Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-10-21

von nv that want and suffering which
comes in civilized communities when we
are unable TO enjoy the blessings 70 whlcn
we have been accustomed. Let me
give YOU the consolation tnat
if knowledge came TO you hard 1t Will stay
with you long. 1t seems for that for the
last thirty years the Republican orators
have been giving you arguments founded
upon wisdom and fraught with the good
sense of this world. Nevertheless, tnose
arguments, sound aud solid as they were,
must seem very trivial compared win those
to which you ave been listening tor the
last two years. Mans agreements are per-
suosive. Gods arguments are convincing,
laughter and applausel, and yet we nave
TO undergo all this on account OF principle,
not only of our nature, but OF all the amman
creation. All beings. whether human or
otherwise, have to have an educaIlon.
they receive il in proportion atoatheir ca
pacity. For the last thirty years as L nave
already said, the Republican orators nave
been telling you that free trade or even
the approach of IL in this country would
bring to you disaster. For seventy years
before our coming, Thomas Jefferson and
Andrew Jackson always preached the
same fate.
One would naturally suppose that after
such a 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 IL is, after
six thousand years of Christian clvlllza-
tion, this people, the inhabitants the most
enlightened nation on the face Of the eartn,
are sitting today in sack cloth and
ashes-coal ashes at that daughter and ap-
plause), and strange to say, some OF US are
so mistaken, so mislead that we are strlv-
boI IN n
the pit. But they cannot prevent IL. And
the halt will be called. not by Republicans
alone, but by Democrats also. 1t was an old
statement, so old that am almost ashamed
10 puote it. that whom the Gods wished
10 destroy, the first made mad. Have you
ever seen at any time such madness as has
been eXhi bited by the leaders Of the DEM
cratic party. Cries Of never, never AT
the time when MS crountry had 0een SUI
fering from two years sJagnation, think
of these men, instead of standing agast at
the the ruin they have wrought,
standing up in their places and
declarln that what they have done
was but the vantage ground for further
attack. Think of the chairman Of the
Ways and Means Committee crossing an
ocean to tell the British first of all, that
the battle had but begun. Just imagine
for a moment the feelings Of an honest
Democrat. But do no desire TO discuss
these questions from a partisan view.
When the whole broad subject is open in
1895. we shall have learned wisdom
enough and have gained strength
enough TO take care Of that ques-
tion then, 1 trust, in manner
will be continued forever. Great ap-
plause Two things are absolutely neces-
sary for good law upon this and every
other subject. 1t must have sound princi-
pies which can be depended upon, and
those principles must be satisfactory TO
the public sentiment Of the community.
In closing, Mr. Reed urged the people OF
Illinois TO come out Of this valley OF
shadow of death and climb the hills OF hap
piness and prosperity and so on TO your
righfu position as the foremost State in
the greatest country that the sun shines
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