The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-09-04
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| nm yield.
Col Robe called for three cheers for the
Senator from Iowa, and after they were given
three cheers were called for the State OF
Iowa, which next week Maine will Join in the
ranks of Republican States.
Colonel Robe introduced Senator Blaine in
brief and telling speech, welcoming the dis
tingushed Senator to Gorham. The Senator,
| on coming forward, was greeted with great
| applause, 50 continued that it was some
moments before he could proceed. Mr. Blaine
| spoke as follows:
SPEECH OF SENATOR BLAINE.
| Fehoc Citizens Of Gonhane-My friend from
| Iowa has discussed the financial question, and
| Gov. Garcelon says that this is not the issue.
and the country is called to bear witness to the
misluc Of the Republican party of this state
for 81 years, during which it has been in
| power, to see the ruin that it has wrought |
| thank the Governor and thank Mr. Eben f.
| Pillsbury for having raised the issue OF Rpub-
| lican misrue il. this state. l thank them for
doing it, and meet the issue thus raised fear
! lessly. (Applause) And it is worth while to
| instruct the younger class of this state In re
| gard to the wonderful deterioration since TWEEN
ty-two years ago. 1t is the period ] should have
| chosen to vindicate the Republican party.
| Twenty-Five years ago when the Republicans
! chose Hannibal Hamlin, there was but one
railroad going out from Portland. Today
| there are six. Then there were nine counties
that were ignorant of the wire and rail. Mr..
Eben f. Pillsbury said in Auburn the other
| day that the state had refrigerated. Twenty -two
| years ago the city of Auburn had 2,S40 people
and valuation of 100000. Today it has TO-
| 900 people, and valuation Of $7 O00O ZAP
| plause,) Take the city of Lewiston.
| Then it was q village of 1890 inhab-
| tants, and valuation of S5S0,00e.
Today it is a city of 10000 inhabitants, and its
valuation in 1870 was $S,500,0o0. Today it is
estimated at $15,000G00 (Applause) Then
| in the county of Cumberland there was one
savings bank. with S10G,0G0 deposited Today
| there are $4,000 900 deposited in this county.
| Applause) l should say to my friend, the
| Senator from Iowa, that no matter how much
| the West has developed, the development OF
| the state of Maine has been no less wonderful.
! Applause) Do you remember the old state
banking system? and it was a sweet old sys-
| tenn. Laughter.) You remember how char
| tiers were put through. 1t was every bank for
| itself and the devil for us all. Qaughter)
| Back of the entire bank system of this state in
1860 there was what? 100000 in gold, and the
| notes of the directors (Laughter) An i'll
| stance of this sort of banking may be cited in
| what was called "The Lumbsrman's Bank"
| which his brothers were directors, and which
| might have been called 'The Smith Bank"
| Qaughter) When bank failed it was all
| over. The work was done completely
| Uaughter.) When the Shipbuilders Bank of
| Rockland foiled it was found that it had $780,
| coo out, and it is all out now. Iaughter)
| You remember of the finding of the body or
rather of the skin of negro out in Mississippi,
and the coroner's inquest sat three days. and
then brought in the verdict found empty;
hat was q Wi a nj at Ike
| Naughter.) They were found empty, and are
empty yet. Oaughter.)
We have to-day what man could have
hoped to have seen-a paper currency equal TO
Europe. We may say that they cry for it.
Oaughter.) We have made the greenbacll
good by resumption about as far as the old
deacon at the monthly concert of prayer for
the advancement of the cause OF foreign mis-
sions prayed that the gospel might be carried
Unto all parts of the earth, yea even to
those desolate parts of the earth where the
loot OF man has never trod, nor the eye OF God
ever looked upon Applause and laugh
ter.) Resumption is fixed fact, and is not 10
be disturbed. (Applause) / do not believe
that even Congress Of Greenbackers-if it
were possible to have such Congress, which
God forbid Qaughter) would dare to repeal
the resumption act (applause) unless they were
elected from the lunatic asylums. Oaughter.)
