The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-21
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The Ex-Spenker Makes N Good Speech
to 1000 People.

The Ex-Speaker Makes N Good Speech
To 1000 People.
CHICAGO. Oct. M.-Thomas B.. Reed adj
dressed an army Of enthusiastic Republic
ans in the armory of the First Infantry. /.
y. G. The armory is capable OF holding
fully seven thousand people, and 1t was
damned to the doors an hour before Mr..
Reed began his address. The Hamilton
Club. Of Chicago, under whose auspices
the meeting was held. had arranged for an
overflow meeting on Wabash avenue, about
three squares from the armory. and this
hall was also filled. When Mr.. Reed left
the armory for the Wabash-avenue meet
ing he was escorted by several of the Re-
publican clubs, with bands and torches.
Ex-Governor Richard j. Oglesby was the
| principal speaker after Mr.. Reed at the
armory meeting. When Chairman Axiom
introduced Mr.. Reed, in a brief speech,
the applause was tremendous.
Mr.. Reed begged his hearers to give him
a chance. and said he must ask their for
bearance IL they desired to hear him In the
vast hall. He said he did not think he
would be able to give the people of the
West much In the way Of knowledge Of the
state of public affairs. etc. "Your present
knowledge" said he. has not been gained
that want and suffering which comes in
civilized communities when we are unable TO
enjoy the blessings to which we nave been
ton that If that knowledge came to you
hard 1t will stay with you long. 1t seems
iican orators have been giving you argu-
ments founded upon wisdom and fraught
f Tith she ts good sense sFpsm OF this so %0gld and fe soiid
as they were, must seem very trivial COM
pared with those TO which you have been
arguments are persuasive; Gods arguments
are convincing. daughter and applause.)
count ye Of a pr hnS 9 te n nof oniy Of on a nature at
but Of all the animal creation. All beings,
whether human or otherwise. have to have
to their capacity.
For the last thirty years. as I have
already said, the Republican orators have
been telling you that free trade, or even
the approach OF it in this country, would
bring to you disas-er. For seventy years
before our coming. Thomas Jefferson and
Andrew jackson always preached the same
fate. One would naturally suppose that
after such q feast of reason an intelligent
race like our own would be so sensible
as not to put even its nose, let alone its
whole body, into danger. Nevertheless, so
civilization this people. the inhabitants of
the most enlightened nation on the face of
the earth. are sitting today in sackcloth
and ashes-coal ashes at that daughter and
applause), and, strange TO say, some of us
are so mistaken. so misled that we are
scrnf e 70 fbl prevent 1,y R even fbe a n cannon on o orr g
1t. And the halt will be called, not by
Republicans alone, but by Democrats also.
1t was an old statement, SO old that i am
almost ashamed TO quote 1t, that whom
the gods wished to destroy. they first made
mad Have you eyer seen at any time
the leaders OF the Democratic party
(cries of 'NeverI Neverr) at the time
when this country had been suffering from
two years stagnation? Think of these men.
instead of standing aghast at the ruin they
had wrought, standing up in their places
and declaring that what they had done
was but the vantage ground for furtner
attacksi Think of the chairman of the
ways and means committee crossing the
ocean TO tell the British, first of all, that
the battle had just begun! Just imagine
for a moment the feelings of an honest
Democrat. But, / do not desire to discuss
these questions from a partisan view.
There is no doubt that in next November
tho election will turn upon business ques-
tons.
ELEMENTS OF UNCERTAINTY.
There are to-day two great lements of
uncertainty. The first is that we don't
know what the Senate bill is about yet, and
won't until we have a trial of Ii. Both the
President and the chairman of the ways
and means committee having said it is but
vantage ground for further attack, what is
there to see but uncertainty? 1 am only
speaking of the temporary subject of this
present election. When the whole broad
subject is opened in 1896 we shall have
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strength enough to take care of that ques-
ton then. l trust. in a manner that will be
convincing forever. Great app,aase) Two
things are absolutely necessary for a good
law upon this and every other subject. 1t
must have sound principles which can be
depended upon, and those principles must
be satisfactory 10 the public sentiment of
the community.
Protection said Mr.. Reed. sis not an
attempt to tax the many for the benent of
the few. 1t is an attempt TO get all the
profits we can out of our business ana out
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things than business have changed. The
markets of the world have changed. Here
In no,66 this country tSs l @ ann a1Faid we are disaP.
of our British brethren formed when the
present bill passed. The latest news from
the United States treasury shows that from
Sept. l to Oct. Is receipts have been $685.
2Oo,0o. and expenditures, S2.Ooo.O0 leaving
a deficit OF SIS 600. and yet these men in
charge OF this great government imagine
that the taxation which they say belongs in
the customs receipts for revenue seulyi
port the wants of the government. Instead
of that the deficit is 5000 y every day of
the deficit would be Sl47,OC0.Oco. And even
stays at $780, 600. coo.
why, we are not buying our own goods.
let alone goods from foreign countries.
daughter and applause) Our market has
grown smaller and smaller. Until the year
1892 our market was the greatest market
in the world. Do you know what made ii
the greatest market? What makes a great
4 market WHIT 10 a great market! LII Is a
place where people have money to spend.
Applause) When we left off having
money to spend in just that proportion we
left off being a market. We were in condi-
ton to make purchases. for ever since 1861
wages had steadily Increased until the fatal
day in 1892 when Illinois went wrong. like
some other parts of the Union. (Applause)
The market IL only another name
for the purchasing power, and the pur-
chasing power is to a nation the same as
what we boys used TO call suction is to
a pump. 1t sets all the machinery going:
it turns the mill wheel: 1t does more than
that. il Is the foundation and origin of
cheapness. Cheapness without a cent of
money in your pocket to buy Is bitterness
to the soul. You know IL now. Cheapness
with money to buy is a blessing unmitigated.
How cheap and trivial the arguments Of
two years ago seem to be now. How con-
vincing would the Democratic orator be IL
he were to take his place here tonight.
Don't you remember how he talked about
tin plate and the w~orkingman's dinner pail
that was full then and is empty now. 1t
will be a long year before the workingman
Is again fooled by that empty dinner pail"
Applause.)
Speaking of the statement of a Demo-
cratic paper that cotton cloth is a cent
cheaper than a year ago, Mr.. Reed said
that might be; that the men who made
that cotton cloth get their cloth 10 per
cent. cheaper. but have lost % per cent.
on their wages.
Mr.. Reed briefly reviewed the deeds of
the Republican party during it's thirty years
OF power and said he believed that this
last two years will make the Democrats
better citizens. During the past thirty
years they have been morose--inclined to
no severe in their criticisms ~ the papub