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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27
Garfield on the Tariff.

The local and sectional aspects of the tariff
question were considered by General Garfield
in speech on the Wood tariff bill in 1878
though he did not treat the subject as General
Hancock has in making it matter of local
option at district school meetings. General
Garfield said:
But 1 wish to say, Mr.. Chairman, that l
have no sympathy with those who approach
this question only from the stand point Of their
own local, selfish interest. When man
comes to me and says: "Put prohibitory duty
on the foreign articles which compete with my
product, that may get rich more rapidly"
he does not excite my sympathy; he repels me;
and when another says: "Give no protection
to the manufacturing industries, for am not
manufacturer and do Eot care to have them
sustained say that he, too, is equally mer-
cenary and unpatriotic. Ifswe swere to legis-
late in that spirit, L might turn to the gentle
man from Chicago and say: "Do not ask me
to vote for an appropriation to build court
pect to get any letters from that office, and the
people of my district never expect to be in
your courts" If we were to act in this spirit
of narrow isolation we should be unfit for the
national positions we occupy.
Too much of our tariff discussion has been
warped by narrow and sectional considera-
tions. But when we base our action upon the
conceded national importance of the great in
dustries have referred to, when we recognize
the fact that artisans and their products are
essential to the well-being of our country, it
follows that there is nc dweller in the hum
blest cottage on our remotest frontier who has
not deep personal interest in the legislation
that shall promote these great national indus
tries. Those arts tEaO enable our nation to
rise in the scale of civilization bring their
blessings to all, and patriotic citizens will
cheerfully bear a fair share of the burden nee
essary to make their country great and self
sustaining. will defend tariff that is ma
tional in its aims, that protects and sustains
those interests without which the nation can
not become great and self-sustaining.
So important, in my view, is the ability of
the nation to manufacture all these articles
necessary to arm, equip, and clothe our people,
that If it could not be secured in any other
way would vote to pay money out of the fed
eral treasury to maintain government iron
and steel, woollen and cotton mills at what
ever cost. Were we to NEGLECT those great in
terests and depend upon other nations, in
what condition of helplessness would we find
ourselves when we should be again involved
in war with the very nations on whom we
were depending to furnish us these supplies?
The system adopted by our fathers is wiser,
for it so encourages the great national indus
tries as to make it possible at all times to equip
themselves for war, and at the same time in
crease their intelligence and skill so as to
make them better fitted for all the duties of
citizenship both in war and in peace We pro-
vide for the common defence by system
which promotes the general welfare.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27
Nova Scotia Solid for Hancock.

During brief interview yesterday with
gentleman from Nova Scotia; who is on visit
to friends in this city, he inquired as to the
prospects of Hancock's election, remarking that
the people in that province of the British en-
pire were almost all in favor of Hancock. On
being asked why, he replied, because they
believe that with him and the Democratic par
ty they will have free trade with the United
States, while you fellows (meaning the Repub-
lcans) are too much in favor of protection"
Workingmen, who believe in protecting home
industry, will please put that in their pipe and
smoke IT,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

The Richmond, Virginia State. Democrat
lc, makes this honest admission: The Dem
ocrats in the east complain that the tariff
question which has been sprung upon them
unawares by their opponents has taken
them by surprise and all unprepared to
meet the issue. This is rather humilia-
ting confession fol. party leaders to make
after having challenged their opponents to
discussion of the whole question by incor-
poratlng in their platform at Cincinnati the
principle, pure and simple, of free trade, or
a tariff for revenue only, as sound Demo-
cratic doctrine.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

A PERSONAL friend and great admirer of
Gen. Hancock, in Washington, wrote him
Two weeks ago, propounding the following
question: ''In case of election, will you
say that, should there be two applicants for
the same position, one who served in the
Union army and the other in the Confeder-
ate army, all other things being equal, the
former should have the place9" The
writer is much chagrined by reason of Gen.
Hancock's failure thus far to respond.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27
Effect of Reducing the Tariff.

If the tariff is reduced on iron, cloth, boots
and shoes, wool, copper lumber, salt,
or other American manufacturers, five, ten, or
more per cent, so as to compel our manufac-
lures to compete with importations from Eu-
rope, prices will fall; and with fall in
wages. Our manufacturers pay workingmen
good wages and give plenty of work, because
they can afford to do so when prosperous
when they get good prices. Cut down the
prices, and that necessarily cuts down your
wages, makes manufacturing dull, and gives
you less chances for work.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27
Canine Nomenclature.
What Some Helpless Dogs Have to Stag
ger Under.
Detroit Free Press. I

a woman got iuto Cass avenue car yester-
day, accompanied by five children and lot of
bundles and baskets, which she at once dis
tributed among the feet of the passengers.
Then she turned to the eldest of the children
and asked breathlessly:
Where's Julia and Horace?"
They're comin.' all right"
The Car went slowly on and barely stopped
at the top of the hill to admit little black al
paci woman, who was greeted noisily with:
"Where's Horace?"
ooh, he's comm. Gimme a seat--hell
keteh up directly"
The passengers were beginning to get inter-
ested in the numerals of the family, and the
car had moved on a block or two further,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

