New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-05-09
TOM REEDS TWO PICTURES.
He Paints Them Before Gathering in
Pittsburg.

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At the celebration of Gen Grants
birthday in Pittburg last Friday, Hon.
T. B. Reed was the principal speaker and
among other things he drew the follow
ing pictures:
"The last time 1 had the good fortune
to address this club this country was in
state of peace and prosperity; work
was plenty, capital was rejoicing in it's
productive. strength and labor was en-
joying the right to sell its services at
prices which brought happiness and com
fort to all our homes. The thirty years
which had preceded had witnessed the
gradual and steady rise of compensation
for service of both brain and muscle, un-
til every days work was worth in results
twice what it has been since the last
domination of this Union by Southern
statesmen and their principles. So firm
ly rooted seemed our prosperity that all
our citizens thought it beyond the reach
of heat and cold and all changes If sun
and weather, and most men felt that it
was beyond the touch of even human
folly. 1t seemed to be beyond politics,
something inherent in the constitution
of things, something to he calculated
upon with unerring certainty, like. the
rise and set of the sun, the regular mo-
ton of the planets and the eternal stars.
ut is not the disorganized crowds
which. seem to be aiming, but in an aim
less way. towards the capital of the ma
ton; it is not the mills running on half
and quarter tim. and no time at all, nor
capital piled up unused at the centers of
trade, nor even labor unemployed for
nearly year past which completes the
saddest portion of the year. To me the
sight most odious of all is the utter in
ability of the people to reach their own
instruments and to compel the fulfill
ment of their own will. Here in a land
where government by the people was
fondly hoped to have found it's truest and
latest expression the people seem to be
po1erless to control their own legisla-
ton and to correct by sober reflection
the mistake of the most thoughtless day
in American history, the day when the
present congress and the present execu-
tive were chosen to preside over the I'M
happy destinies of the citizens OF the
United States.
"Whatever large majorities would do
whatever the exercise of the right of vot-
ing could do, has been done in large and |
overlooking measures. Why is this and
what are the causes? Were we left to
the tender mercies of the Northern Dem
ocrats venture to say that no such con-
dition could exist for even single hour.
It is because We are under the domina-
tlon, will not say of the South, but of
Southern men, elected to Office without
those safeguards which surround theelec-
ton of the Northern Democrats. For
the sake of the South itself hope to see
the next election bring US to an end of
this unseemly domination. Ali election
laws have been repealed, and the South,
having been set free from fear which |
never had any sound foundation, will be
left at liberty to decide her destiny &C.
cording to her industrial needs, which |
are the same as those of the North. In
stead of set of men who represent OBJ
solete politics and principles of dead
generation their successors, let us hope,
will then represent what the North longs
to see-an industrial, prosperous South,
full of the life of new country