Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-08-17

question. In Maine indeed the democrats
resolve for specie payment; but every
democratic paper in Maine is warmly sup
porting. that notorious demagogue, Bill
Allen, who is now running for Governor
in Ohio, as the democratic candidate, on u
platform of the indefinite expansion of an
irresponsible and irrcdecmable paper cur
rency.
And every democratic paper in Maine
is eulogizing Geo. H. Pcndleton, the very
apostle Of epudation-the very enbodi-
ment and indeed the author Of the paper
money swindle.
More than forty years ago Daniel Web
ster warned the people ofthis country that
"no device had ever been contrived so ef-
fective for cheating labor of its reward as
irredeemable paper currency" There IS
not farmer or mechanic. tn artisan or
dav laborer in Maine, that will not suffer
by irredeemablc paper money. There is
not one of them that will not gain comfort
and independence by having the govern
ment return to honest money.
Shipbmlding to-day can be carried on at
almost as favorable rates rs before the
war. Give us n specie basis, and Maine
will in the future 60 far ahead ofanythng
she has ever done in the past in the way
of shipbuilding. The democratic paper
published in Augusta, the Standard. quotes
approvingly an article from the Washing
ton Capital, urging that foreign built ships
be admitted duty free to American Regis
try. This of course would be Il deadly
blow at shipbuilding in this country. a
few years ago, however, when repubil'
can congress passed a most beneiiccnt act
permitting the free importation ofall ship
building material. Every democratic Sen
ator and Representative in Congress
voted against it and the democratic papers
in Maine opposed ii and ridiculedit Now
we find these same democratic papers ad-
vocating the admission OF foreign built
ships free of all duty and their admission
to American Registry. To admit ship
building material free of duty encourages
the building of vessels at home and the
employment of American labor 70 adj
NIT foreign ships free destroys shipbuild-
ing at home and gives the preference to
the foreign laborer over the American la
borer And this is democracy in Maine
as now preached by their leading organ
The article quoted and approved by the
Maine Standard advocates also the reduc-
tion of the wages OF seamcn, both officers
and men, and consequently OF all laboring
men. Low wages for the laborer have
always found warm advocates in the dem
ocratic ranks-never in the republican
ranks. The last democratic President
with which this country was cursed. Mr..
Buchanan, was the well known advocate
of reducing the wages of laboring men in
this country to the pauper standard of
Europe. In consequence of this he was
known for years as Ten cent jimmy
1t is quite natural that the democratic pa
pers should now take up the reduction OF
the wages of the laborer and the admission
of foreign built ships Of free American
Registry.
Let these democrats be rebuked. Let
every laboring man rally against them
for their policy would reduce his wages
and beggar his family! Let every farmer
rally against them-lor they would de-
stroy American industry and hence destroy
the market for farm products. Let every
ship builder rally against them for their
policy of admitting foreign built vessels
wouldIdestroy ship-buiding on this CONT
nent. And finally let every man who is
opposed TO irredeemable paper money
rally against the democracy who are its
only advocates. Disloyal TO the country
when it was imperiled by war, the demo.
cratic party now advocates policy that
would destroy our prosperity in time OF
peace. Let Maine rally as one man
against this wild, unprncipled, destructive
party. A SIIIpBuILpER.