The Dickinson press., 1894-10-27
THOMAS B. REED.

portance of the election to all requires
that the people enter upon it with full
vigor, but It is of far more importance
that business go on and at once. All in
situations are framed on q basis of sue
cess, and any falling out of gear of any
part of the machinery leads to disaster.
This happens elsewhere and generally
throughout the world. Hence it is that
the election about to take place is of the
utmost Importance to you all, for it turns
upon business reasons, and business will
be materially changed If you have the
sense I think you have.
The Manufacturer of Today.
The nature of business has radically
changed within the last SO years. All the
world is now c~ongregated together until
by the assistance of the cable, of the tele-
graph and the railroads the world has
been gathered into small compass. There
have been years in the past when business
depending on the chance of a voyage and
q return at the opportune moment pro-
duced a fortune, while the return at the
inopportune time resulted in disaster. At
the present time it is different. Men do not
try to make large profits m a single in
vestment, but they endeavor to make
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ticles. Therefore, it has been necessary to
eliminate the matter of time from practi.
cal business. Hence it is that men of bust
for slow. They do not hesitate to discover
business but also in manufactures. The
manufacturer depends OF a large range of
customers and turns out many articles at
small profits. Since business is thus, the
matter Of certainty of returns becomes
more important to the business man be-
cause his success or failure depends upon
it. When the manufacturer proposes to
make the raw materials into goods he de-
sires that all the elements entering into
the manufacture be certain and clear. He
desires, if possible, to secure material at
the same price, and that the price of labor
may be known and must know how great
is the competition and how fierce competi.
ton he may come across in going to the
remote market. The manufacturer de-
sires above all things to ensure certainty
In the elements of his business.
Present Contest Peculiar.
1t is this condition of affairs which rem
ders the present contest go peculiar. In
ordinary times the course of the political
speaker is easy and simple. MI. Evarts
declares that after 5000 years of Christian
civilization WE have never discovered an
other or better way of settling dispute!
than to set two advocates up against eacl
other, each one of them lauding the mer
its of his cause and battling the cause o
the other, Six thousand years has dis
covered no better way of governing thai
by two parties, who put up two orator
and have them malign the opposing part,
and chant the praises of their own. There
fore in ordinary times, the simple task o
the political speaker rests OF his own con
seriousness of his w worth and the pocl
ness of the u of those against him
The Democrats are still indulg:ng in tn
same procedure, that is some comfort
They shut their eyes to the fact that fo
two years they have been in power, fc
two years they have been in control of a
fairs and have proceeded to abuse Us in th
old fashion and, as they have always aon,
they indulge in promises for the future
To recur again to Mr.. Evarts instance
what would the counsel for the plaintiff
say when called to address the jury an
found that the defendants attorney ha
confessed the guilt CT his client and ha
converted him with opprob;um. H
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he would be silent. Ny task tonight hs
all of that difficulty. I cannot 'improy
Or the Confessions Of the Accused.
I have been saying certain words that
thought reasonable and just. but have, n,
always satisfied them. In my wilde
dreams l have never charged such h
havior and used such epithets as ha,
been used by their own orators, an
especially by their chief executive in tn;
series of letters that have made him I
nous as the complete letter writer"
stood in the senate of the United Stat
, and saw the senior senator from Mar
land with uplifted hand call on heav'
and the distinguished senators to witne
that the bill the president abused was Il
: bill they should pass. AS I listened I b,
many qualms of conscience, because
e was too evident I had failed to depict
might have been done the shortcomings
the Democracy. However, it ts OF
further use for the orator Of the Repu
! lican party to exaggerate the detects
!: Democracy. Whatever laurels have be
o gathered by earlier and worthier han
let the case rest where they left 1t al
turn to much more congental business
= Business Requires Certainty.
When men have ceased to be stirred
y passion and have begunto realize tina
]. great public crisis is actually before tn
l. it behooves good men to act togeth
whatever they may have done previous
As has been said, business requires beyo
q all things to have certainty. ! believe !
IS people have had the opportunity to TIL
d and understand the matter as fully q
do. They have not had much else to
: In my own state the result was mari
and astounding. There Democracy
ancient and rockribbed and has long b'
e. in the minority, but we have increased {
majority to 5000. We have had no mo
~ whatever and the party organization '
1g not in force. Never was there q time vi
the desire for an opportunity to express
opinion was SO great in every section.
~ everything Isee indications of the opin
- Of the Union. Let us consider for . !
ment whether the reasons are '
re founded, for If SO they ought. to be
lowed: To my miad the reasons are m
potent here than there.