Show NATIONAL DUTIES speaker reed ped P e d in his campaign speech at portland me ate on oil friday afternoon last declared that the lie country li 14 passing through a transition period involving the adjustment of many ques units tlona and that we are to exhibit our good common sense by abstaining from a aul quick ck juda judgment ment wo we shall for the next few years need all the wisdom all ill the experience all the patriotism of fill all the people in settling the questions that we must meet and decide that thai Is all right enough but when Is there ever a time almo when the country does not need all its common sense a all 11 the experience and all the patriotism of the people mr air reed was probably squinting at the new territory that the country has hai obtained he Is opposed to holding it in that thai ho he la Is fol following loving a whim not experience tor for experience establishes that the wisest statesmen of the old flays days such men as webster and john quincy adams had no clearer idea of the mighty west of our country than their descendants ants seem to have now and that the advice and influence of our foremost men caused us to surrender on the west coast what would now be to us a a mighty defense and would iuro insure our commercial supremacy on the pacific all the acquisitions of territory thus far made have added to our prestige and power and also infinitely to the comfort of our people indeed except tor for them we should still be no 6 or 6 in the rank of nations indeed the chances ore are ten to one that except tor for them our republic would long lone ago have been shivered into fragments and our country would have hava been but an of weak and petty states what a man like speaker reed ought to say eay is something like this wt we have hava been greatly blessed and now flow we ure certainly strong enough and gloat enough to be just and to do right we have vur duties to perform and they are not all confined to ourselves we owe tile lie world lorld something and we cannot not afford albord to begin a war for the sake bake of humanity and then to evade cevado the responsibilities ties growing out of that war we cannot permit creator cruelties cruel ties to grow up than those wo we at struck ck down we cannot overturn it semblance of civilization ond and leave the soll soil to sprout with a jungle of barbarism bar larn we are bound to keep our flag a symbol that the worlds oppressed can turn to with hope |