages. Tbe use of a term associated in
the mlnda with stability, correctness.
and orthodoxy, for tbe purrxme of se
curing nientaJ acquiescence and elud
log Inquiry, when Investigation would
prove tbe very oypoaite to that which
the term Implies, la a recognltltou of
the existence of moral forces that must
be reckoned with.
Sound money is money that will pre
serve a practically unvarying purchas
ing power 'hroagh a prlod of years
and prenerfe tbe equltlea of time coo-
tracts. Money to meet this require
ment must Increase In volume with tbe
Increase of population and
Its use. 2(e money can be
demand for
money can be called boo
sat or sound under which debts con
tracted to tke paid la one, Ave or ten
years cannot be paid without doing an
Injury to either tbe debtor or creditor.
When a debt la contracted a business
transaction lbut haH completed. Tbe
transaction ls finished wbeu payment
Is made, at wki."h time the ineaey of
payment should bear the' same relation
to property and commodities In gstneral
that existed at tbe tl u the del was
contracted. With sucb a money tbe
production of wealth audi the develop
ment of tbe resources of a country wtll
reach their maximum, auif tbe suvcess
of Individuals In busineae will be iiu-as-ured
by the Intelligence and? Industry of
each. Such a money will not enrlt-b
Its owner while locked up In a safe.
The owner can pnofit only through lis
use.
Money is not soond or unsound Be
cause of tbe material of wbk-b It la
composed. Tbe tewt of soundness is !t
unvarying power t purchase things in
general. If all transactions between
man and man worn completed at ouce
and no debts were ereausd calling for
payment In money at a future time, tbe
question of bimetallism or a gold utaud
ard would not be under discuattlon. A
plentiful supply of gold and sllv-er from
the mines would give price an up
ward tendency, stimulate production,
aud such a thing as enforced idleness
would be unknown. Hut should tbe
supply of money 1k cut off through the
fullure or exhaustion of the mines, fall
ing prices would ensue and ih profits
of Industry lessened. If such condi
tion should continue a long time the
money value of all forms of properly
would U. vastly diminished and pro
duction would become liuilltvi to the,
Imperative demands of dally life.
Thy it will be seen that under a con
dition of cawh payments and the als
seuce of d?bt no motive would exist
for tb tlemouelizatlon of either metal
aud hence tli money quest loti in Us
present form would find no place In
the arena of politics.
If tlicru were no debts to be p:t!d In
money at a future day, uo person could
be fouud who would favor the deuiie
tlzatiirtj of 'it.hor metal or a contract ioti
of the money volume. The assault that
has been made upou silver as a money
metal Is the work of a combination of
ihe creditor classes who own the Kinds
and niorttrnes against the nations,
slates aud people of the world. The
umoutit of the world's Indebtedness Is
said by the lx-xt authorities to exceed
one hundred and fifty billions of dol
lars. A very large proportion of this
IndebiedilWis Ig held by a comparatively
small nuiiilx-r of persons residing in
less than a dozen of the principal cltlt-H
of Europe aud America. The barge own
ers of securities effected an alliance or
organization over forty years ngo. They
are Interested in making money scarce
and dear. The fall of prices that bauk
rupts the mau of enterprise, drives la
bor Into the street to starve, and con
fiscates the equities of debtors, enriches
them by giving a larger purchasing
power to the money In which their in
terest and principal must be paid.
This combination at the present time
controls legislation on the money ques
tion In all the principal nations of the
earth and In none more so than In our
own. The constitute a money trust
With cold alone the standard money of
the world there would be Just sufficient
of It to pay six months' Interest to the
treat creditor combination, and It would
require ail the gold money In existence
thirty-three times oTer to pay the prin
cipal The owners of these securities
are also the owners of tbe prlurlngj
banking bouses at the great money
centers of the world. Tbe tax gath
erers backed by the sheriffs and armies
of tbe world are their collectors. In tbe
payment of Interest a stream of money
from all the nations of the earth Is con
stantly Cowing Into their coffers.
Through the great banking housi-s
which they control at the money cen
ters, whose dealings are only with oth
er banks, tbe money is loaned again
and finds Its way back Into the chan
nels of trade. The banks under the
control of the great creditor combln
atlon possess the power to discrim
inate against any state or other bank.
refute It credit and force It Into llqul
d atlon. So great ii tbe power of this
creditor combination that not only the
banka of tbe world generally but the
corporations and trnsta who must have
bank accommodation to successfully
prosecute their business are terrorised
by tbetn aad forced to faror tbe legis
lation they Indicate upon the money
question aa U prlea of continuing In
business.
Tbe creditor combination to wnat
to uMUt wfctn wo us tha term "money
power." Tkoy an tko only
profit by a shrinking money rotutrtir,
low prices snd hard times. To inflict
evil condition upon the world aiul
unjuntly enrich thenisdves thereby,
they find It nix-esmiry In a country like
ours to deceive the voters. Hence they
coined the term "sound money" to pla
cate our moral aeuse and elude Investi
gation. The' American people are tbe only
frew people, where each citizen has a
vote that counts equally with every
other. The money question will test
our alrllity for free government and
determine the fate of free Institutions
among men. The Issue is at Inst square
ly drawn. Th issue cannot be evaded
and each voter must answer for him
self In deciding tbe momcntons ques
tion. The hearts of ail are right In
tlllgenc alone la needed.--Silver
Knlgbt- Watchman.
