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11 THE. ILLUSTRATED BUFFALO EXPRESS. SUNDAY, JANUARY 31. 1897, (Laughter.) Is the record any better I thV elt today: the 'government of the lies la the fact that be controls the ergasl-70a gentlemen Kew-ivUbJeT whereevery auan got hia water aattoa and the organisation controls the vna ats-nr hiii i 1 attack therefor aiV TP 11 aui in DISEASE.DESCROBELQ) vu-k Yw have the consaawui. ii where his aralnar I The Brat point of trisiituf within i 7 hi.

ewa eess-ooal an)-. his control of the organisation. And he controls orgsnitsttoa wilt two tunas te whtca you gentlemen -and others like yon Legislative Reform PLA6HIJQHT FHOTOG RAPH3 OF THE UNITED STATES 8TATB 1 JJ53ISLaTCTES AND'CJTt COTJNCILS-THB REIQM OF THE BOSS AND TH1 PEOPLE WHO PERMIT IT FLATT AS A LOGICAL SEQUENCE OF POPULAB APATHY THB WAT TO REFORM POINT KD OCT. and like myseif, au over tne country, con (Laughter.) Is this state of things Improv- i be was content with the primitive surface lug? Are we working out Into something drainage- where every man'e own lantern that la better? You. gentlemen.

In Xew- i lighted him after dark: where hia own k-gt York have, this very month, had the op- I or hia own wagoa earrted him about the portunlty to tfhooae between two mea aa place and delivered hia mail; where be aev-voar renresentatlvc in the Senate tf th. hi door St night or dreamed of tribute. in other words we supply the boas with the sinews of wsr snd he uses them for his own benefit The trt toad' Is tbe offices an enormous corruption fund If K.e.i. -Sere every oouy anew every. It is not used for the purposes lor which the body eise-wlth CUT Uke New York, where And Its Cure Under the Great Physician's Care and; emces were crested.

When yo consider BY THE HON. MOORFIELD 8TORET OP BOSTON'. every single thing, tne oai yon eat, the that you drink, the air that you how many office there are, when yau eon- United SUtes. One of tbes was man whose character, whose sbUlty. who experience, eloquence conspicuously fitted him to represent tbe Empire Dtati with Us enormous Interests snd Its vast Intelligent population.

Of the other man I heed spesk 10 yen. 1 need aot dwell upon his character or tbe sources ot his Treatment Shown Again and Again by the Evi-1 dence of Results." ir 1 hrT "bV safety at night your edin-a- sider what their salaries ary ru ves. a Umml voai health, your lives, in fact, depend total sum of money which 1 something water At the nlr meeting of the Liberal Act was passed, which contributed to the Club oa Thursday night, after the dinner, pule of ISO, and which, la cotwequeue enermooa, aud tbe man who can control that caa von rut the utted State. It was the Hod, oorfleld Storey of Boston lu DESCRIBED BY SYMPTOMS. orsEASE of head Alio throat.

of that panic, waa repealed, repealed after a long debate ot which the country grew dreadfully weary, la which erery attempt for (he purpose of Uking that tuna away from the eosw, for the purpose of remor-tag the cutter to the purpose for. which power. It is rnouga 10 asy mat whea those two men came before the Legislature, 142 men, chosen by the Repabtlcans ef New- The head aatd) sstrwt Hosts oTpeople suffer from tbo various they wre founded, that Ue Clvll-servlc iMd MSB honesi .1 government The city government touches you everywhere. I ot eestors It touched yoa nowhere except perhaps in the country roada and la tbe district school. It wss rwtoniary then to keep yonr selectmen la office and select them from the best people of the place, but It required no special business training: but the problems bow are the most difficult nKk.m.

that mea are called upoa to deal York, voted for Mr, Piatt and only sevea Bee ta mtlllM ml the tWeeei sweets-' Reform movement was started, and It hat snaltgnant poison ia thslr blood, wnlca produce or result from catarrh. Many oth- 'e lll wsiium, succeeded, and nowhere so well a la the It the voice husk voted for Mr. Cbnate, and those seven hastened to say: "We've made a mistake; we didn't really want Mr. Cboate; there was no real reason why we shouldn't have pre State of New-York: rou have here today Vou anit an alliua? iwi persout suffer from nervous diseases, constitutional Clvtl'-oervloe Reform barked I0 rou aehe all nr.rl by a Court of Appeale which stands by the lie yoa snore st night? ferred Mr. Piatt ana we rejoice la the op spirit of the law.

