The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14
REEDS SOUND DOCTRINE.

REEDS SOUND DOCTRINE.
He Tells How the Free Coinage of silver
Would Affect the worlSingman and the
Farmer and why lie Is in Favor of
MahIon Pitney for Congress.
When Mr.. Reed was introduced he re-
welcome from the audience. The cheer
ing began with the utterance of his name
and continued for several minutes, so
that he was obliged to signal again and
again for quiet When the cheering ran
sufficiently low he began, and in a fine,
clear voice proceeded as follows:
Fellow citizens: 1t will be absolutely
necessary for me to depend upon your
quiet and patience. This will be one of
the occasions where it will take us all to
make the speech. Before / enter upon
the discussion of the question of the day,
/ want it understood what mean finally
in concrete form. ! am IN favor of
Mdhlon PitHey's election as the Represen-
tattee from this Nee jersey district.
(Applause.) am in favor of it not for
his sake, for ! believe he is making a
great personal sacrifice to be the repres-
entative of this district, but for your
sake, and for the sake of the people of the
United States. | showed what thought
of him, not as q matter of personal
friendship, for hardly knew him, but
as a matter of tribute to the reputation
which he had in New Jersey, by placing
him, a new member, upon one of the two
most important committees in the House
of Representatives (Applause) and beg
leape TO report TO you that he dlled the
place, (Applause) and if any district in
New Jersey is foolish enough to give up
position like that, hope it won't be
the Fourth District of New Jersey Cries
Of No, no.)
There are those people, every now and
then, even among MS, who think it wise
and sensible, to despair of this republic.
! never do. (Applause.) | believe that
with every threatened danger to free
government, there comes the remedy.
That remedy, as Mr.. Pitney has we'll
said, is the average common sense of the
people of the United States. Nine-tenths
Of our difficulties in this world arise from
the fact that we are from ten to fifty
years, some of us, behind the time in
which we live. We take our politics
and our beliefs from the history of dead
and buried times. A time which is a
hundred years past may be as dead, and
ought to be as thoroughly buried as Per-
sopolis and Tudomore in the wilderness.
Human society is thoroughly complicated
and is becoming more 80 every year. When
Adam was alone in the world, he had
very few difficulties and very few COM
plications. Q1aughter) If there had
been railroads at that time, he might
have travelled all over the United States
and back perfectly unanimous as he
started. But under the complex condi-
lions of modern society Adam, in his
travels, would have run the risk of re-
turning with nothing but the fig leaf as
sign of responsibility left on him. When
Eve entered upon this world there was
another complication. QLaughter) When
Cain and Abel were born, there were
some more, Qaughter) and so the world
advanced from one thing to another until
gradually it has got to be most ire
mendously difficult thing to understand
the conditions of human nature, and
when say to you that | don't profess to
understand the currency question, you
have got brains and sense enough to
know that have made very moderate
confession of ignorance. Uaughter)
The People are the Buyers.
A great many years ago, hundreds OF
years ago, there were only two classes of
people--lords and ladies and their re-
tainers-who bought things. BY and by,
in the progress of the world, there
sprung up a great middle class, upon
which the world has had to depend for
its progress in civilization and govern