New Duties of- -the New North cA AN ADDRESS BY JOSEPH COOK From the June Number of "Our Day" BOSTON MONDAY LECTURES. FOUBTEENTH YeAB. SEASON OF 1889. PRELUDE IV. NEW DUTIES OF THE NEW NOKTH. The usual great audience was present at Tremont Temple February 25, at Mr. Cook's 206th Boston Monday Lecture. The Rev. Dr. A. H. Plumb presided ; tha Rev. S. L. B. Speare of Brooklyn, N. Y., offered prayer. The hymn sung, entitled "The Reign of Peace," had been prepared especially for the occasion by Mr. Richard E. Burton, son of the late Rev. Dr. Nathaniel J. Burton of Hartford. Brief addresses were made by ex-President Cyrus Hamlin of Lexington, and by the Rev. Prof. Amaron, President of the French Protestant College of Springfield, FORTY-TWO AMERICAN STATES. Four new States have now so increased the weight of the North in the American republic that the nation is probably for ever disenthralled from its Southern masters. [Applause.] With the (juill of an eagle from the head waters of the Mis souri, the President added his signature, February 22, to the bills admitting the two Dakotas, vast Montana, and Washing ton. Our Pacific seaboard is now wholly organized. Under the shadows of Mount Shasta, a railway now carries the throb bing life of the nation northward and southward between Puget Sound and the Golden Gate. The frontier is disappearing in the United States. Lawlessness ought to diminish immensely on this account. The enthusiasm of Webster was roused to a white heat by merely the fore-gleams of the day in which we live. You remember that he closed his 7th of March speech by predicting that ultimately States would be organized on the Pacific, although as late as 1824 he doubted whether States at that distance from the centre of the national government could be permanently retained as a portion of the Union. New Duties of the New North. 563 His land was but a shelving strip, Black with the strife that made it free ; He lived to see its banners dip Their fringes in the western sea. 0. W. Holmes. Speaking of the vast extent of our republic, Webster quoted, and we may repeat to-day with new emphasis, the famous words concerning the shield of Achilles : — Now, the vast shield complete, the artist crowned With his last hand, and poured the ocean round; In living silver seemed the waves to roll And beat the buckler's verge and bound the whole. Pope's Homer's Iliad. We now have forty-two States. Only seven Territories are left. The Mormon monster, with its two northern horns, Idaho and Wyoming, and its two southern horns, Arizona and New Mexico, yet assumes a defiant attitude beyond the Eocky Moun tains. Undoubtedly it would be somewhat unsafe to admit Idaho and Wyoming just at present, so thoroughly are the politics of those Territories permeated by influences proceeding from the polygamous priesthood in Utah. It would be more or less unsafe to admit immediately either Arizona or New Mexico, partly for similar reasons, and partly because New Mexico is almost exclusively under Jesuitical control. The Indian Territory and Alaska are in a condition far more healthy than Utah, or any of its neighbors through which it has thrust the roots of the. gigantic cancer of the Latter-Day swindle. [Laughter.] But it cannot be long before the basin region will ask to be organized into States ; it cannot be long before Texas, under the impulse of Northern immigration, may ask to be divided into three or four commonwealths. Nevertheless, in the time between the date of the admission of these four new States and the time when other States must come in to increase the Southern vote, the North will have grown. It is now ex pected that the eight new senators who will represent the four new States in Congress will, a majority of them, be Kepubli- cans. The Democratic party, undoubtedly, has a fighting chance in Montana, perhaps in Washington. I have traveled 564 Boston Monday Lectures. through those great Territories, and am attached to their vast plains, to their mighty rivers, to their colossal mountain ranges, and to their young, aspiring towns. They have an important future before them. One of the first great results of their admission to the Union will be to confirm the present Bepubli- can predominancy in national politics. [Applause.] RESPONSIBILITY FOE CURRENT LAWLESSNESS. Professor Bryce, who occupies the chair of political economy and civil law in the University of Oxford, and is a prominent Liberal member of Parliament, and a supporter of Mr. Glad stone, is Alexis de Tocqueville's successor and peer. He has written a book entitled " The American Commonwealth," which is undoubtedly the most important criticism that our institutions have received since De Tocqueville's great work on " Democracy in America." Its tone is far more optimistic and genial than that which most foreigners