(Applause.) You sre portunity to Join wun our brethren in lo you blow out scabs? Is the nuse at.ifttM.rf nn) liver diseases, kidney diseases and sua diseases, at the result of Irritating ery-tal pottoat in the blood, A majority ot with, snd you sre those great cities, not with year nest se further advanced In the cause of Civli-ser making his nomination unanimous," vice Reform than -any ether State ia the lectmen, but with ffeaueniea wno eeiec Union. -And what to the result? That A MASSACHUSETTS INSTANCE, gome roars ago Benjamin F. Butter came inch aufferert do aot hav a definite un themselves because, ss ruie, mey nlMMlf nht -i Iioes yonr noee dlacharge? Docs the noes bleed easily? Is this worse toward ntgbt? Does tbe nose Itch aad burs? It there pain icroa the eye? 1 there tickling in the thrust? tome practical reformer like Mr. Abraham I As It Is wltn vn w. ruber In the State and Mr.

David B. Hill In tbe Senate are endeavoring te break down the system. In other words, the law Ht.t. and wltn me nation. derstanding of the nature of their affliction.

Tb following symptom hav bee arranged by Dr. McCoy to enable au Iter era before the Republican convention In Middlesex County, as a candidate for Congress and an overwhelming majority nominated him and somebodr moved to enormoua Increase of our population, it, division Into various combine- is yiHir k-bh 01 snieii leaving la there pain In front of hetd? Do you hawk to clear the throat? today prevents them from picking the people's pockets snd tbey would have none tor local consioerstions or 10 mske the nomination unanimous, and the motion fatted; Judge Hoar bolted; and he race or locality, or one consideration or an pretested te the chib ana delivered the following address on "Legislative Reform." i Mr. Storey spok as folio wt: Mr. President and GeoOenea of the Liberal Club I feel a If 1 almost owed you aa apology for coming ao far to apeak upon subject with which I bare -so doubt -yo are, all of job. quite aa familiar aa I am, and that 70a have had Just aa ample aa opportunity to study, but my recollections of Buffalo are ao pleasant that whea Mr.

BUcer urged me to come I could aot help yielding to the temptation, for, like another geutltmaa of whom yon hare heard, there fa) one thing I can never resist, and that la temptatloa. I Laughter. The two cent uric which followed the Second Panic War witnessed a gradual decay ta Roman manhood until the republic which had suirlTed the strife of Marina and 8uUa and had defeated Oatallne fill at the touch of Caesar and gave place to the empire. I hare aometlmea thought that we night find tor each dlatlact atep rn the desceat to acer-tala point a parallel la our own history, The eoaparlaoa would doubtleaa be misleading; It would be lu many respecta fanciful but it would be extremely suggestive. During that period Rome made a marvelous adranot In power, in wealth, in luxury, la education, refinement, all the' externals of civilisation, but the Tlrtoe, the Independence and char-after of her cttlaena declined.

Ia there any Jtost reason for thinking that a similar change is going on la this country I ORIGINAL AMERICAN STANDARDS. Our own Government was, founded tinder of It. They wsnt It changed. The question to whether tbe people of tbe United to understand Just what 1 that all them. "Although written and copyrighted by him, they have beea extentlvely copied is tne tamat are tu tb morning? Ar you loainc your sent of tssts? 1M yoa sleep with the mouth open? Doe your nose stop up toward night 1 wss maue by our Congressmen to obtain some little personal or party advance.

And now we find ourselves In the same leaky boat The conditions which brought as to tbe last election still exist. The repeal of the Sherman Act exhausted the financial courage of that Congress, and lu successor, with every prospect of disaster before It has not undertaken to legislate at all. It has Ignored every suggestion, made by tbe President by tbe Secretary of the Treasury, by the leading financiers of the country. It has denounced the President for Issuing bonds when that issue wss necessary to save the financial honor of the country, bat It did nothing whatever to prevent the Issue, and It offered no financial expedient of Its own, unless 1 am to except the proposition te coin Mexlcaa dollars In the mints of the United States, or the threat of a tariff war with Great Britain la order te force her to adopt bimetallism. And now.

as I say, we have carried onr vessel through a tempest She has come very aesr foundering, snd she Is still leaking, just as leaky as she was before that storm came upon her; another storm la not very tar off; sre our crew la. Washington making any efforts to stop tbe leaks? They are engaged today In considering how they can put more cargo oa the ship and how they can divide the offices. Congress of the United States has been la session two months, and I think we have yet to hear from any prominent leader any suggestion of dealing with tbe financial question, the Issue of the last campaign. ath-r the large toreign population, ine was making a speech tome time afterwards in Lancaster, Mass, and he said he re States, or the people ot Nw-York In this ennrmona Is-norant popuiauen ia 10 duuui ease, have got the courage and virtu to wrest discoveries ui science inese by other concerns without hit authority. joiced that la Middlesex Couaty, his-own protect their own pockets, ion today have raptured tbe fort The question 1 whether The proper counts ot those affected la thte: things have nrongui us ic 10 ce new propositions, new problems, new diffi nstlve county.

It nso been impossible to find a convention that would make the nomination of aoch a man ss Benjamin F. But. yoa have the courage and pluck to bold It Read these symptoms carefully over; mark culties, snd we want me ery oe men that this country a news to race tnoee COMMITTEES OF SAFETY. ler unanimous; whereupon somebody of the combinations in the interests 01 ine people. these that apply to your 'case, and bring thl with you to Doctor McCoy and- Doyl.

