The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-09-30

but Silver Monometailism - Effect on
Foreign Trade Would lie Disastrous.
Facts From Japan and Mexico - Has
Progress.
Following is the full text OF the speech
of the Hon. Thomas b. Reed, delivered at
Old Orchard, Me-, Aug. 20:
MIR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLE
MEN-In this great temple of nature which
has so often echoed with the words which
teach of a nobler and broader life hereafter,
which is TO be purchased by n manly strug-
gle with evil here below, it is very fitting
that we should commence this campaign
for the opportunity to labor, which is the
opportunity TO live; for sound currency,
whereby we gather to ourselves the just
and undiminished results of our labor, and
for national honor, which is the culmina-
ton of individual honor and the founda-
ton of national prosperity.
What seemed the great primeval curse,
that in the sweat of his face should man
eat bread, has been found in the wider
view of the great cycles of the Almighty
to be the foundation of all permanent pow
err Man no longer shuns labor as his
deadliest foe, but welcomes 1t as his dear
est friend Nations no longer dream of
riches as the spoils of war, but as the
fruits of human energy directed by wise
laws and encouraged by peace and good
will Battlements and forts and castles
armies and navies are day by day less and
less the enginery of slaughter and more
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 ACKNOWLEDGMENT 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 20, 900, 900 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" are but the glitter of the pawn
shop and to which the sheen of all the
jewels of this earth is but the CLEAN of
Necessity of Labor.
To develop our great resources 1t is the
one prime necessity that all our people
should be at work, that all the brain and
muscle 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
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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 the 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
be united for great enterprises, the nature
of man Graves also liberty and Individual
ity. Modern union and the complex, won
derfully complex, condition of modern so
ciety has draw backs and SORROWS which are
completely its own. The sachems Of New
England had no financial troubles, no
strikes The currency question was as sim
pie as string of wampum. In central
Africa today banks never break and checks
are never dishonored, for neither banks
nor checks are needful for their kind of
prosperity. Before the factory system rem
dered combinations of workmen needful
there was less discomfort, but almost no
char hx,t q s,
toilers of the profits and the pleasures
But If you believe as / do that the world
is better than it was, and that all the dis
comforts of modern life are but fair price
psid 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 flowery
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 rope the more
IL will not go any whittier.
Causes of Prosperity.
What are the causes of prosperity and
what are the causes of panicsg Are they
mysterious things beyond human ken? 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
b. 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 overconfldence of
men has set in motion, and begin TO doubt,
to refuse discounts TO hoard money and
call q halt TO speculation. Then the dis
trust spreads, and panic and hard times
follow. Then we set TO work to climb out
of our troubles, and the process Is slow.
While we are climbing out we suffer.
What lovely period that climb out season