The Portland daily press., 1880-11-01
rich in all the materials sha. make nation

rich in all the materials that make nation
formidable in war"
Elsewhere it saws: "Her (the North) cities
swarmed with skilled artizans who could IN
short time, if required, greatly increase hef
supply of arms"
These statements are of course greatly exag-
gerated, but they recognize fully the ntnesS
for war of people with varied industries as
compared with people who MADE naste 10
adorn their constitution with an absolute pro-
hibition of protection.
The best that free trade has ever claimed for
itself is that a nation can make more money
by it, 1t never claimed that its people would
be better employed with better wages or that
there would be a fairer distribution of the
profits Years ago the world suffered from
brute force. The weaker went to the wall.
Brains rule to-day but brains may be as brutal
and tyrannical as muscle. What makes the
great bulk of people happy, what fills their
homes with comfort, what sends their children
to school is more to be desired than great rich
es piled up in dead hands.
Another result of diversified industry is that
1t calls out inventive talent. Broaden the de-
mand for invention and you increase its posi-
bilities. Its leffect on education cannot DE
over-estimated Education is the calling out
of the faculties of the mind. Wherever there
is great variety of industry, arousing mems
curiosity and stimulating their observation,
books are in greater demands When Dublin
employed 1900 men in woolen manufactures
more books were published in Dublin by a sim
Gle house, than now, probably, are required
for the supply of the kingdom notwlthstand-
ing the increase of population.
There is another thing which tho business
man recognizes. The value of property de-
pends not only on the presence OF men but on
their activity. New York, above 50th street,
has more than trebled in value since 1879. 1t
is true that the elevated railway has had much
| to do with this but business confidence and ac-
| tivity has had more. Any man can see what
| vast difference there is between the whole
| value OF the permanent property OF this coun-
| try in times of depression and in times of ac-
iivity. The mines, the fields, the farms, the
railroads, all things, are the same but they
| are worth more when the nation is at work
| than when, all confidence lost, we are turned
| over to idleness and the bowling wilderness of
soft money oratory. The difference is real,
for the mines, the fields and the farms in
times of work make permanent additions to
the wealth of the country which no future de-
preston can ever take away. To-day all
things are active and tend to activity. 1t will
| not be long before every dollar and every man
| will be employed. Confidence exists in the
present state Of things 1t will not pay to dis
turb it. It is this feeling which has turaed
the tide. No fOrgerieS can stem it.
That England is so plainly interesting her.
| self on the Democratic side is we'll worthy of
attention. Augustus Mongredien's pamphlet
appealing to the western farmer in favor o.
| freetrade is not sent even through Maine tor
| no purpose. Years ago England took the same
| tender interest in the affairs of Ireland. The
| wear 1900 found Ireland rejoicing in, seventeen
| years of encouragement to its own manufac-
| tures Five Thousand hands labored on WOOL
ems in Dublin alone. In Cork, Kilkenny and
Wicklow artificers were numbered by the thou
sands. Then the benificient scheme of having
their manufacturing done by England was gent
ly and gradually put upon that unhappy coun-
iry and its subsequent history has had the
rears of the world. Turmoil the most unceas-
ing, misery the most profound, starvation only
to be escaped by exile, has been the lot of sons
of that unhappy country. And yet among
those. who uphold the hands of England next
Tuesday will be found foremost Irishmen and
their descendants! Strange anomaly! Singu-
lar triumph of preiudice over reason.
The speech was one of the ablest and most
telling ever delivered here and was highly
compimented on all hands,
After Mr.. Reed Senator Hamlin was called
for with cheers and made brief rallying
speech.
Loud cheers were made for Capt. Boutele
who received most complimentary ovation
being repeatedly cheered. He responded in q
brief speech exhorting to earnest effort for a
grand victory Tuesday. The meeting was one
of the grandest ever held here.