Butler faction ot the crowd said: Yoa aught to have today committees ef J- -M I "Yes; and yon know how many voted to deal with those problems, to give us the government we want and yet we do not safety in every town In this. Stat. Ton against Itl" i 1 ought te make every representative feel ask that eur representatives in congress, No," saw the Jnage, "1 aoa recall just In the Stat Legislature and in tne Hoard that if he rotes for any change ta now. DISEASE OF THE STOMACH. of Aldermen should have the qualifications the ClvU service Reform tow to Said he: "Would yon like to know?" "Yes," said he, "I should." which we Insist upon In our daily business; signing hi political death-warrant Ti MwaiUsiw mbv resalt froaa eeweeml do not ssk for either brains or character (Applause.) He ought to be matto to "WelL" said the other, "there were Just ewaaes, bat Ike asaal eter.

(Be and without brains and character yoa can aercei mrir will. ten precisely the number of righteous men osm dresvptaa slew lata (Be wrssi a not hav good government yoa cannot run Whys when yoa consider what onr father that prayed in vain to tare Sodom." (Laugh a bank, vou cannot run a isciory, yoa ran ter.) not run a school; you can ao notoing wen. I am sorrr to observe that In the Legis lature of New-York there were not ten, but did Ik the Revolution, the mere question of fear, pence ot Ux on paper, a little bust-nest of uastlon, led them luto revolution; they formed committees of safety all over the Mute; and yet the Ux that Great Britain The least of alt. the most dllncult work that human beings-are called upoa to do, Thst Is the way In which the Congress of the United States deals with currency. IN EST OF ECONOMY.

there was not, even one. which to the government ot a great coua try. waa going to Impose la that way would HILL OB PLATT. Nor can you flatter yourselves, gentlemen, Now, let as pass to the question of econ A SHOT IN THE BIGHT PLACE. not bar hurt us half so much ss It would omy.

There again is not a partisan ques hurt good government In the State of New- Now, what la the remedy? I have told I there nanses? Are you costive? Is there vumltlug? Io you belch no gat? Ilsveyou wnterlirasb? Are you Hxht-besdrt? la your tougue watcd? lie von has and eolt? Is there palu after eating? Are you nervous and weak? 10 you bsve tlckheadaeh'et? I to yon bloat tip after eating? Is there dlguI for breakfast? Have yoo diiress after eatlug? It your thnwt tilled with slime? Do yon it times have diarrhoea? there rnxh of blood to the head? that the other great political party bad a higher standard. Their candidate wat tion. When there Is a surplus, extrava Mr. Jsmm W. 10 tear Ptaee, easy.

Bearing nstl by Dr. MeCsj, York If the CIvIl-servtce Reform law is you nothing that yoa do not know, and tbe gance, either la public or private life. Is broken) down by any specious legislation; question It, how are we to deal with It? David B. III1L5 Now, at between Mr. Piatt and Mr.

Hill, I am unaware ot any dis and it would not have cost our father half human. Whea there Is a deficit, economy Is at least decent. Haa there been the Well, In tbe first place make up your mind to. much at It will rust you In your poeketa if yoa allow that system to go. Where are that there la no tuch thing at a patent sett- tinction.

ILsoghter.) Neither of them represents anything but himself. Each DISEASE OF THE EARS. Bearaea autd) tu irtsMss iwtnalt ft as least suggestion of economy -on the part of the Congress ef the United Slates, face to executing constitution or charter that to your committees of safety? Where are is Dialing the political game for his own face, as we have been fsr some time with a singularly fortunate circumstances. "It la probable," says Lecky, "that no nation ever suited oa Its career with a larger proportion of strong characters or higher level at moral conviction than the English colonics la North America. In the words of old William 8toughton, "God alfted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over Into this wilderness." We are the fruit of that seed, and the great edifice of civil gov-erument which our fathera framed la now committed to onr care.

It becomes as to sak bow It la faring In our hands and how nearly we have lived np to the standards of out ancestors. The century which has passed has wrought a great change la the conditions which confront as, and we are face to face with problems of which onr an-eeaters sever dreamed. Their difficulties were material the hardships of pioneers in a new country, the troubles that came from poverty and weakness, the trials of adversity. Our dangers at moral, the evils which spring from wealth, prosperity and which In human experience have your minute men? It Is yonr own fault. going to run Itself, it seems to be tbe dream of Americana that If they caa only advancement.

