The Portland daily press., 1886-08-27

| England. They paid the duty, and then
they had to add the premium on gold, and by
| the time they got that reduced to greenbackS
it cost over 500 ton to put steel rails down,
| while it cost just one hundred times as much
per mile. In the teeth of that, with high
| prices staring everybody in the face, the Re-
and the courage to put $2S ton gold
duty on that. Do you not remember
how all the free traders in the world, how
| all the free traders in this country de-
nounced the Republicans as lunatics, protec..
tion gone mad, violating every principle OF
economy, gone. as the Scots say, absolutely
| clear daft" Well it went on $2S ton, gold
| 30 per cent. premium made $780, SO that the
| duty in our own currency was between $36
| and $37 ton / remember myself that it
| did look little hazardous. / was a little
| afraid of it, but supported it with the rest
| of my party. What is the result? The
| Democrats said: ''You are going to put
price on steel rails where no railroads can
| afford to buy them" and then they began all
| their talk about the duty being added to the
| cost and going to be paid by the consumer.
This very last year, this very last winter,
| steel rails of American manufacture were
| the mill, only half dollar more on ton
| than the duty we put on them in 1870. That
| is only sixteen years ago, and practically we
| were not making any steel rails at all then.
the Cambria Iron Works in Pennsylvania,
| and little in Troy, n. Y. Under the slim
| illus of the duty eight, ten, twelve, thirteen
great establishments were built, and in
little while were turning out larger amount
than the. combined works Of ENGLAND
and Belgium today. (Cries Of Good, =
| and applause) If there was genuine free
trader present he would get up and say,
.'Yes that is true; you did sell those rails at
| $3.50, but you did not state that they are
| selling them in England at $40 and $40"
Yes, do state it, but state the other thing
that they never would have. sold them in
England at!$19 and 500 if we had not forced
them down by the competition. (Applausel
if England could have had the monopoly of
our markets during the whole of this time.
| do not propose to take up the tariff In de-
tail and go through the i,ON articles,
est accusation by the Democrats for
the steel rail duty has been the one
which they have held up everywhere as
protection gone mad, as l said before. Well,
Rapturous applause.) You know when they
said that Grant got drunk in the
Vicksburg campaign, Lincoln sent down
for some of the same sort of whis-
key that he might give it to the
other generals. daughter and applause.)
So if they say this is insanity let us commun-
icate it to every other industrial farm in this
country. We can stand it.
Discussing the treasury surplus, Mr.. Blaine
said, one of the branches in the discussion
with the Democracy is that you cannot get
them to stand still to repeat it. Now for the
humorous side of it. Sir Robert Peel, when
he was making his fight for revenue reform
in England, found his opponents in swim,
ming and stole their clothes. Naughter)
That is the way Punch put it. 1t really
meant that when he came into power he
suddenly changed ground and assumed the
position he had previously been opposed to.
Two years ago, in the National contest, l do
not know that there was Democrat in the
whole land who did not arraign the Repub-
licans. know 1 met it everywhere. Every
Democrat from the candidate for Vice Presi-
we were doing BY keeping $780,
100000 locked up. The way a Demo
crat would pronounce that it sound
ed like four thousand millions. heard Mr.
Hendricks, himself, make a speech, and L
certainly can never forget the way. he pro-
nounced four hundred millions of dollars.
We were guilty of keeping idle, the Repubii-
cans had kept it locked for some very cor
rupt purpose. No other purpose could posi-
bly, be in view Why should anybody keep
$780, 0,000 in the treasury OF the United
States idle when the people outside were
yearning for money to do business with?
