The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-21
GOD AND POLITICS.
Tom Reed Works the Same Racket
as His Admirers in Utah-The Al
mighty's Arguments in Favor of
Protection.

Chicago, Oct. 20.-ThOmaS b. Reed
addressed an audience of enthusiastic
Republicans tonight ait the armory of
the First infantry I. N. G. The arn1ory
was packed full, about 1000 people be-
ing present. The Hamilton club, under
whose auspices the meeting was held
had arranged for an overflow meeting
on Wabash avenue, about three squares
from the armory, and the hall was also
filed
Mr. Reed began by saying that he did
not think he would be able to give the
people of the west much information
regarding the state of public affairs.
Your present knowledge" he said,
has come to you by that want and
suffering which comes in civilized COM
munities when we are unable to enjoy
the blessings to which we have been
accustomed. Let me give you the con-
ISOLATION that if that knowledge came
to you hard 1t will stay with you long
For the last thirty years, Republican
orators have been giving you argu-
ments founded upon wisdom and
fraught with the good sense of this
world. These arguments, sound and
solid as they were, must seem very
trivial compared with those to which
you have been noting for the last two
years. Mans arguments are persua-
=.
daughter and applause.)
For thirty years the Republican ora
tors have been telling you that free
trade, or even the approach of 1T, in
this country would bring you disaster
For seventy years before our coming
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson
always preached the same doctrine
One would naturally suppose that with
such a feast of reason an intelligent
race like our own would be so sensible
as to not put even its nose let alone its
whole body, into danger. Nevertheless,
after six Thousand years of Christian
civilization, this people, the Inhabitants
of the most enlightened nation on the
face of the earth, are sitting today in
sack cloth and asheS-cold ashes. (Ap-
plause)
that I am almost ashamed to quote,
that whom the gods wished to destroy
they first made mad. Have you ever
seen at any time such madness as has
been exhibited by the leaders of, the
Democratic party? (Cries of Never,
never.'O At the time when this country
had been suffering from two years of
Stagnation, think of these men, instead
of standing agllast 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 chair
man of the ways and means committee
crossing the ocean to tell the British
that the battle had but began. Just
imagine for moment the feelings of
the honest Democrats.
Protection" said Mr. Reed, sis not
an attempt To tax the many for the
benefit of the few. e is an attempt to
get all the profit we can out of our bust
ness and out of the gifts of God in this
country. More things than business
have changed. Thermarkets of the
world have changed. The latest news
from the United States treasury shows
that from Sept. 1 to Oct. Is receipts
have been s33, 25O,0OO and expenditures
So, 600, leaving a deficit of S1S,00O,-
900, and etethese men in charge of
this great government imagine that
the taxation, which they say belongs
in the customs receipts for revenue
only Qaughter) would bring them
enough to support the wants of the
government. Instead of that, the de-
felt is $403, 900 every day of the week.
If that continued twelve months the
deficit would be STAT 100000. And even
with the full extra sugar duty the de-
felt stands at $100,000,000 Why, we
are not buying our goods. let alone
goods from foreign countries. Oaugh-
ter and applauSe.) our markets nave
grown smaller and smaller, but UP to
the year 1892 our market was the great,
est market in the world. Do you
know what made it the greatest mar
ket? What makes great market?
What is a great market? 1t is a place
where people have money to spend.
Applause) When we left off having
money to spend, in just that proper
ton we left off being a market. The
market is only another name for the
purchasing power, and the purchasing
power is to a nation the same as what
we boys used to call suction is to a
pump. Cheapness without cent of
money in your pocket to buy with is
bitterness to the soul. You know it
now.
How unconvincing would the Dem
ocratic orator be if he were to take his
place here tonight. Don't you remem-
Der how he talked about tin plate and
the workingman's dinner pail that was
full then and is empty now? 1t will be
a long year before the workingman is
again fooled by that empty dinner
pail" (ApplauSe