The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-24
Tom Reeds TarIn Speech.

Is w elAEl&Il. w no HEAL
Tom Reeds Tariff speecis.
The speeches made at the Home Mar
ket club dinner in Boston on Thursday
evening, were a very remarkable set OF
u~tterances. There was Mr.. w. S. Park
erson of New Orleans ~proclaiming the
"New R~epublicanism," with cries of
\ Force bill in Louisiana and mo
Negro domination" and there was
Thomas B. Reed of Maine preaching over
again the old doctrine of the Harrison
Mckinley days that protection claeapens
soods and makes prices higher, that 1t
improves the condition of the working
man by making everything cost more
and that it cheapens the price of com
modities by preventing the cheap COM
petition of Europe and forcing up the
wages of our home workers.
All this extraordinary tangle of logic,
N which we are now so well accus-
toned, he repeated on this joyous ocea-
sion in Boston. and we ave the unani-
nous evidence of the newspapers that
he did it with the most evolutionary per-
sonal success. We are told that the audi
ence amounted to six thousand, and they
cheered and whooped and waved n
Rerchiefs at him in paroxysmal enthusi-
asn. while the late Mr.. Mckinley, who
at one time, it will be remembered, was
a prominent Republican politician, was
barely remembered. and Benjamin Harri-
son was never once remembered.
out of this grand ovation a Presi-
Dental boom for Mr.. Reed is to be cult
waited. We assuredly wish it every sue
cess. He is the most representative Re
publican by far now before the people.
The late Mckinley used to struggle to be
logical and statesmanlike, and the diff
culties the effort involved him in may
perhaps account for that air of gloom,
which sits on his countenance II
dsrkens his career. Reed, throwing logic,
science, even common sense to the dogs,
gives free rein to his animal nature. He
Laughs and shakes in Rabelais' easy
chair" while he rolls off contradictions
and inconsistencies sandwiched in be-
tween p%latitudes and %misapplied truisms,
popularity, a full mouthed pot-bellied as
s~ertiveness tina paralyzes the reason Of
his hearers and puts them in good humor
through the mere contagion of his hilar-
ity. He is a sort of professional genial
in politics and his following is made up
of those good fellows-how many mil
lions they are-who are always willing to
take a hand shake and a loose story for
signs of good faith and good fellowship.
1t is through these characteristics that
Reed stands the type Republican. a
fraud and a humbug, unprincipled, ignor-
ant, injudicious, a mere h~andsfaker, g
buffer, a juggler and a peddler of catch
words, he is the concentrated essence
o. a party which has neither patriotism
nor public policy though it parades an
elaborate pretence Of both; a party
which, while it bowls about the old flag,
endeavors to break down the principles
of the Constitution by the -disfranchise-
ment of voters and by Federal agrees
sions upon the powers of the statesi a
party which. while it appeals to the
p~rejudices of the public at large. is all
the time laboring{g to drag from
the mass Of The Reople the last
cent to enrich the limited class for whose
benefit it is run. Let as have Reed for
the Republican Presidential candidate, BY
all means. Let us see if the workingrnan
can be imposed on by his preposterous
professions, or if the thinking man can
be deceived by his absurd fallacies. 1t
will be an interesting study in politics,
and the result may tend to chasten the
party to which Mr. Reed belongs.