It Is a pure accident that ealarrh suumIm sloa tha tusBJaa Is there constant sonsatlow In the stonv gentlemen. If the battlefield thst has been one Is a Republican, the other a Democrat get proper statutes, proper constitutions. rkl won pastes sgaln Into tiieands of tbe Their alms, their methods, their effect on enemy and It will be a refection on tbe proper city tney caa go about their business and let the government run lo yoa feel ss It yon baa leaa lu stomscar When you get up snddenlv ire you dtssy? When alotimeh Is eniDtv do von feel faint? political life, sre the same. A TOUR AMONG THE BO8SDOMS. manhood ot your State If that movement deficit The Postmaster General offered tbe Congress of tbe United States to save half a million dollars a year IT tbey, vrould only permit htm to call men who are now postmasters, clerks, and to unite small' offices with large; and the Congress of the United States said they would not have any sock saving on those teams.

They preferred bad Itself: that they can Wind it np at they succeeds. Do vou belch up material that burnt would wind up an eight-day clock and give throat? Cross the boundary; go Into the other great Bute of the East, Pennsylvania. In It no further trouble. Yon might Just ex ABOUT "CAMPAIGN FUNDS." When ttomaca It full 00 you reel op Is yonr hearing firlllng? Do your ears discharge? 1 Do your ears itch anil burn? Are the esrs dry and setly? Is there a throbbing In the ears? Have you pain behind th esrs? Is there a butting sound beard? Do yoa have rinvlng lu th ears? Are there crnckllux sounds heard? Is your bearing bad cloudy dsys? Do yon have earache oecaslona 11 Are there sounds like steam escaping? Do tour ears hurt wben yoa blow rear pressed? There to another fact, and that ia the Pennsylvania no Choate was even tug- actly aa well undertake to run a bank with by-laws or to salt a steamship by the code of sailing rules hung up in the csbin. You service at more because bad serv campaign fund which Is contributed before sestet.

It wss a contest between two DISEASE OF BRONCHIAL TUBES. ice gave them patronage, no matter how much It cost the country. The same way politicians of same stripe, and the election by tbe ambitious, by tbe patriot lq can't dispense with men. The best of your older and more experienced general carried cltlieu and also by tbose who make It at constitution! It like a steam engine without any steam; It won't go. Men are tbe TBwewadlllwsi ftea recalls rVes scrh In the Agricultural Department Mr.

Morton will tell yon how much anneceasary the day and placed his lieutenant In the aa Investment and a very good Investment stoaalac fra-as ta am sad siarosk nose? It to apt te be. We have teen within the chair. tteam. Public-spirited, able men most be behind any constitution that yoa frame or tt lefl aavheekea, extendsdewsi aw Cross snother Imaginary line and yon will tost four or years, men who have con Do yoa constantly tear aoisea ia your ears? Do vou hear better some day ttta been far more difficult to meet- And If It Is true, as Lowell said, that this Republlo wilt endure "so long as the Ideaa of the men who founded It continue dominant," It la Important to Inquire whether there has been wtsw late the branchial tsktssst Usbi money Is spent In (Attributing And I venture to say that there Is not a single department of the Government In which economy Is not I won't say possible, but find yourselves In Delaware, where both tbe it will be certain to be a failure, trtbuted largely to the campaign fund, going to th President and saying, "Now I attack IB laaoa. Again, gentlemen, there Is another pleas others? great political parties and sll the character and vigor of the Stste have been now for ing fallacy that I should like to have yon easy: And I doubt if any of yon can recall want" now a seat In tbe Cabinet now a foreign or tome other prominent Do tbe eolaet in yonr ears I rep yoa awake? When von blow yonr nose da th esrs disabuse your minds of, and that to the since this deficit has existed, any pro post oillce.

We find them going snd saying, theory that Messrs. Piatt and Quay and tion leading to economy on the part of the two or three years exerted In order to defeat a mere adventurer, whose only claim to represent Delaware In the Senate to the fact as he openly sayt: "I bought and crack? "We have paid so much money to the cam Cameron do not represent us. Poor legit- Congress of tbe United States or sny of Its Is vour. bearing worst when rou bars a paign fund, we want such a clause In the lators mesa poor cltltent. (Applause.) cold? 1 Representatives.

paid fur the sest" They are spending their time now In con tariff taw; we want such a privilege; we want such a Thetheory has And when I say poor cltltent I do not mean poor outness-men, poor church members, South Carolina speaks through the lips of sidering whether they shall vote something gone abroad that the Government must take is there roaring tike waterfall la lad besd? DOCTOR M'COY'S BOOK FREE, poor fathers of families. A man may be like gao.ouo.000 for a canal In Nicaragua, Tillman, and wben we read his Vulgar and abusive harangue didn't we blush when we observed that there was not a single man Hav you a cough? Are you losing flesh? Do you cough at nlrbtT Have you pain tu aide? Do you take cold easllr? your appetite variable? Have you Hitches in side? Io you rough until vou gag? Do you raise frothy material? Io you cough on going to bed Do yon rough In the aiornlug? Are you low spirited it times? Do you tplt up yellow matter? Is your cough snort and harking? Do you tplt np little elieeay lumps? Have you a dlgut for fatty foocla? Is there a tickling behind the palate? 10 yoa feel yon are growing weaker? Is there a burning pain to tbe throat? Have you pain behind the breastbone? I)a von cough worse night snd mornt admirable In- every social relation and in which the engineers say cannot be built care ot Its friends and that theory haa been the- uioxt dangerous theory in tbe history It does not seem to me that we can afford of his colleagues who arose In his seat snd of mankind. ss great a change la onr Ideas of government aa titers has been la the circumstances which surround us. THE AMERICAN LEGISLATCBH. The Americas legislature to a subject which gives as a fair opportunity to observe one great change which has come over our Ideas.

