The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-09
REED ON THEN And NOW.
At a Reception He Arraigns the
Democratic Party.
HISTORY is DOING ITS WORK
H win Justify the Work of Last Years
Congress Other Washington Items
The Bchring Sea ouestion-New Eng
land Pensions.

WASHINGTON, March GA reception
was given last evening to Hon. Thomas b.
Reed OF Maine, at the National Rifles
armory by the National Republican Aux
iliary Association. Senator Perkins of
Kansas presided and congratulatory ad-
dresses were made by Hon. j. 9. Burrows
OF Michigan and others, TO which Mr..
Reed responded as follows:
"Only one year ago last Friday; only
one short year ago on March the 9TH, 1891
j had occasion TO address an august as
eembly in the presence of many specta-
tors. The Republican party had been
subjected in the election just before to
the severest reverse but one in all its his
tory. All that partisan malice could do
had been done"
aReproach, clamor, recrimination and
derisive epithet were at hightide on every
shore and seemed 10 be rolling landward
still"
Il ventured then and to that audience TO
express my unshaken confidence that
time would do justice to the House OF
Representatives OF the 51st Congress and
that
The Verdict of History,
the only verdict worth recording, would
place the men Of the majority on the list
of those who had done the state some SER
vice"
"with all my faith, however, did not
dream that the verdict would be so swift,
30 sure and so complete. But history in
this age OF the world, and in this land of
surprises, does its work for the living as
sn OLD DAYS ii used TO do il for the dead. /"
"Time has not yet justified all that we
did, but the catalogue Is already large and
every day brings its just additions. Since
the new House came into being the ma
iority have shown how incapable they are
10 cope with tariff revision. Unable TO
make warp and wool of their own, they
have confined themselves TO trying TO
shoot holes through the cloth we have
made"
"Disabled by prejudice and passion
from adopting in its entirety the admira-
BILE system OF rules left them by their
predecessors, they have reused cries of
shame from their own party by the ruth
less manner in which they have surpassed
even their own false description OF our
acts"
'Since yesterday there remains but one
solitary shred of foundation on which
They Based Their outcries
two years ago and that remains there in
defiance OF the opinion-the unanimous
opinion of the supreme court OF the Unit
co States"
sour works do follow US. Only two
years ago these men connected the name
of William Mckinley with every derisive
epithet and every term of reproach.
Elected since then governor of his great
state by the greatest majority Of recent
times, he has lived to see returning pros
perity justify his work and crown him
with honors."
"The charges OF extravaganza and waste
are in like fashion falling to the ground.
ALI the rest OF the country will soon
know II as we'll as you know il in the Dis
trict of Columbia, where you have seen
that the only attempt to reduce expendi-
lures has been on items like that on
streets whereby the growth OF the ma
tion's capital will be impeded and like
that on school books, whereby are less
ened the chances Of the education of the
children OF the poor. Meanwhile the Re-
publican party, emerging from the tenn
porary disaster, turns the shining face to
the future, now as ever the one hope OF
progress OF the people OF the United
6tates.n
After the speech making the floor was
cleared and the evening was passed in
dancing.