The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-11-02
DIR. REEDS BRILLIANT ADDRESS
Devoted Some Time to Mr.. Wana-
maker and DR.. Swallow.


maker and DR.. Swallow.
When Rev. DIR. Reed was introduced
he received splendid reception, which
he graceful acknowledged. He said.
Mr. Chairman and Fellow Countrymcn
and Country Women | am glad to say
countrywunen, as 1 see quite Il number
Of the fairer and better sex here tonight.
| To begin with, l am not a spcll-bind,r |
don't belong to the class OF spCll-uiudCr5
Colonel stone is carrying around the
| state, embracing as they do a number OF
the most eloquent citizens within the linn
its of the state ana whom you are all
anxious to hear. | am not political ora
tor. ] am not familiar with the arts of
| those who are recognized as political ora
tors by the people of this country. | am
not an orator at all. | ann simply PLAIN
citizen of Pennsylvania, not ordinarily
concerning myself with the discussion of
| political questions upon the stump, as we
| term it, in this state or any other state.
There have been several times when |
| have done 50. Ordinarily my walk i'm lfc
| is in the Cloister shade so to speak. and
| | have not felt 1t advisable always to APP
! pear for the discussion of public qucS-
| tions. Nevertheless, | have always in
! sisted, In my work with young men, that
| it Is the business of every young man
| born in the territory of the United states
! to bc a politician; | have always insist
| ed that II is the business of every cdu-
! Gated young nan TO be politician, to
concern himself with all public matters
| and to be willing to give his time and ser
| vice whenever called upon in the inter-
! Csts of the state and | should regard my
| self as a reCrcant citizen If in the time of
! great public peril, for such it appears to
| bc, If | should fail to respond to the call
made upon me Tor any service | may be
! able to render.
/ There. have been great political cam
| paigns, often near together, for the last
| twenty-five or thirty years There have
| been some campaigns wherein issues in
/ NOlVcd were of greater Importance than
| the issues in another campaign. ] felt
| when President Harrison was running for
| the presidency of the United States at the
| time when the prosperity Of this country
| was Mt its full height; when there was not
| an idle mill wheel i'm the country and
! scarcely an idle man and the great party
| thought it was time for a change though
! we had, as all will confess, uneNampl"d
| prosperity, and the cry was raised, Let
| uS have change; any thing for a change;
! let us turn the rascals out and get at the
! books that there was an issue OF trc-
| mcndous Importance placed before this
| country.
! CONTINUANCE OF PROSPERITY.
! Were we to have a continuance of pros
/ periiN ana continuance Of work for our
! working men or undergo the paralysis ut
! business which would be sure to follow
/ a change? | did not believe in my soul for
| an hour that the people of the United
! Slaos i'm that era of great and tremendous
| prosperity would deliberately go to work
| and vote to take work out Of their hands
| thus. ] do not believe they would de-
! libcrately vote TO shut down our mills
and close up our manufactures and turn
! the balance Of trade against us, but still
! the people of this country did that very
! thing
They changed the administration; the
! raScalS, so to speak, wee turned out
| ana the opponents of the Republican par
! ty got at the books. They We're always
| anNious to get ut the books and get at
| the thieves, and when they got at the
! books they found that thrre had not
| been a single dollar of the money of the
! treasury of the United States spent i'm a
! dishonest manner. stil, they voted for the
| change. You know what resulted. You
4 know pretty well that for four years we
| had u steady downward movement in bus
| mess all over this country. You know
! pretty well that our public credit was de-
/ StroNCd before the nations of the earth.
/ You know pretty well that Mr.. Cleveland
complained of the operation of that end
! less chain as he fgcetiously described it
! whereby there was "A constant effort to
| redeem the Creerbacks of the country and
/ to plunge us into financial ruin.
/ You remember the slow and steady
! shutting down of industries all over the
/ length and breadth of the United States.
/ Go into the markCtS-intO the money mar
/ kets Of this world. 1t takes two hundred
! ana SiNtN-tWO million dollars to carry on
| lhe necessary expenditures Of the United
| state. You remember the shameful and
! huwill0tinC spectacle that was seen in the
! cities Of Pennsylvania where there were
! hundreds Of thousands Of wOrkmcn who
| Werc anxious to work ana there was no
! work for them to do simply because our
/ mills were shut down by the operation of
! the tarih which paralyzcd every industry
! almost to tho length and breadth Of the
/ United States.
Th"r. the shameful spectacle was seen
| Of thousands upon thousands of honest
! WOTkngmCn being fed on pubic charity i'm
! Me streets of Philadelphia, or, possibly,
/ IN the streets Of Scranton as well That
! was the ruSult Of the clamur for change.
! Change came on in a period of unoN-
/ nmpl'd. prosperity in the United States.
! In the face Of that dcDlOrlhle and tre-
| mcndous condition which YOU would have,
| there came up before the country the
/ doctrine that would remedy the whole
| business and this was to issue the dishon-
! est dollar. That is to pay Off all ObliGG-
. iiorS with a dollar that was worth hut
/ llttN cents, was the remedy which the
| Democratic party two years ago had to
| propound for the frghtful and uneX-
! amplod distrust into which this change of
/ policy had plunged this country. You re-
/ member that on that change the Demo-
/ cratic party went before this country and
( that the Republican party came up and
! said az the same time that is not the
CAUSE OF DIsTRUsT.
The carst. Of our distrust is not in the
! fact that silver has been denunetiHcd, it
d II hccauSr of the endless chain of which
/ Mr.. Cleveland complains; il is not in the
, tact That "" must he constantly redeem
/ iUc our grocnhIcks i'm gold. out in the fact
7 simply that IN, public credit of the coun-
, Try before the world has been destroy ed,
! and If YOU will let as have Il tariff in this
| country that viii raise a revenue that
J viii be sufficient TO guarantee the expense
/ of the government of his country ana the
adequate discharge of the financial obui-
| cations OF this country we shall hear no
/ more oi the endless chain and we state
! hat We win guarantee that every dollar
! mat Is in circulation shall be maintained
AT its value
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