The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-23
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senator Reeds Speech.

senator Reeds Speech.
Senator Reed said he had no Sc
speech and he talked without notes o.
any kind, but his address was wore
picture of coming Democratic victor!
painted by master hand. He in.
spired his hearers and won applause
at every interval in his glowing eulogy
of the efforts of the Democracy con
tinued in the face of many defeats
Using metaphor to illustrate the
courage and staying powers of his
party year after year in Kansas, the
senator said:
1.-THE men who have fought or
empty stomachs and without hope OF
reward are the men who have always
done things in the world that Will be
talked about so long as histories are
printed and read. Stonewall Jackson s
army, travelling on long marches with
bleeding feet, an army of men who
knew how to die, was one not safe to
contend with.
when / see the young men of your
educational institutions get up here
and talk so wisely and well on matters
of great importance to the pollt1cal
world: when L see them thus prepar-
ir~ to carry forward the battle for the
right I know that / am about to see
at last the sun of victory illuminate
the banners of the Kansas Democracy.
II believe that the Democrats of
Kansas are entitled to more credit
than the Democrats of any other state
i'm the Union. You have gone down
to defeat year after year. have met
the enemy bravely in the face of GER
tain catastrophe, and then camped on
the field where you were defeated and
passed resolutions to give them
harder fight next time"
Taking up the question Of national
politics. the speaker took rap at
Republican tariff revision as follows:
1.-THE doors of congress are constant
" crowded with men who are seeking
artificial advantages. and you people
are paying the freight.
Every tariff enacted since the time
when the pirates roamed the seas, ana
demanded tribute at the point of
cannon has been an instance of rob-
berry and graft. Labor works with Its
hands in competition with men, and
for every job there is another man
whose stomach is empty, or who wants
to carry home food and clothing for his
family The farmer selling his wheat
is in competition with every other
farmer, including the pauper hordes OF
India and the serfs of Russia. Every
farmer who raises a steer is in cOmpe-
tition of Australia and South America
The doctor has to compete with his.
brother physicians in his town, and II
he cannot cure the sick as we'll as the
others, he loses his practice. The law
yers must compete with his brother
lawyers in the matter of fees, of
brains, of talent and industry. The
school teacher and even the minister of
the gospel must meet this competition.
An must contend by strength of arm
and brain.
But the man who has organized q
corporation. with millions of fraudu-
lent stock, is entitled to protection! 1t
is only system of organized graft.
History has been repeating itself
for thousands of years, but / want to
go back a ways in the history of Eng
" a
landed aristocrats owned practically
every foot of tillable land in the coun-
try. They desolated the country by
making immense parks. and devastat-
ing great farm tracts in pursuit of
their game. so that the poor people
could not raise enough corn and meat
to feed themselves. Ard then laws
were passed prohibiting the importa-
tion of corn and wheat. 1t reached
the point where the people were at the
point of starvation, and yet the law
makers said, If we have cheap French
wheat to fill our stomachs, there will
be no work on English FARMS When
the laws were struck down and cheap
or corn was brought in, it made redder.
blood and better manhood, and from
that time England dated her CONNER
cial supremacy.
1.-THE densest farmer would know
better than to foster some weak things
that never could be brought to worth.
morning and found a Wobbly colt with
a sway back, that was unable to stand
alone he might feed it with milk and
try to make it worth something. But
would he hold it in his arms for forty
years and keep feeding it with
spoon? Wouldn't he know long before
that time that he never would make
of it a pillow horse?
"Just so with the protected interests
in this country. They ought to be
buried so deep that an alfalfa root
never could reach them.
1.-The combines go down to Washing
ton and the question is not how much
they must have to live, but how much
can they get"
Senator Reed paid his respects to
the dominant party on the questions
of conservation and reciprocity as fol-
lows:
AFTER half century of advocacy
OF monopoly tariffs against all the
world, the patriots at Washington are
battering holes in the wall they build
ed, and are preparing to let in the
ruinous flood from Canada. And
President Taft is threatening to call a
special session to carry out this pro-
gram. But the American forests have
been cut down, and the young timber
and lumber interests here do not need
further protection.
IT tell you the people must destroy
the monopolieS or the monopolies will
destroy human liberty. The Demo
cratic party is the friend of all honest
capital, and no honest capital can
make good without the party
His idea of insurgency as exempli-
fed in the Republican party was: "It
is the gentleman who has just left his
wicked companions, got down on his
knees at the mourner's bench, then
arose Immediately to preach to the
entire congregation and berate his
former friends for their wickedness''
Tho OtI1er C,,aachae
A few epigrams culled from the ad-
dresses of last night:
i. G. Folsom, Democracy the Out
look and the Opportunity"
The principles of Democracy are
as old as history and the struggle for