St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-09-11
Senator HOar 10 the Indepen-
dents.

From his speech at the Massachusetts State Con |
vention.
| congratulate you upon your party |
and upon your candidate. They are
all of them worthy of the support of
freemen. They strangely pervert our
meaning who impute to us that we say
that party obligation should bind any
man to the support of unworthy men.
When our party can be shown to have
stood for slavery, to have stood for
dishonor, to have stood for disunion,
to have stood for rebellion, to have |
stood for reputation, to have stood |
for the degradation of labor, to have |
stood for the debasement of the cur
rency, to have stood for fraud or crime
in elections, we will leave it. When |
our platform fails to express the honest
belief of honest men, when it straddles
the tariff and lodges every other liv-
ing issue, we won't stand on it. When
our candidate has nothing in his record
in the past but that he has been for 30
years the blind and obedient follower
of Il party always in the wrong, and
has nothing to promise for the future
but that hn will "nntinne tn helm the
purposes and policy of that party, we
won't vote for him. Self-government
in the highest sense is morality, and
morality is the highest sense is self
government. But we don't belong tn
the school of those moralists who fix
| their whole gaze on one single instru
ment of the peoples will, and when
they come to consider the great things
which the people itself does, and for
which every one of us is responsible,
the great things which relate to free
dom, honesty, purity, the moral law
suddenly gives ont. And we don't be-
long to that school of critics which al
ways fastens its gaze upon the faults
and imperfections of public men, which
never cares for the accomplishment of
great public results, but only looks for
flaws on the skin of those who would
achieve them. This kind of criticism
finally gets the critic into a tate of
mind that he Judges of everything
that is excellent by its defects, and
accepts everything that is base on its
pretenses. Why, it is said that the
greatest of American painters was ask
ed at dinner party out here at Cam
bridge Il generation ago if he had seen
picture which another artist had just
painted. "Yes," said Washington
Allston, Il have seen it.n "Well, sir,
what are its principal defects ?" Gar
lists, sir" replied Washington AllstOn,
Judge of pictures by their merits and
not by their defects"
Now, the republican party is not
perfect !; its platform is not perfect; its
; candidates are not perfect-they are
human but we ask for them fair and
honest Judgment as a whole. Why,
Oliver Cromwell, think, said to Sir
Peter Sely "Paint me as | am don't
leave ont wart or wrinkle" but he
didn't tell him to paint nothing but the
wart. He didn't tell him to leave out
the fire of the eye, the majesty of the
brow, and the great lines that thought
and public care had craven in the face.
: Let history tell what the republican
party has done, let history tell what
J. G. Blaine and John A Logan did, in
: the Cromwell temper, and we are sat
isfied. Why, there's my friend, George
William Curtis, whom | honor and
respect. and whose good work in the
cause has been alluded to. They re-
mind me of n young missionary who
went out to India, and the first yeaI
sent home glowing words of zeal but
the third year wrote that he had given
up the missionary work, and had a
>. contract to run the car of Juggernaut
by steam. We have, as has been said,
to protect and foster the manufacture
ing interests of the country. The
tariff of 1860, as it is called, though
highly protective, was passed at &;
time when a large immediate revenu,
was imperatively needed, and of courst
it was chiefly framed for that purpose
There have been several revisiOns, bu
much remains to be accomplished
There are raw materials still charge,
with duty on which the duty should
be stricken off. There are other
charged with duty ON things whicl
cannot be produced in this cOuntr
that shOnld be stricken off, and ther
are others which, while they are tn
product of one industry, are the ray
material, like wool, and all should b
regulated by duty which is just t
both. But protection should he pre-
AZ served, and the continuance of til
workman's home should be kept
view Why our friends come hon
from abroad and report that Englis
manufacturers are alive for Grove
Cleveland-alive to man, whetht
they be radicals, wings, tories, arist6
Gratis or democrats, and they are agree
in this one thing that the world
lit made to be the market of England
am am English manufacturers, English shiI
md To carry her products, English me-
chants To sell and make exchange, an
). English bankers to settle its account