Henry Cay on Contraction.
That like causes produce like results,
without reference to the particular time
at wbicb said causes exert tbelr Influ
ence is proven In tbe cane of financial
contraction by a speech made- In 1H40
by the great Henry Clay. Tbe follow
ing extract from a speech made by bltn
during the mibtreasury debate of that
year is reproduced from the New iiowd
o Denver:
The proposed substitution e an ex
drwive metallic curewy to the mixed
medium to which we have been so
long familiar Is forbldilen by the prin
ciples of eternal Justice. Assuming the
currency of tbe eountry to consist of
two-thirds paper and one-third metal,
and asmiimlrig alse that tbe money of
a country, whatever may be Its com
ponent parts, regulates all value and
expresses the true amount which the
debtor has to pay hicredltor, the effect
of the change upon that relation and nit
on the property of tbe country would
Ih? most ruinous;. AU property would
be reduced In value to one-third of Its
present normal amount, and evory debt
or would in effect have to pay three
tin i as much aa he bad contracted
for.
Have gentlemen roflerted upon fhe
confluence of their system of deple
tion? 1 have already stated thai the
country Is Ixini down, by weight of
debt. If the currency be greatly dim
inished, a beyond ail example It bits
been, how Is-this dibt to ! eMln-
guish-d? rroperty, the resource on
which the ilelitor relied for his ty-
ment w ill decline In value, and It may
happen that a man who hoiusnly con
tracted a debt on the faith of prriewy
which, bad a value at Urn time fully ade
quate to warrant the debt will tlnd him
self wtlped of all his jsroperty and his
debt remains unextinguished. The
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr.
BucUauan baa put the case of two
nations. In one f which the amount of
Us euxren7 slmll Im? double what It Is
in th other, and. as ht eontomls, the
prices of all property will lie dim Me
In the former nation of what they are
in l 1m? latter. If this be true of two
nat ions. It must be eqirally true of one
whom circulating medium Is at one !
rlod double wha l tt Is at auother. Now,
as the friends of the bill agree, we '
hav been and yet are in this Inflated J
plate: our currency has lieeti double, or
In something like that proportion, of
what was necessary, and we must come
down to the lowest standard. Iio they ;
not perceive that inevitable ruin to 1
thousand must be the Inevitable eon- j
sequence.' a timn. for example, own-
Inj; property to the value of i.0OQ con- j
tracts a delft of ?.Vxi. Uj- the red tie- j
tion of one-half of the currency of the I
country his property in effect becomes
reduced to the value of $2.ri00. liut his
debt undergoes no corresponding re
duction, lie gives np all his property
and remains still lu debt Thus
this measure will operate on the debt
or class and that which for that reason
most needs the protection of govern
ment But If the effect of this hard money
policy upon the debtor class be Injuri
ous it Is still more disttmrous if jiosslble
to the laboring classes. Knterprlse will
be checked or stopped, employment will
become more dlftlcuH, and the poorer
classes will be subjected to the greatest
privations and d 1st res.
And what Is the remedy to be provid
ed for this unhappy scute of the coun
try? I have converse freely with the
members of the Philadelphia commit
tee. They are real political working
men intelligent, s-ell acquainted with
the general condition and with the suf
fering of their partlcutur community.
No one who has not a henrt of steel can
listen to them without feo'lng the deep
est sympathy for the privations and
suffering unnecessarily brought upon
the laboring classes. Hoth the commit
tee and the memorial declare that their
reliance la exclusively on the legisla
tive branch of the government Mr.
President, It Is with subdued feelings
of the profotindest humility and morti
fication that I am compelled to say that
constituted as congress now Is no re
lief will be afforded by w unless lta
members shall be cnllghtebed and In
structed by the people themselves.
(To the vice president.) To you, then,
sir. In no unfriendly spirit but with
feelings softened and subdned by the
deep distress which pervade every
class of our countrymen, I Make the ap
peal. By your offleial and iiersotml re
lations with the president yu maintain
with him an Intercourse which I neither
enjoy nor covet (Jo to him and tell
him without exaggeration, but In the
language of truth and sincerity, the ac
tual condition of his bleeding country.
Tell him It Is nearly ruined and un
done by the measure he baa been In
duced to put into operation. Tell blm
that his experiment la operating upon
tin; nation like a philosopher's experi
ment upon a convulsed animal In an ex
bauated receiver and that K muat ex
pire In agony If be doea not pause, girt
M froe and sound circulation and suffer
tfca onortiot of the people to ba retired
TaB kla f tU alarm
ing decline In the rain" of all property,
of the dejrreciatlou of all Urn product
' of Industry, of Ihe stjittnatton In every
branch of business and of the clone of
numerous manufacturing estnbllnb
i meirts which a few sliort month ago
were In active and nourishing opera
j tion.
i Iieplrt to him, If you can find lan
' gnace to portray, the heartrending
w retchedness of thousands of tbe work
lnsr classes- cast out of employment. Tell
him of the tears of belplea widows no
longer able to earn tbelr bread and of
unclad and unfed rpun who bare
been driven by bis policy out of th
busy pursuit In which but yesterday
they were gaining at honest liveli
hood. Cheap Interest Mean Hard Time.
