New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-08-29
DIAGNOSIS OF DEMOCRACY
In the ski]lful Style Of Thomas B. Reed.
The Tariff Bill Protective Only in Spots,
and Furnishing the::Trusts With
d Almost Infite Wealth.

Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed opened
the Republican campaign in Maine Fri
day afternoon with speech which called
forth the heartiest applause from the
thousands present. Mr.. Reeds main
effort was to prove that 1.-THE Democratic
party had shown itself incapable of rul-
ing the country in a manner satisfactory,
not only to majority of the people, but
even to the large minority which helped
compose it." Mr.. Reed in part spoke
as follows:
SIN saying that the Democratic party
has shown itself incapable of running
this country in a manner satisfactory not
only to the majority of the people, but
to large andrespectable minority which
help compose it, l. am not indulging in
any language of partisanship but in the
language of truth, known and visible to
all who hear me to. day. The North
western Democratic party is in many
respects, like the Republican party, COM
posed OF men Of business sense and busi-
ness ability. The difficulty with the
Democratic party to-day, as it has been
IN all past time. is the fact that its great
majority resides in the South, The
southern men are men of intellectual
power, men of intellectual power, men
OF intelligence and men of learning. The
difficulty with them is that the kind of
learning which arises from thorough,
knowledge of business as it IS carried on
in the North is entirely lacking. While
the Southern man may have every op-
portunity to read in books of the pros
perity which has come to the North, he
has no conception of it such as those
who have lived in it. He is devoted to
the theories of bygone day. His mind
is fixed upon the principles which were
essential in the prosperity of his part of
the country lin the days befor the war.
It would be great mistake for the
people of the United States to suppose
that the action of the senate, so much
blamed by the Democratic party and SC
much attacked by the people of the
country in general, was to he deemed
entirely the result Of personal feeling.
1.-THE truth is that the action of the
conservative senators on many subjects
is the result, not of thei1 individual
opinions, but Of the business interests
which surround them. A senator from
New Jersey could not be reckless with
the business interests of his constituency
like senator from Arkansas, like Mr..
Jones, who has devoted patience and
intelligence to the tariff question, and
alt though not surrounded by business
interests which control him, was irresist-
IDLY borne in the direction of the senate
bill as it finally past that body.
| "Whatever may have been done by
the people at present in possession of
the government, every one will admit
that it las been done slowly, out of
place and in such a way as to be of the
least possible use to the country. The
repeal of the silver purchasing clause of
Sherman act might possibly have been
OF some service to the country had it
been done mole promptly and at once.
But the delay in the senate, the long
and protracted debate and the continu-
Gus opposition, the realization on the
the part of the country that the senate
did it unwillingly, prevented any good
which the friends of the measure were
disposed to claim for it. After the re-
peal OF the purchasing clause had un-
covered the real situation of the country,
it then became the duty of congress, even
from Democratic point of view, to
pass such tariff bill as would give to
US a reasonable degree of assurance that
the basis there established would be one
that would be permanent for a sufficient
period of time, period at least so long
as the victorious party were to be in
power. Instead of realizing the first
great principle of statesmenship, that
whatever IS to be done in the world has
i s = E E r.
got to be lone il accordance with the
wishes of the people who live init, the
gentlemen in charge Of the tariff bill in
the house of representatives undertook
to ignore the varied interests of the
country and to mold a tariff bill not in
the interest Of the nation, not in accord
ance with the wishes of the people, but
in accordance with certain theories which
they thought might possibly fit their
dream of ultimate free trade.
.'Such bill, framed in such manner,