Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-08-28

tion, you had better instruct your Senator
and Representatives. Now. nv friends, do
not want to use any harsh language, but there
never has been, in the thirty years that
have been taking part in Maine politics, a
deadlier blow struck at the cause of prohibi.
ton than the organization of a third party
that proposes-if it proposes anything-to
hand this State over to the power of the DEM
ocratic party. Loud applause
Now l repeat that either one of two things
will happen, either the third party will cast
so small number of votes as to be harmless.
or If II casts enough to be felt, its tendency
would be to bring the democratic party into
power in this State, and if you consider that
atemperance movement you must have great
faith In sudden conversion of the democrat.
ic party. Great laughter and applause
want to say something on the protective
tariff. The free traders of this country all
got started wrong by reading the old books on
Political Economy. They read in Adam
Smiths Wealth of Nations" that if England
produced wooen goods and iron, and France
produced silk and wines, they had better
trade mutually instead of England taxing the
product of France and France taxing the
product of England. But suppose you put
France aud England together, ard suppose
you add Spain, Italy. Germany, Norway and
gum, you have got very small part of the
United States. You have got a small traction
OF the United States. You have not the half
or them. Therefore the United States in
| point OF climate. can produce all the articles
that all those countries would produce We
not only can produce silks, woolens and iron
but cotton and sugar and hemp, and every
article which is needful in the manufacture
of almost everything under the sun.
Therefore free traders have never really
understood the question or seem to compre.
bend that in respect to the trade of the world
the United States stands differently from that
OF any other nation; il is almost continent
Ana when you come to argue, thai we had
better exchange this with another nation that
produces it better, there is no such nation
Almost the only two articles that are not
equal in production with any other nation in
the world, are tea and coffee. and tea and
coffee We do not tax at all. So when you hit
an article that we cannot produce in this
country like tea and coffee, we put it on the
free list. There is nothing to protect
You could't produce tea aud coffee in this
conntry by putting protective tariff on them,
because the laws of the Creator and the
character OF the climate are against it, But
wherever you find in the length and breadth
OF this land an article that can be produced
in this county as we'll as in any other, then
why not give it protection?
And that leads me further TO remark that
when you have given protection to every
article that you can produce, you then i'm
medatelv have and enjoy, as the people of
the United States have and enjoy today, the
largest amount of free trade over the largest
area of land that has ever been enjoyed bv
anv nation under the canopy of heaven
Let me re neat that ENGLAND harsoIf tod,r
does not enjoy free trade over as large an
area of country as the United States does,
because the United States, within her own
limits of three and half millions of square
miles, as large as the continent of Europe,
has an absolute free trade to degree that
was never known in any government under
the canopy of heaven since government was
known among men.
England has no free trade with her colon
les. They tax her product. England can
not export her articles TO Canada without
being taxed at the custom house for the ar
ticles that are produced.
In this city of Lewiston, the cotton and
the woolen and the shoes that are produced
in Auburn. are sold throughout the length
and breadth sf the United States, without tax
at the frontier, without custom house tax,
without inspection even.
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having protection against the rest of the
world, on the largest area known in the his
tory CT the world, the absolute benefit that
can come from tree-trade. Now the only
question is, that, having this large area 10
which Lewiston's cottons and ginghams and
all her products circulate freely. Do YOU
wan: to open them TO Engand's cottons d?
That is the question, Are you anxious to
share the free trade of $500, 900 square
miles and of sixty millions of people? Are
you anxious to share that with the European
nations? Do you think it would conduce to
the prosperity of Lewiston, to the prosperity
of Auburn, to the prosperity of the State of
Maine, if we enlarge the free-trade by per.
mittng England and France and Germany to
take our part in it and to have as free access
to our markets as our products have to th;,
market?
Well, if you think so, you are in favor of
taking at least half of tie wages of the work
ing men of this community and put them on
the same basis of the working men of Eu-
rope and this is where the sins and crime OF
the democratic party come in against the
working men of the United States.
Mr.. Blaine argued in favor of the tariff for
| tie farmers. He said that "a years ago he
was in Lewiston, and this city and Auburn
were then small villages. What has created
these towns? A protective tariff. Why is
the farming land within five miles of this city
worth so much more than land forty miles
away? The protective tariff is the friend of
every American industry.
Mr.. Blaine said he was talking with a third
party leader last week and he asked him,
"What will you do with the protective
tariff" II think that will have to go to the
WALL" he said. And if that party could de-
feat the republican party and give the demo-
era ic party full power think the prohbi-
tion party would defeat not only protection
but prohibition. also. Now" said Mr..
Blaine, 81 want you to vote so as to save
both prohibition and protection" Great
| Applause. Mr.. Blaine continued to en-
| force this idea, and closed with an impress
sive appeal to the people to go to the polls.
and see tha. the Maine republican delegation
in Congress is returned-a delegation solid
both for prohibition and protection.
Evening Meeting.
The evening meeting at City Hall tonight
was attended by another audience of at least
5000 persons fully as enthusiastic as the au-
dience of the afternoon. Rev. DIR. Cheney,
president of Bates College, presided and in a
few brief remarks presented Mr. Blaine as
the first speaker of the evening. The an
nouncement of Mr.. Blaine's name drew from
the audience the same generous applause
that has everywhere greeted his appearance.