Why the statement of the case was to con
yict the party, and am not at all sure that
the Republicans did not lose Indiana on that
issue. Gen. Gibson says that they had as
sured the people all through Ohio, and many
other parts of the West that there should be
a general division in which each man would
receive $9.46. Great laughter) At all
When tie he new va administration camS
something would be done to put that S4oo,
100000 in circulation among the people:
There was adisposition to give the PRESIDENT
at least week to do it. He was inaugural
ed on the 4th of March, and there was dis
position among Mr.. Hendricks, friends In
the West to let him have till the 18th or 10Th,
but it did not come. April came, and we dld
not hear dollar of it Jingle outside the
| treasury. and June, July, September and
| November, and finally the new year, and we
| had not heard word of any of it,; but, IN
| She meanwhile, they had appointed very
| able man--let me speak well Oh nlm-Ior
| cashier of the late Mr.. Tilden's bank-Mr.
| Conrad B. Jordan. He is an able man. l
\ always respect ability wherever It is found
He said in effect, these Republicans are a
| little too frank in their way OF bookkeepng;;
| WHY did they put it right out that they nad
| S4O0 OOO 600 there? That was not Skill1ul;
| WHY did not they put down that they had
| 500 0o0 900 to redeem the greenbacks with,
/ another large sum to redeem the silver certl'
| fieates with, and another large amount to re-
| deem the gold certificates with; for In effect
| ali these $4OO. 900, 900 that the Democrats ac-
| cused US of boarding was alreaGy In clrcuia,
| tion in the shape of paper shat represented
to to which it belonged. They had $S,ooo,o0o
left for a surplus, and then they were fright
ened and said, what reckless set OF fellows
| those Republicans are to try to run the treas
ury on so little money as they have. why.
Increase inc sts' it, @ and they went on
until they added $72, 100000 to it on top Of
that we had. When they got up to $780, 100000
the Western Democrats in the House became
frightened Just before adjournment, ana
brought in a resolution imperatiyely direct
ing the President to have that money PAID
| out. When that resolution came to Presl,
dent Cleveland he put it in his pocket, and
said, good morning gentlemen laugDteeL ~ J,
| 1or har nf namnRrafS
land were made to believe that we had that
S4O0, 100000 for corruption. NOW, L ask
them, or | should ask them, if / were play
ing a mere partisan game, what are you 40 90
| Ing with that $4S0000,000? You put 72,0O0-
OO0 on top of ours. do not criticise them
at all for putting the $72,0O0,00O there. am
not criticising them as matter Oh policy LOT
doing it, but am criticising them that tney
accused us dishonesty OIL DONG tnis tlllnS, III "
which since they had the opportunity to 90
they did still more. 1t was wise, prudent
forecast that said to every man in the United
Statesyou may take greenDaek, you may
take gold certificate, you may lake sliVel
certificate with all the confidence that Wnen
!, Won present it at the treasury counter Tor tne
coin it will be there, that is all that pollcJ
meant am glad that the President had the
good sound discretion to appoint MT. Jor'
dan. | am glad ne 1olloWed hepqppiiican; pi1 S
cuses the demagoguery, and the lack OF can
, dor. and if must say it, the downright dlS
honesty by which that issue was raised tw'
, In speaking of the Republican candidate
: for governor Mr. Blaine said, 10
r | governor of Maine you do not nav
, apolitician you do not have an orator, yot
, do not have a lawyer, and you do not have
! banker, so think my friends of labor organ
izations will find that he responds to al
> | their requirements. You have a man tina
! | has worked his way up from the time that Il
went out as an apprentice at eight years Q
+ age a man that has tasted poverty in abou
f | as Strong form as anybody in New Eng
f | land ever does, and q man who under Tn
I blessed freedom of New England skies, AM
! privileges of New England enterprise, ha
:: fought his way up to independence and I
. wealth and in doing that he has done muc
: to deyelope the material interests OF Maine
q Let me be modest. do not want to say TO
2 much, but as much l think as any man on II
4 soil to-day. (Applause) think Mr.. Boo
e well has brought within this State, ana pal
/. out the greater part of ID to laboriing me
), | within the last % years many hundre
/ thousand dollars per annum, and IN the a az
n gregate many millions, and he has lntr'
n duced into the markets of the United state
n and established its value as a buildm
le material the granite of Maine, and has give
1t it currency in building circles when
never had before. You go all through u
If west twenty-five or thirty years ago ana yo
4, l,onnan tn see oranita huildinp il was q