The whole struggle for free government ia ail nations baa been a contest for representative Institutions. The men who fought the Revolution fonght for the right to be governed by repreaeutatlvea of tfceir awn choice, 'whom they firmly believed could be trusted. In the language of the Massachusetts Constitution, "to make all manner of wise and salutary taws," They expressed their faith la the Massachusetts Bill Bights, whea they said, "The Legislature ought frequently to assemble for the at present any such expensive luxury. Formerly it was tbe King, now It I the suggested that that sort of talk wat out of every business relation and yef be an abominable citlten, and whea you fiud a poor Legislature you msy be sure that it represent! a community which Is full ot poor cttlxens. Fungi grow on decaying wood THE M'COY SYSTEM OF A GLANCE ABROAD.

Ring: but It to the asm thing. order In tbe Senate of the united states: It to tbe use of the public power to line Is Maryland a more pleasing specUcle But If we turn from domestic affairs to DR. J. C. rVCOY.

DR. D. P. DOYLE. gerwewnt tWeest Boom It and IS stooney Building, esvstl Vat under Mr.

Gorman? the private pocket You saw In Pennsyl foreign and approach a field where certain and not on the healthy tree. The Legislature Is nothing more or lest than a mirror Has New-York In the past preserved her vania tbe other day that Mr. Quay tent a check around to all tbe members of th seat In tbe Senate to thst at least It In which yon may see reflected yonr own OAr boor to In to I P.kU ItOl ly we should remember that we are -Americans rather' thaB either Republicans or Democrats, Is the situation any more agreeable? Is It pleasant to remember that when Do ru have to ait up nlxut to get breath? Legislature -tl hia ermfributlna to their campaign expenses: -leo have been to great trouble; should be glad to help half respected? I do not know what yonr views may be of Mr. Piatt's colleague, but In my part of the country be' doesn't enjoy rou," Kvery man who accepted that check aa excited 00 How Is It with Illinois? There they came gj the Venesuelau Question was broached last year there was not In tbe whole House of Representatives a single man' who was wilting even to object to the Immediate consideration of the startling' proposition to very near having a disgraceful Benator, passed under tbe yoke of Mr. Quay; he allowed himself to become obliged' te Quay and the price was one which he had to pay.

desperate effort was msde snd he was de feated, but no great and distinguished cltl- HOW THB" THINO I8 DONE. appoint the Venesueian Commission; not a sen of tbe State wst even suggested for the office. It Is a-system- which has been In vogue la my ews State for years. There are cer man who wanted to sleep on It even a single night much less a man who dared to stand up there In his place and express And when you go Into the Western Btstea, admitted for partisan political purposes. the views which were held by intelligent a model BiZu you will find a body of Senators whose in apathy, yonr Own own IndU-ferencei yonr otra cowardice.

If yea want a better Legislature you must nuke op your winds the, first place that It Is worth while te work for It LOGICAL RESULT OF POPULAR APATHY. If yoa atk me wuy you sre represented by PUtt tell you It Is because yoa prefer htm, because you have deliberately chosen him. Tblt to not a surprise, air. Piatt It not a man of surprising eloquence who can carry convention off Its feet like Mr. Bryan.

This cloud bus been over you for three or four years, snd yoa have, known It every man In tbe State, and he to there today because you have chosen him, because you prefer him. And by that I 1I0 not mean that yoa prefer him to Mr. Cboate, but I do mean that yon prefer him to the trouble, the pains thst yoa would have to Uke lu order to defeat htm. You have your choice between work snd tain mea who go Into the country. They find a maa who Is going to run for office snd they say, "Let help yoa pay some ot the campaign expenses," and tbey -do men all over the country I terest as a whole It thrown against every If yon turn to Cuba, Is tbe record sny ata av wwm aK mmmIwm Afth.

