[ R PRESJDENTJIIL MESSRGE.
PRESIDENT CALLS FOR
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; I 'COLD BONDS.
: A GRAVE FINANCIAL
CRISIS IS ON ,
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The Nation's
Creech Endangered by the
Present Unsatisfactory Condition of
the Carrenoy-Ail Pnrtles
Strongly -
ly Annealed to for help to
Sava the Couutry's Fl-
nancial Credit.
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WASIHROTON , Jan. 29.--The p resi-
'dentto-day see t to congress time following -
lowing special message on the finan-
-clal gnesUon :
To the Senate and House of Representatives -
sentatives : In my last annual message -
sage I commended to the serious consideration -
; sideration of congress the condition
! of our national
finances and i n connection -
nection with thissubject indorsed the
plan of currency legislation which at
that time seemed to furnish protection
against Impending danger. This plan
has not been approved by congress.
In the meatime the situation has
so changed and the emergency now
appears so threatening that 1 deem
it my duty to ask at the hands of the
legislative branch of the government
such prompt and effective action as
will restore confidence to our financial -
cial soundness and avert business disaster -
aster and universal distress among
our people.
Whatever may be the merits of the
plan outlined in my annual message
as a remedy for ills then existing and
as a safeguard against the depletion
of the gold reserve then in the treasury -
ury , I am now convinced that its rejection -
jection by the congress and our present -
ent advanced stage of financial perplexity -
plexity necessitates additional or different -
ferent legislation.
ALL PATTIES EQUALLY CONCERNED.
) With natural resources unlimited in
varied productive strength and with a
' people whose activity and enterprise
V seek only a fair opportunity to
achieve national success and greatness -
ness , our progress should not be
-checked by a false financial policy
ti anti a heedless disregard of sound
monetary laws nor should the timidity -
ity and fear which they engender
stand in the way of our prosperity.
It is hardly disputed that this predicament -
dicament confronts us to-day. Therefore -
fore , no one in any degree responsible
for the making and execution of our
laws should fail to see a patriotic
? duty in honestly and sincerely attempting -
tempting to relieve the situation.
Manifestly this effort will not sue-
Geed unless it is made untrammeled
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by the prejudice of partisanship and
'with a steadfast determination to
resist the temptation to accomplish
party advantage. We may well
remember that if we are affected
with financial difficulties all our people -
ple in all stations of life are concerned -
cerned and surely those who suffer
will not receive the promotion of
party interests as an excuse for permitting -
mitting our present troubles to advance -
vance to a disastrous conclusion.
It is also of the utmost importance
that we approach the study of the
problems presented as free as possible
from the tyranny of preconceived
opinions to the end that in a common
danger we may be able to seek with
unclouded vision a safe and reasonable -
able protection.
LACK OF CONFIDENCE WIDESPREAD.
The real trouble which confronts
us is a lack of confidence , widespread
l and constantly increasing , in the con-
tinning ability or disposition of the
? government to pay its obligations in
gold. This lack of confidence grows
to some extent out of the palpable
j and apparent embarrassment attending -
ing the efforts of the government , under -
der existing laws , to procure geld ,
and , to a greater extent , out of the
impossibility of either keeping it in
the treasury or fulfilling obligations
by its expenditure after it is obtained.
The only way left open to the government -
ernment for procuring gold is by the
l issue and sale of bonds. The oniy
bonds that can be issued were authorized -
ized nearly twenty-five years ago , and
i are not well calculated to meet our
present needs. Among other disadvantages -
vantages , they are made payable in
f coin instead of specially in gold ,
which , in existing conditions , detracts
r largely and in an increasing ratio
from their desirability as invest-
, meat ; It is by no means certain that
bonds of this description can much
longer be disposed of at a price creditable -
itable to the financial character of
! our government
Time most dangerous and irritating
feat'mre of the situation , however , remains -
mains to be mentioned. It is found
in the means by which the treasury
is despoiled of the gold thus obtained
without cancelling a single government -
ment obligation and solely for the
! benefit of those who find profit in
shipping it abroad or whose fears in-
duce them to hoard it at home.
I WEAKNESS OF PRESEN1 METIiODS.
We have outstanding about $500 ;
000,000 of currency notes of the government -
ernment for which gold may be demanded -
manded , , and curiously enough the
law requires that when presented and
in fact redeemed and paid in gold
they shall be reissued. Thus the
- ' same notes may do duty many times
in drawing gold from the treasury ,
nor can the process be arrested as
who profit by
long as private parties
. ; it or otherwise see an advantage in
I repeating the operation. More than
$300,000.000 of these notes have al-
reatly been redeemed in gold andnot-
'j' withstanding such redemption , they
are still outstanding.
Since the 17th day of January , 1994 ,
our bonded interest bearing debt has
f been increased $100,000,000 for the
of obtaining gold to replenish -
r purpose ish our coin reserve. Two issues
were made , amounting to $50,000,000
each-one in January and .the other
in November. As a result of the first
there was realized something
issue
than $ . ; 9,000,000 in gold. Between -
more
that issue anti the succeeding
tween one in November , comprising a period
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of about ten months , nearly
8103,000,000 in gold were drawn
from the treasury : This made
the second issue necessary and
upon that more than $58,000,000 in
gold was realized. Between the date
of this second issue and the present
time , covering a period of only about
two months , more than 879,000,000 in
gold were expended without any cancellation -
cellation of government obligations
or in any permanent way benefiting
our people or improving our pecuniary
situation.
CONDITIONS OF DEEPEST ORAVITY.
The financial events of the past
year suggest facts and conditions
which should certainly arrest atten-
tion. More than $172,000,000 in gold
have been drawn out of the treasury
during the year for the purpose of
shipping abroad or hoarding at home.
While nearly 8103,000,000 of the
same were drawn out during the
first ten months of the year ,
a sum aggregating more than
two-thirds of that amount , being
about $79,000,000 , was drawn out during -
ing the following two months , thus
indicating a marked acceleration of
the depleting process with the lapse
of time. The obligations upon which
this gold has been drawn from the
treasury are still outstanding and are
available for use in repeating the exhausting -
hausting operation at shorter intervals -
vals as our perplexities accumulate.
Conditions are certainly superve n-
mug to make the bonds which may be
issued to replenish our gold less useful -
ful for that purpose.
An adequate gold reserve is in all
circumstances absolutely essential to
the upholding of our public credit and
to the maintenance of our high national -
tional character. Our gold reserve
has again reached such a stage of
diminution as to require its speedy reinforcement -
inforcement
ALL CLASSES EQUALLY INTERESTED.
The aggravations that must inevitably -
ably follow present conditions and
methods will certainly lead to misfortune -
fortune and loss not only to our national -
tional credit , but to those of our people -
ple who seek employment as a means
of livelihood and to those whose only
capital is their daily labor.
It will hardly do to say that a simple -
ple increase of revenue will cure our
troubles. The apprehension now existing -
isting and constantly increasing as to
our financial ability does not rest
upon a calculation of our revenue.
The time has passed when the eyes of
investors abroad and our people at
home were fixed upon the revenues of
the government. Changed conditions
have attracted their attention to the
gold of the government. There need
be no fear that we cannot pay our
current expenses with such money as
we have. There is now in the treasury -
ury a comfortable surplus of inure
than $63,000,000 , but it is not in gold
and therefore does not meet our dif-
ficulty.
I cannot see that difference of
opinion concerning the extent to
which silver ought to be coined or
used in our currency should interfere
with the counsels of those whose
duty it is to rectify evils now apparent -
ent in our financial situation. They
have to consider the question of national -
tional credit and the consequences
that will follow from its collapse.
NOT A QUESTION AS TO SILVER.
Whatever ideas may be insisted on
as to silver or bimetallism , a proper
solution of the question now pressing
upon us only requires a recognition of
gold as well as silver , and a concession -
sion of its importance , rightfully
or wrongfully acquired , as a
basis of national credit - a
necessity in the honorable
discharging of our obligations payable -
ble in gold and a badge of solvency.
I do not understand that the real
friends of silver desire a condition
that might follow inaction or neglect
to appreciate the meaning of the present -
ent exigency , if it should result in the
entire banishment of gold from our
financial and currency arrangements.
Besides the treasury notes which
certainly should be paid in gold ,
amounting to nearly 500 millions of
dollars , there will fall due in 1904 ,
100 millions of bonds issued during
the last year , for which we have received -
ceived gold , and in 1907 nearly 600
millions of 4 per cent. bonds issued in
1867. Shall the payments of these
obligations in gold be repudiated ? If
they are to be paid in such a manner
as the preservation of our national
honor and national solvency demands ,
we should not destroy or even imperil
our ability to supply ourselves with
gold for that purpose.
While I am not unfriendly to silver ,
and while I desire to see it recognized
to such an extent as is consistent
with financial safety and the preservation -
ation of national honor and credit , I
am not willing to see gold entirely
banished from our currency and
finances. To avert such a consequence -
quence I believe thorough and radical
remedial legislation should be promptly -
ly passed. I therefore beg the congress -
gress to give the subject immediate
attention.
I.ONG TERM GOLD BONDS ADVISED.
In my opinion time secretary of the
treasury should be authorized to issue -
sue bonds of-the government for the
purpose of procuring and maintaining
a sufficient gold reserve and the 're-
demption and cancellation of the
United states legal tender notes and
the treasury notes issued for the
purchase of silver under the
law of July 14 , 1890. We would =
be relieved from the humiliating -
ing process of issuing bonds to
procure gold to be immediately and
repeatedly drawn out on these obligations -
gations for the purpose not related
to the benefit of our government or
our people. The principal and interest -
est of these bonds should be payable
on their face in gold , because they
should be sold only for gold or its
representative and because there
would now probably be difficulty in
favorably disposing of bonds not containing -
taining this stipulation.
I suggest that the bonds be issued
in denominations of $20 and $50 and
their multiples , and that they bear
interest at a rate of not exceeding 3
per cent per annum. I do not see
why they should not be payable fifty
years from their dates. We of the
present generation have large
amounts to pay if we meet our obligations -
gations and long bonds are most sala-
ble. The secretary of time treasury m
might well be permitted at his discre-
tion to receive on the sale of bonds
the legal tender and treasury notes to
be retired , and of course when they
are thus retired or redeemed in gold
they should be cancelled.
These bonds under existing laws
could be deposited in national banks
as security for circulation up to the
face value of these or any other bonds
so deposited except bonds outstanding -
ing bearing only 2 per cent interest
and which sell in the market at less
than par.
SUGGESTIONS AS TO LEGISLATION.
National banks should not be al.
lowed to take out circulating notes of
a less denomination that $10 , and
when such as are now outstanding
reach the treasurer , except for redemption -
demption and retirement , they should
be canceled and notes of the denomination -
ination of $10 and upwards issued in
their stead. Silver certificates of the
denomination of $10 and upwards
should be replaced by certificates of
denomination under $10.
As a constant means for the maintenance -
tenance of a reasonable supply of
gold in the treasury our duties on
imports should be paid in gold , allowing -
lowing all other duties to the government -
ment to be paid in any other form of
money.
I believe all the provisions I have
suggested should be embodied in our
law if we are to enjoy a complete reinstatement -
instatement of a sound financial con-
cition. They need not interefere
with any currency scheme providing
for the increase of the circulating
medium through the agency of
national or state banks since they can
easily be adjusted to such a scheme.
Objection has been made to the issuance -
suance of interest bearing obligations -
tions for the purpose of retiring the
non-interest bearing legal tender
notes. In point of fact , however , these
notes have burdened us with a large
load of interest and it is still accumu-
lating. The aggregate interest on the
original bond issue , the proceeds of
which in gold bonds , constitute the
reserve for the payment of these
notes , amounted to $70,3:0,250 on
January 1 , 1895 , and the annual
charge for interest on these bonds
and those issued for the same purpose -
pose during the last year will be
$9,145,000 dating fromnJanuary 1 , 1595.
DETERMINED TO SAVE TILE CREDIT.
While the cancellation of these
notes would not relieve us from the
obligations already incurred on their
account , these figures are given by
way of suggesting that their existence -
ence has not been free from interest
charges , and that the longer they are
outstanding , judging from the experience -
ence of the last year , the more expensive -
pensive will they become.
In conclusion 1 desire to frankly
confess my reluctance to issuing more
bonds in present circumstances and
with no better results than have lately -
ly followed that course. I cannot ,
however , refrain fr nn adding to
an assurance of my anxiety to
co-operate with the present
congress in any reasonable Incas-
ure of relief an expression
of my determination to leave nothing
undone which furnishes a hope for
improving the situation or checking a
suspicion of our disinclination or disability -
ability to meet with the strictest
honor every national obligation.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
The Executive MansionJanuary 2S ,
1895.
NEW FINANCIAL BILL.
A Bill to Carry Out the President's
Suggestions Laid Before tlio Ifonae.
WASIIINGTON , Jan. 29. - Chairman
Springer of the banking and currency
committee of the house has introduced -
duced a bill to carry into effect the
recommendations of the president's
message , and has notified his committee -
tee to meet to-morrow morning to
consider the bill. It is as foil' ws :
An act to authorize the secretary of
the treasury to issue bonds to maintain -
tain a sufficient gold reserve and to
redeem and retire United States
notes , and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the United
States of America in congress assembled -
bled , that , in order to enable the secretary -
retary of the treasury to procure and
maintain asuflicient gold reserve and
to redeem and retire United States
legal tender notes and treasury notes
issued under the act of July 14 ,
1390 , entitled "An act directing -
ing time purchase of silver -
ver bullion and the issue of
treasury notes thereon , and for other
purposes , " he is hereby authorized to
issue and sell at not less than par in
gold , except as provided in a section
of this act , United States registered
or coupon bonds , in denominations of
$20 and of $50 and multiples of said
sums respectively , nayabie fifty years
after date in gold coin of the United
States of the present weight ant fineness -
ness , and bearing interest at a rate
not exceeding 3 per cent per
annum , payable quarterly in like
coin ; and such bonds and the
interest thereon shall have like qualities -
ities , privileges and exemptions as
the bonds issued under the act approved -
proved July 14 , 1570 , entitled , "An
act to authorize the refunding of the
national debt. " Such bonds may be
sold and delivered in the United
States or elsewhere as inaybedeened
most advantageous to the interests of
the government.
Section 2-That whenever any other
legal tender notes or treasury notes
shall be redeemed in gold they shall
be cancelled and not reissued and the
secretary of the treasury is hereby
authorized in his discretion , to receive -
ceive United States legal tender notes
and treasury notes , issued under the
aforesaid act of July 14 , 1590 , in payment -
ment for any of Lhc bonds issued minder -
der the preceding section of this act
anti the notes so received shall ue
cancelled and not reissued.
Section 3-That hereafter national
banking associations may take out
circulating notes in the manner now
provided by law , to an amount equal
to the par value of bonds deposited to
secure the same. lut this provision
shall not apply to any bonds now outstanding -
standing bearing interest at the rate
of 2 per cent only.
Section 4-That hereafter no national -
al bank notes of a less denomination
than $10 shall be issued and as rapidly
as such notes of denominations less
than $10 shall be received into the
treasury , otherwise than for redemption -
tion and retirementthey shall be cancelled -
celled and an equal amount of notes
of like character but in denomina-
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tions of 810 and multiples thereof
I shall be issued in their places. All
'silver certificates now outstanding ,
in denominations more than $10 ,
shall , when received into the treasury
of the United States , be retired and
canceled and silver certificates in denominations -
nominations less than $10 shall be issued -
sued in their stead.
Section 5-That from and after the
first day of July , 1x9 ; , all duties on
imports shall be paid in gold only and
all taxes , debts and demands , other
than duties on imports , accruing or
becoming due to the United States ,
shall be paid in gold and silver coin ,
treasury notes , United States notes ,
silver certificates or notes of national
banks.
Section 6-That all laws and parts
of laws inconsistent with the provisions
visions of the preceding sections be
and they are hereby repealed ; and a
sum sufficient to carry the provisions
of this act into effect be and the same
is hereby appropriated out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated.
In the house the message and bill
were referred to the committee on
banking and currencyand in the senate -
ate the message was referred to the
finance committee.
Another Big Gold Withdrawal.
NEW YORK , Jan 29.-Engagements
of gold to-day for export aggregated
$3,500,000.
A DIVORCED MAN'S REVENGE.
Farmer Hardwick hills IIh Ex-Wife's
Brother and Ends Ills Life.
MExICo , Mo. , Jan. 28.-Daniel hard-
wick went to the house of James
Ward , four miles south of here , yesterday -
terday and called the latter to the
fence. tlfter a few words Hardwick
drew a revolver and shot Ward three
times in the heart. Tie died instantly.
Hardwick then ran down the road
a short distance and shot himself in
the head. He lived only a few hours.
Last Thursday Mrs. Hardwick was
granted a divorce in the circuit court
on the ground of non-support and
brutal treatment. She was a sister of
the murdered man , and Iardwick
claimed that her affections had been
alienated from him by her folks , espe-
emally James. This is supposed to be
the reason he committed murder and
suicide.
TWO REGIMENTS RELIEVED ,
The Brooklyn Strike Rapidly Drawing
to an End-Strikers Still Hopeful.
BROOKLYN , N. Y. , Jan.2L-Su peaceful -
ful is the situation here to-day that
the authorities have relieved a portion -
tion of the militia from duty , permitting -
mitting the Seventh and Seventy-first
regiments and time First battery to
return to New York.
The number of cars run to-clay is
reported to be 424 , the usual number
being 1,000. It is alleged that twenty
of the strikers went back to work for
the Brooklyn Heights company to-
day.The
The managers of the strike profess
to believe that the companies will yet
be obliged to make terms.
An Innocent Man 1.ong Punished.
JEFFERSON CITY , Mo. , Jan. 29.-Gov
ernor Stone issued a pardon to-day to
Willis Burns , colored , of Randolph
county , who has been in the penitentiary -
tentiary since 1888 serving a twenty-
five 'year term for alleged criminal.
assault upon Annie White of Moberly.
Recently the woman died. She made
a death bell confession in which she
swore Burns was not guilty but had
been convicted on perjured testimony.
Franro's I ast Marsh : , ] Dead.
PARIS , Jan. 29.-Francois Certain
Caurobert , the last field marshal of
France , died to-day after a long ill-
ness. The rank was instituted as far
back as the year 1185 , since when
there have been 324 marshals of
France , sixty-seven of whom were appointed -
pointed during the present century ,
but Canrobert , sturdy old warrior
that he was , outlived them all.
Swallowed a Diamoncl.
LEAVENWORTh , Ilan. , Jan. 29. -
Charley McCarthy , a gambler and ex-
convict , last night robbed Samuel
Usher of Lawrence of a $500 diamond
stud while Usher and a party of
friends were in a saloon here. McCarthy -
Carthy was caught , but swallowed
time stud. lie is confined at the city
jail and Sergeant Spickens and a doctor -
tor are in attendance.
Twenty : housa nd Awarded.
LITTLE ROCK , Ark. , Jan. 29.The
jury in the case of Mrs. Sarah 0.
Spencer vs. the St. Louis , Iron Monn-
tafn and Southern railway brought in
a verdict awardin$20,000 dama < res to
her. She claimed $100,000 for injuries
received in an accident at Texarkana
May 24 last. She is crippled for life.
Severe Cold In Oklahoma.
HENNESSY , Ok. , Jan. 29. mime temperature -
perature was below zero last
night Much suffering prevails
among settlers in the Cherokee
outlet , many of whom are unable to
procure sufficient protection. Snow
has fallen to the depth of three inches
and has drifted several feet high.
Alt „ eld as a Labor Loader.
St. Louis , Mop , Jan. 29.-The statement -
ment is made by a labor leader -
er that th ' position of president -
dent of the Universal Labor union ,
which is now in process of organization -
tion , would be tendered to Governor
John P. Altgeld of Illinois within the
next few weeks.
Leavenwortli's .Iayor Burned Out.
LEAVENWORTii , ICan. , Jan. 29.-
lliay'or Samuel Dodsworth's printing
and binding establishment was badly
wrecked by fire at 7 o'clock this
morning. Loss about $5,000 , covered
by insurance.
NEWS NOTES.
The department of agriculture will
ship mail sacks of garden and field
seeds to Nebraska sufferers.
Claus Spreckles , the Hawaiian-
American all-round sugar king , has .
branched out as an anti-monopolist ,
and is fighting the Pacific railways.
The Guatemalan colony in New
York is said to be preparing to furnish -
nish their country its sinews of war
vith Mexico.
Milton B , Matson , in prison at San
Jose , Cal. , for issuing forged checks ,
turns out to be a woman. She has
masqueraded as a man for sixteen
years.
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T A SAGE'S SERMON.
DANCER OF PESSIMISON THE
SUBJECT THEREOF.
"I Said In My Easte All Mon Were
Llara"-Psalms 116x1-Even David
Was Sorry for the Insult lie Had Offered -
fered to His Fellow Men.
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SVINDLED , BETRAYED ,
persecuted Davidin a paroxysm -
oxysm of petulance and
rage , thus insulted the
human race. David himself -
self falsified when he said :
"All men are liars. " He
apologizes and says he
was unusually provoked ,
and that he was hasty
when lie hurled such universal -
versal denunciation. "I
said in my haste , " and so
on. It was in him only a
mnomentary triumph of
pessimism. There is ever and
anon , and never more than now ,
a disposition abroad to distrust
everybody , and because some bank
employes defraud , to distrust all
bank employes ; and because some
police officers have taken bribes , to
believe that all policemen take bribes ;
and because divorce cases are in the
court , to believe that most , if not all ,
marriage relations are unhappy.
There arc men who seem rapidly coining -
ing to adopt this creed : All men are
liars , scoundrels , thieves , libertines.
When a new case of perfidy comes to
the surface , these people clap their
hands in glee. It gives piquancy
to their breakfast if time
morning
newspaper discloses a new exposure -
ure , or a new arrest. They grow fat
on vermin. Tlmey join the devils iii
hell in jubilation over rccreancy and
pollution. If some one arrested is
proved innocent , it is to theme a disap-
pointment. They would rather believe -
lieve evil than good. They would like
to be on a committee to find something
wrong. They wish that as eyeglasses
have been invented to improve time
sight , and ear trumpets Imave been invented -
vented to help the hearing , a corresponding -
responding instrument might be iii-
vented for the nose , to bring nearer a
malodor. Pessimism says of the church ,
"The majority of time members are
hypocrites , although it is no temporal
advantage to be a member of the
church , and therefore there is no temptation -
tation to hypocrisy. " Pessimism says
that the influence of newspapers is
only bad , and that they are corrupting
the world ; when the fact is that they
are time mightiest agency for the arrest
of crime , and time spread of intelligence ,
and the printing press , secular and religious -
ligious , is setting the nations free. The
whole tendency of things is toward
cynicism , and the gospel of Smash-up.
We excuse David of the text for a
paroxysm of disgust , because he apologizes -
gizes for it to all the centuries , but it
is a deplorable fact that many have
taken the attitude of perpetual distrust -
trust and anatiiematization. There
are , we must admit , deplorable facts ,
and we would not hide or
minify
them. We are not much encouraged
to find that the great work of official
reform in New York city begins by a
proposition to the liquor dealers to
break time law by keeping their saloons
open on Sunday from 2 in the afternoon -
noon to 11 at night. Never since
America was discovered has there been
a worse insult to sobriety and decency
and religion than that proposition.
That proposition is equal to saying :
"Let law and order and religion have
a chance on Sunday forenoons , but
Sunday afternoons open all the gates
to gin and alcohol , and Schiedam
schnapps , and sour mash , and Jersey
lightning , and the variegated swill of
breweries and drunkenness and crime.
Consecrate the first half of time Sunday
to God , and the last half to the devil.
Let the children on their way to Sunday -
day schools in New York at 3 o'clock
in the afternoon meet the alcoholism
that does more than all other causes
combined to rob children of their
fathers and mothers and strew the
land with helpless orphanage. Surely
strong drink can kill enough people
and destroy enough families , and sufficiently -
ciently crowd the almshousesand penitentiaries -
itentiaries in six days of the week
without giving it an extra half day
for pauperism and assassination.
Although we are not very jubilant
over a municipal' reform that opens
the exercises by a doxology to ruin ,
we have full faith in God , and in the
gospel , which will yet sink all iniquity -
iquity as the Atlantic ocean melts a
flake of snow. What we want , and
what I believe we will have. is a great
religious awakening that will moralize -
ize and Christianize our great populations -
tions , and make them superior to
temptations , whether unlawful or
legalized. So I see no cause for dis-
heartenment. Pessimism is a sin , and
those who yield to it cripple themselves -
selves for the war , on one side of
which are all the forces of darkness ,
led on by Apollyon , and on the other
side of which are all the forces of
light , led on by the Omnipotent. I
risk the statement that time vast majority -
jority of people are doingthebest they
can. Nine hundred and ninety-nine
out of a thousand of the officials of the
municipal and the United States governments -
ernments are honest. Out of a thousand -
sand bank presidents and cashiersnine
hundred and ninety-nine are worthy
the position they occupy. Out of a
thousand merchants , mechanics and
professional men , nine hundred and
ninety'-nine are doing their duty as
they understand it. Out of one thousand -
sand engineers , and conductors , rind
switchmen , nine hundred and ninety-
nice are true to their responsible -
sible positions. It is seldom that
people arrive at positions of responsibility -
sibility until they have been tested
over and over again. If the theory of
the pessimist were accurate , society
would long ago have gone to
pieces , and civilization would have
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been submerged with barbarism , and ,
the wheel of the centuries would have
turned back to time darkages. Awrong
impression is made that because two
men falsify timeir banic accounts , those
two wrong doers are blazoned before
the world , while nothing is said in
praise of the hundreds of bank clerks
who have stood at their desks year in
and year out until their health is well
nigh gone , taldngnot a pin's worth of
that which belongs to others for themselves -
selves , though with skillful stroke of
pen they might have enriched themselves -
selves , and built their countryseats on
the banks of the Hudson , or the Rhine.