have adopted concerning our land ; but while its criticism is cautious, it is keen, while it is genial, it is searching. The severest criticisms of Professor Bryce on the American republic are summed up in his statements that it is hard to fix responsibility here, such is the subdivision of our power, such is the intricacy of our system of checks and balances ; and that, as it is hard to fix responsibility, lawlessness goes un punished in little things. We live under a government of pub lic opinion, and there are two difficulties in such a government : first, to ascertain what public opinion is ; and, next, to fix responsibility when things go wrong. Professor Bryce over and over in his book contrasts on these points European, and especially English institutions, with our own. He says that the best political institutions of the Old World are formed on the principle of concentrating power, in order that it may be easy to fix responsibility ; but that we balance the Senate against the President, and the House against both, and the national against state government, and state against municipal. We divide and subdivide power so that tyranny cannot spring up anywhere. This great object of our fathers has been attained. Professor Bryce praises us for all this, but he regards it as the chief fault of American institutions that we, who can make laws VOL. III. FEBRUARY, 1889 NO. 14 #ur Bap A Record and Review of Current Reform JOSEPH COOK, Editor . Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD . . . Temperance Prof. EDMUND J. JAMES, Ph. D. . Labor Reform Prof. L. T. TOWNSEND, D. D. . . Education ANTHONY COMSTOCK Suppression of Vice Rev. CYRUS HAMLIN, D. D. . . . Missions Rev. WILBUR F. CRAFTS .... Church Work ASSOCIATE EDITORS WITH THE COOPERATION OF EMINENT SPECIALISTS IN REFORM, AT HOME AND ABROAD Vm ilucte, Via Cruets CONTENTS PAGE 1. Perils of the Public Schools . William E. Dodge, Dr. Josiah Strong 109 2. Sunday Newspapers Prof.Herrick Johnson, D.D. 114 3. New Reasons for Restricting Immigration . . Prof. H. J. Boyesen 127 4. Education in Japan Rev. C. E. Eby 139 5. False History in Robert Elsmere .. . . . . Pres. James McCosh 146 6. Pagan Idols made in England J. Clement Ambrose 152 7. Robert Elsmere's Successor: A Serial . . . Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker 158 8. The Woman's National Council. Miss Willard, Miss Anthony, and others 172 9. 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D., Editor of the Missionary Review. Its specialty is the specialties. The ability of the editorship will insure its continued suc cess. — Boston Daily Advertiser. VOLUME I. INDEX. ARTICLES. Bartlett, Pres. S. C. Letter on Inspiration, 456. Bartol, Rev. Dr. C. A. Letter on Inspiration, 464. Benner, Prof. Edward. Mormon Conspiracies, 173. Blaine, Jas. G. On President Cleveland's Message, 104. Boajsdman, Prof. H. N. Letter on Inspiration, 472. Clark, Rev. Dr. N. G. The Ramabai Circles, 170. Hindu Graduates, 171. Cleveland, Pres. Grover. Message on Surplus Revenue, 95. Comstock, Anthony. Indictable Art, 44. Helps and Hindrances in the Sup pression of Vice, 221. Lawlessness of the Liberal Leagues, 393. Cook, Joseph. Prospectus, 1. Unitarian Missions in Japan, 79. Plan of "Our Day," 80. Prof. Drummond in America, 80. Free Speech on Public Grounds, 171. Prayers at Harvard and Yale, 260. Boston Hymns — Christus Consummator, 314. Volcano Crests, 511. Mr. Spurgeon's Theology, 357. Sunday Newspapers, 444. Constitutional Prohibition and High License, 445. See "Boston Monday Lectures." Crafts, Rev. W. F. National Sabbath Reform, 336. Curtiss, Prof. S. I. Letter on Inspiration, 472. Ddxe, Rev. S. W. National Divorce Reform League, 49. Doane, Bishop W. C. Letter on Inspiration, 454. Dow, Hon. Neal. Prospects of Prohibition, 11. Dwinell, Prof. J. E. Letter on Inspiration , 464. Evangelical Alliance. Report on Boston Common under Gag-Law, 424. Field, David Dudley. Arbitration as a Remedy for War, 184. Fisher, Prof. G. P. Letter on Inspiration, 452. Gordon, Dr. A. J. Religion in Colleges, 259. Hall, Rev. Dr. John. Letter on Inspiration, 450. Hamlin, Ex-Pres. Cyrus. First Principles of Protection, 265. Hastings, H. L. Boston Hymn : For Outdoor Preach ers, 399. Hodgkins, Louise Manning. Boston Hymn : A Doxology, 231. Holmes, Dr. 0. W. International Copyright, 220. Hovey, Pres. A. Letter on Inspiration, 471. Howard, Rev. R. H. British Peace Delegation, 355. Howells, W. D. International Copyright, 219. Hunt, Mrs. M. H. Federal Aid to Education, 356. Hunter, Sir W. W. The Religions of India, 378. James, Prof. E. J. Socialists and Anarchists in the United States, 81. Larcom, Lucy. Ramabai, 137. Lowell, James Russell. Speech on Tariff Reform, 108. International Copyright, 217. Magoun, Ex-Pres. G. F. Courts of Conciliation in Iowa, 443. Letter on Inspiration, 459. McNrECE, Rev. Dr. R. G. Shall Utah be made a Mormon State ? 