The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-06-20
The Maine Radicals in Council

We publish to-day an abstract of the
proceedings, when the men who support
the President for a second term-or those
to whom his second term promises support
got together at Lewiston. 1t is the
same old story over again gathering
OF otfice-holders and Office expectants to
boast little of The past, and promise i
great deal for the future. They point
with pride to their past record in war and
in peace" But has the country really had
any peace under their reign2 If it has
why are measures OF war continually de-
vised and urged in Congress? The ways
OF peace call for no extraordinary meas
ures OF force, with provisions for unlimit-
ed military occupation, directed against a
section OF the country, such as comprise
the main features of Congressional enact
ments for the past seven years. The
statnte-book is one long array of pains
penalties, forfeitures and disabilities. and
the measures of peace have no more re-
cognition there than have the views of
true craftsmanship
The resolution of self-gratuati0n in re-
lation to the drawback to be allowed an
shipbuilding material, by its very terms
confesses that but little has really been
done. 1t says
Resolved, That the thanks of the people Of
AL.
gallon IN that body, through whose able ANA
earnest advocacy the measure was secured tor
the recent legislation to promote the interests Of
shp-bulldlng and revive commerce: and we
accept what has been accomplished as an asSIIr-
ance that their efforts in this direction win con-
tnue until that great interest IS placed upon an
| equitable basis.
What miserable vaporing is this, when
we consider the magnificent merchant
marine OF the country at the time when
this party came into power, only eleven
years ago 1t now actually stands up be.
| fore the world and boasts OF its measures
to revive shipbuilding, when the industry
| has been done to death at its hands. And
1t has an assurance that the interest Il 10
| be placed on an equitable basis Wen
| who destroyed its equitable basis Ger
| tainly the Democrats LETT it the most pros
porous industry Of the country. The con
fesslon is plain that radicalism wholly de-
stroyed the business, and has thus far
given to 1t only the promise Of equity. II
is as though the thieves of the parable had
| flung to the robbed and wounded traveller
his plundered breeches, and promised his
shirt, upon an equitable basis" at a
future day.
Then comes the much abused virtue of
temperance, which has been made the
football OF politics, kicked hither and
tnlther IN party strife, and made to prop
up the fortunes Of the hitherto dominant
party, until it is warped and battered ont
OF recognizable shape The resolution
upon this subject re-affirms and iustifes
the extreme Legislation now on the statute
book, by which the vender of such inno-
cent beverage as cider, is SUBJECT to fine
and imprisonment 1t says to the farmers
and orchardists OF Maine, who pursue an
important industry of the State, esvou can
raise apples and make cider, but you shall
have no market for it, You must consti-
stute yourselves peddlers of cider, or have
your market destroyed, for no one who
buys it shall sell again" Those who
have expended their capital in CREATING
orchards. are now told to cut them down
tor they will not repay the labor of caring
for them.