Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1886-07-22

| iesuneu specie payments and borrow ed
money at per cent. interest had we raised
no revenue to reduce our debt am no be.
lever in the doctrine that "a public debt is
a public blessing" That doctrine will do
tor monarchy where public debt is de-
sired 10 help bayonets protect crown. II
may uphold an oppressive dynasty, i, may
support crushing despotism. it may cause
submission to grinding arstocracy. but in
a republic it should be the suhiec, of ab-
horrenoe, and the republic that needs i,
should not exist.
so long as our own great Republic shall
eontnne TO be the Republic tha, il is TODAY.
republic in fact as well as in name, i'm
proving with experience in selfgovernment
which time shall give to the people. so long
as 1t shsll be Government Of the people.
by the people, and for the people, i, will
have the love of the people, and that will
be enough for its protection. IF il shall
ever cease to be this God grant that it
never may,l il the time shall come when j,
shall be such that every citizen shall need 10
have its bonds in his pocket 10 secure his
| allegiance TO ii, then it will no longer merit
the peoples love and respect, and deserve
no longer TO survive.
unreliable bonds Of union. Let this great
Republic continue to be ben.fcence 10 II,
| people, then their patriotism shall he its
sufficient bond Of union and its solid fpun
dation stone; then it st.ll b. firm a. the
immovahlc mountain, as endurahe =. the
storm-beaien, eave-washed rock, which
neither winds nor waters can disturb.
| repeat, let the last dollar of the public
debt be paid ns soon az it can prudenty and
reasonably be done. and thus shall We set a
most salutary example before the crea, ma
tons OF the other hemisphere, and do an act
almost as useful and glorious a. tha, of the
men who founded oar Government. and
those, who. but few wears ago. by their
brave deeds and great sacrifices. saved IL.
life and baptized il anew in the love and
| pride Of the nation.
Bni what right have we TO expect sur
| plus IN the future ? Indeed. have VT no, nc
oordng TO the estimate Of the Treasury De
| pariment a probable deficit not far in the
| distance confronting u.s. instead Of the good
| old-tashloned Republican surplus. by which
! the public debt wa. reduced 81 800 900 .o,tn.
/ and The annual interest upon Il was reduced
Slh,~n,'Oo IN twenty years. The present
+ reform congress has already provided for
the appropriation Of so much money tia.
! leaders upon the other side Of the House
dare not allow the Just obligations Of the
! nation to be met lest cur expenditure, shall
be 80 large that the purpose Of the free.
trade democracy can not be accomplished.
! And 40 The reasonable pension legislation
asked for by the counsel Of the Grand Arny
| OF the Republic is refused becaa.e II mtsGt
{ leave no room for the reduction Of pro,ec.
/ tive duties. The rcpea. of III. limitation Of
the pensIon-arrear. sc, j. denied to those
modest and brave soldier. Who h.stn,ea 10
ask the Government for the reward which
! they richly deserved because ,hat repeal
( would so swell our expenditures as TO give
/ no opportunii, fur successful attack anon
American interests. Pri,a;e-b,.l ia, ., di.-
I pens.d with or flibu,,.r.d away, because +
/ the claims OF the nations private creditors
+ be considered and those that are lust .haIi
/ he paid, the hope OF the ''pro-iiritlsh" Dem
/ oeraey 10 surrender our great home market
to the foreigner. stop our n anufac,orles. or
( reduce our woFklngmen 10 the poor couil-
ton OF foreign iaborers. will have vanished
/ The proposition Of these gentlemen IS
two'old. II seeks to cgr,ail our revenue, >.
as 10 bankrupt oar national Treasury, and az
the same time to let IN upon Us unrestricted
foreign competition which must ruin our in
sus,ries and impoverish our people
Now, who desires the passage Of the Nor
rlson tariff bill Where are the petition, inst
have come up TO Congress asking for II ?
Who has seen them or heard of them
From what source have they been sent here
Who originated them. il they exist Have
the farmers sent them here ? Does he who
from his san well-,illed and fertile acres
produces all the prime nece.sarir> OF life. he
who gives TO the world its food and 10 th.
/ cities their manhood, whose PRACTICAL wi.
dom i. as proverbial As hi. patriotism. doe.
be petition for this legislation Certalnl,
no pains have been spared by the free-,rader
to misln'orm him upon the subject Of pro-
| lection duties and array him against them,
Seeing, as he does. that almost everything
he raises upon his land IS directly protected,
so that his hay, potatoes, cattle, and sheep
sell tor - per cent. more than those Of his
Canadian neighbor, when he looks over the
priee-current and discovers that protection
has encouraged manufactures near his own
home, which, competing with each other.
have so reduced prices that they furnish him
with all the goods he wishes to buV made OF
our own raw material, in our own country.
and by the hands Of our workmen. 30 per
cent. cheaper than he could buy them twenty
years ago from the oreigner, then sending
his purchase money out Of the country in
stead Of retaining It at home as he now does;
when he realizes that these manufactures
have created for him a home market which
takes almost his entire produce at a price
80 per cent. higher ;han he received under
the low tariff Of little more than quarter
OF a century ago, he hestates not to say Of
the free-trade Democracy as the old frontiers
man said of body of Sioux Indians whom
he saw in the distance approaching on morse
back, perhaps do not know exactly who
and what YOU and what NAV be YOUR
purposes, but ! feel mighty sure tha, you
are no friend Of mine" He la. the n,ell-
gence to know that 10 crush our great mar
ufacturing industry by free trade or low
tariff would not only destroy hi, best mar
ket, but turn out OF employment thousands
of men, who, being driven from their former
avocatlons, would become his competitors
upon the land.
No; the farmer is not here pettioniug
for a reduction Of protective duties. Well,
is II the laboring man who asks for this
legislation II is not he, indeed. Go into
any protectlonst club in the country
and large majority of those whom YOU
will meet there will be found TO be men
who live by the work Of their hands. 1t
is not there that the retired capitalists, the
rich dudes, the theorizing professors, and the
hired emissaries of the Golden Club are
pleased to congregaie. 1t is in the free
trade leagues, where the American work
ingman is not seen, that these gentlemen are
to be found.
The laboring man knows that the pro-
tective tariff alone saves him from receiving
no more than the wages of his foreign fellow
workman. As he would not be forced 10
toll for the starvation wages given to labor
abroad, as he would not exchange his clean,
decent home for the wretched hoyels of
workingmen there, his sufficient and whole
some food for the miserable pittance allowed
TO them, his comforts and the dignity of his
position for their misery and degradation, so
he will not be argued or cajoled into raising
his hand to strike down the industries by
which be SO well and respectfully lives. He
knows, even if our free trade politicians do
not, that whenever he is forced to accept the
pitiable wages Of the foreign laborer be must
accept at the same time the wretched con-
ditions Of their existence.
The gentleman from Texas [Mr. Reaganl
who calls protection robbery Of the laboring
men, and the gentleman from Arkansas Mr.