The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-10-25
AN EXPENSIVE LESSON.
That Is What Thomas B. Reed Says the People Have Had.
The Maine Statesman Reviews the Work of the Democracy Before n Vast Au- dience of New Workers at
 Cooper Union.

New York city, on Saturday evening, October Is, when eX-Speaker Thomas B. Reed appeared upon the platform. It was long time before Mir. Reed could make himself heard above the up roar, during which he was hailed as the "next president" etc. When he finally succeeded in subduing the tu- mutt with which he was greeted he made a lengthy address, in the course of which he said:
 Tt is because I am sure from outward and visible signs, notably from the elections in Vermont and Maine, that men arc laying aside their partisanShip and are willing to do their share toward saving the country that am will ing to lay aside mine and discuss on reason- able terms what is best to do here and now for the common interests. Whenever the prin- cipals in MT. Evarts' lawsuit lay aside their grudgeS their lawyers con lay down their weapons. So when in politics mistake has been made so great that all men can see it, partisanship can be laid aside, and the case can be stated without exaggeration of the merits of your own side or abuse of the other. Of course man ever fails to be perfectly fair this side of the river of death, for prepossessions and life associations can never be entirely overcome, but there are times when men who have never before acted together can think sallke. IntSG IlDleS are SnOWu Dy the lCIlOn of men. and not by their speech.
 Meaning of Maine's BiE Majority.
 Maine is state where democracy IS rock ribbed and ancient as the sun, and yet in Maine the democracy so expressed themselves that the tidal majority of 27.000 given years ago, when the deepest depression, the result of the war, rested on the democratic party, was ex- ceeded by l1,000. I do not think you realize what that majority means. If New York were r,{, {s vg,,lA hnr lltrn ff would represent only the increase None of us expected such a majority. There YVES no spe- cial organization. The democrats did it them selves Many Of them voted with us, and very many moro stayed at home, determined by out spoken action or by silence to show their ap- preciation of the results of party government which they saw about them on cTery hand.
 Was this Q 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 ctGlitiCl of things. and what ought we as sensible men to want' The last eighteen months have been months Of suffering in tho houses Of the people. Not starvation, not deprivation of the absolute necessities of life, for this country has accu- mulated too much of this worlds goods the last thirty years that utter want should par alyze and kill, but that want which Is the great unhappiness Of civilization, the want Of comforts to which we have been accustomed. will draw no picture of idle mills, silent ma .chinery, men without work money without employment, capital unu Sed, and labor wasted and lost with each days setting sun. That picture is toofamiliar to you all.
 Depression Caused by Uncertainty,
 Nobody can charge this fairly to the terms oi the tarln which now exist any more than they can to the tarin which used to exist. What caused all this disaster everybody knows who has any business sonSe. It was the utter uncertainty, the appalling doubt us to what would happen to us. Who could build shifting sand? During all the time that the so-called house bill was pending men could Q only fear the worst, for the house bill was about the worst thing that the unwisdom of man ever devised in these late years of Chris tian civilization. This bill went to the senate. many democrat voting for 1t. not because he believed in 1t, but because the senate would make 1t nearer dcCency and fitness.
 Tt Is the fashion among democratic conven- tions nowadays, l notice, to denounce the democratic senators and to demand that they shall be relegated to private life. This is ab- solutely inhuman lngratitude. NotwithStand- ing all the bad actions Of the senate and they were many, they saved the democratic party from annihilation. Why do you suppose these senators, these democratic senators, made 630 amendments to the house bill? Was 1t out Of pHre, premeditated wickednessI Or was 1t on the demand Of their constituents? Did the junior senator from New York hang out for collars and cuffs by the direct instigation of tho devil or because he lived in Troy? Did Senator Smith rescue some of the manu- factures of New Jersey because the fend whispered into his ear or because he heard the human voices of his constituents?
 Business Success Depends on Certainty.
 But do not care here and now to discuss the relative merits of Mir. Wilson's or Mir. Cor man s system-both were democrats-nor do care to discuss the merits of the senate bill So far as 1t protects reasonably American in- dustries all is we'll So far 1t does not, all Is wrong to my thinking; but it is the law of the land not with my consent, and for that mat ter, not with The consent of the democratic candidate for governor.
 There Is also another fact So long as Mir. Cleveland stays in power the evil cannot be lrectihed. What, then remains, not for the re- publican party or the democratic party, but for the people of the United States to dor Do we want certainty or uncertainty from now until 1896? We can lay aside all our partisan feeling and agree that the great and para mount curse of this country for the last eight cen months has been uncertainty. Nobody dared to start in business or go on with his business so long as no foundation could be dis covered.
 Business Is not gambling. It tries its best to take no chances What 1t demands more : and more every year Is certainty. What, then, shall the business world do to procure certain ty as the basis of its future action? It is not necessary in order to arrive at proper con- clusion to discuss or decide which party is best or which is worst Would the success of the democratic party this fall produce cer- rtainty?
 Democracy DIvided on Future Plans.
 Let us see what they saw themselves. If they, the leaders, lie, you would not trust them. If they tell the truth you can find no rest for the soles of your feet on any Ararat. The democratic chairman Of ways and means, who was leader until the democratic senator from Maryland stripped him of his armor and dragged him around the walls of Troy de- clared before the house adjourned, amid the O cheers of the democrats, that the fight was but begun He hastened back to his constituents in West Virginia to reiterate the same notice, crossed the lifting waters to proclaim 1t again to the British, and, refreshed by that touch of his mother earth, vibrated back to renew his declaration. Surely he does not mean peace and Quietness. Nor has he the slightestidea of the value thereof.
 'Mr. President writes to MT. Catchings that this is only the vantage ground for new 2 attack MT. Hill declares that only the cita- del has been carried and that he is going back for the rest of the town. These men seem