Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-28
SPEECH OF A DEMAGOGUE.

Mr.. Blaine evidently feels somewhat bet
ter now after relieving himself OF the vast
amount of gall which he has accumulated
since Mr.. Cleveland defeated him for the
Presidency. The sting OF that defeat is
still torturing his soul, and nowhere has
he shown it more than in his speech at
Sebago Lake day before yesterday, when
he opened the Maine campaign for the Re
publican party of that State. Mr.. Blaine
is blind in his bitterness. With that reck-
~lessness OF assertion shown by unscrupu-
lous men championing a desperate cause,
Mr.. Blaine commended that 'the hostility
OF the Democratic party to protection had
entailed upon the country vast loss,"
when he knows that the revenue laws have
not been changed under the present Adj
ministration, and ii they had such change
must nave received the vote and endorse.
tnent Of Il Republican United States Senate.
Mr.. Blaine handled the fishery question
like the veriest demagogue. He knows that
that question, Notwithstanding treaties
upon the matter between the United States
and Great Britain during the past sixty OF
seventy years, has been a prolific source of
diplomacy and will likely be FOR years to
come. The same complaints were made
against American fishermen during the past
twenty-five years OF Republican rule that
We now hear.
In speaking Of the seizure OF one or two
American fishing smacks off the coast OF
New Foundland by the Canadian a%utlori-
finS Mr. R1nipn yeryy chpy-pniopf1v forCafc
to state that three British s%chooners were
seized the first OF this month up near Beh-
ring straits by a United States revenue
cutter, for a violation OF the seal fishing
laws. These little matters will all be am
icably settled without buster or threats
OF war however much as the Blaines OF the
country may rant and rave about them.
In the Cutting matter Mr.. Blaine pre-
sents a violent contrast with his warlike
attitude upon the cod fishery question.
He is as mild as a sucking dove toward the
greasers. Viewed from his standpoint Of
chivalry and justice the throwing of an
American citizen into a vile dungeon, with
OF cause, by Mexico is Il trivial offense
beside the seizure by u foreign power of an
American fishing smack.
Like the demogogue he is he appeals tn /
the workinsmen OF the country to guard |
themselves against negro labur-the labor
OF the very race for whose freedom from
slavery; for whose uplifting from the degree
dation into which that slavery had cast
them; for whose advancement in civiliza-
ton, and progress in the arts and sciences,
he claims the Republican party vas or.
gained, and will be perpetrated. With an
look and a shaking OF the finger
towards the south Mr.. Blaine tells the
white workingmen OF the North and West
that unless a high protective tariff pre-
vail the negroes w~illcoinpete with them in
the manufacture of those articles of COM
merce requiring skilled labor to perfect.
He fails, however. to give his hearers the
reasons why skilled negro labor is not as
available under a high protective tariff as
under free trade. Cunning Blaine.
In the course Of his speech Mr.. Blaine,
inadvertently perhaps, knocked the props
from nnder one Of his most telling points.
After discussing the labor question, and as
may have been expected, laying the depres-
sion in the labor market at the door Of the
he forgot himselffor a moment,
and, rising to the level OF the subject under
discussion, declared, that the man who /,
~ am prescription can remove this dis
and restore harmony and happi- {
less would be a philosopher, patriot and 6
The man who professed to do !
t would generally prove to be a compound !
f empiricism and ignorance" Such frank. =
less upon the part OF Mr.. Blaine Is COM q
nendable, and while he relieves the Demo- :
ratio party from the odium of producingl
his discomfort and unhappiness among
he laborers OF the country, he also de-
lares that the successful handling and dis. y
OF the labor question is beyond =
he power OF man or party, Even he who =
recessed he could handle it would prove :,
be a compound of ''empiricism and jg- y
ORANGE" Mr.. Blaine approaches the -.
ruth in this assumption, while he seems !.
0 have lost it in the rest OF his speech. y
he Republicans throughout the country -
will doubtless be surprised to y
,arn that the Republican party OF Maine
as always been pledged to prohibition.