4. Ober, C. K. Prof. Drummond in the American Colleges, 306. OXLEY, J. MACDONALD. The Fisheries Question, 132. Parker, Rev. Dr. Joseph. Use and Abuse of Creeds, 361. Pentecost, Rev. Dr. G. F. The Responsibility of the Pulpit and the Pew, 36. The New Theology and Revivals, 77. IV Index. Mr. Spurgeon's Protest, 78. Religious Journalism, 78. Phelps,' Elizabeth Stuart. International Copyright, 219. Rankin, Rev. Dr. J. E. Boston Hymn : God Over All, 313. Russell, Rev. Dr. Frank. Cooperation in Church Work, 279. Sherman, Senator. On Free Trade and Protection, 113. Smith, Rev. Dr. S. F. Boston Hymn : God All in AH, 140. Stedman, E. C. International Copyright, 218. Steele, Prof. D. Letter on Inspiration, 461. Strong, Rev. Dr. Josiah. Cooperation in Church Work, 273. Supreme Court, Decision on Prohibi tion, 55. Townsend, Prof. L. T. The Jesuit and the Public School, 15, 121. Utah Commissioners' Report for 1887, 192. Willard, Miss F. E. Woman as Preacher, 21, 286. Progress of Prohibition, 76. Woman's Ballot, 168. The Prospective Platform of the Prohibition Party, 177. Internal Revenue Tax, 257. The National Prohibition Conven tion, 500. Decoration Day Speech, 505. Wright, Prof. G. F. Letter on Inspiration, 468. BOOK NOTICES. Field's International Code, 73. Row's Future Retribution, 74. Morris' Is there Salvation after Death ? 75. Ramabai' s The High Caste Hindu Wo men, 166. Stall's Methods of Church Work, 166. Barrows' The Indian Side of the Indian Question, 167. Evangelical Alliance on National Perils and Opportunities, 251. Senator Blair's The Temperance Move ment, 253. Dorchester's Christianity in the United States, 256. Lowell's Heartsease and Rue, 349. Schaffs Church and State in the United States, 352. Currier's Life of Dr. Goodell, 436. Scripture Readings in the Schools of Ontario, 440. Fisher's Manual of Christian Evidences, 537. Moody's College of Colleges, 538. Hazell's Annual Cyclopaedia, 540. BOSTON MONDAY LECTURES. Preludes: — 1. Assassination as a Weapon of the Saloon, 141. 2. Utah at the Doors of Congress, 231. 3. Charles Darwin and Asa Gray in Contrast, 315. 4. Free Speech on Public Grounds, 400. 5. American Electoral Reform, 513. Lectures: — 1. Did Christ Teach by Inspiration ? 152. 2. Inspiration as Attested by Paul's Undisputed Epistles, 241. 3. The Supernatural in Christianity and Christ, 326. 4. Christ's Estimate of the Old Testament Scriptures, 416. 5. Fulfilled Predictions as an Evi dence of Inspiration, 527. EDITORIAL NOTES. Plan of "Our Day," 80. Prof. Drummond in America, 80. The Andover Case before the Supreme Court, 175. Free Trade and Tariff Reform, 175. Dr. S. F. Smith, Author of "America," 176. Limited Municipal Suffrage for Women, 262. Exploration of Polar America, 262. Prospects of the American Board, 263. Australian Method of Voting, 263. Federal Protection for Women in Utah, 264. Emerson and Alcott in Contrast, 264. International Council of Women at Washington, 359. Mr. Spurgeon and the Baptist Union, 446, 551. Rastrictions of Free Speech in Boston, 447. Abolition of Slavery in Brazil, 548. Boston Congregationalism and the Am erican Board, 549. Egypt Exploration Fund, 552. New Duties of the New North. 565 easily, administer them laxly ; that in little things we are too good-natured concerning infractions of the law ; and that we are likely to continue to be so until arrangements are made by which responsibility can be fixed for lawlessness in municipal, state, and national affairs. From this time on for some years responsibility for lawless ness in national affairs, North and South, will be fixed on the Republican party. This situation results from the effect which the admission of four new Northern States has produced in the political balance of the Union. For more than a third of a century it was the custom, as you remember, not to admit a new Northern State without at the same time admitting a new Southern State, or to admit such States in rotation, so as to keep up the balance of power. The South was checkmated indeed by the census of 1860. The civil war thoroughly repressed, but did not terminate its efforts to secure national domination. While secession has been put down, nullification has not been. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are yet practically dead letters for seven millions of American citizens in the Southern States, whose only crime is that they are colored or Republicans. But now that the North has received an accession of four new States, now that eight new senators are to go into the upper House of Congress, with new congressmen in the lower House, now that the last presidential election has given to the Republican party both the presidency and the control of the two Houses of Congress, I hold that if seven millions of citizens continue to be politically disfranchised in the South ; if Mormonism continues to trample on national law and hold in terror of life a large loyal American population in the basin region of the West ; if in the interstate liquor traffic the whiskey syndicates of the land trample on righteous regulations ; if, in short, we are not able to execute the national enactments now on the statute books, the responsi bility may be righteously fixed on the party that has the power, and ought to have the will, to execute the laws. [Loud aps plause.] 