The Portland daily press., 1880-11-01
BY TELEGRAPH.
BANGOR.
An Imposing Republican Demon
stration.

An Imposing Republican Demon
stration.
HON. T. B. REED DISCUSSES THE
TARIFF ISSUE.
Brief Addresses by Senator Eamlin and
Capt. Boutelle.
Special Despatch to the Press
BANGOR, Oct. 30.-A very large and enthus-
astic Republican meeting was held at Norom-
bega Hall tonigh-. The hall was packed with
fine audience to listen to the Hon. T. B.
Reed discuss the tariff. Hon. E. B. Neally
presided and in neat speech introduced Mr.
Reed, who was received with cheers that last
ed several minutes When quiet was restored
Mr.. Reed said:
-..s SPEECH OF MR.. REED.
There has been great deal of wonder ex-
pressed at the sudden looming of the tariff
into shape as the principle issue of the cam
paign All at once it seems to have become
uppermost in mens minds. 1t has come home
tn their business Men talk q it in the streets
1t is n longer dull I'M lacy of figures, but a
living thing fraught win human happiness
duu iTtIRuitu WIFI Uuilldn hopes. Men art
surprised that it made no figure in our Septem-
Der campaign. Why was it not then made
prominent, men say The answer is simple
Until the Maine election nobody looked Demo-
cratic success fairly in the face Until then
nobody inquired what il would mean. After
Maine, every mind was alert. The instinct of
self-preservation made every business man fix
his attention on the Democratic party The
moment he did so the business man found that
all Democratic history had been hostile to pro-
lection; that whatever time and energy the,
could devote TO the real business of the coun
try had been devoted to the opening of our
markets to foreign manufacture, that so late as
1879 the chairman of their committee of Ways
and Means had kept the whole country in a
tumoi over a bill to change the tariff which
the most strenuous exertions of business men
were but just able to defeat, but which if they
had not defeated it might have palsiezed even
the benefience of resumption. On The other
hand they found that under protection this
country had grown from 81 600 600 to so 600 600
OF people; that the capital invested in manr
faciurei had grown frem 81 ,009, ,OOO, 900 in 1860
to 81, lis .000, 900 III 1880, that the products o
manufacture had increased from 81 ,019 600
to the enormous sum of $4 ,23}2 600 GOO, that
over two million seven hundred thousand men
find employment at full wages in establish
ments, to the existence Of which the tariff is
vital, and that more than seven hundred and
seventy-five millions of dollars were annually
paid to workmen as wages. They found that
large UOWDS ana Clues uau sprung INTO tXlS-
tence under the fostering caae of Republican
legislation. In New Jersey Newark had
grown from $1,000 to 135, 600, and in its factor
les more than three hundred a. cl of all ma
terials from cel)uloid and glass to steel and
leather made by the busy hands of its work.
men. Patterson had grown from twenty-one
Thousand to fiffy-two thousand by reason of
the silk industry alone. The potteries of Tren-
ton which twenty years ago hardly lived, now
employ $4,000 900 of capital and the labor OF
1000 people. All over tire West in Indiana.
Illinois and Ohio agricultural implements,
manufactures of metals, crockery and machin-
cry are made almost at the very door of the
consumer. ar
But there is no need that should 90 to other
States for examples. Dexter and Sanford,
Vassalboro and Mechanic Falls show what has
been done and are indications of the future
Skowhegan and Waterville are instances of
larger growth, while Saco and Biddefor6,
Lewiston and Auburn are shining examples
how cities may be built and large populations
maintained by manufactures. How could
Bangor itself, without the duty on lumber.
hope for he.revival of business sure to come
in future? Without the duty on potatoes hew
would the Aroostook farmer be sure of his
cash at the starch factories?
All these vast and varied interests the bust
ness men found in peril. The majority of the
Democratic party was in the South. To man.
ufactures that party was bound by no ties of
interest or regard. While there were Democrats
whose constituencies made them protectionists,
yet if Federal patronage could be held in the
grasp OF the majority it might prove as effectu-
al bribe to brace upa Congressman against
the interests of constituencies as it had been in
times past to brace him fup against his love of
liberty. The same collectorshp which re-
warded vote for Kansas or Nebraska might
pay for vote for free frade In party as
everywhere else, the majority RI les, especially
IL it has the most brains. Besides this every
business man recognized one other fact, that
uncertainty is a sworn foe to enterprise if the
uncertainty be OIL something fundamental
The vast bulk of our manufactures rest on the
tariff. Repeal that and few manufactures can
live. Agitate for repeal with party lust VIC
torious in the nation and pl d ed to repeal and
no manufacturer knows where he is. The
more he manufactures the more he may lose
The vaster his enterprise the more widespread
may be his ruin. Even if the tariff be saved
the time is not, and dull business is a poor sub
stitute for brisk enterprise
These were some of the dangers with which
business men found themselves confronted
after the Maine election. Hence thew set
themselves at work to disseminate informa-
ton. Working men began to inquire whether
their interests might not be somewhat con-
cerned. After many years of dulness and de-
preston good work at good wages had come to
them and they knew that they were better off
than workmen in Europe. They compared
the wages they received with those paid
abroad and in the diff renee they saw hannv
homes instead of novels, children at school
instead Of the grimy. workshop and education
ana independence instead of ignorance and
poverty. We can hardly wonder that such
men after so recent an experience of hard
times should earnestly desire 10 let we'll
enough alone.
Whatever may be true of England now or
Whatever may hereafter become true when
we have parliament of mar, federation of
world, yet the experience of the world we
have to-day, If you can judge by its laws
seems to be in favor of protection. Brought
up In all the remorseless logic of free trade
every English colony has nevertheless adopted
protection. In this country we have many
reasons for adopting it. The greatest COM
moiity we have is land millions on m Iii n Iof
acres await even the first purchase The
value OF land is all in the presence of men.
Ihe presence OF 900 of men have made
worth buying all that which has already been
bought. The presence of 100000, 900 will
make it all worth buying. Crowd men to-
gether and you crowd value into land Last
week friend of mine drove me through
central Park This cost II Millions he
said, land could be sold to-day for three times
that for building lots, Hare then were 843
acres of land without building, worth ifty
millions. He would be bold man who
bought Portland by the acre at Quarter of
that rate buildings and all. And yet the pre-
New York and Brooklyn made the story very
believable. Land in Montana is worth a
dollar an acre. Every acre is as rich as farm
ing land in Maine. What makes the difference?
The presence of men here and the absence of
them there. How can we get men from other
lands, skilled workmen and cunning artifie ers?
Not by maintaining their factories in foreign
lands by our purchases for then they would
stay at home. But when we shut their COM
moditjes out and throw wide open the doors
for themselves with promise of good wages
and constant employ, they come to us, and
there uprises on our shores and by our streams
the lofty factories and the smoking chmnsys,
and do our farmers get nothing out of all this?
What feeds these skilled workmen and their
wives and little ones? The produce of
our laws. Where do they get their
clothing? From off the backs of our sheep.
Our wool production has grown sin 13 wears
from 1000 900 pounds to 20s 100000. If these
skilled workmen were in Europe you could
only supply them with such products as would
bear long transportation and you would have
to do that in competition with the paid lab
OF of European peasants Now you supply
him all bis food at your very door, and he and
you divide the sum that would have had to be
paid for three or four thousand miles of trans
portation. But when we have fed men and
clothed them that is not all. The sole bnsi-
ness OF mankind is to provide for the wants
and wishes and whims of mankind. We build
houses for the skilled workmen, we dig coal
for him, We manufacture for him. To the ex-