At last the balance of trade is in our favor to
the extent of about S1,000,000 day. Gap
plause) 1t was $3.50, 900, COO last year and it is
increasing (Applause.)
But it is said, why has not more gold come
here? Europe held more than $1,000, 100000
of our bonds, and has been sending them back
and is near the bottom, (applause) so near that
what is left is held for investment and last
month 100000 of gold did come here, and
more is coming. (Applause.) But it is said
that we need money enough to meet the de-
mands of business, and l suppose that have
asked from the stump how the money is to be |
put in circulation at least 1860 times, but let
us say 100 times, following the Greenback ex-
ample of cutting down 80 per cent of the fact,
Qaughter) and who is the first to answer? Why
Congress. l may not know much about other
matters, but having been by your favor and the
favor of the people of my old district II years
in one or the other of the houses of Congress, |
l should be dull indeed if [ did not know
something about Congress, Qaughter) and L
tell you that a more incomDetent and ire
sponsible BIO dy to settle such question than is
the Cengre SIS of the United States does not ex-
list. Uaughter) What is the Congress of the
United States? A political body, composed of
men, of politicians who come to it hot and |
rocking with the politics of the country. One |
man would think that $100,000,G00 would be |
the right initiation figure, while another might |
move an amendment Of S200,000,000, while |
some De La Matyr might move for 81 100000 |
600 at once Naughter.) But it is said that
Congress did this once When, my Greenback
friend? In the time of war did you say? No, |
my Greenbacs friend, the Congress of the !
United States did not settle the question Of |
how much paper money was required to meet |
the demands Of business. What it did settle |
was the amount of paper money that the saliva
ton of the country demanded. app lause.) |
(The Senator then considered the Greenback
demand that the bonds should be taxed and
demonstrated its fallacy) The Greenbackers
are shaking bond over the heads of the
people and are crying This is the first mort
gage on your property" If it is, it is slow
one; Naughter.) Who OF you ever paid one
Of the bonds? The government raises $780,
100000 yearly from the tariff and S110000000
from the internal revenue, and where does a
dollar of that hit? Again, it is said that we
are heavily taxed here in Maine, and it is true,
for Maine did its patriotic duty during the war,
(applause) and Maine does not owe one dollar
except the war debt, (applause); and except
the tax to keep down the interest on that and
reduce the principal, and a slight increase of
the school tax, our tax is slightly less than il
was twenty years ago.
The Observation-Disclosures party promised
to reduce our state expenses. They figured it
all out in the Bangor Commercial and prom
ised to save just S423, 61S.75. They were par
ticuar about the 70 cents. g.aughter) It re-
an Irish actor. His landlady sent him a bill of
500 pounds Is shillings and 0 pence, and he
sent her the pence. but wrote that the
pounds and shillings bothered him, Oaughter)
but Sir William Don did better than this COM
bination as they didn't save the rs cents.
(Applause) What did they do? Just this:
they increased the state tax S70,114 above the
average of the last five years. if the certificate
of Charles A. White, the Greenback State
Treasurer, is to be believed. If it is, Caughter)
l would like to have some boy figure out the
sum of how long it would take them to pay the
debt by decreasing expenses, Qaughter) taking
for guide the old problem of how long it
would take frog to come up out of well if
he fell back three feet every time he jumped
up two. Uaughter.) But they did something
else. They appointed a man to look out for
the matter of state pensions, which had pre-
viously been seen to by clerk in the Adiu-
tant Generals office, Qaughter) and they took
from the bench to the detriment of justice. as
judges, Jurors, plaintiffs and defendants agree,
one of the judges of the Supreme Court, and
that judge will have to be returned to the
bench. (Appause)
Senator Blaine then passed to consider the
Southern question. closing by saying that next
week Maine win begin new series Of Repub-
can Governors with Daniel f. Davis.
Three cheers were given for Senator Blaine,
md three for the Hon. D. f. Davis.
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