sn.Vi good catme. more agreeable? It would be easy to quote I do hot wish to I do not propose to you instance after Instance of Senators to be a pessimist I simply- desire to call your attention to tbe fact that a century charged with peculiar responsibility who Twoald fladdea yoaur heart ta And doofhnnt brownt -tbe beat la rr 1 1 Her pie ara fit tor a queen 1 Axd ber saooeaa, aa you might has reduced New-York from Hamilton and have spoken oa that question with aa Ignorance which Is simply amsslng. 1 Ana ir you turn from Cnba, think of the Livingston and Jay to Murphy and Piatt and Hill; that It has reduced Pennsylvania from Franklin and Dickinson to Cameron and Quay, with a possible alternative la aa cn wi nuica Arbitration one of the greatest achievements of diplomacy, one of the longest steps forward which has been taken in civilisation within eur memory, and the anamaker, STATE LEGISLATURES DIAGNOSED, COTTOIHE Senate of the United States is now consid ering whether, en the whole, there Is not redress- of -grievances, -for correcting, ttreagtEeaing and confirming the laws and for making new laws as the common good may require." I fancy. we all believe that the Legislature ought to do all these things, but sre there any number of as who seriously expect them to recognise the obligation? Do we look forward we have had troubles enough la the last years; they have grown space recently do we look forward to the sessions Of Congress or Of the State Legislatures with hope or with 'apprehension? Do we watch their dally proceedings with pride or with shame? Do we regard their adjournment with Joy or -with regret? Let us take, If you please, the greatest legislature In the country, the Congress of the United States. And In what I am about to say to yea I do aot propose to apeak In any partisan spirit, for I think no man can study our conditions and our tendencies and retain any trace of partisanship.

Let me take subjects which are distinctly aon-partltao-, TARIFF LEGISLATION REVIEWED. Take the' subject, if yon please, of taxationa question which affects Republican and Democrat alike, for no human power can devise a scheme which will take the taxes out of the pocket of one party and aot out of the pockets of the other. In 1888 onr system of taxation had produced a surplus which wss a danger In our financial aystein and a great temptation to extravagance, and everybody all over the country recognized the fact that our system of taxation must be revised. The campaign of 18X8 was fought upon the question whether that revision could be carried on by the mea who believed in a tariff for revenue or by those who believed In a tariff protection, and the -latter carried the day. Not one during, that campaign suggested that the taxes should be increased.

The euftttkw was whether: the taxes should be vaf fi some capital to be made out of defeating it, or amending It er delaying It some bad government; you have your choice between sacrificing ease and comfort Income, pleasure, and bad government, and yoa have chosen bad government, You have been choosing it And you are not alone. I say you; 1 might Just ss well say we. We aDBOanlasJ tbarttn- th most healthful as well aa th) thing personal, something politically to be 1 lag aad trying rasdlum anowa. gained by bringing that Into the game of politics; and when the people of the United States, -who are quite as well able to un have been doing It all over tbe country for THE N. K.

FAIRBANK COMPANY, KmYsrt, Flladlai, A Ctiles, a number of years, snd the question Is how derstand what that treaty means, what Its long we sre going to continue to make that Now, turn, ft you will, to yonr State Leg- Islatures. "By their fruits yu shall know them." They are the people who create these These Senators are chosen by them. Now, what wss your condition not very long ago? Yon had the Lexow Investigation, which showed a condition ot things in the government of New-York that wat deplorable, and the people ef New-York, without regard to party, made np their mind that they would no longer submit to such a degrading tyranny. They met; they worked hard; they succeeded in overthrowing Tammany and Tammany's allies under another party name. They chose a Mayor, "and now," they said, "we dangers are, what Its benefits are, under choice.

Think of It for a moment. Your enemies are working every day In the year. take to say. to. their Representatives, that It; tbea when the Legislature meets, each one of tbose fellows has got certain number of men whom be can count on, men to whom he Is obliged; tbey go to him nnd say: "It doesn't mske'much difference to you who I Speaker; so and to te a good msn.

Don't yon think you better vote for hlro? He styt: "Certalulv, I don't know anything bout bis business. I'm new here. I'll vote for anybody you say." Then he goes to the candidate for Speaker and says: "I'll give you so many votes If you'll give me such snd tuch places on the committee." And tbst has been done yesr after year. And then when the committee tt constituted be goes to tbe railroad company or the telephone company er the seeker after thlt or that privilege, or tbe man who to very well satisfied with wbat he hat got and doesn't want It Interfered with, and ssys. "I can manage that committee.

Bo much money, yonr bill passes," or, he says to a man, "Thst telephone compear hasn't employed me at all. Pat la bill to reduce the charges." Cheapest kind of business Is the world! Any id lot can draw a bill which strike st some great corporation. Put that In and tbe moment it becomes apparent that It Is worth money somebody will psy for It. Yoa have established a lucrative industry." (Laughter.) "STBIKB AT THE MAN WHO PAT Now. tbst tort of thing to going on aud the campaign fund has got to be a serious danger to our Institution and It bst got te be stopped snd tbe way to stop It is to we want that treaty ratified, we find the Mr.

Flatt finds time while attending te a large express business to run the govern Senators standing up snd saying: "Gentlemen, bear In mind that this is none ot ment of the State of New-orhv Now yon have got to find some way or other ot yonr business. The dignity ot the Senate sqneexlng out of your time some time to must be protected. We propose' to pass upon that -when we get perfectly ready. attend to the business of this State or, of and It Is a question ra which yon- really this city, of this country. we are going to have onr reform measures ought not to Interest yourselves.