"The gold available for coinage In
1SJ8 will be nearly twice the supply of
both metals for that purpose In 1883.
Hence the glut of gold accumulating
In the world's banks and the fall of in
terest. When tbe best money can bo
borrowed with good security nt 2V, per
cent It Is, perhapa, cheap enough and
no reasonable man can wish to sub
stitute something cheaper." Orego
nlan. When there hi a great glut of gold In
the banks. It Is a certain sign that the
people are destitute of It; when In a
land like ours, not yet half developed,
money can be obtained at 2' per cent
on "good security" It Is a certain proof
that no ordinary property la good se
curity. Cheap Interest hi a land llko
ours I a certain sign that property
values are In so mncertainr a state that
men dare neither invest In nor improve
ordinary property. The reasoning of
the Orcgonian la from so fa Lee a stand
point that Itexcltcsa suspicion that tbe
writer has no comprehension whatever
of tbe theme whU-b be essays to din
cuss. Tlila country does not want cheap
Interest on government bonds. It wants
the finances put In a form to enable
men to engage In business with a pros
pect of making a little profit ; to make
sure that If tbey purchase property to
day it will bw worth a much or a littie
more a year beuce. tne would think
that a journal aa bright as the Ore
gonlati would scent danger in tbe fat
that with thp lut-n-aslJiic gold It appears
only aa a lut la the money centers, and
by some accursed spell the men who
own It dare not use It lu business, but
hold It to hftn upon, or In v. -si it lu
only thai form of securities which are
a Men upon the industry ami protwrty
of a whole nation, state or city. t'Ump
Interest In the I'uited (fcates means
bard times. Salt Lake TrUune.
Kniclish Policy to . lee-t Ante-leu.
A bank note currency lKi.ted on I'tilted
Suites bonds, held by liihLm lmnkers,
iuvolver tla coutivl of our money sup
ply by tUeui.
This Involves toe adaptation of our
fiiiandnl policy to those the English
iiiiieril froveromerit carried out In
India anil lta other subject provinces.
Us colonial policy Is to get ha much
out of Jucfla aud to give as llt-le ns
possible. It forces up tbe price of
money In order to force down tho
price of Indian wheat, cotton, rice ami
other agrbrultural food stall, aud raw
material.
NeccssarOy, the English bidders of
our bonds occupy Uie some attitude
towards our producers that they do
towards those -f India. It Is n pnrt of
English Imperial policies to keep down
agricultural pric In all iKirts of tho
wrld. English bondholders, rnn
lxlng national hanks In the rutted
Htates, will continue to use their
whole Influence for this purpose. Un
less we can have free eolnujre tbey
aaiw succeed.
Klxteou to one or, bust, means that
we are going to have It In spite, of
bayonets, and In spite of boodle. Jour
nal of Agriculture,
It Kye to the Main thnnre.
The people generally may be Indig
nant over the brutality of a Weyler in
Cuba or engaged Id a righteous war to
drive Spanish barbarity from the West
era LleiniKphere, or grieved over tho
siitTerltiK of our own biuve soldier
on account of the InaensiMlty, Indiffer
ence aud Incompetence of the War I)e
pnrtment, but tbe gold combination
and the bankers' association, unmoved
by any of these things pursue the even
tenor of their way with coolness, de
liberation aud great industry, looking
after thu Congressional elections. They
bare a banking acbome pri-pari-d, and
lta passage through Congress, wbilo
.they hare a President pledged to sign
It. outweighs all other cotuslderailons to
them. If tbey can pas tbelr bill and
get their banking scheme Into operation
they fully believe they will then havo
the people at their mercy and will bo
aide to control all succeeding elections.
Sliver Knight-Watchman.
Nonsense at Wsahinsrton.
It Is given out that Secretary .of Btato
Isy resigned because he la a poor man
and couldn't afford to entertain the for
eign ambassadors and things as social
custom In Washington foolishly de
mands, hay could butt made himself
a great man If he bad attended to busi
ness and not tried to make a social play
of bis cabinet position. It's all non
sense to feel It a duty to feed the for
eign diplomat on champagne and ter
rapin. Give 'cm draught beer and bun
sandwiches, If they must lie -fed. Tbla
thing of having a champagne appetite
on a lieer Income baa raised tbo dlckena
with many a man before Day. Toledo
Bee.
An Ignis Fstnna,
Tbo nation Is only tbe sum total of
fhe Individuals that compose It; and tho
progress of wealth Is Illusory If ob
tained at tbe. prlco of tha gouvral ml.
ery. Blsmondl.
When Will They th isjbtt
Unjuat taxation has alwayi boon tho
eanao of revolution. To-day tbo homo
bttlldora of America art paying ton
timoa tkotr Joat share of tho taiasvBow
lea. will th7 pan tbto to Mwml