Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-30
THOS. REED SPEAKS.
III, Republican Campaign Actually
Opened.
DISCUSSION OF FREE cOiYLGE.
n I, no, Nouey That IL Needed ut
CapUol, >Hys h. *
SpI akcr.

ALFRED, Me-, July 29.-Thi1 place
xss tho scene TO-DAY OF tie oplIiug OF
the REPUBLICAN national campaign u
1890. People from tho c0uu,Ey found
c.ms 10 listen 10 u sHeton 10y Hon.
Thos. b. Reed. Mr RerI addressed
The large gathering as follow:
"TiI were going to live advice to
the people OF the whole Unliod blatcs,
l should no, tako tbis time to do H..
Ius, now tnure 10 a great zeal Of irolh
ard loan In tue air, aud some tui0 BE-
rally neeuiul to disclose Cleauy u
very one how much VI 10 IN tho result
of inc TEMPORARY bTeULr, ynioh ellis nj
nightiall, and now llttie there l. OF
mat heavy gToundswoll which shows
mat great elementary tUfC.H are NJ
work. Two months ago no man VI any
stauding would have fitked MI teputa.
ian esa prophet hy limiting the slight
stdoubt Of Republican success. -Four
wear. Of actual trial " the opposition,
under the guidance Of It's best anu
teice.trusttd leader, has loft no shadow
Of question ~ 10 pubic duty.
urwo months nave slipped away
hardly time 10 fiIon n strawberry,
much less system OF flnance-and
there are those who tell Us that all
things have changed; that those very
men WIN were being nfrayUd for de-
cent burial mad burst the cetemonts OF
the grave, and, ttnneflsured by some
new arrangements Of crowns OF thOrns
and crosses OF gold, were 10 lead us 10
anew happiness, and oven repair nll
the dsmage they themselves bad
wrought. Now, this may be NO, but ~
me It does not seem probable.
"Human experience Ia every walk
OF life teaches us that those vino have
Numbered will blundet again, aud that
the wisest course IL not 20 employ n
shin captain who has Just emerged
from his last shipwfeck, but tho sailor
who has never lost u ship, n passenger
or letter, but has held safe through
every sea. He may have lost mAsts
and calls ana even been tudderless for
houfs, but N he has every time come
cafe to shore, better have him than all
tho lnndsmen who arc forever shout.
Jog what they can do, anu never dare
TO tell OF what they have done. Boast.
srs are worth nothing. Deed are facts
aud are Tor over ana ever. Talk dies
IN tho empty air. Better n pound OF
Performance than u HhlplOad Of LAM
guage.
"rwo months ago, IA havs already
said, everybody conceded the election
Of the Kspuplicnn ticket. What has
happened since them Have the four
yeaTs OF history been blotsei Out? Not
one scrap Of u. L. cur condition bet.
tel? Rather worse. We are all ia u
had way, aud something must be done.
Let u see what II proposed by those
gentlemen who, within the last two
monthf, have discovered new cure
for all the Ills flesh II heir 10, anu who
proclaim, as they did four years ago,
that they hold prosperity In their
gtasr. Their remedy IL this coinage Of
silver, 10 toll. WHIST does that mean?
Heretofore, whenever gold aud silver
have stood together II has been ~ tho
market value. When we tfiuI 10 make
gold and silver circulate together, we
have always married them according 10
their mafHet value. To-Day We nnd
them not 10 TO |, bus 81 10 |, anu these
men are going, they say, 10 liit silver
~ twice its value, not ny the uulvoreHl
e1nSe VI mankind, which alone mases
value, but by the statutes Ofthr United
States, single.handed against tbs civil
lEtd world. Why should the United
states try to do this alone?
~ won't discuss the question whether
with free silver coinage silver Will TBs
10 par OF not. Nety few people Claim n
will, and II they did, could not believe
them. was told In 1890 by two OF the
most sincere, M well aH the abie-t, sil'
vsr men that the purchase OF 4 100000
ounces month would raise silver &
par, aud when VIZ uid buy II, silver