GEN. BUTLER seems to hold to the old
world idea of provincial deities. In his
Springfield speech he told his hearers that
1.-The good God gave us customer for our
corn, cutting off the crops of all Europe"
What an all-loving deity he has in mind! !!
Gen. Butler trains with the free trade party
in politics, but clings to the protectionist
theory when he goes into theology.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

The South Carolina Democrats say that
the Republicans of their State will make no
nominations for State officers, but that they
will make desperate efforts to carry the
State for Garfield, and to elect representa-
tives in the first, second and fifth Congress
sional districts
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

GENERAL HANCOCK's position on the
tariff question reminds the Boston Journal
of young man who. under examination for
the position of school-master, when asked
whether the world was round or fiat, said
that he was prepared to teach either way
to suit the parents,''
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

SPRINGFIELD Republican,: Periodically
Democratic leaders make it particularly hard
for decent man to be Democrat. They
are especially apt to do so on the eve of an
important election, as they are now by insist
ing upon the alleged authenticity of Gen.
Garfeld's letter on the Chinese question: .
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

Do working men want to toll for the misera-
BILE wages paid in the Old World? If not, let
them vote to defend the Protective Tariff. In
the Southern States the black working man
gets SS month and ration Of peck Of corn
meal and three pounds of bacon week. Per-
haps the Southern politicians who control the
Democratic party would like to bring the
white working man of the North down to
these wages. The white working man will,
in November, express his opinion Of their rev.
enue tariff plan with his ballot
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

THE bet of $4,000 offered by George
Wilkes, that Hancock will be elected, has
been withdrawn since the October elections.
Gamblers may know little or much of poll
tics, but they are good judges of Chances"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

THOSE who pay any attention to Han
cocks talk about protection know not Dem
ocratic candidates. Men yet vote who re-
member Dallas of Pennsylvania and the
campaign of 1874. Dallas pledged himself
to the tariff then in force, and when tariff
for revenue only was proposed by his party
the measure was carried by his casting vote
in the Senate. The Democrat always prefers
party TO country.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

Mr.. E. V. SMALLEY of the Tribune says
that the Republicans concede Democratic
majority of $4,000 in New York city, Brook
lyn and Staten Island, and that the Repub-
licans will increase their majority of 65,6S7
outside of these places to at least $4,000 and
probably 10000 this year.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

If Maine farmers prefer to market their
crops instead of letting those crops rot they
will vote against the free-traders. Should
the Democratic party come into power the
potato crop Of Maine would be almost value
less. Nova Scotia would drive it from the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

ONE OF the newspaper correspondents says
that if the Republicans are beaten in Con-
necticuI it will be by reason of their exces-
sive confidence. By that sin Maine Repub-
licans fell. Our Connecticut brethren
should take warning by our. fearful example.
The Major Bagstock of real life is the DEM
ocracy
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27
Effect on Wages of a Tariff for
Revenue Only.

In the United States low tariff has always
produced low wages and dull times. A protec-
tive tariff has always led to good wages and
prosperous times. Protect our manufactures
and they employ and pay workingmen; strike
down our manufactures and they cannot pay
good wages or give plenty of work to working
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

The Argus has worn many disguises. But
the funniest transformation in its long if not
glorious history is its appearance as pro-
lection organ. Next thing we know it will
be posturing as a champion of Henry Clay.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27
How the Solid South Feels about
Protection.
Louisville Courier journal.

Louisville Courier Journal
Will the workingman be bamboozled by this
stupendous picture of interest in his welfare
any longer? Does he really belieUe that this
spoliation scheme called protection protects
him? This last gear of the protective tariff
hunbug has demonstrated that the so called
protection of the American workiDgman" is
a lie and delusion.
Atlanta (Ga) Constitution.
Some of our esteemed Democratic contempo-
raries at the north are afraid to handle the tar
iff question, even with tongs. Well, party
has no business to make an issue that it is
afraid of.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

The RIP Van Winkleism of the Democra-
cy is conspicuously illustrated in the Gin
cinnati platform. They thought the West
still entirely agricultural. They overlooked
the growthsof manufactures there. The In
diana election woke them from sleep
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

SHOULD the election take lace to-day the
Republican triumph would be great. Five
days more of work and discussion ought to
make it overwhelming. Let us not relax
our efforts
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27
Mr.. Frye's Speech,

