Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-08-11

the saco, the Androscoggin. are
planting themselves on the kenne-
bee, and are advancing eastward
from the great commercial centre of New
England. imparting thrift and prosperity
in their march, building up fiourishing
towns and cities. In time not distant on
the PenOb=cot there will De manufactures
Of cotton, wool and iron as there are NOW
on the rivers West of her, if the British
manufacturers, if the cheaply paid pro-
auctions Of Europe, do not through Free
Trade gain possession of the American
markets. TO argue against Protection be-
cause il ha. not brought into Use all the
coal, water-pOwer and iron Of this country
In two or three decades. is TO argue against
improved agriculture because il has not
vet brought all the -oil Of Maine under
it, productive control and turned all the
prairies Of the West into rich cultivation.
IL i to argue that our population has not
a healthy growth because it has not risen
to 40OO0000O, and because it has not
How ed all over our Western territories
with the densenes- Of Massachusetts and
New York, though it Is apparent and I'M
disputed that our national policy Is in-
creasiug our prosperity and popu-
lation to a degree Of rapidity Of which
history furnishes no parallel.
But it l. the utter want of sympathy with
working men and business men which Mr.
Putnam- speech discl0-es which consti-
tute- not only it, weakness, but it, strong
Objectionable qualities. Thi. may be ow-
ing 70 the entirene.s with which the pro-
fes-ion Of the author has absorbed him
profession of the law does not necessarily
lead TO this want of sympathy with pub
tic prosperity and the Interests of labor.
But it, strictly financial and personal
aims too often have thi. tendency. The
law ger dealing with the follies, the vices,
and the mi-fortunes of men, eager to
get rich on his fees, may have less oppor-
tuntie- to fill his purse amid general
prosperity than he has when and where
failures, bankruptcies, and general bust
ness stagnation prevail. Thus from a
purely selfish view he may care little for
Protection to American industries, or
whether hi coat, his hat. his boots, or his
Injuries are produced on this or the other
side of the Atlantic. He NAV quite as lief
Free Trade would prevail in the United
states a. in England and Belgium. He
may even seem to take pride in avowing
club type. Unconsciously or otherwise.
by accident or design. a. he i a respecta-
BILE gentleman We prefer to think it is by
inadvcrtence, the Democratic candidate
TOR Governor has got himself into this cold.
un-ympathetic anti-American state of
mind. Therefore it i not so strange that
he became a party to the heartle-s aban-
donmcnt of the right, and interests of
American fishermen by agreeing to the
Bayard treaty. and allowing himself to he
made a tool of Cleveland in British
crusade against the American system-the
child of American patriots, of the wisest
and purest statesmen this country has
produced. From beginning to end Mr.
ltitnam'- Bangor remarks are as
utterly destitute of American ideas and
American sentiment Is the Fishery treaty
which bears his signature, and which the
American people demand shall be repealed
it ANONYMOUSLY surrendcrs the rights of
american frecmen.