The Portland daily press., 1879-07-28
Brunswick.
ENTHUSIASTIC REPUBLICAN MEET
ING.
BRUNSWICK, July 26.


show that this early in the campaign the
Republicans of Brunswick are thoroughly
alive to the necessity for active work-a feel
ing by the way very general through the
country. Ira P. Booker presided, and the
speakers were Hon. D. F. Davis and Hon. L.
B. Reed. AS everywhere Mr.. Davis was
received with hearty enthusiasm, and his able
speech was listened to with great atteption
His speech is not reported since it was SUBJ
stantially the same as that delivered at Sacca-
Kappa and printed in your columns.
Mr.. Reed began by saying that he had been
rather at loss last year and this how to adj
dress the people of Brunswick for they had al
ways been too sensible and intelligent for
greenback follies to make any impression on
them. The only trouble had been that last year
they, like all the rest of us, were taken by
surprise. This year Brunswick was going to
help the rest of the State by calling out her
reserves The attendance tonight showed
what they meant to do He did not for his
part pretend to say what the Greenback
doctrine was. Nobody seemed to know. One
thing was clear. 1t was different from what
it was last year. Last year they wanted the
bonds paid in greenbacks Secretary Sher-
man showed them that over $500, 900 had
been paid in greenbacks and yet they were
not happy. Last year every Greenback
speaker bemoaned himself because the govern
ment discredited its paper and did not take the
legal tenders at the Custom House. Oh they
said if we can only have the greenback taken
for custom dues we need not die to be happy.
And 10 these many days ever since January
1st., the collectors of customs have taken the
greenback, and yet they are not satisfied. In
fact everything they clamored for last year has
been done and it was done without cheating
anybody. Last year they wanted fiat money.
This year they want gold and silver supple
mented by paper, and they don't seem to know
that that is just what they have got already.
But if they have changed their ideas they
have kept up the old SANDER. They still
declare that the Republican financial policy
has been bad, had been the result of conniving
with Shylocks and Rothschilds and money
powers. Now that SANDER we in Maine have
some concern with. Hardly financial
measure is now ON the Statute book which had
not m ct the approval of the greatest and
purest man Maine ever produced, VIM. Pitt
.Fessenden Whoever, until these slanderers
arose, dreamed of connecting measures framed
and called out by that great man with Shylocks
and Rothschilds and money powers. We are
interested to show by our votes how we believe
about this matter.
Mr. Reed then gave in detail the figures of
our wonderful payment of our national debt
not forgetting to remind his hearers that over
and above the $729,0C0,000 of adjusted debt
paid, there were $3.50, 1000 of bills that came
in afterwards, every dollar of which had been
paid by Congress without ever appearing in
the public debt statement at all. While we
have been thus paying off this debt England,
the richest nation on earth, had paid only
$1S1 100000 of hers, and while we have
reduced our interest from $50 0OO,O 900 to $685.
100000 England has increased hers from s 1872,
900 to $15S,50O,000.
Mr. Reed then commented on the financial
system of France, over which the Greenbackers
held such loud jubilations, and showed that in
all its principles it was the same as ours ex-
cept that France did not issue one single franc
of national money. Every bit of paper was
issued by monopoly called the Bank of
France. He exposed the oft reiterated false
statement that France had paid her war debt.
The debt of France today is 81 sos 100000.
Greenbackers complained that we sold our
bonds below par. Every nation in time of
gigantic war did the same. England sold hers
all the way from sixty per cent. to eighty.
France sold hers for eighty-three and is today
paying what amounts to six per cent. on all
she borrowed. The truth was that when we
sold our bonds it was question whether if a
man paid S75 for one he should get back 500
or nothing. In homely phrase every body
who bought bond wagered sixty to hun
dred that we should win and not only win but
pay, and when we think how many Democrat
| &c Instructors there used to be during the war
and how many Buffers and Pendetons there
! have been since, it looks as if they wagered
with a good deal of faith. They say we could
| not have resumed if there had not been good
! crops. What of it? That only proves that
God helps the honest side and with that ap-
proval we can get along, even if Prof. Leo Mil
ler doesn't happen to like it.
Mr.. Reed then reminded the people that
after having had calm, candid intelligent, ex-
position of his principles from our candidate
| for Governor they were entitled and ought to
demand the same from the Democratic candi-
date. He ought to say something if he has
| got anything to say. By the Democratic can
didate of course he meant Joseph L. Smith.
Garcelon was only a stalking horse, side
show to trick hard money Democrats out OF
voting for the only hard money ticket there is
| or ever will be in Maine, to w.t. the staunch
Republican ticket
Mr.. Reed then discussed the unvarying
wrong-headedness of the Democratic party,
showing by examples how they never got
right on any thing till year after it had been
settled This year they had done worse than
ever. Hard money Democrats with national
bank stock in their pockets were going about
| begging John NJ Adams if he couldn't paint
their backs green to at least paint them
striped!
! Mr.. Reed closed with an eXhortation to TIL
Democrats who listened to him to leave the
party that had always been wrong and join the
party which had always in the long run been
right. This country would always be gov
erned by parties. Parties always act ON their
average intelligence. There were good men
in the Democratic party, but the average was
bad. The Republican party doesn't always dc
what the best men want, but its average is
good 1t is not perfect but it is superior.
Dedication of the New Catholic Church
at Yarmouth.
Yesterday was a red letter day for the Cath
olics of Yarmouth, as at last their long-wished
for expectations were realized of having a
church wherein they might pay due homage
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