Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26
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 a 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 think you have.
The Manufacturer of Today.
The nature of business has radically
changed within the last so years. All the
world is now congregated 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
a return at the opportune moment pro-
duced 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 on single in
vestment, but they endeavor to make
small profits on a great many different ar
ticles. Therefore, it has been necessary to
eliminate the matter of time from practi-
cal business. Hence it is that men of bust
ness will pay more for fast freight than
for slow. They do not hesitate to discover
the small margin of profit not only in
business but also in manufactures. The
manufacturer depends on 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 COMPETE
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.
It is this condition of affairs which rem
ders the present contest SO peculiar. In
ordinary times the course of the political
speaker is easy and simple. Mr.. Evarts
declares that after 5000 years of Christian
civilization we have never discovered an
other or better way of settling disputes
than to set two advocates up against each
other, each one Of them landing the mer-
its of his cause and battling the cause of
the other, Six thousand years has dis
covered no better way of governing thag
by two parties, who put up two orators
and have them malign the opposing party
and chant the praises of their own. There
fore in ordinary times, the simple task Of
the political speaker rests on his own COZ
seriousness of his own worth and the poor
ness of the cause Of those against him.
The Democrats are still indulging in the
same procedure, that is some comfort.
They shut their eyes to the fact that for
two years they have been in power, for
two years they have been in control of af-
fairs and have proceeded to abuse us in the
old fashion and, as they have always done,
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 and
found that the defendants attorney had
confessed the guilt of his client and had
converted him with opprobium. He
would do what the best lawyer would do,
he would be SILENT MY TASK IOn1gnI mas
all of that difficulty. I cannot improve
On the Confessions of the Accused.
have been saying certain words that
thought reasonable and just, but have not
always satisfied them. In my widest
dreams I have never charged such be-
havior and used such epithets' as have
been used by their own orators, and
especially by their chief executive in that
series of letters that have made him IA
nous as thes'complete letter writer"
I stood in the senate of the United States
and saw the senior senator from Mary
land with uplifted hand call on heaven
and the distinguished senators to witness
that the bill the president abused was the
bill they should pass. As listened had
many qualms of conscience, because it
was too evident I had failed to depict as