The Portland daily press., 1886-08-28


more begin to trade our farm products tor
the manufactured articles of Great Britain.
If we would only do that, which prac tically
meant if we would only consent all to DC
farmers and give up manufacturing we
would have very happy and very pros,
porous time, with England furnishing all
the manufactures, and we furnishing. all the
farm products. The trouble about that nes
just here. That, even if we should agree 10
try that experiment. with our farm products
ON the other side of the ocean we should De
compelled to compete, first with the breadstun
with Russia that has as large wheat fields as
we have, and then with the wheat, OF INDIA,
which under the experiments OF cheap rail-
roads and cheap transportation by sea, can
be laid down in Liverpool at nearly as low
rate as American wheat can be laid down.
/ say to the farmers of the United StaIeS,
that if, under any restive feeling that tney
are not getting the benefit OF protective
tariff, they should join in movement 1or
free trade and break down the home market
and home consumption, they would invite
competition from those two great sources Oh
supply-one from Russia and the other from
midland the last condition OF those Sc IarH-
ers would be worse than their first. There is
no market for the farmer that is as good as
the home market. Why is land three miles
from Lewiston better than land thirty miles
distant? Why is poor land. within 1ye
miles of Lewiston better than rich land forty
miles off Why is the consumption OF the
Eastern States, of the manufacturing sec
tions of New England, New York. New
Jersey, Pennsylyania-why IS that better
for the farmers of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio
than the markets that are across the ocean?
To ask the question is to answer it,. You
find consumers at your door. You make the
exchanges close at home You save all the
expense of long carriage, and you create on a
great national scale the identical influences
which have made the valley of the Andro-
scoggin river, within the county of Andro-
scoggin, centre of industry and prosperity.
can remember this town thirty-four years
ago, and when | see what it IS now 1t looks
as if the spirit of magic had breathed upon
it. You had this town up to the beginning
of the war under a low rate OF tariff. Wnen
did your great prosperity begin In Lewiston?
Do you think that if the same tariff had
continued the tariff of 1887 that was dis
placed by the protective tariff OF 1856, do
you think that Lewiston would have. been
where it now is? Do you think that Andro
scoggin county would be where it now is?
Do you think the State of Maine would be
where it now is? | don't mean simply, the
been there? Why in the name OF common
sense what chance would |, Maine farmer,
have if compelled to compete in the markets
of New York against the great rich lands
| that come in from the Mississippi valley
| And yet when you bring manufactures and
plant them down in his midst the Maine
| farmer has just as good chance to grow
rich as the Western farmer, and good many
of tn IN find it little easier to do it. But
What chance would he have if the manufac-
lures of this State that have grown up so
bountifully in every direction, had been
stunted and choked to death In their early
origin by low grade tariff or free trade?
| These questions have just this pertinency,
that the Republican party is the author of
the protective tariff and it sustains it, and
the contest lies just now between
| the two parties on that point. A few
representatives of the Democratic party. IN
n 4al @bA do Of nrnfnpf10n
| and the whole party howls against them and
visits them with every form of political I'M
| precation as being false to their party. On
| ly two Republicans, from the NorthWeSt,Vo
| ec against a protective tarlff, and tnelr con-
stituentS have, since Congress adjourned,
| given them leave to stay at home so that
| in the Democratic party man has no stand
| ing place if he is a protectionist, and IN the
Republican party, thank heaven that 1t has
come to this, that man has no standing
place unless he is a protectionist. ZAP
plause] This question comes directly home
tous. The election that takes place two
weeks from Monday is primarily State
election, you will say Well, 1t is IN one
sense. We elect a Governor and Leglsla-
ture, but remember that we elect four Repre-
sentative in Congress, and the Legislature
must elect United States Senator. This is
Names chance. This is the opportunity
| which the laws of the country. give to the
| people of Maine to express their views upon
| the great question of revenue tariff or pro-
| tectfye tariff. 1t comes right home to your
| door. You have only municipal election
| next spring and next autumn you nave no
| election at all, so that for two years the
| second Monday of September gives the
| only opportunity to the people OF Maine 70
| express their views upon question Wnlcn
| vitality interests every man IN the otate.
