Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-02

protection that 10 now given to the farmer, to
the miner of ores. 20 the casting Of pig iron,
and to the growth of WOOL. This favorite
idea of New York city is designed to enable
| that great seaport to command the cheap raw
materials of the world for the special ad-
vantage in that immediate neighborhood in
the manufactures of wool and iron to the
utter destruction o. the interests of the wool
growers, of the mining of coal and iron, ana
Of the furnaces and workshops Of Virginia
and the Western and Middle States.
/ Contrast this policy with that OF the re
publican party. When this party came into
power it established the benefcent system of
the homestead law, by which the public lands
were thrown open to the entry of quarter
section of land without money and without
cost by any native or naturalized citizen
| of the United States who would improve
il. This magnificent policy could not be
| adopted in democratic times because II
was held by that party 10 be not authorized
by the constitution, and it was vetoed By
the last democratic president. The repub-
lican party gave to this country the best
| currency that has ever been devised by man.
Ii drove ont of existence the heterogeneous
red-dog and worthless currency of the olden
times. and substituted in its place the green
back and national bank note, which is good
everywhere, cannot be successfully counter
feted, and wherever issued is at par within
| the United States, and, since resumption, is
worth in every commercial city of the worli
as much as the best gold coin issued at any
mint BY the system of funding and the
gradual payment of the public debt we So ad
vanced the national credit that the bonds of
the United States bearing the lowest rate of
| interest are now worth more than those of
any other country in the world, not even ex-
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burdening our people, established system
of taxation which enabled the government to
| rapidly diminish its debt, to meet all claims
| against it, improve our harbors. open up our
natural ways, to build public buildings in
every State, aid in constructing railroads to
| the Pacific, so that the means OF communl-
cation all over eur vast country are equal to
those of the Oldest established monarches of
Europe. We established protective tariff
which has increased our manufactures from
eighteen hundred millions in 1860 to fifty-fye
hundred millions in 1880. That has d.
versitied our manufactures that nearly every
article of common use can now be made in
this country, land the burden of the tariff falls
almost exclusively upon articles of luxury,
which do not enter into the consump-
ton of the common people. Under this
benefcent policy our country has adj
vanced in wealth and strength more rapidly
than any nation before in the history of man
kind.
Nor is this all. This partly, confessedly
composed of the great mass of the intelligent
people of the Northern States. is still strong
and vigorous in public confidence, and pro-
poses in the future to continue the old policy
of protection and public improvements to
encourage manufactures in the South as well |
as in the North; to develop your resources
nd tn sbara in tha hon of
diversified industry. 1t proposes, by wise
national election Law for the election of
presidential electors and members of Congress,
to secure the people against the evils which |
now threaten it, and may, if not corrected, at
any time involve us in civil war. And it
proposes to secure to you bi-metallc money |
of both gold and silver coined at their market
value, that the dollar of one coin will be |
worth as much as dollar of the other in the |
markets of the world.
This party now appeals to the people of
Virginia without respect to the divisions of
the past, with honest sincerity, burying out of
sight all the animosities of the war, to join |
with us in policy in the future which will con-
fer upon you greater benefits than are pro-
posed by the democratic party.
Perhaps it was as well that, after a long |
lease of power by the republican party, the
democratic party should be put on trial for
four years. 1t, at least, will dissipate the i'm
preston in the South to the ability of that
party to manage the multiplied interests of a
great government like ours. 1t may, | trust,
also dissipate the impressions of the South as
to the purposes and objects of the republican
party. We do feel deep interest in the
election of Gov. Wise and in the reelection
OF Gen. Malone. though they are confederate
soldiers Of proved courage. We neither ex
pect them to waive their pride in their |
achievements nor their loyalty of purpose and |
intent during the civil war; but we under
stand that they are willing now to join with |
all others, north and south, in the mainten-
ance of republican principles, and we, there !
fore, feel for their success the same earnest
desire, and for the same reasons that we
struggled for success in Ohio and expect it |
in New York.
1t would De memorable triumph if Vir-
ginia, the mother of states and statesmen, |
should now break the sectional line that
threatens our country with constant conten-
ton, and, governed by the best interests of |
her people, join with those in the North who |
agree with her in principle in the adoption of |
a national policy that will, as we honestly be-
lieve, confer greater benefits upon the whole
people than can be done by the democratic |
party In former times, before slavery di
vlded US on sectional lines, the people of
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Ken
lucky TOOK the lead under Mr.. Clay in sup
port of the principles of John Marshall, for
which We now contend /, therefore, earn
estiy invoke the intelligent and conservative
people of Virginia to decide the questions
that have presented without respect to the
events or result of the war, and above all. to
see to it that at the approaching election every
citizen entitled by law to vote shall have an
opportunity to cast one honest ballot and no
more, and to have that vote counted If this |
Is done, and your example is followed,
have the confidence to believe that the end of
sectional luminosity is at hand, and our coun-
try will again be in the highway to unbound |
ed prosperity.
81 see star, Ewes first born in whose train"
Comes the damp twilight that bringeth pain.
For aches of head, neuralgia, cut and bruse,
Try Salvation Oil, these will you lose.
''How can Mrs. Smith wear such a hand |
some velvet coat?" "Mv dear child don't |
you know her husband saves doctors bills bv !
using DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup for the chill |
dren'
I'm GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1875,
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