The herald., 1894-10-21
REED IN CHICAGO.
Tho Rival of MoKinl Makes His Dsbut
10 the Vast.


rho Rival OF MoKinley Makes His Dsbut
10 the VAST.
CHICAGO, Oct. 20.-Thomas B. Reed
addressed an audience OF enthusiastic
Republicans tonight at the armory Of
the First regiment. The building was
packed with z0o0 people aud an overflow
meeting was held three squares from the
armory.
Mr.. Reed began by saving that be did
not think he would be able TO give the
people of the west much information Te-
garding the state OF public affairs.
"Your present knowledge" he said, d,
''has come to you by that want and suf-
fering which comes in civilized commn-
mites when We ere unable 10 en- 10y the
blessings to which we have been accus-
toned. Let me give you the consolation
that il that knowledge came to you hard
it will stay with you long.
"For the last 80 years Repu bliean
orators have been giving you arguments
founded upon wisdom and fraught with
the good sense of this world. Those ar
guments, sound and solid as they were,
must seem very trivial compared with
those which you have been noting for
the last two yeare. Mans arguments
are persuasive, Gods arguments are
convincing.
''For 30 years the Republican orators
have been telling you that free trade or
even the approach Of it in this country
would bring you disaeter. For 70 years
before our coming, Thomas Jefferson
and Andrew Jackson always preached
the same doctrine. One would natural
ly suppose that with such feast OF rea-
son, an intelligent race like our own
would be go sensible as to not put even
its nose, let alone it's whole body into
danger. Nevertheless. after 1000 years
OF Christian civilization, this people. the
Inhabitants of the most enlightened ma
tlon on tbs face OF the earth, are sitting
today in sackcloth and asheH-c coal ashes.
"At the same time when this country
had been suffering from two years of
stagnation, think of these men, ...stead
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 further
attack. Think of the chairman OF the
ways and means committee crossing the
ocean to tell the British that the battle
had just begun. just imagine for q mo-
ment the fesling of the honest Democrat.
Protection is not an attempt to tax
the many for the benefit of the few. 1t
is an attempt to get all the profit we
can out of the gifts of God in this coun-
try. More things than business have
changed. The markets of the world
have changed. Our markets have grown
smaller and smaller. Up to the year
1892 our market was the greatest in the
world. Do you know what made it the
greatest market? What makes great
market? What is q great market? 1t
is place where people hsve money to
spend. When we left off having money
to spend we left off being market.
The market is only another name for
the purchasing power, and the purohas-
ing power is to q nation the same as
what we boys used to call is suction
to q pump. Ohespness without cent
of money in your pocket to
buy with ie bitterness to the soul. You
know it now.
"How unconvincing would the Dem~
ocrstic orator be if ne was to take his
place here tonight. Don't you remem-
ber how he talk ed about tin plate and
the workingman's dinner pail that was
full then and is empty now? 1t will be
long year before the workingman is
again fooled by that empty dinner
pail"