The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-11-29
TOM REED OF MAINE
An American Tells Americans How
to Govern This Nation.
A BIG BANQUET AT BOSTON
Needs of the Party of Protection In Its
Hour of Triumph APPLY Described
Caution and Judgment

Boston, Nov. 22.-The annual banquet
Of the Home Market Club of Boston. the
leading republican organization of
Massachusetts, was held at Mechanics
building tonight. Portraits of McKin-
ley, Garfield, Harrison, Hayes, Senator
Hoar, Thomas B. Reed and other re-
publican lights hung about the place.
Upon the platform, beside the party
forming the reception committee, were
General Russell Alger of Detroit and
Rev. Edward Hale of Boston. After due
attention had been devoted to the vi
| ands, Colonel Clark arose and extended
the cordial greeting of the club to the
assembly. Colonel Clark then intro
| duced Governor Greenhalge, who ex-
| tended a welcome to the guests of the
people of Massachusetts Senator Hoar
| was the next speaker. When Reed
| arose he was received with an ovation.
| He was obliged to wait several minutes
| before he could proceed. He said in
| part:
REEDS WISE WORDS.
| Perhaps some of this great audi
| ence Will recollect that l cast a slight
| shade of soberness over your dinner last
| year, and / am afraid that it might be
| the same this evening. Yet l have Just
| one reason more than the rest of you
| for rejoicing. The result shows that
| there is in me the prophetic instinct
| not so fully developed as / could WISH
| but still valuable. Once during the
| last session of congress, when the plans
| Of democracy had been developed, 1
| ventured to say to the leaders that
| when the people of this country got at
| them in November of this year they
would bury them in the trenches This
was nearly true, but there was a slight
| lnaccuracy. L should have said that we
| would bury them in the trenches until
| the supply of trenches gave out. Could
| you have imagined that after all the
| warnings which rung out from all the
| Industrial states at the elections which
you celebrated year ago, those men
would have gone on to cruelty Amer-
| can industry for another year7
BRING RESPONSIBILITIES.
| "The victories bring responsibilities,
and as 1 have pointed out to you, your
| victory is so great that 1t probably
means responsibility for many years.
II we have wisdom for two years, we
! will be trusted more and the wisdom of
| the next two years seems to be easy.
| We shall have two years to look over
can when our time has fully come. We
have removed one uncertainty that of
| the future, the uncertainty of possible
| change, but the uncertainty of the pres
ent still remains. This country is in
| favor of protection. If anybody believes
| that the democratic platform was en-
| dorsed by the election of 1892 he has no
| fellowship with the president or the
| chairman of the ways and means COM
mittee. for neither of them dared to
| even attempt to carry it out 1t may be
that at the last election the hard times
| caused irrational voting, but the fact
| remains that the overwhelming victory
| we have had was a victory for protec-
| tion, as the firm faith of the American
| people.
NEED GOOD JUDGMENT.
| what we need now is not general
belief in our doctrines. During the
| next two years this country needs the
help of every man who has the slightest
morsel of truth in his possession. Who
Is our ruler? The sovereign people of
| the United States-more despotic than
any monarch that ever sat on throne.
The victory was won, not through our
organization, but by our principles.
| Great as our victory is, there is great
er which we must win. By our wisdom
we must so govern this country that
the great questions of the next six years
may have as true a solution as the great
! questions of their day had at the hands
of the republicans who preserved the
Union. and gave the people 30 years
of peace. prosperity and progress"
The secretary read a telegram from
| Governor Mckinley of Ohio, in which
he said that such occasions in the past
had been like homecoming after tn,
| harvest of the year. Colonel w. S.
Patterson of Louisiana spoke of the
new movement in that state as result
of the failure of the democrats to full
fill their pledges. General Alger of
Michigan was the last speaker.