MIR. Frye's speech at City Hall last even
ing was, in many respects, the most effec-
tive that has been delivered in Maine dur
ing this campaign. 1t was sound. able and
exhaustive presentation of the tariff issue.
informed with wide and exact knowledge,
and made most entertaining by the grace of
It's language and delivery. But the speech
was not confined to the discussion of the
tariff. Mr.. Frye took up the Democratic
BOAST that the Democratic party is the
friend OF the poor man and the Republican
party his enemy, and showed what false
hood the assertion is.
Despite the storminess of the night the
hall was packed and the speaker held the
close attention of his audience for two
hours. Doubtless the manner of the speech
had much to do with its success. But the
great number of auditors and the deep in
terest displayed by them in the topic most
largely discussed show that our voters re-
gard the tariff issue as one of vital import
ance, believe that Democratic success
menaces the prosperity of American indus
try and the comfort and even existence of
the laboring man, and so incline to support
the political organization which framed the
tariff under which our manufactures have
nourished and given employment to mil
lions.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

If the workingman wants to vote himself
out of wages, and food, and clothing, he will
support the free traders. If the manufac-
turer wants to dissipate his capital and de-
vastate his mills, he will support the free
traders
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

The people of this country believe that
Garfield knows how to SPELL
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

If you want to throw our ports open to
the British free trader, whoop her up for
Hancock. If you want to protect American
industry, vote for Garfield.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

THE American workingman is too intelli-
gent not to see where his interest lies. He
will vote for Garfield.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27
FOR SALE.

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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

THE Democrats are experiencing ''the
misery of a granted prayer" For years
they have been seeking to make free trade
an issue in politics. At last it is an issue.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27
THEI PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. %.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable. not necessarily for pubca-
tion but as guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munlcatIons tnat are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

MAINE farmers would find a Democratic
victory worse than the potato bug.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

PROTECTION to American industry is the
motto on our banner. That's the flag the
Republicans are training under.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

THE Argus has gone into the business of
uttering forged notes. 1t gives much space
to copy of the mispelled and ungrammati-
cal Morey letter gotten up by agents of the
Democratic National Committee, and first
made public in that paper of ill-repute, the
New York Truth, edited by Charles A.
Byrne, late of the Dramatic News. In
doing this the Argus maintains the bad
reputation it has been at such pains to
make. 1t always was very nasty in the last
days Of campaign, and it is growing no
better very fast.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27

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Oh every person claiming to represent our journal
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-27
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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-10-16
BETTING ON ELECTIONS.

The attention Of all persons is particularly
called to the following sections Of Article 8,
Of the Revised Code OF the Pablic General
Laws
IS. No person shall make any bet or wager
on the result Of any election TO take place in
this State.
NJ. Any person offending against the las,
preceding section, shall be liable 10 indict.
mcnt IN the Cireuit Courts, II the offence be
committed in any county, Or in the Criminal
Court Of Baltimore, IL the offence be CON.
milted in Baltimore; and on conviction shall
be ined not less than fifty nor more than Eve
hundred dollars, to be paid 10 the State for
the use Of the School Fund.
81. Every deposit Of money in any part Of
the State, al wager or bel upon elections Ia
this State or elsewhere, shall be forfeited aud
paid over to the County Commissioners Of the
county where deposited for the use OF the
county; and Il deposited In the city Of Balti,
more, TO the Mayor and City Council
GEORGE N. FRINGER,
sept 25-,e Sheriff Of Carroll county.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-10-16
tin t1


+. G. Waters, Esq commentaries to
the Federflsbukg, sd, Coiries, the mode
Of culture employed BY Mr.. Gorsach, Of
Baltimore county, upon his prize acre of
corr. Il, is as foIlows;--The land was
yellow or reddish clay sloping towards the
South, ia sod II was covered with twelve
two horse wagon loads Of stable manure
and Ave hundred pounds Of phosphate be-
fore being broken up 10 the Spring. This
was done early, to the depth Of 7 or 5
inches. The soil was thea thoroughly
rolled and dragged, covered with four ad-
ditional wagon-loads Of stable or pound
manure, and laid of in drills three feet
apart. The corn was then planted twelve
inches apart ia the row, three hundred
Ppgapds pf phogPhete being used in the
drll md was subseqnbfy, thihned to two
stalks in the hill. The ground was lar
rowed twice subsequently, and this was tho
only work given it. The plants came up
badly FROM some eaHse{ ard iif Fpplauled,
there planted corn came 70 nothing. When
the crop was harvested careful and exact
Statement was made of the entife product
ID detail The ears shelled 1874 bushels,
and the aggregate weight Of the yield in
grain, stalks, and fodder, was 10 the neigh
borhOod Of $4,000 pounds, or IA tons. 1t
is hardly necessary to say that the acre Of
ground was accurately surveyed 10 the pre-
sence Of committeeof gentlemen appoint
ed $rbiters Of the resnlt. / think the va
riety Of corn was yellow. The other Eve
-
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-10-16

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