Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-03-05

EE4REILLY EAOHLNG.

FEARFULLY KNOWlTG.
Mr.. Pillsbury's "Word to the Journal"
in the last Standard. concerning our COM
ments upon his Free Trade speech at Ban
COR. has undoubtedly impressed those who
read that paper with the idea that he is a
man of fearful knowledge, dealing only
with great questions in political economy,
and never uttering his wisdom except in
select phrase to very select audiences. OF
course he is not the person who has so
often loaded the columns of the Standard
with lard and laths.' That was some vu-
gar fellow, very different from the man
who spoke at Bangor. AS an instance of
the profound and accurate knowledge and
thought of the man at Bangor take the fol-
lowing sentences in his Pow-wow and Free
Trade speech: without business. no
'people can arrive at science. And it is
$50 in all respects" What a gem OF
thought is here, glistening like mud.
There is nothing like it to be found in the
pages of Adam Smith or any other great
expounder of Free Trade. Then the
grammatical structure, the relation be-
tween the two sentences, let the boys and
girls in the schools examine il and be wise.
But to the article in the Standard, which
is as follows:
AT the Democratic Banquet in Bangor, in com
memoration Of Washington 5 birthday, Mr. Pills.
bury responded to a Free Trade sentiment and
argued that the so-calledt Protection" is species
of slavery, under which the masses are compelled
by the voice of law to yield large percentage of
their earnings TO the privileged classes without
any return, and an illustration Of the thousands
OF forms by which consumers are thus compelled
TO pay tribute to the favored few, showed how the
increased cost of non under this system operates
to swell the price Of q barrel OF -four brought
from the West
The Kennebec journal exposes its stupidity by
asserting that Mr.. Ps position involves the charge
that operatives in factories are slaves and their
employers robbers, and some funky (probsbly
connected with she establishment affects TO regard
the remarks of Mr. 2. as insulting to Col. Dewitt,
Capt. Cole and the employees Of the cotton factory
in this city. When ignorance so 81 old as TO be
incapable of Distinguishing between the system OF
forced contributions by consumers to the privileged
few, incorporated into our revenue laws, aad The
voluntary relations between employers and en-
ployees, thus blossoms out in paper recognized
as the official organ Of the ruling party in the
State it is not difficult to understand how such
system Of robbery and specie of slavery is main.
tanned. With such an exhibition on the part Of
the party, what can be expected Of the pupils We
would remind the journal that our remarks al
Bangor were addressed to intelligent gentlemen,
and were not intended for such as know no better
than to suppose that the controversy between Free
Trade and Protection relates TO the relations be-
tween the overseers and operatives Of cotton fac
tories Any attempt to instruct such persons in
regard to the laws Of political economy, would be
as much out Of place as the Journal is when it I'M
dertakes to grapplc with subject about which ii
shows itself so grossly ignorant
Now here is denial and yet proof in this
very article of the truth of wha, we said in
regard to Mr. Pillsbury's Bangor speech.
He says that 1.-THE Kennebec Journal ex-
"poses its stupidity by asserting that Mr..
cps position involves the charge that OPP
"eratives in factories are slaves and
"ther employers robbers" &c, and yet
in the preceding paragraph he says he
argued at Bangor "that the so called Pro
Election is species Of Slarery under which
1.-THE masses are compelled by voice OF law
"to yield a large per centage of their earn
"ings to the privileged classes without any
return" &c. We are willing to submit
it to the judgment of Col Dewitt, Capt.
"Cole, and the employees of the cotton
factory in this city," whether this re-
statement Of Mr.. P.'s argument at Bangor
is not positive proof that we were correct
in charging him with stigmatizing factory
hands as slares and their employers a
robbers There is no need of going to
Pennsylvania Tor examples of the opera
ton of Protection, for we have them right
here in our midst 1t is against our fac
tories in this city, against the farmers,
traders and laborers, benefited by the
market they make and the employment
they create that the shafts of Mr.. Pills
bury and the Free Trade democracy are
leveled. The article from "A Working
man" previously published in our COL
umns puts the case in its true aspect. Mr.
Pillsbury would have made no attempt to
explain or soften his language were it
not that he fears it may increase the re-
publican vote at the city election next
Monday. The laboring men of this city
are not slaves nor are their employers rob
bers, and they will resent at the polls the
stigma cast upon them.
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