The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

| of II than you have, because they are
face to face with this very problem than
| we can ever be- That is right.
Now, gentlemen, want you to jus
| tify what l say. And 1 believe you will
| do it. I give you three cheers for the
growing, the ever-growing west. With
three cheers such as you viii give on
election day, the west viii go forward IN
| the advance guard OF civilization and
progress" Prolongcd applause.)
-nr. Reed then crossed over TO the au-
ditorilgn and addressed the audience OF
ladies assembled there.
AT THE AUDITORIUM.
When Mr.. Reed left the big tent and
went to the Auditorium an audience
greeted him that would give inspiration
10 an emperor. lie looked into the faces
of 3,5c9 as fair women as could be as
sembled upon any part Of the earth.
There was no. a man among them ex-
cept the few newspaper men who had
Followed the distinguished American
from the opposite side of the street. In
that remarkable audience ne did not see
a rag, an antique garment or the sem
blance of a homely or a pinched face
The flower of the womanhood of the
world sat before him clad in raiment
Ildt IiOl 1ldNS DSril 81 ILL.,
fomly neat or fashionable in any or all
of the five continents. The daughter
VINO sat beside him, used to the swell
circles Of national life, gazed on the
scene with noticeable establishment.
She came with her father expecting to
see the ragged and vulgar womanhood
OF the calamity west and found herself,
perhaps. the most ineXpensively dressed
one under the dome of the Auditorium.
She not only saw that but she saw eV-
cry face beaming with the radience OF
intellectually and the smiles or pros
rerity and happiness.
In addressing this splendid audience
Mr.. Reed said:
Il very seldom know what to say to
one woman, and what l shall say TO
three thousand passes my present I'M
oierstanG:ug. The first thing that oc-
ours II RE to say to you is that you are
as deeoly interested in the results OF
this campaign as your husbands, Wnom
I left across the street in the tent. L
wish YOU had more responsibility con-
nected with it, l wish you had some or
the voting to do. (Applause) In time,
when You get educated TO it, 1 have no
doubt that right Will be bestowed upon
Won. and you will have not only the in
fuence which you now have, but the
which your huspanos
have.
Pour wars ago they took upon them
selves a terrible responsibility; and l
want you to understand it so you can
argue with them today. -Four years ago
we were ir pretty happy condition.
We had a reasonable amount OF pros
perity. don't mean that everybody was
or that all our forces were
utilized; but more people were employ
ed, and more of our money was IN use,
than ever was before.
NOT EYES FAULT, THIS TIME.
But your husbands saw fit to make
the mistake of thinking that Ii wasn't
good th;ng TO let well enough alone; and
the result, I have no doubt, you have
felt in all your homes and in all your
family affairs. Now, the very same men
who misled them four years ago are try
ing 10 mislead them again; and am
found to say, in compliment to the head
Of your family, that ] don't believe he is
going to he deceived again. He is go
ing to be as wise this time as he would
have teen if he had been his own wife.
THE RICH MANS MILL.
This is a tremendously complicated
world. All our forces are so mixed up
that there is no possibility OF doing IL
fury to any one set of people without
doing injury to every other. The well
fare of rich people and of poor people
is SO blended together that there is no
possible way in which you can separ-
ate Il. There is no way in which you
can do Svod to the poor man and leave
!. 10 z-;,
Is no way in which you can do injury
to the rich man without doing injury to
the poor man, also. II rich man owns
a mill and the poor man works in 1t,
some people sometimes think they are
going to do good thing and punish the
rich man if they stop his mill. But as
soon as they do it they find that the in
Jury which they have done TO the rich
man is very small compared to the in
jury which they have done to the poor
man.
HARD TIMES ONCE HARDER.
Il am wiling to admit that this world
has not reached anywhere near perfec-
ton. But l say TO you, and l ask you
10 bear ne WINES, that this world is
steadily moving forward in the direc-
ton of Improvement. 1t is true, we
every row and then have bad times; but
each level of hard times is always high
er than the last level. We are in bad
CONDITION today compared with what we
were during the period which followed
1879 But in 1873 and in 1877 we were much
worse off. have been for twenty years
audiences all aver the coun-
try, and I can see the tremendous i'm
provement that is going on in material
wealth and in the distribution Of it
among the people. I can remember in
my own time when for a common la
borer to own his house was very rare;
and if he did own his house, what ne
would call furniture then would not be |
as sufficient for the porch now.
CASTLE AND COTTAGE.
81 don't think we understand in our
everyday lives What is meant by the &C
of wealth. We are very apt |
TO consider wealth as the properly only |
Of rich people. But wealth is anything |
that human being can use for his OWE
comfort ana happiness. And we have |
been slowly adding. day by day and
month by month, TO our wealth. The |
poor mans house today is better furn- |
ished than the rich mans house was
years ago. l can recollect very we'll the |
cherries character Of the great houses |
o. the rich which 1 looked into, and 1 |
say TO You that today among the poor. or J
those that we see lit TO call poor. there
IS more real comfort than there was a |
hundred years ago in the palaces Of |
those who were the richest 1 have been
IN castles in England, in the great
rooms where the retainers used TO gath
er. and more cherries place no man
ever saw II is only within three hun
1red years that the fireplace. which Is |
10 US today the symbol OF the English
ana American home, began TO appear in |
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