| Therefore, ask you don't be diverted from
| the overwhelming Importance OF this cleo
| ton. Don't get your minds on any otner
| subject Great applause) Don't listen. to
| Third Party that tells you that you mad
| better hand over the question OF pronlDltl0n
| to the Democrats by deserting the Republl-
| cans and putting them in minority vote
| so that you maintain the Prohlbltory law,
| and the protective tariff by one and the same
| ballot. Great applause) :.
| Mr. Blaine then proceeded to discuss SUP
| stantially as in a former speech the e11ectS
| which would result from a temperance point
| of view to the Third Party's placing the
| Republicans in minority.
| The evening meeting at City Hall tonight
| was attended by another audience of at
least three thousand persons, fully as en-
thusiastic as the attendance of the after
| noon Rev. DR.. Chenery, president of Bates
| College, presided, and in few brief remarks
| presented Mr.. Blaine as the first speaker OF
| the evening. The announcement OF Mr.
| Blaines name drew from the audience the
| same generous applause that has everywhere
| greeted his appearance
Mr.. Blaine said:
| In the labor question certain discontents
1 have arisen which the State and not the
/ nation can remove; among those dSconeentS
| in the State of Maine Is one furnished
| and all parties are somewhat responsible.
The statutes Of Maine already declare that
ten hours shall constitute days work, but
| they do not make that obligatory and
mandatory. Joseph r. Bodwell says IN his ms
| letter of acceptance and In the expression
which he made months before he was
| nominated for governor, that that law
| should be made obligatory and mandatory
| upon all people within this State, and upon
| his election it will be made So (Applause.)
There is another thing.mark arr you, am
following the State and not the Nation
there is another thing which has worried,
| harassed and embarrassed laborlng men In
many directions, and that is that II they
| happened to owe somebody a little money
and were unable to pay it when demanded,
thev would be caught up quite suddenly and
harshly by trustee process on their wages
Now | am quoting again from Mr.. BodWell,
and he said that that law ought to be aDol-
ished, (applause) and that trustee process for
the wages of any laboring man should not
be allowed in this State, and it won't be
after the next Legislature has adjourned.
Then there is a third, a more inhuman and
indefensible wrong than either OF those
| nave spoken 0I-n0G only lHuulldn iu iiuc,
fensibie, but absurd at the same time-and
that is, that if man happens to owe little
money that he cannot pay, he can be Drougnl
to a disclosure, and at a certain period III
the proceedings he can be sent to jail. VI
IS t6af Il man oMes soh hhh hhh6ney anH he hteaMh6
pay it, you stop his ability to earn anythlne
and send him to jail, where he cannot 40
stroke of work; that is not only cruel, {
| relic of the Dark Ages, but it is, tiagrant
absurd. and after the next Legislature ha'
adjourned it will not be on the statute DooK'
of Maine. sa,,o,,
There is fourth; now | am first follow
ing what Joseph r. Bodwell has gwen ,u you
there is fourth, and that is that ire iaDo
system of the country has been lnterIeie'
| with and great wrong been done py puttiIill'
| children at too delicate an age, WltnouG tn
physical strength tie endure It,. ana Wltilo1l
the necessary education, into factory Work
and his (Bodwell's) opinion, in which | nav
the honor to concur, is that they Shoula no
be allowed to go into that work under
wears of age. Last winter Mr. BodWeIl wa
called upon by some one who wished '
know his views, long before he was NOM
mated. or even markedly named for the nom
ination, and before he before he DecaMi
prominent as a candidate, and ne gave I'll
views which ave now set forth. lie re
! heated them with emphasis in a letter OF aC
| ceptance. and think it would not be yer
| hard to guess YOU will find them in his mrs
| annual message as Governor OF Maine
Great appiause). | dwell on these as stat
J regulations, for the State can do much TO a
| leyiate MANY of the hardShipS, the wrongs