The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-26
ELOQUENT TOM REED
OPENS THE REPUBLICAN, OAM-
PAlGN IN NEW YORK.
Speaks on National Interests at Republic
can Ratification Meeting-A Party That
Has Show. Itself Utterly Incapable OF
Mana. ng the Nations Affairs.


tho Republican campaign in New York
State before a great audience In New
Yock [ ity. The Gear" was in mag
nil, emit voice, and ais address was re-
ceived with great enthusiasm. After
a lew INTRODUCTORY remarks In which
he quoted Evarts In some OF his bril- :
liant sayings, Mr.. Reed said
1 nave Leou la the habit Tor some years
OF speaking OF the Democratic party In
terms which seemed TO me 10 be just, but
which tue mem bers OF it have not found
entirely satisfactory, and yet l never
dreamed or using words about the party or
its chiefs which have been shouted In the
speeches by the great Democrats from
Maine to Texas, and italicized' In much
letter writing by very exalted pubic
funcuionary. should never have dreamed
OF charging the Senate OF the United
states, though OF another political party,
with per Idly and dishonor and yet that Is
only portion of the epithets which we're
chosen by the Chief Magistrate OF their
own selection. When / saw the Senator
from Maryland In tho Senate Chamber
with uplifted right hand successfully
call witness after witness TO prove that
their party chief had beguiled them
into the passage OF the very Dill
he 80 bitterly denounced, thought how
far short In the last campaign L had
fallen OF describing the actions liable to
result from the supremacy of the party TO
which l am opposed. Ihaye, therefore, no
epithets 10 bestow to- night My weapon
has Leen taken from me and my occupa-
tion as "a political speaker for this cam
paign seems TO be gone. Yet, IN some ways,
i do not regret it. Ii we can no longer
talk politics we can perhaps do better.
Surely there was never finer oppor-
tunity for little business sense, for u Hi
tie OF that wholesome wisdom which we
put into the affairs of ordinary life Let
ms her
sion that the action OF the Democratic
party and It's complete failure in the art OF
governing this country was perfectly nat
ural and that as individual Democrats
they are not responsible therefor Nor
can We venture TO say we were prophets
whose predictions were being fulfilled, for
l am persuaded that no man on our side
dared to foreshadow one-half OF what hap
,rened. Naturally enough II we who were
their enemies did not prophecy this meas
ure OF calamity the ordinary Democratic
voter could not have dreamed OF 1t and
therefore did not have IL In his heart
The past eighteen months have BEEN
months OF suffering in the houses OF the
people, not starvation, not deprivation OF
the absolute necesSaries OF life, for this
country has accumulated too much OF this
worlds goods In the past thirty years that
utter want should paralyze and kill. but
that want which is the great unhappiness
of civilization, the want OF comforts to
which We have been accustomed. i Will
draw no picture OF idle mills, silent ma
chihery. men without work. Many with
out employ ment, capital unused and labor
wasted and lost with each days setting
sun That picture IL too familiar TO you
all Nobody can charge this fairly 10 the
terms of tariff which now exists any more
than they can TO the tariff which used TO
exist. What caused all this disaster
every body knows who has any business
sense. It was tho utter uncertainty. the
appalling doubt as 10 what would happen
TO US ID ring all the time the So called
House bill was pending. men could only
fear the worst for the House bill was
about the worst thing which the un Sisdom
OF man ever devised in these late years OF
Christian civilization, his bill went to
the Senate, many Democrat vot-
ing for IL, not because he be-
loved in it. but because the Senate
would make il nearer decency and Illness
1t is the fashion among Democratic con-
ventions nowadays / notice TO denoupce
Democratic senators and demand that
they be relocated to private life. This is
absolu ely inhuman ingratitude. Notwith-
standing all the bad actions OF the Senate
and there were many-they saved the
Democratic party from annihilatlon.
There is also another fact So long as
cleveland stays in power the evil cannot
lbc remedied What then, remains, not for
tho Republican party or the Democratic
States to do; We want certainty or uncer-
tainty from now until 1890 Would the
success of the Democratic party this fall
produce this certainty? Let US see What
they say themselves The Democratic
Chairman OF the Ways aud Means O. M
mittee. Mo was the leader until the DEM
ocratic Senator from Maryland stripped
him OF his armor and dragged him around
the walls OF Troy, declared before the
House adjourned, and amid the cheers
- A.
but begun. The President writes Catch
ings that this is only the vantage
ground for new attack. Hill de-
clared that only the citadel had been
carried and that he was going back for the
re Il OF the town. These men seem backed
up by all official Democratic power The
Democratic press seem with them 1t is
pretty evident then to any sensible man
that quiet and certainty are not to be
hoped for I'm Democratic success On the
other hand. the Republicans forced into
position that The, must keep for tho next
two years will give TO business that GER
tainty which IL must have 10 DO anything
successfully To sum IL all up in "a word,
Democracy promises war on business Ger
taipty. while Republicans must give you
rest. We do not promise you prosperity.
for these conditions are not OF our chos-
in7 We do not recommend the Senate bill
IL IL not our enacting. But 10 Is certain IL
there I !, any good in II. that the only way
10 get at IL Is 10 give n chance.
Mr.. Reed then took up the capital and
labor question, and the prosr Gritty of
the country when capital was en-
ployed. He said it is true that pros
rerity OF any kind leads to large for
tunes for those whose genius organizes
the great enterprises, but this was the
case everywhere. and cited many of
the great English manufacturers, etc.
One thing which led this whole coun-
try into error in 1892 was the history
of the last thirty years. During all
that time we had been prosperous,
wages had increased, so ali parties
agree, in the ratio from 81 to Sl.71, and
that Sill bought nearly as much as 81
did when the world was thirty years
Younger. A new generation came.
Having lived all their lives In prosper
ity, with increasing wages, the people
came to eel that prosperity natural
thing, something born OF the climate,
perhaps, or of the soil, and utterly dis
connected with the government. For
the last eighteen months 1t has slowly
crept into the minds OF all the people