The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-08-07
REED OPENS in MAINE
POLITICAL SPEECH
AT ALFRED.

The MARKED Change Made in the Last Two
Months Dwell Upon-Free Silver Advo-
Gates Declared Not Good Advisers-More
Capital What is Needed.
ALFRED, Maine, July 30.--This quaint
county seat was the scene to-day of
the opening Of the Republican nation
al campaign Of 1895. People from all
tho country round about came to
town to listen to a speech by Speaker
Thomas b. Reed, on the occasion OF
his denomination for representative
Ia Congress by the First district Re.
publican convention, There were
present many people from nearby
sections OF Now Hampshire and Mass.
aehusetts giving the occasion some
thing Of the character of an interstate
demonstration.
In accepting the nomination to con-
Eress, which was unanimously given,
Mr., Reed! says: elf l were going to
give good advice to the people of the
whole United States, l should take
this time to do 1t. Just now there is
a great deal Of iroth and foam in the
air and some time is really needful to
disclose to every eye how much of it
is the result of the temporary breeze
which stills at nighttall, and how
little there is Of that heavy ground
swell which shows hat the great ele-
mentary forces are at work. How
very suddenly oil this rush and stir
has set itself into action. Two months
ago no nan of any standing would
have, risked his reputation as a prophet
by limiting the slightest doubt Of Re-
publican success. Four years Of
actual trial Of the opposition under
the guidance of its best and twice
trusted leader, has left no shadow of
question as to public duty.
1.-TWO months have slipped away
hardly time to ripen q straw berry,
much less a financial system-and
there are those who tell US that all
thing s have changed, that these very
men who were being arrayed for de-
cent burial had burst the cerements
Of the grave and, TRANSPORTED by
some new arrangement of crowns Of
thqrns and crosses of gold,' were to
lead up to a new shappiness, and even
repair all the damage they themselves
had wrought Nov this may be SO.
but it does not seemr probable. HUI
MN experience in every walk of life
teaches us that those who have hun
dered will blunder again, and thai
the wisest course is not to employ a
ship captain who has not yet emerped
from his last ~shipwreck, but the safe
sailor who has never lost a ship. a
passenger or a letter, but who
has sailed safe through every
sea: be may have lost m.~
and sails. aaIGA eXsl been rudds.,r
f9" hours, but il he has every time
come safe to shore, better have him
than all the landsmen who ars forever
shouting what they can do and never
dare to tell of what they have done.
Boosters are worth nothing. Deeds
are facts and are foreser and ever.
Talk dies on the empty air. Better a
pound of performance than q shipload
Of language.
1.-TWO months ago as I have already
said, every body conceded the election
of the Republican ticket. What has
happened since then? Have the four.
years OF history been blotted out? n
one scrap OF them. Is our condition
bad way and something must be done.
ASS uo oCO "A0O AZ proposed OV
those gentlemen who, within the last
two months. have discovered a new
cure for all the ills flesh is heir to,
and who proclaim, as they did four
years ago, that they alone hold pros
pority in their grasp. Their remedy
is the coinage Of silver, IL to l. What
does that mean? Heretofore, when
ever gold and silver have stood to-
gether it has been at the market
value. When we tried to make gold
and silver circulate together we have
always married them according to
their market value. To-day we find
them, not 1G to i but 81 to l. They
are going, they say, to lift silver to
twice its value, not by the universal
sense of mankind, which alone makes
values, but by the statue of the
United States, single-handed against
the civilized world. Why should thew
try to do this alone:
II won't discuss the question
whether the free coinage Of silver
will raise it to par or not. Very few
people claim that it will, and, if they
did, l could not believe them. I was
told in $3.50, by two Of the most sim
cere as we'll as the ablest silver men,
that the purchase of 4,50O, 900 ounces
q month would raise silver to par, and
when we did buv If silver went dow,