The Portland daily press., 1892-04-20
MIR. REED SPOKE.
Enthusiastically Received by Day
State Republicans.
THE RECORD OF THE TWO PARTIES
ON TARIFF AND SILVER.

Dinner of the Republican Club of Massa-
chusetts-Beside Mr.. Reed, Senator
sented the Young Republicans of Har-
ward College, and Theodore Roosevelt
Made Speeches-A Great Opening Vol
ley for the Bay State Campaign.
Boston, April 19.-The dinner of the
Republican Club of Massachusetts at
Music Hall this evening was the largest
political gathering of the season. Nearly
1000 Republicans satat the tables and the
balconies were packed with crowd in
which were many ladies. The hall was
elaborately decorated. Dinner was
served promptly at 6. Hon. John Simp.
kins, president of the club, presided.
Among those present were Senator Jos.
N. Dolph, of Oregon; Hon. Theodore
Roosevelt, chairman of the United
States Civil Service Commission; ex-Gov.
Brackett, Postmaster Thomas N. Hart OF
Boston, ex-senator Hill of Colorado, w.
G. Lowering, chairman of the state con-
vention which convenes tomorrow; Hon.
Thos. B. Reed, John L. Dodge, president
of the Harvard Republican Club;
Speaker Barrett of the Massa-
chusetts House of Representatives
Hon. W. w. Crapo of New Bedford,
Chairman Eben S. Draper of the Repub-
lican state committee, United States Dis
trict Attorney Frank D. Allen and Presi-
dent A. S. Pinkerton of the Senate.
ATT, President Simpkins began his
brief opening speech, introducing Sena-
tor Dolph, who spoke upon the silver
quently applauded. The next speaker
ures to prove his assertion that the ma
.jority of the Harvard students are and
always have been, Republicans. Theo-
dore Roosevelt was the Hext speaker and
the last speaker was
Hon. Thomas B. Reed,
who was enthusiastically cheered as he
rose. He said in substance: ''If you
and were to build this world, undoubt-
edly it would have been builded
upon the principles described
in the criticisms of us in
the Independent Democratic press, which
is to say, on the basis of perfection. 1t
would always have been fair weather and
the Democrats would have been righteous
before, as well as after the event, but
Providence has builded the world full to
the brim with human nature. There are
storms and always more Democrats than
we can safety digest at any time. Our
principal difficulties arise from the fact
we Republicans, who do something, have
to live in this practical world instead of
that haven of rest in which the Demo
cratic party does its work. We do our
work and record it in the annals of legis-
lation. They do their work in their
minds and it never gets recorded any,
where. We suffer by comparison. Being
human beings, we do doubtful and wrong
things some times, though I challenge
the worlds historians to show an instance
where we haven't done the best that
could be done in the history of this
country.
''The tariff and silver bills are tremen-
dous
Instrum entalities for Good or Evil.
But the present and immediate future of
this country depend upon the state of
the human mind at this moment more
than anything else. At times men have
lost confidence in each other, have ceased
to pull together have had no hope of
the future, have been in what we call
hard times, At other times, every mill
wheel is whirring, labor is in brisk de-
mand, capital is called for by thousand
enterprises, and the basis of the whole
1,rocpnrity ic tho aanf1Iopoa of ,,oo,,I~;rl
in the permanency of the immediate fu-
ture. We are on the verge of prosperity
and all that keeps it off is the uncertain
ty born of the Democratic party. No
tariff bill they can frame can be worse
for the business of the world than the
uncertainty under wich they are keeping
us. Uncertainty is the bane of modern
business. There was time when it was
not SO; when a local dignitary of my
state,
The Duke of Scarborough,
could say that all the beauty of the flour
trade arose from its fluctuations. But
modern business demands that there
should be no fuctuation and has it's hope
in the small percentage of steady busi-
ness. After full discussion before the
people we passed tariff bill which day by
day has been growing in the favor of the
people. Isn't it entitled to chance? I
don't find any fault with any man who
criticises the tariff. 1t has errors which
can be corrected. But there's wide
margin between the correction of errors
and the revision of the tariff. I have
seen two revisions of the tariff. Every
one had as many errors as the preceding
and the Democrats have always been
maddest at the least.
The Democrats say the silver legisla-
tion of 1890 was all wrong. Perhaps it
would not have been passed if some
Democrats had been in 1890 of the same
opinion they think they are in 1892.
Passed when it was,
1t Saved This Country
from the free coinage of silver; from dis
aster. 1t gave us the renewed assurance
of this government that every dollar
sanctioned by the United States should
be equal to every other dollar. Itgave
us a cessation of tile two million coinage.
That may prove dangerous some time.
If it is, where are you going for the rem
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