The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-11


ship building and navigation interests
former handspring of her growth and enter
prise What though her shipyards are de-
serted, her tonnage reduced to a bsggarly
array of coasters, and their earnings, as we'll
as that of her foreign carrying trade, repre-
sented by zero-has the radical party in Con-
gress ever offered to lift finger to change this
condition Of thingsf Has il not, in its inan-
cial legislation, persistently Disseminated
against the industry and business interests
of Maine for the benefit of other
sections, and voted down every
proposition brought forward to
give them an equal chance with those of other
pet Republican States As If they were not
already depressed and dead enough, when it
was proposed at the close of the last session
to give them the coup de grace by putting an
additional duty on copper, we find the radical
Representatives of Maine under the crack of
the party whip, voting to infliot this deliberate
injury upon their constituents. This inflexi-
bic party discipline is what the Republican
leaders now rely upon to enable them to carry
the State of Maine, in the face of her own
manifest interests and her duty of self preser-
walton. They openly and shamelessly sacri-
flee her to propitiate other interests in Massa-
chusetts and Pennsylvania, and to retain their
hold on power as national party. But when
her people come to vote, they rely upon their
stump orators and whippers-il to make them
swallow these insults and help to keep their
betrayers in office.
In like manner they propose to keep the
farmers and small traders of Maine quiet,
while they continue to bleed them from every
pore, and perpetuate the immunity of fa-
vored class from local burdens. The people of
Maine are oppressed with an immense war
debt, State and municipal, which has to be
carried, and the interest paid by that portion
of them who are least able to bear the burden.
ha hull " al Anx-. coI1 4.
many of Maine, who are the principal con-
sumers of dutiable foreign goods which come
under the head OF necessaries of life, and
other taxed products.
But will not the radical party, who mauage
the national finances, do something for the
relief of the hardy backwoodsmen and farmers
of Maine by abating the Federal taxes No,
not to save them from the lowest depths of
poverty. An immense Federal revenue-as
the spoil and plunder of those who now enjoy
the plucking of the national goose, and have
their arms up to the elbows in the public
treasury-is one of the adjuncts of national
power which the Republicans will never will
lingly surrender. Bleeding the people for
their own private benefit is one Of the perqui-
sites which naturally fell to them in the inan-
cial management of the war; and they would
rather have war over again-war now and war
forever-than to give up the pickings and
steallngs of an Overfowing Treasury.
The people of Maine may bswail the damag-
iEg effects of high tariff on their commerce
and industry forever, but they will get no
relief from it until they come boldly forward
and repudiate the radical party which made
that tariff in the interest Of its cotton-s spinning
and iron and copper mining allies, and whose
traditional policy is to restrict commerce to
mere exchange of home products. If our
Maine fellow-citizens ever expect to have
commerce liberalized and extended, or taxes
equalized and reduced, so that they can
build ships and sell or sail them at profit
and take fresh start generally in their
career of material progress they must look to
the Democratic party as their true friends and
eXponents.