The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-25
Mr.. Greenh aige Speaks.
MIR. President and Gentlemen of the Home

Mir. President and Gentlemen Of the Home
Market Club:
i thank the Home Market club for their
kind invitation and for their cordial reception.
There is a meaning in yarr name, purpose
IN your organization. CW of the chief ends
and aims OF government is 10 give, so far as
government may give security and prosperity
10 every home in the land. What is govern
ment except the exercise of powers delegated
TO certain individuals by the people for the
benefit of the people7 And that is the best
government which. while IL respects the
rights of the individual as against the COM
munity, insists on the other hand upon the
rights of the community as against the indi-
vidual. And day by day we are nearing the
point where these apparently conflicting in
terests and rights are to be brought into just
and harmonious relations.
You cannot adopt the easy maxim, Ito buy
in the cheapest and sell in the deuest mar
ket," until you have arranged to pay the run
ming expenses of your business and made a
fair adjustment of these expenses. One of tho
first steps towards giving security and pros
perity to the home is 10 give security and
prosperity to the home market, and to es-
tablish permanent and profitable reciprocal
relations between the American producer and
the American consumer. Do not be misled by
any senile or infantile theories about what Is
meant by producer and consumer. We are all
consumers--we ought all to be producers. But
we must earn our dinner before we eat it-and
IL is "a nobler function to earn than to eat
When n man eats, he is an animal-when he
produces, he creates-he is exercising the
functions which bring him near TO his maker,
his creator.
take it, therefore that the Home Market
club stands by the producer, the worker. the
maker. rather than by the consumer-if there
ever should arise any clash Of interests-you
purpose, as understand IL, 10 make such just
and wise discrimination in the use of the
power of taxation ". thin true snd proper linn
fits, that our own domestic producers, includ-
ing working men and working women, shall
have at least equal rights here in their own
markets as against the importer and the for
eign producer.
Gentlemen-To few men, in their life time,
has God vouchsafed the great vindication
which has come 10 William Mckinley. "They
that sat in the gate spoke against him and he
had become the song Of the dfunkards." Now
his vindcation has been borne TO the four cor
ners of the earth on the voice of millions
among which rose high and clear and pure
the voice of Massachusetts.
The vindi cation OF another great leader OF
the party began even earlier-the leader OF
parliamentary reform. Thomas B, Reed. Not
only was he the great speaker of the Fifty
first congress, but he became the real speaker
of the Fifty-second and Fifty-third con-
crosses, II anything was TO be done. But over
and above all stands the vindication of the
Republican party. In 1890, the people, hasty
and impatient, served notice to quit on that
party. Yet, while working out its notice in
the two last years OF its term, IL put the coun-
try in order. gave peace, security and prosper
ity to all within its borders, and left a record
which will form bright page in the country's
history.
What honest Democrat can look with pleas
ure or pride on the history of his party since
March 4, 1898? Where shall we look for COM
fort? AT home or abroad-on lands or on sea?
in domestic or diplomatic relations? But an
other change has come. The elections just
held will promote ceeerfulness and hope. Con-
fidence Is even now coming back to reanimate
the heart of business. Follow up your advnnce.
Hold what you have gained. Today, win back
Boston. and then, in 1884, win back congress
and in 1896, win back the whole country from
ocean to ocean, aud under the lead of the
party Of action. of progress, of business, the
people can again walk in ways that are
pleasantness, and In paths that are peace.
.,uuvr spcaNcrs were Congressman Cous-
ins of Iowa and Hon. William Chance of
New York.