Thst Is REFORM TALK VS. REFORM WORK the record on diplomacy. It is extremely pleasant to tit 1 round xpress the dlnner-ttble at we are sitting now and THE SPEAKER'S POWER. Now, bow to it with the House ef Repre talk reform, but It does not go very far; yea do not reach anybody who te not al sentatives? What Is It that preserves ns from amaxlng exhibitions of folly on the ready of your way of thinking. Yoa want retained as Ihey were, or reduced; but no- steady yoa wsnt to meet ttesdy work with steady work; yon want meet organisation with organization.

I want yoa part of the popular branch of onr National legislature? Nothing but the power of the Speaker, tbe Speaker who la that popular assembly now exercises tbe right to say wbat measure shall he considered and- what (hall not by the Heuss of Representatives, are going to tbe Legislature at Albany and we are going to hare our reform measures passed." And wben the smoke ot the contest cleared sway, priding themselves on their exertions and the victory they had won, they came to Albany with their various measures, they found stsniling across the path Mr. Piatt who said to them: "Gentlemen, yon are laboring under a mistake In this business; this was not your victory, 'It waa my victory. If yon want any legialatlon you can have It but we're not giving legislation away In. Albany. Give me so much In the way of office, such and such recognition from Mayor Strong, and yon shall have yonr reform laws.

Refuse me sad yo will find that tbe path ot the reformer Is hard." i And after a while, after the measures had been hung up for a certain time In sooner had the friends of Protection got Into lower than tliey passed a Mil which largely Increased the turiff and. so framed their law that ft profited largely certain ssurnufacturert who had contributed largely te jfche campaign funds for the purpose of preventing a reduction in tariff tax. I to not propose to dlacuss that law. It was euffloientlr -discussed la the campaign to bear In mlud that the man who Is on. the wrong side Is weak; that there 1 nothing to weak at a corrupt man or a corrupt And If yoa gentlemen of New-York, If we gentlemen of strike st tbe man who pays.

It has got A yesr or two ago of two rival candidates for Speaker, the country was hoping that to be msde disputable to contribute to the campaign fund. There are lota ef as MORE SPECIALS THAN ANY OTHER PAPER. one man would be elected because If be was, they said. "The silver bill will never Massachusetts, would only mske np our minds to Uke an hour, perhaps two hours who buy substitute; there sre lots of ns whs would rather give IMO.to tbe cam of 110, The result was that the people of be allowed to; come before the House." a week and deliberately docide that ws palgn fund than give aa hour's work. I And I saw in the paper tbe other day that think those men must be drafted Into tbe the Liiltea States condemned It by an over- 'whelming vote, and In Vtifl again -expressed the verdict which- ther first gave almost every Republican Representative ranks snd their commutation not accepted.

asked tbe to allow hlui an oppor some form or another, they pained. But in 1U0. and no one now -is found held was there ewer anything In the history ef Mure than that yo have got to bsve strict tccountsbttity for th fund. Yoa have got to have every dollar that to paid tunity to vote on the Nicaragua and the Speaker said no. The Speaker was right But Is It not a singular condition of your Stat more disgraceful than the fact enough to defend the MeKinley' tariff.

The next step by the people was to put In that that great city stood before your Leg In, accounted for. It will not do to put It power those who believed In a tariff for things when the popular branch of our islature asking leave te govern Itself under Into tbe hands of mea, aa It has been pot revenue, and tbey framed a bill. The, re legislature to so ruled by one msn that It In tblt year, nobody know how many hun proper tows, only to find that single man, holding no official position, standing Be sult was a law which their great leader cannot even discuss a' audition wblca dreds of thousands of dollars snd nobobdy would not algn and which was passed amid majority of the members wish discussed 1 tween them and the represenuttves of the knows how.lt has been spent It Is such suspicions of corruption that the peo It was said some Hue ago, whea the tariff people snd undertaking to Impose terms! enormous fund snd It It great source of Din was under consideration, that the Pictures JGOOD ONES) On Sundays. That snows wnst ue character ef yonr danger to onr Institutions. i lie iwwu (ALL THE NEWS) OnWeekDhys Btste Legislature is snd I won't under ple of the United States passed the most emphatic condemnation on tbe party that was responsible for the measure.

