The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-15
The Brilliant Ex-Speaker Addresses
an Enormous Audience in Gotham.
WIT, RIDICuLE AND WISDOM
Certainty Is the Paramount Need of the
Business World Today, But There
Can BE No Certainty While
Democracy Controls.
BY the United Press.

REED. He reused the crowd to q frenzy
of enthusiasm that shook the building.
Every form Of noise-making at the
command Of crowd was put in use.
Men not only stamped and yelled, and
clapped and howled, but they ham
mered the pillars with umbrellas and
canes; they blew horns and footed
whistles and sang songs, and produced
such an overwhelming clamor that
even the stolid policeman, accustomed
as they were to outbursts Of enthusi-
asm, were astonished.
Among the many bright things Tom
Reed said were these: "Mr. Evarts,
in one Of those brilliant sayings which
have so often lighted up life Of dig
nifty and honor, declares that the wis
dom of mankind after 5000 years has
discovered no better method Of admin
istering justice than to set two men on
opposite sides, each charged with the
duty Of exaggerating the merits Of his
side and perhaps abusing the other.
Cheers and laughter.) Hardly any
better method has ever been discovered
for governing the world than by polit-
ical parties who set up political speak
ers to chant the praises of their own
and denounce the vices OF their enc
mics.
Il have been in the habit for some
years OF speaking of the Democratic
party in terms which seemed to me
to be just, but which the members of
1t have not found entirely satisfactory,
a I a ~, Nr1s
about the party or It's chiefs which
have been shouted in speeches by great
Democrats from Maine to Texas and
italicized in much letter writing by
q great and esteemed public function
AIRY. ! should never have dreamed of
charging the senate of the United
States, though Of another political
party, with 'perfidy and dishonor,'
and yet that IL only portion of the
epithets which were chosen by the chief
magistrate Of their own selection. When
l saw Senator German In the senate
with uplifted right hand, successfully
call witness after witness to prove that
their party chief had beguiled them
into the passage Of the very bill he so
bitterly denounced, / thought how far
short In the last campaign / had fallen
Of describing the actions liable to re-
suit from the supremacy of the party
to which l was opposed.
Not a Calamity Howler.
II will draw no picture of idle mills,
silent machinery, men without work.
money without employment, capital un-
used and labor wasted and lost with
each days setting sun. That picture
is too familiar to you all. Nobody can
charge this fairly to the terms Of the
tariff which now exists any more than
they can to the tariff which used to ex-
list. What caused all this disaster ev-
erybody knows who has any business
sense. 1t was the utter uncertainty,
the appalling doubt as to what would
happen to us? Who could build on
shifting sands? During all the time
that the so-called house bill was pending
men could only fear the worst; for the
house bill was about the worst thing
which the unwisdom Of man ever de-
vised In these late years of Christian
civilization. This bill went to the SEN
ate, many Democrat voting for 1t, not
because he believed in 1t, but because
the senate would make 1t, nearer de-
cency and fitness. Well, what are we
to do? We must bring about certainty
But where are We to get 1t? In the
Democratic party?
$50 long as Mr.. Cleveland stays In
power the evil cannot be rectifled
What, then, remains, not for the Repub-
lican party or the Democratic party
but for the people of the United States
to do? Do We want certainty or un-
certainty from now to 1896? Business Is
not gambling. 1t tries its best to take
no chances. What It demands more
and more every year Is certainty. What
then shall the business world do to pro-
cure certainty as the basis of Its future
action? 1t Is not necessary In order to
arrive at a proper conclusion to discuss
or decide which party Is the best OF
which party is worst. Would the sue.
cess OF the Democratic party this fall
produce certainty? Let US see what
they say for themselves.
Compliments to Prof. Wilson.
IF the leaders lie you would not want
to trust them. If they tell the truth YOU
can find no rest for the soles of your
feet on any Ararat. The Democratic
chairman Of ways and means, who was
leader under the Democratic senator
from Maryland, who stripped him of his
armor and dragged him about the walls
Of Troy; declared before the house ad
1ourned, amid the cheers of Democrats
that the fight was but begun. He has
tened back to his constituents in West
virginia TO reiterate the same notes
crossed the lifting waters to proclaim i
again to the British, and, refreshed b,
that touch Of his mother earth, vibratet
back to renew his declaration Surel,
ne does not mean peace and quietness
Nor has he the slightest idea of tn,
value thereof. Mr.. President writes [,
Mr.. Catchings that this is only tn,
vantage ground for new attack; Mr.
Mills declares that only the citadel ha
been carried and he is going back 70
the rest Of the town. These men seemed
backed up by all the official Demo
cratic power. The Democratic pres
seems with them. 1t does look as IL tn
only men in the Democratic party VIII
have any disposition to try their owl
work We're the senators from Maryland
Ohio and New York, and New Jersey
and they are being hooted at In al
Democratic conventions in the Unite
states, and where. as in Ohio, they wer
not maligned In set terms, the presiding
officer proolaims the doctrine of r
AtNSu WoA VI NdHtdke BTOunu IOF neN
attack and such like unwholesome ad
vice.
1T Ia pretty evident, then, to any sen
sible man that quiet and certainty ar
not to be hoped for in Democratic sue
cess.
Let the Tariff Alone.
On the other hand, the Republican
are placed In such position that the
must for the next two years give I
business that certainty which II mus
have to do anything successfully. w
could not make any change for the bel
ter from our point Of view, becaus
Cleveland and the senate would oppos,
We certainly should not do anything I
make the tariff worse, for that Is cor
trary to our principles.
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