The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-12-14
REED OF MAINE.
hos monopoly and RIdi-
ouies the Complaints of
the West.
REED AS A RANrrp

REED AS A RANTER.
IN ms carefully set speech on tbe
Mliis OIL MI. Reed said: al have TINS
gone over, well or i'll, the real arou.
ments on The other side, all that are
really worth touching, but there. is in
al III rhetorical battles much artil.
cry III Ebg which comes from unshotted
guns They make as much noise as
real artillery. They obscure the heavens
also with much smoke, and they seem
| 10 the careless to contribute to the
dead and wounded. Some of tbese /
| must ask you to examine, for il ia
really worth while to see what a paIt
smoke and noise play in this world.
Monopoly said Horace Greely. a
ioctor OF laws, and rnce a candidate
ni The democratic party for the presi-
dency, monopoly Is, perhaps, the most
perverted and misappIicd word in onr
HlGh-Abused mother tongue
"llow very tame this language is.
suppose that during the IO wears last
past | have listened in this hall 10 more
ldiotic raVihg, more pestiferous rant
on that subject than OH all the ofhers
put together And yet do not regret
It. What beautiful sight it is TO ace
he revenue reform orator 90 into ac-
ION against monopoly. Nelson as he
It"od blazing with decorations on the
decks OF the Victory on the fatal day
oi Trafalgar; Napoleon at FriedIaud
as The guard went cheering and cbarp.
iug by; Thomas Savers, MS he str,nned
ior me championship OF England when
freeman had crossed the lifting waters:
me eagle soaring to his eyry; tie royai
ihail.eating Bengal tiger in his native
Jungle; nay, the very bull himself. The
s'roi's buIi OF Basban, as be uplifts his
oeiIow over The rocky deserts OF Pales-
.ihe, are all but pale reminders of ono
OF these majestic creatures. And VET.
outside The patent Office there are no
W"hopolles in this country and there
never can be. All, but what is that I
'ee on The tar horizons edge with
tongue OF lambent flame and eve of
iotked me, serpent-headed and griffin
Ga" eH! surely il must he the preat
1rW ciinera trust Qlick. cries
every masked member of the wavs and
,"eahs Quick, LEI US lower The tariff.
Let us call in The British. Lei them
save our devastated homes. Conraoe.
dear brethren. Be not too much dis.
tnroed. The lord Will reign even II
the board of may or and aIdermen
should adjourn.
CAN NEVER DO IT.
"Call in the sBritishi When the dav
comes that this republic cannot save
itself from a dozen of its own citizens
"lthcnt aid from over the sea, hone
10 De buried thousand leagues under
some respectable and permanent noun
tam range. What unreasonable talk
bls Is. "A dozen men fix the prices tor
oo,o0O,ooO ireemen! They can never do
IL. Ihete Is no power on earth that
y. ,ai raise the price of anv necessity of
ne ABOVE inst price and keep it there.
more '"ah that, II the price is raised
'"H maintained, even for short while,
!. hea"s rum ior the combination and
i SUI lower prices for the consumers.
ihat Is one OF the laws of God work.
ns iof his children. Compared with
1he OF yonr laws of congress, it is as
eVlathan to clam.
doubtless there are evils in th;s
world TO be corrected by law, but let
IS 60 al it with sense. The kindly
'ear VINO nuhg paving stone to drive
lway fly which disturbed his sleen.
hg Trend, killed the man but did not
lurt the ay. Bat if the revenue reform
'rator on The monopoly is terrible, like
" army win banners, there is theme
IN which he can take up the notes of
ne dying swan. How we do love TO
lear MN on the impoverished farmer.
Then he is not sublime, but he ia na.
heucally great. L heard him first ten
eaIs ago: 10 me, Innocent. -nutraxr-
Vas the most woe begone, down-trod-
en-, lucSless, unsuccessful, dispirited
evil on the face of the earth. The
astern vampire had mortgaged bis
arm and thrown down his fences and
catered his substance wantonIy TO
ne winds.
WESTERN GREATNESS.
I'm the fullness of time | Travelled
'est myself. You may well Imagine
ly astonishment, who had never seen
IN acres together in corn, 10 behold
elds OF that great staple stretching
'ay cut to the horizons edge, to see
'acts'of land which seemed TO have no
oundaries but the visible skv; land
rich that If We had an acre of il In
lame we would have sold it by the
ushel; while on every side were the
reats brick houses, such as only the
qulre lived in in our villages. After
9me days OF this | become sulky.
ud: Gentlemen, of course we have
'bbeds yon; your congressman would
OF lie about trifles like that. But
hat disgusts me is that he did not do
more thoroughly. The geanines
oks bigger than the harvest. These
'umbs are finer than the food we put
our tables Then they confided to
g that the western congressman were
eat orators and did this for practice.
nee then l have not been SO much
owed by it,"
This illustrates Mr.. Reeds beliefs
garding the tariff, trusts and the
orfgaged farmers of the west. The
ection of Reed shows, as Mr.. Ander-
n. of Kansas, declared, that the cor
Orants had tho ronn hl;oa,, ,>o..., L.