Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1908 — SOUND ARGUMENT BY DR. G. E. REED [ARTICLE]

SOUND ARGUMENT BY DR. G. E. REED

President of Dickenson College Delivers One of the Ablest Political Talks * Ever Heard in Rensselaer.

A large audience of men and w men, packing the armory to i's feating capacity, greeted Dr. George Edward Heed, president of Dickenson College, at Carlisle, Pa., Friday ii.gi.t, and heard one of the be t poll icil arguments ever delivered in this city.- Dr. Reid spoke in an impar.sionu.te manner, treated his political adversaries with the most profound respect, and yet entered into the discusdon of the issues with an enthusiasm that assured a conviction that he was right on all lines of his argument. Mr. Reed rehearsed the Bryan fallacies of previous, years and said “but they tell us it is now » new Bryan; not the man wiio proposed fr e silver and talked of the crown of thorns and the cross of gold, not the man who prophesied all manner of destruction to the fanners and 10 every . American industry if his financial pro gram was not enacted, into law, not the Bryan who feared imperalism, not the Bryan Who said that the impetuous Rossevett would rush the country into ,war, jaot the Bryan who returned?, from, a trip around the w rid and ih a speech at New .York proclaimed that he believed in ihegivownership of rail* oads. They say it is a new Bryan, rieed from ail the fallacies of the past, and now safe, sane, and well balanced. But it tt the ( same Bryan, and he ,1s S;ill the advocate of every danger us propositlun th|it he has promulgate 1, and he has neWr gone back on a single one of his heresies.”

Dr. Heed gave soma attention to the r record T of Pryan in congress, and told his opportunity to propose during those, years of compie'e democratic control, some legislation Le-e----ficial to thp laboring man. But he did not dd.it. Ha told 'hoy the democratic pariy had d the trpst Question in the latter days of the democratic control, aiyl said, that there wag, not a single , on the statute books of . the United Sta'es. there by. a jfepocratic congress. He spoke of the lawpJhat the, republicans have placed there, enumerating the homes ead lafws. the resumption of specie pay- * <** p&rtment of agriculture, the dep rtmept; of labor.,the e'gut all-Cifsses of ,labor employed by foo*iajv, the inspection law, the anti-trust law, an%t*t standard by which the United States maintanis its sovereignty among all the notions of the woild. And then, knowing that the demo- <*»«? m l l wpuid be they , had not ,ha<i .opportunity, he top* the consji iwwfc found the following results: Therd are states bay# republican control demo-

cratic control. The republicans have established labor bureaus in, 23 stat s of the 30; the democrats have established labor bureaus in 7 out; of 16. states. - *", The republicans have provided for factory inspection in 23 out of SO states; the democrats in 6 out of 16. The republicans have provided for boards of arbitration in labor disputes in 18 states; the democrats in 4. The republicans have establish d laws that prohibited the factory employment of children .under 14 years of age ih 23 states; the democrats in 4. ._ The republicans have passed laws restricting the employment of children of school age in factories; the democrats 9. > And the speaker went down a 1 ng list of similar proofs that repub- ' lican action hsd offset tiemocrai.c I promises, and in every respect of equal opportunity exca.d d deno ratic proof as & friend to ti e laboring man. Occasionally he Ulus rated s me p int by a dignified little s-ory that Bet the auditors in an uproar. He told of how the republicans h .d prosecuted the civil war, which destroyed the free labor that was so inimical to the success of paid l>b_r, and how the republicans bad rtpe l.d the Wilaon-Gorman bill, and passed a measure, that had s.obd the t* 4. of a dozen years. He said that he w>a one of those republicans thatgb 1 e ed the tariff should be reformed, but he did not want it dpue under the direction of its enemies, who had made so miserable a botch, of it when Mr. Bryan was in congress. He b. lived that the republicans would d * it right and with the sole object of being fair to the, laboring man, and the manufacturer, * whose prosper! y cr whose deprivations must be mutual. Schooled in the art of pleasing language and perfect gentility. Dr. Reed expounded fact after fact that the thinking man can not get around and hjs speech was well receded by the great audience, many pronouncing it the beat political speech they had tvtr beard in Repseelaet. Dr. Reed was followed by Thomas P. Lit lepag ,atc etary :o i ea. tu Hem n* Ufay, Who spqkjg briefly but fqfpibly and whose lemafks were also well* rci. i .... sport •* drived. « «* if >'••*. -.r.it The Huntington Ladies' Quir ete captivated the audience. Tpey hf d so many clever songs, and executed: ithem bo cleverly the a»di*t*e chew d them lustily. Several of the, songs, were take-offs on demiocratfd>cand?latea and the local pUiis created a gre t laugh. The Hensrelgev Watson Octe t also proved a Splendid of tkej occasion, and' the douuble qnar eite sang several lively campaign eanfcs, that called.for hearty approval. 1 -■ It waa a big meeting and m mighty good onb. * *'* rP?**’ . 1! ‘*'• ; ~