566 Boston Monday Lectures. THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE SALOON IN POLITICS. Our worst lawlessness, however, is not found on the frontier, nor in the Southern States, but in misgoverned great cities. Four States are soon to vote on constitutional prohibition. Do you say that the sovereignty of the saloon in municipal poli tics cannot be overthrown ? Do you fear that it is impossible to eradicate the chief industrial and political mischief of the land, because there is not virtue enough left in politicians to risk their chances of defeat with the whiskey rings against them ? With the great accession of power which the Republi can party has now received, it might venture a little more in some of its state organizations than it ever has ventured yet. Of course the chief object of life of any party in power is to remain in power ; but, now that four new States have been ad mitted to the Union, it may be that the Republican party might retain its seat in the national saddle, even if it should lose the vote of New York state. You can call on the Republican party to venture a little more in the name of arithmetic now than you have ever called on it to do in times gone by, or at least in any time since the civil war. The margin between the two great national parties has been so close that whichever party could obtain the whiskey vote, and wheedle the temperance vote into a little submissiveness or, possibly, support, secured that margin, and so secured the election ; and so arithmetical poli ticians have very closely calculated the cost of offending the whiskey syndicate. With its enlarged majority, however, it is time for the Republican party, which has been not absolutely prostrate like the serpent in Eden, but on its hands and knees before the whiskey rings, to rise at least from its hands, and, re maining on its knees, consider what God may send it of wisdom while in that attitude. [Loud laughter and applause.] A little more erectness and the posture of prayer are not an improper attitude concerning our chief national peril, now doing more harm than slavery ever did before the war, and with more money behind it than slavery ever had, and as likely to bring corruption into politics as slavery ever was. When the whole North of 1860 was aroused, slavery disappeared. When it is New Duties of the New North. 567 seen that the stars in their courses are fighting against the gigantic iniquity of the liquor traffic ; when it is known that God behind the stars is moving them in such a way that it may be said He has turned prohibitionist, as it was said in reverence that He had turned abolitionist, we shall lock hands with Him, and adopt Seneca's maxim, Deum sequi, Follow God, as the supreme guide in politics, and let Him take care of the conse quences. [Applause.] LAW AND ORDER LEAGUES. In this city last week you had a national convention of the Law and Order Leagues. What is the object of these organiza tions ? To execute all the restrictive features of our present laws concerning the liquor traffic. Pass constitutional prohibi tion in this State, or in New Hampshire, or Pennsylvania, or Nebraska ; put your Law and Order Leagues, which are now organized in every State of the Union, into the field to support what will then be the restrictive features of the law, and why may you not, with this upper millstone of constitutional prohi bition, and this nether millstone of the Law and Order Leagues, and of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, grind to powder between the two any party that will not execute the laws ? [Applause.] After much travel in Kansas and Iowa, I am convinced that constitutional prohibition is a great success in those common wealths. It is true liquor is sold in the large cities of Maine very freely, but there is no legalized dramshop in the whole State. That is an immense gain. The venerable Neal Dow says that only a slight technical change is needed in the law of Maine to enable the reigning political party there to bring to jus tice violators of the constitution. Time-serving politicians fight off the little change that he would introduce ; but he thinks it is the fault of the loop-hole in the enactment, rather than the fault of the heart of the people, that