The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-09-10

five cents yard Of print beautiful enonsh
for a lady TO be married in. Everybody
laughed, and well they might. They did not
laugh because Of the difference between the
nye cents and the thirty-fve, but because
they realized the absurdity Of asking any
LADY OF the present day TO consider herself
beautiful In garment made Of material such
as used TO adorn her grandmother. lGreat
lYat langYnttef and applause The progress Of
most absurd 10 recur, even in imaginatiOn 10
Wnat was comfort and luxury In those old
days: All, but they said. there have been
great many people made rich here Yes.
tnat Is true. teel very much about that as
the rest OF you do; l don't like It. / do not
feel any great satisfaction In seeing some
body else ride In carriage while 40 not. /
think the people who have faculty for get
ting money are no taller than the rest Of US:
they are not any handsomer, laugh
teri, and 4 am bound TO say,
that so far as 1 have noticed,
they are no happier. But some men have
the faculty Of making money, and they make
money In free trade England with as much
freedom as any Of them do In prOtectionlst
america. Now, IL they are going 10 make
money had rather those who make It would
make make 10 over there, feel so for a purely
seihsh reason, What good does money do
= Iieh man. There Is only one way In which
ineo T. can neip MIN, and that Is by adding TO his
income, but In erder 10 add TO his income he
must not put !. into hole In the cellar He
must either make something with ID, build
something with 1t, or what comes 10 The
same tning lend II TO some man who will
make something or build something with IT,
u NO builds railroad with II, that means
cheaper transportation. IL he builds a cot
ton factory, that means cheaper cotton cloth
therefore, l say,if we are to have capitalists
would rather have them here than In England
IL Is true that it Is nearer, but il Is also true
that lt IS more advantageous TO us. There
are some men who think they can make a
world where people, active and capable, will
not bring their faculties into exercise.
don't believe 1t. Let us come now 10 our
duties. what is the true course for Us 10
pursue IN this matter? Have we got a
sensible system? | hold that there Is only
one proof. We may argue about this matter
as long as we please, but the one great
pIOOi U0d oi tns principle OF protection is 70 be
United States of America. lGreat applause
nave not alluded TO II for the purpose OF
Doastlng. We have got by boasting, long
years ago. Ihere was time when the
american citlzen telt 1t necessary TO proclaim
that this Is the greatest country on earth, but
today the country speaks for itself Iap-
plauseI and our lips are closed. / know they
tell you that you are terribly taxed. Why
one Oh the staple paragraphs In their ora
tlons Is this: When you 20 away tonight
you Will button taxed coat over a taxed
vest, above taxed trousers, and taxed shoes
and under taxed hat; and that when you
90 70 bed, with the hat and boots removed,
l trust laughter they say you will put your
self In between taxed sheets, lay your head
upon taxed pillow, wrap yourself In
taxed coverlet. get up the next morning and
take yourl medicine and go on your taxed
way Till night tall again. [Great laughter
and applause.I There are actually tears In
their voices when they speak OF ii. laugh
teri andye OF all Of this audience, there
never was one who knew how he suffered
until that orator came around! Taxed with
out knowing 1t! Why. my friends, dying
would be easy on those terms. [Laughterl
Here we are with tremendous surplus, so
they say, but when they get their figures all
made up they may find vast difference be-
tween surplus with the Democratic expend-
ltures unsubtracted and one with their ex-
pehditures actually taken out. Why, In order
TO preserve that surplus-they are very fond
OF it-they are going TO the extent Of not
paying the honest debts Of this Government
The Cherokee Indians have brought o suit
against us and obtained q Judgment in the
United States Supreme Court for $4,000, 600
and one would suppose that a Judgment Of
the Supreme Court Of the United States was
reasonably certain. That court Il generally
regarded as the pillars Of Hercules and be-
yond It you cannot go. But the Democratic
TO preserve the surplus, delayed the payment
OF that judgment for over year and let IL
run along et tlve OF six per cent. interest
when the government interest Is only two
lower the surplus. They finally had to pay
1t. Now they are refusing to pay the French
spc citation claims, in order that they may pre-
serve their beloved surplus. Why are they
so anxious about surplus? IL Is because they
want 10 give as near an approach to free
trade as they can possibly scare the country
into. 1t must be beautiful thing, this free
trade. But do you notice how generous our
Southern brethren are with II? They did
not keep much Of II to themselves. They
Oietrihnfad fnQ m ~ N ha
ern States. Rice they keep at 100 per cent.
