Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-03-04
9aiIp Xtnntbsf Journal,
Augusta. Saturday Morning, Mar. 4.



Protection vs.. Free Trade.
Having shown tina, the democratic party
and England are the advocates Of free trade,
Mr.. FRYE went on in his speech. quoting from
Henry Clay in 1882, and from DR.. Loring's
recent speech in Boston. presenting the ben
efts which had accrued to this country from
protective tariff These exhibits are most
gratifying That Of DIR Loring il marvellous
in its showing Of the growth Of agricultural,
manufacturing and mechanical industries and
their products in thi. eountry since ls70.sWe
continue our extracts from Mr.. FRYE. speech.
Periods Of Prosperity.
Our period. Of prosperity have been the
years Of protection, and Of adversely those Of
free trade: and by free trade | mean tariff
for revenue only. In I7s9-IsOI we had pro-
lection; in I90l-Isi2, free trade; in lsi2-
1916, protection; in 1916 1924. free trade: in
Is24-Is33. protection; in 1888 1912, free
trade; in 13i2-l5i7, protection; in l5i1-ls6l.
free trade; and in l5Gllss 81 protection again.
ssGood old Democratic TIme-" Contrast.
ed with Republican Times.
Take for an example those good old Dem
ocratic times from Is47 to 1850 That party
found the country hen they took it in a CON
dition Of healthy prosperity placed It prompt
IL under a tariff for revenue only, held 1t for
twelve years, left it in debt, with its Treasury
bankrupt unable To borrow a few millions
even for II per cent interest, its Industries
almost DESTROYED. its courage completely
parayzed. The republican party received
it in this condition, placed it promptly
under protective tariff carried on four
years war, raised billions Of dollars by tax
alton, other billions by bonds, paid its debt
for years At the rate Of one hundred millions
a year reduced the rate Of interest to IL
per cent, and have it today in the most
prosperous condition it ever enjoyed.
Free Trade aud Starving Ireland.
The only country in the world knox of
that has thoroughly free trade forced upon
her by compulsory process ia that most dis
tracted and unfortunate land. Ireland. Before
the union her manufacturing industries were
protected agadst England by duties on wool
ems, silks, cotton YARD and twist, and cotton
manufactured goods. Her calicoes and mus
lins were protected by duty almost prohibi-
tory, and ireland rapidly becoming a
successful manufacturing country. Her peo-
pie were happy, contented. industrious and
prosperous. There was loom in almost
every house, and with il comfort came, too.
Her linens were known and appreciated all
over the world, and her silks were gaining a
ready market. There were in 1900, rs
appears by an imperfect census then taken,
over 4, 900 weavers employed in Cork alone,
over 1000 manufacturing wooden goods in
Dublin, 5000 making blankets in Balbrigsn.
1000 weaving calicoes in Wicklow, 1000
making fannels while the numbers engaged
in linen work were immense. This linen
oh hv uhSiI hint thax
were gradually Withdrawn until all protection
ceased. in 1926. In 1925 more than thirteen
million of dollars were expended IN the pur
chase Of coarse, unbleached home made webs
Of linen What a power of good, of com
fort and of happiness, those homemade webs
revealed. England, not content with de-
stroying Irelands navigation. with crushing
out, in the earlier DAYS, her manufacture of
woOlens, greedy To manufacture for the world,
determined that the rest of mankind should
raise the raw materials To feed her hungry
looms, as the South wanted us to feed their
slaves, begued poor ireland into asserting to
the act of the union under the terms of which
every duty was repealed-some gradually, to
be sure, but certainly The act CON
tinued the tariff on weolens for twenty wears,
terminated it on calcoes and muslins in 1921,
on cotton yarn and twist in 1916. Withdrew
subsidies in is26. and Ireland enjoyed the
hs neft of absolute free trade. What WAS
the resultT England held both ends of the
bargain. Ireland could raise in her fertile
soil the raw material. England could make
it into goods cheaper than she could. but
Ireland had no voice in the price to be paid
for either. In 1910 another census was
taken, and there were 500 blanket makers in
Kilkenny, 200 silk-wcavers in Dublin. no
carpet maker in all Ireland, no linen-weavers
IN Cork. 300 operatives in that city all the
manufacturing industries, where fifteen years
before there were were 5000 weavers alone.
Free trade had done its work and Ireland
was starving She is the only absolutely free
trade country in the world to-day the only
land enjoying its rare privileges in complete
fulness, and what a commentary it affords
with good climate, fertile soil. great
rivers, splendid water power. broad, safe BAYS
and harbors, an abundance of minerals an
industriously -inclined people, it is the most
terribly yeNed, troubled. suffering. distracted
impoverished, starving country in the world.
Irishmen, loving their land earnestly and
with more unbounded enthusiasm than the
men OF any other country, have been driven
into exile by the millions. Now, do not
blindly charge all of her woes to free trade
alone land tenure has to answer tor u por-
ton, not for more than half Give her par
Lament of her own, and the first act passed
Woutu hc " pftttttNt anu III twenty
years from now the exiled Irishmau would
return TO the land he loves and find it peace.
full. contented, and prosperous. England,
for her own selfish purposes, fastened these
two fearful leeches upon her. and they have
been fattening on her blood. England and
her ally, the Democratic party, are under
taking to fasten free trade upon us. and
strange to say, nine-tenths OF our citizens of
Irish birth. starved out of home and driven
here into exile, go every year to the polls and
vote with England's Democratic ally for free
trade!
Degraded Condition of the l.aborers in
Europe.
Mr.. President, the policy which has y ten
dency to reduce wages in this country and
degrade our working men and women is
bad one for the Republic, and its sugar coat
ing by all the theories and sophistries of dem
ocratic free-traders cannot make il good In
Europe the women carry bricks and mortar
for the masens work in the field with the
hoe and the scythe and a report made To the
PIitish Parliament a few years since shows
that even in favored England there were forty
thousand little bare footed girls from six to
ten years of age Carrying wet clay on their
little bare heads in the English brick yards at