Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-09-11
REED AT
old ORCHARD.
Ably Upholds the Cause
of Sound Money.
APPEALS TO COMMON SENSE.
Cautions the People to Beware
of False Prophets.
APPEALS TO COMMON SENSE.
sILvER's WEAKNESS MADE CLEAR.

sILVER's WEAKNESS MADE CLEAR.
Bryan's Success Means Not Bimetallism.
but Silver Monometnllism - Effect on
Foreign Trade Would he Disastrous.
Facts From Japan and Mexico - Has
Faith In the West and the Party Of
Progress.
Following Is the full text Of the speech
of the Hon. Thomas B. Reed, delivered at
Old Orchard, Me-, Aug. 25:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLE
MEN-1n this great temple Of nature which
has so often echoed with the words which
teach of nobler and broader life hereafter,
which is to be purchased by q manly strug-
gle with evil here below, it is very fitting
that we should commence this campaign
for the opportunity to labor, which Is tho
opportunity to live; for Il sound currency,
whereby we gather to ourselves the just
and undiminished results Of our labor, and
for national honor, which is tho culmina-
ton of individual honor and the founda-
ton of national prosperity.
What seemed the great primeyal curse,
that in the sweat CT his face should man
eat bread, las teen found in the wider
view Of the great cycles Of the Almighty
to be the foundation Of ell permanent pow
er. Man no longer shuns labor as his
deadliest foe, but welcomes it as his dear
est friend. Nations TO longer dream of
riches as the spoils Of war, but as tho
fruits of human energy directed by wise
laws and encouraged by peace and good
Will. Battlements and forts and castles,
armies and navies arc day by day less and
less the enginery Of slaughter and moro
and more the guarantee Of peace with hon.
or. What the world longs for now is not
the pageantry and devastation of war for
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the few, but the full
utilization Of all human energy for the
benefit of all mankind.
Give us the opportunity to labor, and
the whole world Of human life will burst
into tree and flower
TO the 5000, 600 people which make up
the great republic the opportunity to labor
means more than to all the world besides
1t means the development Of resources
great beyond the comprehension Of any
mortal and the diffusion among all of
riches to which the glories Of the Arabian
Nights" arc but the glitter Of the pawn
shop and to which the sheen of all the
jewels of this earth Is but the CLEAN of
the glowwor1n in the pallor of the dawn.
Necessity of Labor.
To develop our great resources it is the
one primo necessity that all our people
should DO at work, that all the brain and
should be in harmonious action,
united in their endeavors to utilize the
great forces Of nature and to make wealth
out Of senseless matter and out Of all the
life which begins with the cradle and ends
with the grave, and out of all the powers
which ebb and flow in the tides of the
ocean, in the rush Of the rivers, and out Of
the great energies which are locked up in
the bosom of tho earth.
Man alone has mastery Of the earth and
sea and sky, and by him alone can the
hidden treasures be poured into the light
of day.
But each individual man is weak and
powerless. Only by combination each with
the other can great results be had. No
more striking proof of this can anywhere
be found than In that complex union of
men which makes up the modern nation
and modern society. But while men must
he united for great enterprises, the nature
of man Graves also liberty and individual
:ity. Modern union and the complex, Won
,derfully complex, condition of moder1, So
ciety has drawbacks and SORROWS which are
completely its own. The sachems of New
England had no financial troubles, no
strikes. The currency question was IA SIM
pie as o string Of wampum. In central
Africa today banks never break and checks
are never dishonored, for neither banks
nor checks ore needful for their kind of
prosperity. Before the factory system rem
dered combinations of workmen needful
there was less discomfort, but almost no
progress, and there was no sharing by the
toilers of the profits and the pleasures.
But If you believe as do that the world
is better than 1t was, and that all the dis
comforts of modern life are but a fair price
paid for higher civilization growing ever
higher, then you must with patience try
to understand the temporary evils and seek
in good temper to rectify wrongs by good
sense.
Neither loud Indignation nor aowery
speech, neither great promises nor wild
harangues will help any man out of dis
aster or any nation out Of hard times.
Temper will not even unite shoestring,
and the harder you push a rope the more
1T will not go any whittier.
Causes Of Prosperity.
What are the causes of prosperity and
what are the causes of panicss Are they
mysterious things beyond human KEMP If
you will analyze, you will find that what
ever the remote causes are, and they are
different every time, the immediate cause
of prosperity is the confidence of all the
people in each other and in the situation
in the future When the people all work
together, when they all have faith In each
other, then prosperity reigns. After pros
perity reigns for some time, longer or
shorter, men think that hard times are
permanently done away with, and get wild
and overprosperity sets In. ~
Then some wise men earlier than others
see that the world cannot absorb all that
is made, cannot permanently support the
enterprises which the overconfdence Of
men has set In motion, and begin to doubt,
to refuse discounts, to hoard money and
call halt to speculation. Then the dis
trust spreads. and panic and hard times