Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-10-25
REED ON THE STUMP
He CharaCterizaS Demo-
Gratis FauIt-FInderS.
ARGUES FOR THE TARIFF
And Glorifies he Work OF the Party
Which He Represents.

SYRACUSE y Y. Oct. 25.-One OF the
Ia seSt aud e. ces that ever crowded the
AlyhGmbra, the biggest hall in central
New York. assembled there LIST night to
hear * Sneaker Thomas g. Reed discuss
the issues OF the campaign. Four thou
sand people sat or stood within IN.
spacious enclosure and hundreds went
away unable TO gain admittaucp. Mr. Reel
was escorted to the hall by the Republican
clubs OF tha city. aud the streets were
thron red all along the linr. \ tremendous
outburst OF cheering greeted his appear
ance at the Aihambra, and when, the pre-
liminary proceedings over, he arose 10 Hd-
dress the immense audience, IL was sev.
eral minut < fore he could begin. Mr..
Reed spoke substantially "a follows:
Part 'es were not formed by accident. Ono
does not 20 about with n prospectus aud form
aparty. Principles don't form n party, but
parties form principles. or the two great
parties In this country, one is progressive and
believes in noble future. The other be-
leves that al! wisdom died with Thomas JET
ferson. No party was ever yet created that
had reasonably sure dream OF its own future
Political exigencie7 are 10 be met as they
arise, and they will be met wisely or unwisclv,
according 10 the composition OF the party that
has 20 face them.
When the Republican party was ORGANIZED
well remember that we never dreamed of its
magnificent future. We thought that We
would be doing wonder n we stopped the trail
OF slavery over the territories as they were be-
ing settled We never dreamed Of abolition
or Of the war, or OF what is now history. New
ertheless the Republican party has, through
all the grand events Of these nearly forty years,
with stesdfast tread, met every emergency
rs IL arose, fearlessly and successfully. In al
this IL was
Acting Up to It's Own Nature.
II was behaving In this way because that
was its makeup. don't say that IL ought 10
be trusted because OF what IL has done unless
Il continues to be what II has bcen-the party
OF progress and the party Of human freedom.
But what has the Democratic party been do
Ing all this time? That party has also been
acting according TO its nature. 1t is essentially
fault-fnding party. 1t has no general prin-
ciple except one, and that is fits opposition 10
us. That why one Of their great men had TO
invent saying 20 describe what they are.
ii am Democrat" is the one thing that
covers them all. They are not obliged To he
all alike. Cleveland dislikes silver. Bland
loves IL. They are both Democrats and they
both dislike the Republican pasy, but for dif-
ferent reasons. The Democrats are always
against something. What has the party ever
champiOuedi With what great principle or
policy has its name ever been associated? II
Is always saying You can't do something. and
the thing, whatever IL Is, Is always done.
IL was so with slavery, with the war, with the
bonds, with The grceubacks and with the new
tariff bill. The Democratic party has no inn
agination. A Republican can tell how law
will look before it is enacted. The Democrats
must have an object lessoA before they can
tell how anything will lo,k. Thoy have got
20 be educated to things, aid tkea they under
stand them.
They have been So edncatsd on the war that
some OF them actually believe they fought IT,
They have lepu .p aluTaiph q "A I fnFIlp ttut
they now appeal TO bin. Two years sss the
Democrats went into the mir on
The Mckinley BIlI
and I am sorry 10 say ihHt uufortrn.'.'v
some OF orr people went with them. Has H.
ever occurred that their arguments OF that
time are deadrr than julius Cesar They
themselves got into "A fright over The question
In their convention, and their platform Is at
variance with their candidates letter Of ac-
ceptance. Now, there ought 10 be some way
of proving even 70 p Democrat the righteous-
ness OF a tariff. The Mckinley bill is nothing
new; IL Is only the perfection OF something
that has been going on for the last two ami
thirty years. For all that time we have been
under protection.
The Democrat themselves admit thai Il has
some virtue. There is nothing that comes
home to you like the doctrine of protection.
IL permeates all business, all human everyday
life. Put the common sense test to it, What's
the opinion OF the whole CIVILIZED word2 In
Wnen only men VINO wrote DOCKS hNl
opinions. IL was all for free trade. Today
there Is only one country for free trade. AMI
that Is Graat Britain and Ireland. Is there any
Democrat here who can't understand arIu-
mentl
Now.if protection s wicked and destructive.
as Cleveland claims, its latest improvement,
the Mckinley bill. must DE more disastrous
than anything that has preceded il. We hear
accordingly that II has not increased wage or
business III bring Democrat to show that
Il has. He has testified against himself aud
against his crowd. and he is more 10 be bc-
lieved on that account. lis name is Peck.
single year have increased $50 00D. and HAT
there have been between 5000 aud 5000 iu-
dividual increases, and S3l,0O0O increase OF
manufactured goods in the state Of New York
alone
In comparison with lsG1 every man iu this
sud d.euce who knows what wages were then
and what they are now knows that thcr arr
today for like work. whether of brain or
muscle, 80 per cent. more, and challenge any
man here 20 dispute that when J say -1 r,r
cent. am uuder-tatiu-. One step irt.'l
Do you say To me that prices have r SEN, too.
and so the increase in wages ma cs no ci.Ier-
cncet II what you -ay l. true, !ou are raIt.
But, rs a fat, You buy everything for - pr
cent. less and when ! say that pm uuIoTstaJ-
leg my case. There IL j. iu annt-lai.
If you are getting more var.. for y0ur
work and are paying less for what YOU bay.
what more do YOU WanV II you ar. not sa'i--
fed, you must want the millennium without