sugar they keep at 60 per cent. They do not
hnd any difficulty about protection on those
articles. They are raised In the South. But
Lumber at l9A per cent. seems TO be a dread
My friend, Mr.. Libby. has alluded to the
doctrlne OF per centage, the figures which
were In vogue some time ago, and In
vogue very naturally, because both sides
adopted them. The Democrats set the per
centage figures, and nobody cared TO correct
them, because they were accompanied with
the declaration that they were substantially
10 favor OF free trade. That was when they
begun; that was before they heard from the
lection Is fobbery-and they did say 1t in so
many wOrdS-and you have only reduced
mat robbery seven per cent, don't you think
mat you are within seven per cent of being
= = bad as we are? Laughter and applause.l
u 1t Is robbery to take AZ per cent. do you
'hink It is righteous to take 40 per cent, and
throw in the markets Of the world to these
wicked people In additiOn?" They had no
reply, OF course, so we did not feel 1t neees-
sary to show what their per centage doctrine
really meant; but now they are coming out
Tor protection under the Instructive infiu-
enee OF Republican campaign, it will be
worth while to show Just what that per CEN
tage figuring does mean. How do they make
THIS per centage? As you know, there are
necessary articles In the tariff Of some we
use but small amounts, Of others large
quantities. Just add up the articles, one BY
lne, and add up the per eentage of each, and
ustrate: suppose a man should take Que
lrtiele on the acid list. which has 1917 per
'ent protection, of which we import couple
u hundred OF ounces, and the metal sched-
ale, OF which we import million tous at %
per cent, and should add them together, first
.he two articles and then the per eentages
~ and 81, and then divide one sum by The
other, and then go around holding up our
hands and saying what an awful outrage this
Is, this acid and metal schedule; because on
an average II Is III per cent? And yet that
Is the basis on which they work out this per
eentage idea. You cannot tell the injury
done by the tariff by wholesale talk like
that, but only by an examination Of the
Items, Mr.. Mills himself gives better test
when he says that we now get from the ar
ticles mentioned in his bill Sl79.O0O,OOO, and
II we don't import any more, and bis bill
was Intended 70 import SOme more, we lose
-JO,OOO,OO0. Why, that Is % per cent.
per cent Is nearer than seven
when you examine them. But II Is still
worse. Take lumber. Upon that
the tariff Is all taken Off.
Can there be any more free trade In lumber
han lumber without any tariff whatever?
They have taken all the tariff of wool Can
here be any more free trade in wool than
here would be under the Mills bill? They
have taken IL all off salt Can there be any
more free trade IN salt than there would be
lnder the Mills bill? Why, you perceive at
)nee, If we submit TO that, what Is going to
be said the next time. They are going among
The farmers, and say 10 them, you have no
protection upon your wool; and | suppose
they would tell the farmer we did It. They
would go TO the lumberman and say, you
have no protection on your lumber. and
suppose they would tell him we did IT, They
usually do. They would go TO the salt man
and say the same thing TO him; aud don't
you perceive that they are going TO get re-
,ruits, and when they have get those recruits
hey are going 10 march on the rest Of the
.arif. Why, they will march on wood pulp
by and by. Indeed, they have partially
marched upon 1t already. That Is, they put
wood pulp on the free list. But there were
certain patriots In Michigan, high In office,
who stood for the true faith, and they were
saved by IT,: and wood pulp was put back
where Ii ought TO be- but Il was put back,
not because 1t ought to be put back, but be-
,ause such action favOredcertain Democrats.
asked them the reason why. did NOT
know then why they could not tell me, but
do know now.
l have not discussed the main auestior
md ~ DO not propose to, except briefly.