Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-15
NEWS W ItlEGRlPh. From All Quarters. RENDERED A RECEPTION Hon. Thos. B. Reeds Well
 come at Portland. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL FUNERAL Racing Events at Rochester
 and Boston. THE WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE. Director Gillespie on Base
 Ball Affairs.
THE WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE.
GUESTS OF THE PORTLAND CLUB


 1 Hon. Thomas B. Reed Received With European Governments and Their Growing Devotion to Human Lib erty-What the Republican Part, Has Always Been Desirieus of Do ing.
 PORTLAND, Me-, Aug. 14.-Hon. Thomal
 B. Reed was rendered reception to-day
 by the Portland club, and was received
 with great enthusiasm. In the course O.
 his speech, in which he referred to his re cent travels abroad, he said:
 ssWhile we surpass other nations in ex tent of territory, in wondrous scenery and enterprise we gre not to-day so far ahead of them as we used to be in devotion tc human liberty. Everywhere in the world this love of liberty has increased; every, where in the world the standard has been lifted higher and higher until, in the most of Europe it reaches point almost equal to our own. In Italy, the king has not the power of an American president. In France great republic has taken root in that soil so deeply that I believe the  Permanent repubicanism is the rule of France. In England the manifestations of the public will are full, sufficient and conclusive, and if there is anything that we now need to bestir ourselves about it is to give this country once again the ex- tremely advanced position which it form erly occupied in favor of human liberty and human rights.
 In it's recognition of manhood as such, we were the pioneer nation; we were the people whe first determined that there was safety in the rule of the people. And yet we ourselves were very much afraid of the results. It was new experiment. When one hundred years ago our ancestors be- gan to entrust all the people of the coun- try with the powers of the whole country there was great fear lest disaster should come to the nation on account of it. Our constitution is full of those fears. It is made with checks and balances in order to restrain the people of this country. These restraintsin the constitution were sufficient, they were all that any nation needed, but in addition to this, during our history, while we were under the control of the south and those who sympathized with them, there gradually grew up other checks and other propositions to the will of the people until to-day this country does not occupy the advanced position which it formerly occupied with reference to other nations in regard to the rule of the people. The republican party has always been de- sirous of doing two things-frst, to dis tribute among all citizens, upon fair basis, so far as consistent with the organ ization of society, these wonderful gifts of God which constitute the wealth of na- tion. In no nation upon the face of the rfh hoe thara hoan a11ch a Hiatfihntinn of the advantages of nature and of the riches of the country. In no other nation upon the face of the earth is the average of comfort and happiness so high as it is in the United States. To my no- tion, that distribution of wealth is made by the system which we call protection to American industries lap plause] Ia system by which we have been victorious in the battles for wealth and for the development of this great country. Upon that principle the United States was tune and defeat may rest safely and se- curely. There is one other cardinal prin- eip1e upon which it has rested in the past and upon which it must rest in the future, and it is the cardinal principle of the rights of man. Give to everyone the com forts which they need to make life agreeable, and thus distribute the greatest amount of happiness and thus give to every man his fair equal ity before the law, his right to make out of himself all that he can and above all things the right never to be governed with out his own consent. Great applause. l Whatever may happen to the republican party you may be sure that it is insured by these principles against any permanent disaster. We may lose offices, we may lose elections, but these principles are sure in the long run to lead us on to that victory which alone is worth the pursuit of great people-a victory which shows itself in the continuous upward movement of civilization in the world. [Great ap- plause.