Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1868-08-21
Pen Knife Pillsb ury

Mr.. Pillsbury, the Democratic Candidate
record during the war we publish on the
outside Of this issue, came here on We'd
nesday last week, like bird of i'll omen.
to tell us how poor we are. how that labor
is depressed, that the laboring MAJ walks
Tie streets in silence and with starvation
staring him i'll the face, that our rich ma
hobs are growing richer and the poorp poor
cr, all the while. 1t was dismal story
that of Eben F. Pillsbury's on Wednesday
night. 1t was pity that the night was
fine clear one. for the elements should havs
been in an uproarous condition. to have
been in harmony with this soIrowful, dark
dismal tale OF Pilisbury's about curry
combs, the price OF molasses, the making
negro into Il man, &c &c &c.
Before Mr.. Pillsolry came her,, and at
that time also, every man. woman, and
child in town had Ill the work that he. she.
or it could do,at good piceS. Mechanics are
are hurried 10 death with work, ana at
prices ran ing fre m $50 to $50 per day.
or sl,75 per day, and there never was
| time when the people were 50 oxtravagant
in dress, in their living, in the furnishing
Of their houses as TO day. We are not poor
because we cannot have enough of good
wholeso he food to eat, nor because we
cannot clothe ourselves decently. but if we
suffer at all, it is is because our wants are
ertruragaat. and because VIC are reckless
i'll most every thing. We have discarded
the good old notions Of economy Of our
! fathers and mothers, and now declare that
new era has come upon US. 1t will cost
to day hundred dollar bill, to dress
daughter or a wife, decently, as the world
goes now, whereas at weniy years ago it did
not require half AS much material, nor that
costing half as much.
| "lhose that dance must pay the fiddler"
saith the old proverb, aud if the people will
spend all they car in high living, why they
cannot lay by much for rainy day. But
says Mr.. Pillsbury;
"Shp building is done away with, and
our mercantile marine is swept from the
ocean, nearly"
The answer to this, is, that during the
/ Democratic rebellion. the pirate Admiral
Semmes, the great Democratic leader to
day, in the South, destroyed our commerce
on the ocean, or drove our ships into Brit.
ish hands, and now these vessels cannot be
gotten back. Another cause for the ap-
parent decease in tonnage, as given in the
statistics is that the new measurement gives
much less number Of tons for the samll
vessels.
But said Mr.. Pillsbury, something must
be dona with the 'bloated bondholders.'
Here Is what Mr.. Seymour the Dem ocratic
candidate for President said few weeks
b fore his nomination about bond holders;
1t is a mistake to suppose that they are
mostly held by capitalists. Large sums be-
longing to children and widows, under the
order of courts or the action of trustees.
have been invested in government bonds.
The vast amount he.d by fire and life in
surance companies and savings banks are,
in tact, held in trust for. and are the r.li
ance Of the great body of active business
and labo-ing NEIL or women, or of widows
and orphans. The savings banks of this
State. which are the depositaries of the
poor. or fpersous of limited means. hold
about $50, 900. If we look iuto other
States we shall see that only q small share
of these bonds are held by men known IS
capitalists but they belong in fact if not i'm
form to the business men. the active and
laboring members of society. The destruc-
ton of these securities would makea wide
spread ruin and distress which would reach
into every work shop and every district
however humble.
But the nation conld, no doubt. make
new loan and get better terms, than 1t did
when tbs Democrats were giving aid and
comfort to the South In its rebellion,
If the Democratic leaders were not all the
time saying or doing something TO injure
the credit ofthe government, or to give col
or to the idea that It will repudiate its debt. |
We copy the following from the Lewiston !
Journals notice of Mr.. Pillsbury's speech
in that city. 1t Is the same old speech, and
the Journals notice Of it there answers
well for Ellsworth.
TAXATION CONSIDERED.
Passing from this subject, Mr.. Pillsbnry
proceeded to denoanee The internal reven-