The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-15
MR. REED In NEW YORK.
Continued From First Page.

Maine is state where Democracy is
rock-rib bed and ancient as the sun, and
yet in Maine the Democracy SO expressed
themselves that the great tidal majority. of
81, 600 given years ago, when the deepest
depression, the result of the war, rested
onNthe Democratic party, was exceeded
by II, 600. do not think you quite
realize what that majority means, II
New York State were to give SUI, 600
it would hardly exceed it: 5000 would
represent only the increase. None of us
expected such majority. There was
no special organization. There was no
money. The Democrats did 1T them
selves. Many of them voted with US and
very many more stayed at home. deter
mined some by soutspoken action and
some by silence to show their appreoia-
ton of the results of party government
which they saw about them on every
hand.
Was this sensible course of action,
well founded and one which ought to be
followed by their brethren in New York,
and all over the Union? What is the
present condition of things and what
ought we as sensible men to want?
The past eighteen months have been
months of suffering and stagnation, not
suffering and misery in the mouth of a
partisan orator, but suffering in the
houses of the people. Not starvation, not
deprivation of the absol ute necessities
of life, for this country had accumulated
too much of this worlds goods the past
thirty years that utter want should para
lie and kill: but that want which is
the great unhappiness of civilization. the
want of of comforts to which we have
been accustomed. will draw no pic
ture of idle mills, silent machinery,
l.,
ploy, capital unused, and labor wasted
and lost with each days setting sun.
That picture is too familiar to you all.
Nobody can. charge this fairly to the
terms of the tariff which now exist any
more than they can to the tariff which
used to exist. What caused all this
disaster everybody knows who has any
business sense. 1t was the
UTTER UNCERTAINTY,
the appalling doubt as to what would
happen to us. Who could build on
shifting sands? During all the time that
the SO called House bill was pending
men could only fear the worst, for the
House bill was about the worst thing
which the unwisdom of man. ever de-
vised in these late years Of Christian
civilization. This bill went to the Sem
ate, many Democrat voting for it, not
because he believed in it, but because the
Senate would make it nearer decency
and fitness.
1t is the fashion among Democratic
conventions nowadays. notice, to de-
nounce the Democratic senators and to
demand that they shall be relegated to
private life. This is absolutely inhuman
ingratitude, y otw understanding All the
bad actions Of the Senate, and they were
many, they saved the, Democratlc1 party
from anniRifaGion. Why do you suppose
these senator's. these Democratic sena-
tors, made six hundred and thirty amend
meIlts to the House bilI?s Was it out of
pure premeditated wickedness?1 Or was
it Oh the demand Of their Constituents?
Did the junior Senator from New York
hang out for collars and cuffs by the
direct instigation of the devil or because
he lived in Troy? Did Senator Smith
rescue some of the manufactures of New
Jersey because the fend whispered into
his ear, or because ne heard the human
voices of his constituents?
But do not care here and now to dis
cuss the relative merits of Mr.. Wilson's
Democrats Nor do / care to discuss
the merits of the Senate bill. So far as
it projects reasonably American indus
tries all is, weIl.s4 So far as it does not
], all is wrong toany, thinking. 4aBnt,it is
the law of the land. not wi th.omy 7seon-
sent, and for that matter n OF with the
consent of the Democratic candfdatel for
governor. There is also another fixed
fact. So long as Mr.. Cleveland stays in
power the evil cannot be rectiMea, What
then remains not for the Repu hfican
party or the Democratic party,lq but q for
the people of the United States to- do?
Do we want. certainty or uncertainty
from now to 1896? We can lay aside all
our partisan feeling and agree that the
great and paramount curse of this, coun-
try for the last 10 months has been un-
certainty. Nobody dared to start in bust
ness or go on with his business so long
as no foundation could be discovered.
Business is not gambling. 1t tries its
best to take no chances. What it de-
mands more and more every year is GER
tainty. What then shall the business
world do to procure certainty as the
basis of it's future actions 1t is not
necessary in order to arrive at a proper
conclusion to discuss or decide which
party is best or which is worst.
Would the success of the Democratic
party this fall
PRODUCE CERTAINTY
Let us see what they say for them
selves. It the leaders lie you would not
want to trust them. II they tell the
truth you can find no rest for the soles of
your feet on any Ararat. The Demo-
cratic chairman Of ways and
means who was the leader
until the Democratic senator from
Maryland stripped him of his armor and
dragged him about the walls of Troy.
declared before the House adjourned
amid the cheers of Democrats that the
fight was but begun. He FASTENED back
to his constituents in West Virginia to
reiterate the same notes, crossed the
lifting waters to proclaim it again to
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