The Portland daily press., 1886-08-26

land defences. There are three forts i
Portland harbor not as good as the old bloc
house in York county. But they say that i
they make big guns, bigger ones are mad
Immediately after. fte That That is is something lik
died yet, so it is of no use for me to hav
nv life insured" They have done nothin;
that they might keep down the appropria
tions. They have sacrificed all things anC
haven't gained anything. In the 47t6 Con
gress, under Mr.. Hiscock of New York, tht
appropriations were cut down as low as pos
sfble. You know that the salaries of post
masters are fixed, yet in the next Congress
the Democrats cut down the appropriation
so that these, salaries could not be paid il
knowing that the Republican Senate would
not concur, and that they could then turr
around and say 'See how economical We
would have been if the Republican Senate
would have let u.s." This is no new thing
l have told of it in their presence, and Mr.
| Senator Beck has made statement admit
| ting it.
This is modern history. The Democrats
| have told us that it was disgraceful to tell Of
glorious record: 1t would be better, they
| said, to tell of what you were going to do in
| the next twenty years than of what you had
done in the past twenty years. The fact
| that nothing has been done so far by the
Democrats is acknowledged by their own
papers. The past Congress has been moth
ing but noise and fury.
In conclusion, Mr. Reed said that he spoke
of these things to both Democrats and Re-
publicans.
Mr.. Reed was frequently interrupted in
the course of his remarks by laughter, ap-
plause and expressions of approval from his
hearers. The applause at the conclusion of
the speech was generous, and had not ceased
when The chairman InJrUuuCeu MT. BIalHe as
the next speaker. Mr.. Blaine received an
ovation when he stepped forward. The
men gave cheer after cheer and the ladies
waved their handkerchiefs, showing no dis
position to stop until the speaker commenced
his remarks. Mr.. Blaine spoke without
notes, and his voice was in better condition
than on the preceding day. The speech was
frequently interrupted by applause, which
was especially loud and long when Mr.
Blaine spoke of the temperance question
Mr.. Blaine spoke as follows:
MIR. BLAINE's SPEECH.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
There is nothing so practical as an elec-
tion. 1t is plain down right matter OF
fact. We indulge ourselves In a great many
theories during campaign and we nave as
many individual opinions as we have in
dividual heads. But when we reach election
day it always happens that we are compelled
to choose between two things presented. LII
every man could vote just exactly as he
pleased it would be idle to ATTEMPT a govern
ment of majOrities and it is therefore neces-
sary in the conduct of a popular government
that voters are compelled to choose which side
they will take upon well defined issue. i think
| am justified in saying that in this large
audience there is not a man who does not
know that on The second Monday Of Septem-
Der either Mr.. Edwards or Mr.. Bodwell will
be chosen governor of Maine, either the
Democratic party or the Republican party
will triumph, either Mr.. Reed or Mr.. Cliff
ford will be elected Representative in Con-
greSs in this district. | address myself
therefore for a moment to two classes OF per-
sons in the district and in the, State who
propose to throw away their votes on that
direct issue. We have in the first place a
class of men who after having remained in
the Republican party until it had enacted
twenty different varieties of Prohibition acts
and embodied prohibition in the
constitution of the State propose
now to put everything at hazard
those acts shall be handed over to the men
who have constantly opposed them. met a
very Jealous Prohibitionist as was coming
from my home, day before yesterday, and
issue brought down as it necessarily is to
Bodwell and Edwards it would not be wise
for him to vote for that one of those two men
who most personated that issue? ''Well,"
he said, Prohibition is in the constitution
now and we can do as we please. They
him upon popular fallacy which | think
lies in the minds of many people, that mere
ly getting it in the constitution executes a
law. Suppose you put in power Democrat
repeal the prohibitory laws of this State
what good will the article in your constitq-
tion do? There is no penalty prescribed.
There is nothing done, and / desire to as
sure my prohibition friend If he thinks he
can take vacation on that subject because
it is in the constitution of the State he is la
boring under a tremendous error and, as l
took occasion to say yesterday L do not
know anything in the shape ofiinconslstency
and, if / may be pardoned for stronger
phrase, ingratitude, than that having asked
the Republican party and the Republican
party having responded in thirty different
Instances in its Legislature and finally in an
amendment to the constitution, no sooner is
that legislation complete than certain gentle
men say. We propose to have an lndepen-
dent prohibitory law and we intend to beat
your governor and we propose to have an in
dependent prohibitory member of Congress
and we intend to beat Mr. Reed. Well, they
don't think they are going to elect Mr Eus-
elect your respected citizen of this town (Mr-
Hussey), but they think they may elect Mr..
Edwards, governor; and Mr.. Cllfford, repre-
sentative. Is there any man in this assem-
blage or in any other that can be called to-
gether on the soil of Maine, in this year
1885, who has been honestly for prohibition,
that desires to rise in any aSsemblage and
say that is a wise course of action? Is there
any gentleman here that is willing to take
the responsibility of saying that in his .judg-
ment that promotes the cause of prohibition
in Maine? Or is there any gentleman, II |
put it only on the ground of State pride,
is there any gentleman in the First Con-
gressional district of this State and
/ address that especially to, this audience
is there any voter of Republican principles
in the First Congressional district that is
willing to strike down the brilliant leader
of the House who now represents tnls dlS-
trict Great applause)
Then we have another diversion for labor
party. Is there any member of labor or
ganization here or elsewhere In Maine, that
is willing to say that the cause of labor is to
be promoted by sending Mr.. Clifford to Con.
gress instead of Mr.. Reed or the election OF
Mr., Edwards as governor instead OF Mr..
Bodwell. Are you willing, gentlemen, either
of the Prohibition party or of the labor
party to throw your votes away? Are you
willing in contest that involves great
principles to play the part of neutral and
allow, the Maine fight to &c. on between the
stand over against each other divided by dis
tinctly announced and everywhere under
stood principles? Are you willing to count
yourself neutral in that fight?
Mr.. Blaine then spoke of the fishery ques-
tion and reciprocity with Canada. He said
that the last annual message of the President
foreshadOwed that the fishery question
would be so used as to bring about another
reciprocity treaty. He read from the last re-
ciprocity treaty to show the advantage, de-
rived by Canada who gave little or nothing
in return for the markets OF the United
States with sixty millions of people. Con-
tinuing, Mr.. Blaine said: This morning L
went TO the proper place in Portland to look
at the Canadian tariff and found thai in
the case of every article which under the re-
ciprocity treaty of 1854 we can import to
Canada, Canada in her new protective tar
iff has made free. 1t was so much to her ad-
vantage to receive the articles which she al
lowed us to import in consideration OF opening
our markets for all her products, that when
she came to construct a protective tariff she
admitted hem all free. So that as matter
of fact today we get from Canada every con-
cession in the shape of duties that we could
get if a reciprocity treaty were enacted. |
know it might look as if we were rather il
liberal, as if we were rather having a restric-
| tive policy not to agree to trade with Cana
| da on these matters that she wishes to send
| to us and for one should be willing to. But
she won't make it reciprocal. Ii she asks us
| to take her timber and lumber we ask her to
| take from us the axes to cut the trees. Oh
| no, she will import those from England. We
ask her to be allowed to send in the saws
| and the mill gear that shall manufacture the