And again; we see the friends of Protection in We ought to bsve Just ss careful sn ac take to say that It Is a wblt worse than tbe Speaker said to this and thst: "It you vote for this measure er this amendment I will never recognise yon again during this Congress." I don't know whether it Is count at is now rendered In England where. Legislature of other States, ef Pennsyl In tbe election return of one candidate. vania, or, at times, of my own unhappy power, having won In a campaign fought upon a different Issue, by reason of a combination between them and many who sre true or not and I don't, care. If It isn't tigered an Item like tblt: "To keeping the fiddler sober at long as he wat sober, 6 shillings." (Laughter.) We hsve got to bare Massachusetts. THE RULERS OF CITIES.

true today it will be tomorrow. That power cannot be ptoaed la the hands of a opposed to their view. And what do we a system ss perfect ss that or this cam see? We see those who desire to profit by paign fund ia and will be In futnre a very How to It with th? legislators la year cities? Is there any city In this country that' to proud of lit Board of Aldermen? The answer Is tbe general movement for serious dsnger to onr Government taxing their neighbors besieging the Com-tee on Waya and Means, while the consumer finds no representative. The only But there Is another of a different char A partlsaa leader without the danger ef lu being exercised in such a way as to prevent the exercise ef his proper power ss a representative of tbe people. Under this system Charles Bonner never could have risen, to make a speech for anti-slavery, if Benjamfn F.

Butler had been Speaker, would change this state of we could do It; but we sre either afraid or too laxy or else we think we are going to lose some Income. We hav got te make np eur minds that there are better things In this world than Income; that can do better If we leave our children a legacy Of patriotism- sad of public spirit snd country of whose government they sre not ashamed, even If we leave them no money. (Applause.) Men and women are made In homes which believe in plain llv-Ing snd high thinking Your system to too often high living and no thinking. My first suggestion to you, therefore. Is that you have got to mske up your minds that this tute of things shall not continue and that whatever time I necessary-, whatever tacrinee you have to make, yoa will be ready to give and you will be ready to make in order to see that yonr city, your State, your Nation te governed well, and unless the people of tbe United States are willing to sacrifice for good government as murb their opponents are ready to sacrifice for bad government yon may be perfectly certain that tbe wreck will be the volunteers every time.

Yoo can't run a mill hr freshets and yon can't govern a country by revolution. It Is aot enough that onee In ten or years that the whole people is New-York should get a change. ti-T have got to keep on; they have got to keep on alt tbe and It takes very les ffort after yon have got the machine running well to keep It running well than It does to change lu tendency alter It running badly. THB MEANS OF CONTROL. Row, sopposlar yo re all agreed that yoa will work for t1 fovernment thst yoa all of yon.

There are two potnu to which yoa rosy direct roar effort. In the first place, the power of the boas today remedy that Is suggested for our ills In acter and that la the fund which ta contributed after electlwa by the men who want municipal reform. Go where yon will- nli creased-taxation, and there is grave daager New-York; Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, that If another McKialcy tariff Is passed. MORE SCOOPS THAN OTHER PAPER. all that we fought for' In the last campaign Boston where at tbe last election -out of the 14 candidates, as I understand It only three paid snort than a poll tax, and we have our legbUatloa so conveniently fixed may be lost, and we may find ourselves, we, to get bill through or want to defeat something which Is threatened them, snd that that brltiery of the Legislature which to going on all over this eennjry.

Is absolutely Inconsistent with the successful government of this country. Thst hat got the people ot the United States, disposed to try soother experiment snd try snother that the people caa choose but two oat ef party thst believes In tariff for revenue. to stop or this Government Is going to ttop. the twelve Aldermen. Each party nominates sevea; we have aa Ingenious system ueorge William Curtis, If be had been a Representative from New-York, could not have risen te speak In favor of Civil-service Reform.

The Speaker msy recognise whom be likes, sad, as Mr. Wilson said, his eye to peculiar; he caa see the man whea he is sitting in his seat, so ss to count him sad make him a quorum, but when be passes the ijue sad rises it is Impossible to see hint whoa he desires te take part in the deiiberatieas of the House. All that yon can say aboat taxation may be summed tip la a single sentence: That that subject haa wrecked both the great parties (Continued on sixteenth page.) by which five are sure te be elected, and tbe parties each Uke five and tbe people do their best to get two, sad up to date of the United Mates within four years. THB CURRENCY. they have conspicuously failed secure ENJOYS them.

(Laughter.) How fat it with the currency? Again a (Laughter.) Now, what to it that Justine bnalneaa question of vital Interest to na alL Now, it to aot that tbe demand for legislation to less; It Is not thst the Government We nave found both parties faithfully play of the United States, of Its States, of lu ing politics with that Important business cities, te easier than It was 100 years ago. uhe thst? Necessity. Aad wbat a ceafessioa thst Is, that It Is aeoesaary for the proper con net of enr Gove rawest thst tbe House of Representatives should not be allowed to exercise the powers which they are hoses to exercise! Syrup of Figs To get its beneficial efferte buy th GENU1KE manufactured by tha California Fig Syrup Co. question. We have found them for a aeries FORMER VS.

PRESENT CONDITIONS. of years making concession after concession xpress Why, think for a moment of the contrast to the advocates of money first paper and Uea silver a til the Sherman between the village of oar ancestors tad How to It with roar But Legislatures?.

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