The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-30
REEDS TRUMPET BLAST
GRAND OPENING OF THE MAINE
 CAMPAIGN YESTERD1Y.

No Cheap Labor for Him-Paid or in Sill ver-No Chinese Wages for Americana Free Silver Means Rise in Prices for Necessaries of Life and but a Meagre
 Kise in Wages-Not More Money Wanted
 but More Capital-More Hay Not Moro
 Hayracks-Gold Means Prosperity.
 Alfred, Me, July 2e.-speaker Reed opened the campaign here to-day be- fore a large and enthusiastic audience.
 MT. Reed spoke as follows: If I were going to give advice to the people of the whole United States I should take this time to do 1t.
 Just now there Is a great deal of froth and foam in the air, and some time Is really needful to disclose clear ly to every eye how much of it is the result of the temporary breeze which stills at nightfall, and how little there Is of that heavy ground swell which shows that great elementary forces are at work. How very suddenly all this rush and stir has set itself into action Two months ago no man of any stand ing would have risked his reputation as a prophet by limiting the slightest doubt of republican success. Four years of actual trial of the opposition under the guidance of it's best and twice trusted leader, had left no shadow of question as to public duty. However far the republican party might have fallen short of perfection, nevertheless all men felt that it was the best party, just now, to draw nigh to for whatever is to be left to us of sound government, commercial success and business pros- perity. On that we were all agreed, some of us who were democrats, re- gretfully, for we all hate to be classed with the unsuccessful whose condem nation is at hand, even if we gain by the change; others of us who were re- publicans, cheerfully, but without ex- ultation; for we knew how hard the task must be to rebuild out of the ruins of the last four years the stately man. sions of national happiness, prosperity and self-respect, wherein our people lived until that unfortunate election of 1892.
 Two months have slipped away hardly time to ripen a. strawberry, much less a system of finance-and there are those who tell us that all things have changed, that these very men who were being arrayed for decent burial had burst the cerements of the grave, and transfigured by some new arrangements of crowns of thorns and crosses of gold, were to lead us to a new happiness, and even repair all the damage they themselves had wrought. Now this may be so, but to me 1t does not seem probable. Human experience in every walk of life teaches us that those who have blundered will blunder again, and that the wisest course is not to employ 8 ship captain who has not yet emerged from his last ship wreck, but the safe sailor who has never lost a ship, a passenger or let ter, but who has sailed safe through every sea. He may have lost masts and sails and even been rudderless for hours, but if he has every time come safe to shore better have him than all the Iandsmen who are 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 forever and ever. Talk dies on the empty air. Better pound of per- formance than a ship load of language.
 ssBut is 1t wise or just to class all democrats together and to declare them all wrong. then announce they must be beaten because they are democrats? That would be very unwise, very un- just and senseless altogether. It would I,ie o,,d 11xy Parties are one thing, their individual members may be another. Parties sell dom follow their best men. They fol- low their average sense. In real action there can never be but two parties, the creating party and the retarding party. The progressive party may be unwise in it's progress, and the retarding party may be unwise in it's conservatism, but both serve a good world slowly and safely moves ahead. Dreadfully slowly some times, but it does always move ahead.
 Perhaps some one will say here we have a creative party which has sprung up in a night like mushroom and created a new system of finance. My friends, you will find that that mushroom is not good to eat, and that that progress will land you in the ditch Now all progress avoids ditches.
 q have said that it would be unwise unjust and senseless to confound the democratic organization with indiyid- ual democrats. I have said also that that would be fiouting a part of our own history, and 8 glorious part o1 our history, too-why, 1t is within the memory of third and perhaps half oi this very audience which listens te me, that when the terrible war of the rebellion burst forth, tens of thousands of democrats, politicians, strong party men, sprang to their feet, representing hundreds of thousands, aye! millions and thenceforth and always were part and parcel of the bone and sinew oi the victorious republic. What matter if the party had gone wrong. They were right. One man among them, one man alone, by single sentence, gave aid and succor to this government which outweighed a whole army corps of veterans, musket on shoulder.
 s'When Stephen A. Douglass declared after Sumter was fired on. tha' sthenceforth there could be but two parties, patriots and traitors he wor the respect even of foes, and an i'm perishable place in history.
 ''We shall certainly welcome all sucf sDor to-Iau pnf thaU fo h.