the law is not as well executed in Maine as it is in Kansas or Iowa. I am told over and over in* Kansas and Iowa that prohibition there is as well executed as the law against theft. I see no evidence to support a contrary opinion. I talk with professors of the schools, with preachers, 568 Boston Monday Lectures. with teachers, with merchants, with young men, and the middle- aged and the aged, with the leaders of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the testimony is universal that the liquor traffic has been driven out of Topeka, for instance, the capital of Kansas, the geographical centre of the American Union. This has been done by the activity of the Republican party very largely, without any special assistance from Law and Order Leagues. It is a great glory to the Law and Order Leagues that they have done so much to execute law. It is a great shame to the reigning political parties that there is any need of Law and Order Leagues at all. [Applause.] That young hero, John B. Finch, used to say he would never give a penny to support a Law and Order League, for it was the business of the reigning political party to execute the law. Now, I will not go quite as far as that, for the reigning political party sometimes needs a good deal of encouragement. [Laughter.] Canada has had Law and Order Leagues, but has now very largely outgrown the necessity for them. The Queen's counsel, Mr. MacLaren, on this platform, in my hearing, last week, told an audience that the amount of liquor consumed in the Domin ion amounts to only two and three quarters gallons per head. It amounts to thirteen gallons per head in this republic, and thirty-one gallons per head in the British Isles. We have im proved our condition as compared with that of the mother country ; we have not improved it as compared with that of the Dominion north of us. There is almost nothing for the Law and Order Leagues in Toronto to do. They have broadened their sphere, and now help to execute the laws against the gambling dens and the brothels. And would God we could broaden our liberal leagues to that extent, for we shall never understand the infamy of the liquor traffic till we regard it as only one head of a monster, of which the other two heads are the gambling dens and the brothels ! This is the roaring mon ster that goes about seeking whom he may devour, and whom you purpose to license, throwing away $ 10 for every one you gain. [Loud applause.] The American Law and Order Leagues are now like a New Duties of the New North. 569 banyan tree, the mother trunk in Boston and the boughs thrown down into every State of the Union all the way to the Pacific. Twenty-five States and Territories have passed laws requiring compulsory instruction in scientific temperance. This vast reform has been brought about chiefly by the activity of that noble lady who addressed you not long since from this platform, Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, whom may God bless. [Applause.] The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, whether favoring the third party or the Republican party, will work with its entire power for the passing of constitutional prohibition anywhere in its non-partisan shape. [Applause.] Lf Heaven favors us, we, by and by, shall be united in the church at the level which the Methodists and the Presbyterians have already attained, and shall say, not only that the liquor traffic can never be legalized without sin, but that no rumseller shall be a member of the church. [Applause.] And when once we have lifted all the churches and all the religious jour nals to the level attained by two great religious denominations, it will not be long before secular journalism and average politics will assume a new tone. Under your Law and Order Leagues you have driven every rumseller out of Somerville yonder, a city of very respectable size. Under your Law and Order Leagues, and the combination of citizens of distinguished position, many of them great educators, not politicians at all, you have driven the very last legalized rumseller out of Cambridge, my univer sity town yonder on the banks of the Charles. [Applause.] What has been done in these cities can be done ultimately in the State and nation. Constitutional prohibition has been sub mitted to the people by Republican votes ; and if it is defeated it will be defeated by Republican votes, and in the present atti tude of state and national politics, Republicans will be held responsible. [Applause.] The new North can never perform its new duties unless it puts forth new efforts in its oldest centres. God save the Com monwealth of Massachusetts ! [Applause.] vol. m. — no. 18. 38 *e, republished from the January Number of Our Day. Our Day is both a Eecord and a Review.' 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