The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-08-24
MR.. FRYE IN ARoosTooK.
His Speech to a Large Audience In
HouIton, Saturday Night.
Temperance and the Tariff Discuss
ed Ably and Fully.

HoULToN, Aug. Ex-senator Frye spoke
in Houlton Saturday night. The Opera
House was crowded with one of the largest
and most appreciative audiences ever gather
ed in the place. Hon. Llewellyn Powers pre-
sided. Mr.. Frye, after reviewing the con-
duct of the government while in Republican
and Democratic hands, and speaking briefly
of the last campaign, devoted himself to the
temperance and tariff questions. This is
what he said on those subjects:
Now there was another thing that beat us.
The PrOhihitiOniStS beat us in New York.
And yet am Prohibitionist, and believe
in the enforcement of the law to the bitter
end. (Applause). But | say deliberately
that some of the prohibitory leaders are un-
blushing, impudent scoundrels, who are
helped by the Democratic party to defeat the
Republican party. l said some of the lead
ers. If / wanted to name them | could do
SO. | say some OF them are fanatics. /
don't say anything against fanatics when |
say that. There was no greater fanatic than
Martin Luther, and he did a world of good.
All credit to fanatics. If they did not go
out aud lead us on moral questions, we never
should rise from the earth. They say the
for temperance. Of course there never was
a church that did all it could do for the pro-
motion of religion. But do you organize an
other church agains that :one? You know
there never was prohibition statute put
upon the books north of Mason and Dixon's
can party. You know the Democratic party
is supporting the temperance party with
their contributions. You elected Cleveland,
and you can elect Democratic candidates for
Congress. Now you have good candidate
for Congress in this district-Captain Bou-
fGmnQrqnp1
Yet you temperance men can nominate
man for Congress who never voted the tenn
perance ticket in his life. In my own dis
trict they have nominated man for Con-
gress against Mr.. Dingley, the strictest tenn
perance man In the State, a man who has de-
voted his nights and days to prohibition, and
done more for it than all.of the rest of the
Prohibitionists together. And yet they have
nominated a man against him, and ii they
draw off enough votes from him they will
elect-nOw have got my foot in it-a BROTH
er-in-law of mine, DR.. Garcelon l know he
cares nothing for prohibition, and thinks it
is a nuisance. / saw Mr.. Bodwell the other
day, and he said to me that if there was
law on the statute book he would enforce it.
Now, if there is any prohibition friend
here want to know why you are SO desirous
of defeating the Republican party. You say
il is because we do not do anything Why,
then, don't you stay with us and help us to
do enough? | am in favor of putting plank
into the national Republican platform in
favor of prohibition. (Applause.) l am in
favor of the Republican party shouldering
and | know that in time the
party would conquer under that banner.
Now why will you not stay with us and help
us? Your national organ, the Voice, states
that the object of the temperance party is to
defeat the Republican party. On the other
hand, see what Mrs. Foster, one of the best
temperance workers in this country, says:
u am opposed to Prohibition party because
| consider it delusion and a snare, a great
hindrance TO prohibition" But yet you
would defeat us. If we were the same as
other parties are we should turn our backs
upon you.
What has the Democratic party done? 1t
was going to do marvellous things. 1t was
going to turn the rascals out Laughter)
Every nomination made by the President is
sent to the Senate, and l thus know that only
two persons have thus far been turned. out
for rascality. The rest have been turned out
for partizanship. can point out number
Of Democrats who have been appointed to
been in Jail. can pick out eight or ten. ap-
pointments which the President has been
to withdraw and twenty or so our
Senators rejected because they we've so vile
and wicked. More than that. they were going
to to take off your Ts taxes, They have increased
the appropriations; they have increased the
appropriations. The fact was there was only
nine millions of surplus money. in the Treas
ury and the Republican party had paid the
debt as fast as it could do so. No Republican
House of Representatives ever attempted to
instruct the Secretary of the Treasury that
he should pay the national debt When the
present Secretary of the Treasury kept the
money in the Treasury the Democratic House
of Representatives directed him to use it to
the Democratic Secretary. The bill went to
the President and he refused to sign it. He
had no faith i'll the Democratic House.
When the Democrats came into power you
know the first thing done was to revise the
goes into the air. While was on the COM
mittee of ways and means | found out what
they meant by revising the tariff. 1t was
putting things on the free list. They re-
brought before that body. The bill was
killed. Mr.. Morrison got up new scheme,-
which was to cut piece off from every
thing. With the help Of few Democrats,
we Republicans struck out the enactlng
clause and killed that; Then came this
proposed bill and got the Democrats to
practically agree to it. The bill went into
the committee. When Morrison got into the
committee it was suggested that iron and
coal should be put upon the free list Mr..
Randall, who lives in Pennsylvania was in
Democrats to oppose the bill to defeat it.
The bill put upon the free list timber and
other products of the forests. Now look at
your rivers and forests, and | ask you how
men can vote for party that votes for that
bill. We Republicans say to Canada, which
is directly interested in such bill, you don't
help pay our taxes and so you must pay a
duty. The Democrats say no, let them have
things free. Oats are put on the free list.
The Republicans put twenty per cent duty
d. 40, 70 fa1y
off from every bushel of oats Canada sends
into the market against yours? If you do,
vote for the Democratic party. What do the
Democrats care for your oats up here In this
county? Why, Mr.. Bayard don't even care for
American fishermen. The Democrats propose
dollars ton. The Republicans put duty
of fifteen cents per bushel on potatoes. The
Democrats put them upon the free list. Last
year / could go to Prince Edward Island and
buy potatoes for twelve cents bushel and
put them into the Boston market at half
what you can. Do you want the duty taken
off? They cut down the duty on starch one
half. You have forty starch mills in this
county today worth 100000, and they are
putting out 100000 year, and consuming
300, 900 bushels of potatoes. They did not
make per cent. last year. If these mills
are to make starch in this county you must
sell them potatoes for twelve cents per bush
ell under that bill. You can't run them thirty
days and pay fifteen cents per bushel Tor po-
tatoes. The mills will go over into Canada
if that bill Should bcconlo a law. They put
wool on the free, list. They can raise
wool in Australia for ten cents per pound.
You can't raise it for less than twenty-five
cents per pound. They can get their WOOL
into Liverpool for four cents pound, They
can get it into New York for two cents more
Der Der pound, making sixteen cents. They have
got sixty million sheep in Australia, and IN In
less than five years they could supply this
market maj The sheep business in this country
Would lior be destroyed if wool should be put up
on the free list. Under that bill you would
not have three million sheep in this country
now. we put ten cents duty upon that wool
and you can thus raise wool. That bill put
fish upon the free list. The Republicans
put duty upon fish that the. fishing industry
of this country may have chance to 1--we.
In closing his remarks Senator Frye re-
viewed the Presidents course in regard to
pension matters and the River and Haroor