The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-09
TOM REED TALKS.
Makes an Epigrammatic Speech
to Republicans In Maine.
Mr.. Reed Says When a Wolf Has
Broken
INTO THE SHEEPFOLD
He Should Be Expelled Even If
Party Lines
Must Be Broken In Order to Do
1t.

Limerick, Me, Sept. 9.-Thomas B.
Reed, Herbert M. Heath of Augusta
and Frank S. Black, the Republican
nominee for governor of New York,
spoke before crowd of $500 people at
the Republican ratification here yes
terday. Previous to the speaking there
were several flag raisings.
Mr.. Reed was introduced amid great
applause. He said in substance:
IF there is any place in this world
where the wicked cease from troubling
and the weary are at rest, it is not in
the politics of the United States
never yet saw a campaign where I be-
grudge the time spent in discussion as
much as this.
NO shepherd will read a book on
sheep huSbandry when a wolf has bro
ken in to the fold until the wolf has
been expelled. [ believe in party lines.
They give stability to the government.
During this campaign it is ones duty
to break party lines, yet there is no
reason why a man should not return to
his party later. The Democrat who
comes into our ranks won't find an
angelic company, for all Republicans
church.
I often hear it said, we ought to
discuss the tariff would rather do so
at the present time, but we cannot un-
til the great financial question is dis
posed Of"
The speaker then discussed in a gen
eral way the tariff and the result of an
insufficient revenue. Continuing he
said:
lover 20 years ago the mills were all
giving employment to the laboring peO-
pie. We thought that we could keep
on in our prosperity and we had
change. We have the change now.
They tell US that the remedy is the
free coinage of silver We ask them,
What is your reason for wanting it?'
Have they given US any reason for
wanting it No; they lost themselves
in the intricacies of the currency Ques-
ton.
The object of the currency is to IA
cilitate the exchange of that which we
have for that which we want. That
coin does your work and no coin can
do more than that L object to assist
ing the western miner to our own dis
advantage. The western people de-
serve to be well treated, and we have
well treated them by buying $464, 900, 900
in. silver that is today worth one-half
less than what it was when we bought
it.
''They tell US of the crime of '73. How
silver was secretly demOnetized when
the people had free access to the Con-
gressiOna1 Globe. They speak of it's
being done secretly in such a manner
that it reminds me of stealing upon
person during the darkness with a sti-
lettO. No one paid any attention to this
at the time. They call it up today be-
cause they want to use it.
In 1877 we voted to buy a certain
amount of silver each month We were
told that the demand would increase
the value of silver. If the purchase of
a small amount of silver has sent the
prices down what will be the result
when silver is purchased in larger
quantities?
What do we, as laboring people
want? Every Iaboring man, whether
he works with his hands or with his
brain, wants a chance to sell what he
produces. The different labor organi-
cations are a necessary outgrOwth of
the factory system and are what the
laboring man needs.'