Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-04-17
TUESDAY, Tie i. DAY Of NAY A.o 1893
10 BE
OBSERVED AS ARBOR DAY.
Speech of Senator MorIill.

Vermont has statesman whom she well
may venerate. and of whose character and
record she justly may be proud. His long
Congressional career has been contnu-
Gus and merted success. productive of
valuable consequences to his country :
welfare, and rejecting honor on his fell
low-citizens who have so long given him
their confidence and support. Possessing
solid stock of disciplined common sense,
an evenly balanced and we'll tempered
character, scrupulous integrity, and a
thoroughly American heart, he has been
one of the most reliable aud useful of the
public men who have done
eminent service for the country
during the last thirty-live years, the most
remarkable in its annals. Now seventy
eight years old. his intellect is still
vigorous aud his heart is warm in its love
of country and in his devotion To what
ever appears to him promotive of its
prosperity, security and power. lie is
not of those who think 1t provincial to
cherish patriotism, and who make super
cilious and pretentious professions of their
cosmopolitauism. 1t would be as i'm
possible for Justin ). