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tic. A great mob of inflationists clamors for more money. By an artifice it would set a fictitious value upon silver and ask the world to believe that 50 cents is 100. At that rate all the silver of the Earth would come in here "by telegram at our expense." Why not declare that a bushel of wheat is a dollar, that a barrel of oil is two dollars, build elevators and tanks, take the whole product, and offer warehouse certificates for these stores as money at this fanciful rate? Money has either an intrinsic value or an extrinsic. These are not to be confused. If the present light-weight dollar, with its counterfeit of Liberty and its hypocritical profession of faith (for a false balance is an abomination, and sanctimony is poor currency)if such a dollar, of which the Treasury has 300,000,000 that no one wants at the price asked,--if such a dollar's value is extrinsic, 16 to 1 is too much, by 16; if intrinsic it is too little by 13. If we as sellers at that rate, would try to foist an anachronism upon the world, it won't buy: if we are buyers at that rate it will joyfully accommodate us with its last ounce.

Remember, Gentlemen, that those who are so eager to double the coinage value of silver over the actual bullion value, are those who have silver to sell! In comparison with those who listen to the invitations of these silver sirens, Aladdin's wife was astute! Why not coin copper free at sixteen to one, and so 'boom' an American product? Such a chimera would indeed make us all money-maniacs and America a veritable asylum of all nations! It would be no less "woolly" to assert that eighteen inches is a yard. England would gladly sell to us at such a rate, she would not buy. The whole thing illustrates the great truth that 'every man has his price' — who is for sale? I do not object to a metal-I object to a ratio that is a lie. "Sixteen to one," is obsolete. To have two values for a dollar is a fatuity over which I feel like the preacher who, standing in the pulpit of a son who had gone daft over ecclesiastical millinery, took for his text- "Lord, have mercy upon my son, for he is a lunatic!" Inflation is balloonacy. A nation which in two supreme crises so grandly determined

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to be free, shall never blandly consent to be dishonest; which in such a seven-heated furnace learned the sixth commandment and the seventh, shall not repudiate the fourth at the bidding of rum, nor the eighth at the bidding of silver mines. At last the tenth shall round into the first, and "Thou shalt not covet" shall touch "Thou shalt have no other God." Happy is the people that is in such a case! How far class envy can go is shown in the artificial provisions of that preposterous inter-state commerce act which at present is prostrating the greatest industry of the land, flinging scores of roads into the hands of receivers and robbing the incomes of numberless employes, and of widows and orphans whose savings it slaughters. Its provisions are mainly based upon an envious particularism which is both sumptuary and socialistic.

But I forget that I am only a country parson, and I preach too long. You noticed yesterday that the 'Cave of the Winds' had gone dry! I will speak of Patriotism. Pater means father, the Patria is the fatherland. Patriotism is brotherhood, and it has no limits. As a family that seeks only its own advantage is a curse to its community, so too, a nation that seeks only its own good is a curse to the world, and ultimately to itself. Shall there ever be a truly Christian nation? Does liberty only mean "our liberty?" If the ethics of the gospel are not fit to be national, they are not fit to be personal. But how many nations have learned the ten commandments, let alone the beatitudes? Patriotism is but a geographical partisanship if its ultimate notions are unfraternal to mankind. Too many in their handling of that word illustrate what the recent Century has described as "the effect of a large idea upon a small mind." "Make me pure (prayed a little girl) make me as pure as baking powder!" We have lately been discussing the merits of Royal baking powder and Cleveland's. But the question of which of these contains the least alum and the most force is not so important as that we should seek to have all the world join us at the knees of God in that petition: "Give us this day our daily bread!" Partisanship is sectional,

patriotism is national; nay, it is international. Whatever may be my secondary and subordinate relations, primarily I am a man. Anything less than loyalty to the whole cause of mankind is secession from God.

"The peoples, Lord, the peoples,

Not thrones and crowns, but men."

"Have we not all one father?" As patriotism is above party, so is humanity above diplomacy. "Let not thy country (said fine old Sir Thomas Browne) - let not the law of thy country be the non-ultra of thine honesty." What are the questions of Venezuela and the Suez canal, what is even the harsh question of Cuba, by the side of the world disgrace over Armenia!

Thank God the American protest has been made. Shame to England that her tumescent Lord Salisbury passes by on the other side. Shame to all alleged Christian nations that there is not a new crusade to abolish that hideous and piratical power whose cimetar is the corrollary of its Koran. Oh, for another Cromwell, Peter the Hermit, Charles Martel, to smite utterly this cruel absolutism. Oh, for another Coeur de Lion. What is an empty sepulchre whence the Lord of life is risen to the perishing myriads for whom he came! God of armies, bare Thy holy arm against that livid, curdled and putrescent misgovernment that sets its crescent above the city of Constantine, and seduces nations to forget that watchword of the cross, In Hoc signo vinces! How can any sneer at the brave words from Washington that invite a new holy alliance against that malign despotism. There might be a thanksgiving dinner of the world if Russia and England would cease their flatulent haggling over the wishbone! Would that the bleeding 'Eastern questions' were delivered not only out of the hand of the uncircumcised Philistine, but also out of the paw of the Lion and of the Bear!

I for one am grateful for that pertinent apothegm of the Brooklyn Eagle-it was indeed eagle-eyed-"What is funda

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mentally right is also profoundly wise!" Oh, the cowardice of the ledger and the bank book--"letting I dare not, wait upon, I would!" It refills a religious cult, emptied of Christianity, with that old exclusive provincialism which slew Christ, and makes his house of prayer for all nations into a stock exchange!

Gentlemen, America is providential. She is adapted to be an almoner and an arbiter of nations. Let us interpret destiny by duty, honor by service, opportunity by responsibility, and so "Set up a mark of everlasting light

Above the howling senses ebb and flow,"

that we shall enter into the task and so alone into the triumph of the Son of Man! For vox recti populi, vox Dei!

Let us lift the non-partisan, the truly patriotic standard both of national righteousness and of a world-wide sympathy, of the true partnership of man under the one paternity of God. Let Rome stand for force and statute, Greece for culture, Germany for learning, France for art, England for diplomacy and aggrandizement, all these for war: and we, in God's name, for character, for inter-national and super-political justice, for real freedom, and for the ever-nearer dominion of the Prince of Peace.

Domain, ancestry, heritage, however much- we are not merely to follow, but to fulfill our fathers, "God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect."

Here lies the nobility of both men and of nations. Here is truth that has no barrier of river or mountain, no bound of sea or shore. All of us for America and for all America, and America for all mankind!

The Distinctive function of the College

REMARKS BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY CLUB

OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK

MARCH 3, 1896

Gentlemen of the University Club: You are not associated under this title by caprice or mere casual impulse. You began and you continue this fellowship for the sufficient reason that you have certain important common interests which by organization you desire to proclaim and to promote.

You affirm, as do similar bodies in now so many of our major cities, the accordant aims and the substantial good will of all men liberally educated. You also affirm your joint relation to the public good.

Your two hundred and fifty members, in representation of fifty colleges, is no meagre showing, and it is a high credit, as it ought also to become a broad benefit, to the city which is the third in our preeminent state, and in the nation the eleventh.

Each of us here loves well his own academic cradle, and is a perpetual debtor to the hand that rocked it. Each of us cherishes the songs of his own college fireside. But we are all of kin and bear a family likeness. The several Alma Matres to whom we owe our baccalaureate birthrights are one large and loving sisterhood and we are warm first cousins. We are the alumni (or nurslings) of one grandmother, and her name is Zopía. While the timbers stand that uphold the great ancestral and homestead roof of American education, may Wisdom be justified of her children! The tie which is expressed by such a sodality or guild as this, both confesses and strengthens a partnership of competency, of aspiration, and of purpose.

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