It is a mean thing in human nature
tlmat men and women are not praised
for doing well , but only excoriated
when they do wrong. By divine arrangement -
rangement the most of the families of
the earth are at peace , and the most of
those united in marriage have for each
other affinity and affection. They may
have occasional differences , and here
and there a season of pout , but the
vast majority of thoseme conjugal
relation , chose the most appropriate
companionship , and are happy in that
rein""m. You hear nothing of the
quietude and happiness of such homes ,
though nothing but death will them
part. But onesound ofmarital discord
makes the ears of a continent , and perhaps -
haps of a hemisphere , alert. The one
letter that ought never to have been
written , printed in a newspapermakcs
more talk than time millions of letters
that crowd the postoflices , and weigh
down the mail carriers , with expressions -
sions of honestlove. Tolstoithe great
Russian author , is wrong when he
prints a book for time depreciation of
marriage. If your observation has
put you in an attitude of deploration
for the marriage state one or two
timings is true in regard to you ; you
have either been unfortunate in your
aequaintanceslmip , or you yourself are
morally rotten. The world , not as
rapid as we would like , but still with
long stridesis on the way to the scenes
of beatitude and felicity which the
Bible depicts. Time man who can
not see this is wrong , either in his
heart , or liver , or spleen. Look at time
great Bible picture gallery , where
Isaiah has set up the picturesof abor-
escenee , girdling time world with cedar ,
and fir , and pine , and boxwood , and
time lion led by a child ; and St. John's
pictures of waters and trees , and white
horse cavalry , and tears wiped away ,
and trumpets blown , and harps struck ,
and nations redeained. While there
are ten tlousand things I do not like ,
have not seen any discouragement for
the cause of God for twenty-fivc years.
Time Kingdom is coming. The earth is
preparing to put on bridal array. We
need to be getting our anthems and
grand marches ready. In our hymnology - I
elegy we shall have more use for Antioch -
tioch than for Windham ; for Arid1
than for Naomi. Let "hark ! from
the Tombs a Doleful Cry , " be submerged -
merged with "Joy to the World , the
Lord is Come ! " Really , if I thought
the human race were as determined to
be bad , and getting worse , as time
pessimists represent , I would think
it was hardly worth saving. If
after hundreds of years of gos-
pelization no improvement has
been made , let us give it up and ,
go at something else besides praying
and preaching. My opinion is that if
we had enoughm faith in quick results ,
and could go forth rightly equipped
with the gospel call , the battle forGed
God and righteousness would end
with this nineteenth century , . and time
twentieth century , only five or six
years off , would begin the millennium ,
and Christ would reign , either in person -
son on some throne set up between
time Alleghanies and the Rockies , erin
in the institutions of mercy and grandeur -
deur set up by his ransomed people.
Discouraged work will meet with de-
feat. Expectant and buoyant work
will gain the victory. Start out with
the idea that all men are liars and
scoundrels , and that everybody is as
bad as he can be , and that society ,
and time church. and the world are on
time way to demolition , anti the only
use you will ever be to the world will
be to increase time value of lots in a
cemetery. We need a more cheerful
front in all our religious work.
People have enough trouble already -
ready , and do not want to ship another -
other cargo of trouble in the shape of
religiosity. If religion has been to
you a peace , a defense , an inspiration
and a joy , say so. Say it by word of
mouth , by pen in your right hand , by
face illuminated with a divine satisfac-
tion. If this world is ever to be taken
for God it will not be by groans , but
by hallelujahs. If we could present
the Christian religion as it really is , in
its true attractiveness , all time people
would accept it and accept it righo
away. The cities , time nations would
cry out : "Give us that ! Give it to us
in all its holy magnetism and gracious
power ! Put that salve on our wounds !
Throw back the shutters for that
morning light ! Knock off these clmains
with that silver hammer ! Give us
Christ-his pardon , his peace , his comfort -
fort , his heaven ! Give us Christ in
song , Christ in sermon , Christ in book ,
Christ in living example ! "
A Political Motto.
"My friend. " said the truly patriotic -
otic citizen , "you are becoming prominent -
inent in politics. " "That I am , "
replied the local leader. "I trust that
you will adopt as your motto the good
old phrase , 'Be sure you're right , and
then go ahead. ' "Not exactly ,
though you are guessing purty close.
Dc motto of our association is. 'Be
sure ye get ahead ; ye kin make it
. ' "
right afterward.
Fi gYour wife says that your
servant girl has left.
Food-Yes. We had become greatly
attached to that girl , and we shall
never be able to fill the void she has
left in our household.
"Then she has lived with you for
some time ? "
"Oh , yes ; more than five weeks- ! ,
Boston Tranacript.