The Portland daily press., 1871-09-02
Boston stock List.
Mr. Kimbalr. spseche. and pic,nre.

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Mr.. Kimball is circulating very generally
from his own Office the pictures of the free
trade league, and extracts of his own speech.
A correspondent of the Ellsworth sAmerican
meets Mr.. Kinball on his own grounds and
talks figures-the worst thing possible against
Mr.. Kimball's assertion.
A large electioneerng handbll is being cir
culated in some parts or this county, showing
by large picture, that we are enormously taxed
and that the way to avoid high taxes is to vote
for Mr.. Kimball as governor tor Maine.
have no time now to discuss the question of
taxes, but write to call attention to a remark
made by Mr.. Kimball at Bangor last year.
MI. K said:
have employed large number of men f,r
many years, aud have always paid them the
higest market rates for their labor and L saw
to you frankly and truthfully that have new
er seen the time when I thought the labOring
classes so poorly paid, in proportion to the ex-
penses OF living, as at the present time.
Let us for moment compare prices at this
time, with the past. Thirty or forty years ago
common farm laborers received in the spring
and tall, from 80 to Is cents per day, and in
haying time one dollar. At shat time cotton
sheetings were about Is cts per yard. House
carpenters earned from $1.00 to $1.50 per day.
Ten years ago the farmers in this county re-
ceived Tor their wood $500 or 5 2.25 per cord :;
labor about the same as thirty years ago, store
goods were very little lower then they are
now. At this time farm labor paid from
S1OO to S1.5O p9r day in spring and fall, and
from two to three dollars per day in hayng.
Look at it in another point of view. How
do people live now, in comparison with twen-
ty or thirty years ago? Let the eye give the
answer. Go INTO the houses of the common
people-farmers and mechanics. Their hous-
es are far better finished and furnished; their
tables are better spread; they have better
ware, and far better food ON their tables;
their old furniture is cast aside to be replaced
with new; /; good carpets take the place of un-
painted floors; the clothing of females is inn
menSely richer than then. In most cases a
dress which was perfectly satisfactory thirty
years ago could be purchased at present prices
for less than one-foLrth of what a dress, no
more satisfactory, costs now. The material
OF female dress is far richer in quality than
that worn thirty years ago, and double the
the amount of cloth is usually employed, be-
sides, the very trimmings of dress now,
would more than buy dress such as was
worn then.
LCok at the harnesses and carriages used
now as compared with those used thirty or
forty years ago. Be it remembered too,
uhdb theu uO lOI Sct Ill utUt do HuCu dS GHcy
did in those days.
1t is said people are extravagant Not
more than they were twenty or forty years
ago. Every discerning man must see that
people live better in all respects than they
formerly did. 1t is true those that labor are
better paid in proportion to the cost of living,
than formerly. How it may be in Portland,
where Mr.. Kimball lives, do not know, but
we all know howit is in this counry, and that
Mr.. K. is wrong -