The Portland daily press., 1891-10-16
GO HAND In HAND.
The Republican Party and the COun.
try's Prosperity.
Mr. Reeds Speech to the Boston
Marketmen's Climb.
The Cradle Of Liberty Rocked by
Cheering Republicans.

Boston. Mass, October 15.-Faneuil Hall
has seldom seen within its walls larger or
more enthusiastic meeting than that of the
Marketmen's Club this noon, when Hon. A.
w. Beard. Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Hon.
Thomas B. Reed and General John L. Swift
made speeches. All the speakers were greet
ed with long continued applause. The ap.
pearance OF Mr.. Reed was the signal for an
outburst of voc;ferous cheering, and during
his speech the Cradle of Liberty was rocked
by the thunders Of applause with which its
salient points were greeted. Mr.. Reed said:
| suppose, Mr. President, that in former
times. when Massachusetts was prosperous
laughter, there would be more people at
Faneuil Hall meeting [laughterl, but If that
Is the case it must be because Faneuil Hall
was then larger than 1t Is now. think that
man might know the condition of the
country by watching a political campaign,
even If he never read the newspapers nor
was able to hear what was said. Whenever
Republican meetings are enthusiastic, when
they are well attended, when everything
points to victory, you know that the country
Is prosperous. LApplause] Anybody by
looking at the Massachusetts political meet
ings of this year can see that we are going
to have an enormous crop of grain; that we
are going to have an immense crop of corn
that transportation by railroad is going to
bring prosperity to those Institutions; and
that an abundance OF money and of wealth
will flow through the channels of trade to
the enrichment of the uttermost parts of the
country; for 1t is one Of the principles of
the Republican iparty-national prosperity.
lapp!auseL and II you were to know before
hand that the crops had failed in the West,
that manufactures were languishing in the
East. you would not need to be told that
there was great chance then and there for
the Democratic party. [Laughterl. When
last fall, even, they sent it out almost before
1t was known, the financial disasters In
South America and the disarrangement of
the monetary force Of the world, IL was only
another carrying out of the same thing. But,
thank Heaven, today our people are begin
ming to come to their senses and to see that
lican party, but the Republican party backs
up prosperity. [Great applausel. The two
60 hand in hand.
Now, If have anything to complain of
about Republican craftsmanship it is that it
too often listens to Democratic complaints.
IL never does any good, for it's impossible at
any moment to say whether the Democratic
party feel worse when they get what they do
want or when they get what they don't
want. lLaughter.l Perhaps the happy me-
dium would be to give them something of
both and keep them in their regular state of
mind. Why, for the last half dozen of years
the atmosphere of every political Campaign
was filled with their shoutings about the
dreadful fact that we had got a surplus in
the United States treasury, and at the very
moment while they were deDouncing 1t they
We're doing their best to increase it. Aud
today, when they have got their wish, and
the surplus has disappeared from the treas
ury they are, beginning to feel an astOnished
atmosphere. the atmosphere not being able
to go backward and forward with as much
facility as they are, they are fatigueing an
astonished atmosphere with the declaration
that we are bankrupt and that we ought to
nave some money put into the treasury.
lLaughter.l say that they went on delib-
erately increasing that surplus for the puI-
pose OF usingit as an argument against us
because they said we ought not to have any
more money In the treasury than the peoples
needs And In what way did they continue
TO augment 1t? BY refusing to make the
necessary appropriations for the regular bus
mess of this country. Applause They
were doing all the time what some railroad
do, they were skinning the road to
make the treasury look well and then they
were making an otucry because the treasury
did look well.
Why, now, take little item which 1 saw
In the newspapers the other day in my own
city, where an award had just been made of
$4,000 for repairs in the heating and ventila.
tion OF the public buildings there-four thou
sand dollars not for heating them or venti-
lating them, but $4,000 merely to repair them.
What sort of q condition do you imagine our
pubic buildings are in when you have to
make an appropriation of that size for the
small number there are in Portland merely
to put them into repair, and have no doubt
the collector here could have added to his
report something of the way in which the
public buildings have been neglected here
and neglected all over the country. But the
Democratic party were busy increasing the
surplus In order that they might destroy pro-
lection. [Applause.] And l say to you that
from one end of the country to the other that
has been precisely what the Democratic party
in the House has been doing, and it is an ac-
tual fact that when Mr.. Cleveland himself
was president of the United States the off,
cials of Democratic administration had to
appeal to Republican Senate to get an ap-
preparation Of money for the absolute neces-
stiles of carrying on the public business.
| lApplause.l Ii public property be allowed to
go to ruin then there comes time when the
country must make its own appropriations,
aud must pay its bills for, In the long run.
the United States has got to pay for what it
gets and never will get what 1t doesn't pay
for.
Now. this is not the first time that we
have heard OF this talk about the tremend-
gress. 1t is fact that every time Repub-
lican Congress comes in 1t has to put the
country, the public building and the public
institutions upon an honest basis [applausel,
duu Ino just ueDtS uue Dy tno ODlteu OIaIeS
government have to be paid by the party
which believes in paying all debts. and be-
lieves In spending the peoples money for
the peoples uses. LGreat applause.l This
Is great country, and 1t Is a country that is
growing, notwithstanding its terrible power
applause.] 1t Is a country that is gro wing
at the rate Of a million aud half of people
every year. The next decade will find us
with 100000 of people, and it costs US
more to run the institutions of government
the institutions Of 80 millions of people,
which was the number that we had when
the Republican party commenced that
triumphal progress toward prosperity and
peace [Great applause.l These Democrats
clothing of the child and then complain that
the clothes did not fit. Loud laughter and
great applause.l Ii there is anything the
Democracy Is great on it Is prophetic ut
terances. Laughter They do not know
ANYTHING about iH the past, but the future they
do not know history, but they know every
thing that has not happened. ILaughter.l
When you talk to them about the fact that
there used to be higher prices for everything
that we bought they do not seem to know
anything 1t. When you talk to them
about the fact that there used to be lower
wages than there are today, they do not
seem to recOllect anything about that. But
when they tell you of the ruin and destruc-
tion which is impending over Massachusetts,,
her deserted cities, her abandoned farms
llaughterl, her ruined manufactures and her
departing citizens, then they become not
only eloquent but exact with all the magni-
ficence of particular figures. [Great laughter
and applause.
There is one thing that am glad to see
thanks to the persistence of our orators and
of our pewspapers-they have been driven
to the wall upon the question of prices and
of wages. Applause. Even in their own
columns, alter futile efforts with regard 10
wages, they have been obliged to admit that
the prices of everything you buy are lower
than they were under Democratic adminis-
tration, and the wages of every man are
higher than they were in the halcyOn days
of Robert j. Walker. But do they admit it
openly, fairly and frankly, on the plane of
that beautiful independence which a Demo
cratic newspaper always processes and never
practices? No. They say: "Your tariff is
an infamy, everything that you have done
has disgraced the country and ruined its
prosperity. Oh, by the way, it is true that
wages are higher and the prices of things are
lower, but the tariff is an infamous thing.
Laughter and applause. How absolutely