Show TOM REDS OPINION Tbi SpoaI Thinks the Real Cause o Trouble I Not Given NEW YORK Aug 8 A Washington correspondent telegraphs the following with a statement that i was written specially by Hon Thomas B Reed of Maine One can hardly fail to be Impressed by the resemblance beween the message mes-sage of the president today and that of the last Democratic president who addressed the Congress of his party in 1857 While the disaster is now the same the expreosipn of sorrow is very similar While this message is impressive im-pressive it is far from being adequate to be occasion While my votes in the past show plainly thatl agreed with much that he says I should not be doing justice i ID my own sense of truth i I did not record re-cord my entire disbelief in the idea that the message states is the underlying cause of our disaster The cause of our misfortunes is plainly the utter uncertaintity that reigns in finances and tariff and in everything every-thing on which business can be based I you remov one element of uncertainty there remain all others You cannot readjust the economic principles which govern 0 country without disaster especially i that readjustment be violated and involve the wages and salary of every citizen t |