Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-09-06

face in helpless, imbecile manner, and A.
naily left it for the republican party to settle.
Appliance Did the democrats come to our
Aid when we wrested the House from their
control, to help rs carry out own plans
for retrenchment? No. They vehemently
opposed it. This opposition to what the re-
publicans propose has come to be 90 chronic
that It has become the strawberry mark by
which you may know q democrat LAD
plause. We tried to reduce the tar on bank
deposits. We tried to take OF the stamp on
every bottle Of patent medicine used in this
country. 1t wasn't because the republican
party loved patent medicine more than the
democrats: it wasn't because the
republican party loved perfumery or
balm of thousand flowers more than
the democrats. No. There are so few things
remaining on which taxes are imposed that
we must take Of the tax on what is left. We
tried to take of the special tax of % per cent
on sugar, imposed when the sinking fund
was in danger, but our opponents said sno. >
We tried to reduce the dnty on Bessemer
steel IS ton. bat the democratic
party objected. What did they do: They
proposed 40 amendments covering the whole
range of the tariff land said they would debate
every amendment and had 40 more in re-
serve. So by their obstinate resistance the
attempt of q republican House to reduce taxes
more than $50, OOO, 600 per annum failed.
But. fellow citizens. it is a matter of pub
lie interest, that the amount of revenue col
lected by Government should be lessened.
Ii makes nation or an individual extrava-
CANT to have too much money on hand. We
not only propose to reduce taxes, but have
appointed commission to examine the tariff
and see how the consumer can be benefited
while the American laborer is protected from
the starvation competition of European man.
ufactOries.
Of course it takes money to run a govern
ment. AT its last session Congress had to
appropriate $37 ,O0O, 900 towards paying a
debt caused by democratic war. 1t had to
appropriate another $3.50, 10000 to pay pen
siOns. cry for help came up from the
crippled soldiers who gave health and limbs
in their country's service and from the widows
and orphans whose dear ones were sacrificed
that the nation might exist, and the republic
can party responded to that appeal. Ire
mendous applause Here are S67 900, 900
accounted for. Well there was a surplus re-
naming, and it went into the river and harbor
bill. Laughter. l want to say something
about that measure. While voted against the
bill applausel know there are men who
honestly and conscientiously approve its pro-
visions, and do not feel like censuring them
because they differ from me. 1t was not a
steal. Every dollar will be honestly expepd-
ed, but believe the sum appropriated was
in excess of what it should have been. But
| am here tonight to advocate liberal appro-
priatOns of public moneys for the improve
ment of harbors, rivers and lakes which are
real factors in the commence of the country.
see no better way to hold in check the ex-
tortions of railroads than by keeping open
these channels through which the products
of the interior may flow to the commercial
cities along the seaboard.
The democrats are SAYING that the objects
for which the republican party formerly con-
tended have ceased to be living issues. Yes,
they have ceased to be issues; they have be-
come facts. fApplause. Great questions
have been settled forever by the republican
party. To-day there has been an anxious
crowd around the doors of L. S. Treasury
to got possession of the new three per cent
bonds with which we are refHnding our
debt. What is the hurry? Why, the
man who gets the first bond is the one who
will hold it the longest. Could higher eulogy
be paid by silver-tongned orators? APP
plause. On and on, step by step,
these things have ceased to be
issues and have become embodied in the
history and constitution of our country.
In an eloquent perorati0n Senator Harrison
contrasted the achievements of the two par
ties, and invited all who have not already
done so to enlist under the starry banner of
republicanism which is being carried forw ard
to victory.
The meeting broke up with three hearty
cheers for the orator