The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-11-01
REEDS REPUBLICANISM.
Chicago's Housing Reception to
 the Maine State sman.
Convincing Arguments on the Doctrine of Protectlon-The Democratic
 Party Koundiy
 Roasted.

was flooded by sea of humanity on the evening of Saturday, October 21, to welcome ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed, of Maine. The meeting was the largest political gathering the city has seen for two years, and the greeting accorded the distinguished republican statesman was of the hair-raising, ear splitting order. When Mr Reed could make himself heard he said:
 Fellow citizens, in this vast hall, with this great multitude, must ask the forbearance of each individual citizen, if he desires to hear m tonight The address which shall make to you will be quiet, and If am successful, a reasonable discourse, which will depend as much upon your patience upon my skill Not even your kind and cordial greet ing can satisfy me that have not come very far for almost nothing. I do not mean by almost nothing this vast and splendid audience, which will tax my voice to It's utmost capacity, nor this vigorous multi tude. Least of all do mean by 1t the greet ing which you have given me the high welcome which have received, and if I could attribute to myself even tithe of it, it would be to me memory forever [Applausel But since you have been thus kind to me, may venture with the utmost humility to extend my greeting to the omnivorous west. lApplause.l What
 
 of knowledge that I shall be able to add to what you already have, ILaughterl Your Knowledge has not been gained by word of mouth. It has come to you by that want and suffering which comes in civilized communi- ties when we are unable to enjoy the blessings to which we have been accustomed Let me give you the consolation that If that knowledge came to you hard 1t will stay with you long. daughter and applause.
 There is no knowledge on earth like 1t tlaughterl, there is none which is so satisfac- tory in the long run [renewed laughterl. It seems that for the lGst thirty years the repub- ltcan orators have been giving you arguments founded upon wisdom and fraught with the good sense of this world. Nevertheless those arguments, sound and solid as they were, must seem very trivial compared with those to which you have been listening for the last two years. Mans arguments re persuasive, Gods arguments are convincing Laughter and ap- plausel and yet we have to undergo all this on account of principle. not only of our nature, but Of all the animal creation. All beings. whether human or otherwise, have to have ed- ucation Laughter and applausel They re- ceive 1t in comparison to their capacity. tAp- plause.l A dog who is lying out in the street and sees the approach or shadow of trolley car usually has sense enough to get out of the way. tLaughter.l His masters voice or the example of some other dog has taught him lAlos lLsoubhtVIsl nt hnONS III h vague Wuy that trolley car Is dangerous, but he is not always entirely satisfied that it is. Some day, when the trolley car takes off an inch of his tall, he ceases to have any doubt laugh terl and he knows for an absolute fact that trolley car must not be trited with. Renewed laughter.l
 The argument is not only convincing, but permanent And the democratic party is just like the beasts that perish it has to have edu- cation. It is just like them, it has limitations. Just like them it refuses to receive a great many facts except from experience. For the last thirty years, as have already said to you in substance, the republican orators have been telling you that free trade, or even the ap- proach to 1t, in this country, even the shadow of it on this green earth, would bring to you disaster and, perhaps, death and ruin. For seventy years before our coming Thomas Jeff ferson and Andrew Jackson, unknown gods, whom the democracy ignorantly worshiped tlaughterl have always preached the same fate
 Were Insensibie to Reason.
 "One would naturally suppose with such a feast of reason that an intelligent race like our own would be so sensible as not to put even it's nose, let alone it's whole body, into danger Nevertheless, so 1t Is that after two thousand years of Christian civilization this people, the inhabitants of the most enlight- ened nation on the face of the earth, are sit ting to-day in sackcloth and ashes-cOal ashes Ut that. Laughter ana applause, And, strange to say, some of us are so mistaken. so beleaguered and misled, that they are striving to prevent even halt in our descent to the pit But they cannot prevent the halt, and the halt will be called-not by republicans alone, but by democrats as we'll. C"In times of great public crisis we lay aside party feeling and act somewhat for the benefit of the country; that is those of us who are worth our salt It will not be the first time in the history of the rank and file of the demo- cratic party that they have done this. When the south fired upon Sumter, whatever the leaders said the rank and file spoke by the voice of stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, and declared that in time of rebellion there were only two parties, patriots and traitors. lAp- plause.l So to-day when the southern de- mocracy, not the south this time, thank God, the southern democracy strikes at northern industry and at northern wages, believe that the democratic rank and file. some of them out loud, some Of them with a silence that will be more vocal than sound will come up to the rescue of the meek against the mighty just like the people of olden times. If that should not be so then even the super Rbounding faith that have will not enable me to do what have done all my life, that is, shut my eyes and bet on the United States of America.
 Signs of Democratic Defeat.
 "You can see, If you have eyes, the indica- 9ions of what am saying upon every hand. Look at the great Empire state of New York What do you behold there except confusion worse confounded2 Look all over the other states as well as your own, and see yourselves what you behold This does not call upon you to remember the verdict of Vermont and of Maine [applausel, though that verdict is safe and secure to-day, and believe an indication of the opinion of the entire union. It was an old statement, so old that am almost ashamed to quote 1t, that whom the gods wished to de- strOy they first made mad. Have you ever seen at any time such madness as has been ex- hibited by the leaders of the democratic party? tCries of "Neverl Neverl"l At the time when this country had been suffering from two years of stagnation when the mills had stopped. when capital had ceased to be employed when labor was wasting with every days setting sun, when everybody was disgusted and amazed, think of these men, instead of stand ing aghast at the ruin they had wrought, stand ing up in their places and declaring that what they had done already was but the vantage ground for future attack. This was but the first battle of the desolating wars which were to follow. Think of the chief leader of them all. the chairman of the committee of ways and means, fresh from these declarations, crossing the to tell the British first of all that the