New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-07
REVERSING ENGINES.
wIlITELAw REID TO THE NATIONAL RE-
PUBLICAN LEAGUE.
WHAT REPUBLICANS BELIEVED TEN MONTHS

WHAT REPUBLICANS BELIEVED TEN MONTHS
Speech In Music Hail. Buffalo, September 49, 1871
There is one vital question In this campaign Are
the people dissatisfied with their present prosper
course that they are ready to invite dahserous
mere modification OF the course as formerly. that
our opponents now propose. ms u'ne me-, u - in
x h rec M Of pse pSen lor How serious
disturbance a modification OF that course made,
S S"w d that this iii iii IS Working we'll oppc
,xtcndins our trade by Reciprocity They Ssnou Iss
had for nearly thirty years magnificent system Of
National aning currency They demand It's so sSnn
to bring s upon your! yoarseives and il + proposition .
be- sderei by practical business people In prac
teal, b:anesslikc way.
LOGIC OF TUE BUSINESS WORLD.
II the great mass of concerned In transact
Ing the commerce and carrying on the manufactures
Of New YORK seriously believed thad ~ SoT nr ,s
assOute chang now demanded by the Democratic
asasnea y, aspns to abandon Who
does not know that slasnaion would replace .he
story of business curuiled, orders diminished, FAC
tories reducing their output everybody shortening su
aa sn would SI b. lost IN Whiting to Dsc what hap
pened In November that the winter would De lost
In waiting To See what the new PRESIDENT ana te ue"
Clbinet Intended, and thlt nothing but u complete
disav0wal by them Of the professions ana promises
by which they came into power could preve*t the
ensuing year, before the new Congress had ne 10
acl from being also wasted I'm waiting 10 sec how
sweeping would be the changes the Congress would
decrecl In short. does not every business mnns
whatever his party convictions his political preju'
dices, absolutely know, cold business PROPOSE.
ton that the complete reversal OF the existing order
OF things demanded BY the Democratic party In Us
pres platform. as To the Tariff. as TO Reciprocity
and as TO National banking would necessarily unsettle
business for the next eighteen mo;ths or two years
do not ask HIN TO admit that AT the end 81 that
time the legislation might not. from his point OF View,
be- far better. Iii, opinion about that would depend
upon whether he j. Protecti0nst or Free TRACER,
"a financial conservative or hnlhclal wildcat. Bug
whether he il the the other. he knows, az you
do that the uncertainties which must exist penang
such change, 10 It's possibility or IT'S scope, woua
be- throughout their duration, the worst possible Cd
structOn TO business.
BUSINESS CHAOS INVITED.
Most of them would admit even more In view OF
our having ndaped ourselves I'm the last eighteen
months 10 the Mckinley bill, and our practically
upbrokcn conduct OF business since 1862 under hlgn
protective tariff system. most or them whether FREE
Traders ProtectOnists, know that anyinhe IKE
broad and thorough execution OF the scheme ia!u
down by the representatives OF the Democratic party
in their platform at Chicago, requiring me repea W
the Mckinley bill. and the adoption Instead OF y
revenue tariff. the abandonment Of our shalh i.e.
ipr0city, treaties and the destruction or our Nnt,""
banding system, would be the precipitation Oh Dus'
chaos