Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-09-02
NO. 2O7.

of about l,Soo, ,ooo. 200 y year, and every
thing else in proportion. For these, high
prices have been realized. The addition to
the wealth of the country for the last three
or four years can scarcely be estimated. We
know that our government debt, formerly
largely held abroad, is now almost exclusive
ly held at home; that the mortgages upon
our lands and farms have been reduced to
one-third their amount in 1878; that the bal
ance of trade is so largely in our favor that
foreign countries, no longer able to send
back our securities. are compelled to ship
gold. The building of railroads keeps pace
with our general prosperity. They arc cross
ing the plains and exploring every valley,
and vear by year we hear of new settlements
of fertile territory hitherto unavailable for
tillage. whose surplus products increase our
resources. The number and amount of bust
ness failures have been reduced more than
one half. In word. all the circumstances
and elements that Indicate increased wealth
and prosperity to our whole country, seem to
combine to make its immediate future ex-
ceedingiy bright The rough road has been
travelled and the smooth one is now before
us.
Our national prosperity has excited the at
tention of all European nations, and has set
| in motion again the stream of Immigrants, s
whose labor has added greatly To our
growth and productions. The number who
arrived during the last fiscal year was 455,-
| 495, against III, 500 in 1879. During the
month of June last, 12,56. immigrants
reached our shore, and since March |. to the
lates, day of which we have reports. the
number is about 3as. 900, or more than
enough to form a State
I'm, cara, ~, or, r,osr,,,r,
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"a" ,''H .''l,' wa. 'ne 'e"er"' vi
business Is Tue h"'urai result Oh tne poiicy I"
,nc 'cPuoiis"i' party. Every Puoiic measure
'"'' mas o"'''io"'e" 10 II was rePuohcah
measure. a" hohest anu iaiIhini admihis-
.ra'ion o' me Governments nrm adherenee
W ."e res"''p.io" anu ieiu"u,"g "e'' 'he
n'a'i'e"a"ce VI III, P"pnc iai.n as agai"s.
na, money anu .,e Pro'ectio" Po'icy en-
oou''u i" our 'ari" 'a"s' are .he human ageh-
eies' 'he WORK oI 'ne repuohcah party that
'i''e eo",'ioute" 'o our prosperity. IL Is
,rue ,'a' ro' ioencc gave us oounteous crops,
ou, 'uese e"'''e a'''i iesu"'P'ion was secure,
anu "''er we ha" ia'u 'ne iouhoa'ioh OF honest
hohe. ana uNcrsiheu ihuustry,wnch enabled
" !" i'pio'' 'ne p'css"es Vi rro''uehce'
'e''"i' II s' ''''' We ""e NJ fA"f OF OUR
PROSPERITY TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
DEMOCRATIC rRrrrycrs
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If exnenses hut was comnoI,ed ,o nab
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'"II havo Suoa ,shIe hasnro p na .,o;, ,,o
rrnrr;a,;on. ,ha, havo hoan ,,ad, h,, Ca WV ~
e,ch yn,r far each hr,nch or H. sasr;..
s;nna 'Ie-. Is-t ,La ,a., 80, :; .,.;',.
,ho r.n,hl;c.ns had ,,.;,r;,,' IN In, IL.
~ p.:a.: i1 s ~ ~
| 1876 were Sl477l4 01O At tho next seesion
the democrats controlled the House. and, by
refusing to appropriate for some of the most
fnecessary expenses of the government, re-
duced the appropriations to Sl24, ,0l0, and
the following year, In order to cocrce the
President by failure to pass the Army bill and
| to provide for other necessary expenses, they
| reduced the appropriations to Sss, $780, 1888;
hut at the following session, to make good
| these deficiencies and to repair the faults
| committed, they appropriated Sl72,0l6, ,S09,
being S25 100000 more than was appropri-
ated in 1876; and in 1880 they appropriated
priated 1854, 4,llS,212. or $1,000, 900 more
than the appropriations made the last year
the republicans controlled the House. The
appropriations made for the current fiscal
year by democratic Congress, in a time
when the currency is upon the specie STAN
dard are as large as in the year 1873, made
by a republican Congress when our currency
was at discount Of twelve per cent, and
when the government was paving large war
claims.
| Thus it appears that the boasted economy
of democratic House, in time of profound
peace, in spite of the large reductions made
by republican administration, has resulted
in an increase of appropriations from year TO
year
PROPOSED NO MEASURE OF RELIEF.
D,r;r, al, ,,,;s ,;no ,,o do,,o...
nronosed M reduc,;oo of taxes and No "a.
~ of ra1;ae.s ,,.e ;,s,a..:.I :. -. ~ 'se
| country Paralyzed nv their responsih;l;tv
they did not even dare to propose a modifica-
tion of the tariff laws. or bring about apv
financial reform. which they had promised
so often and so long. They neglected the
most necessary changes in our tax laws, such
as the modification of tax on sugar, leaving
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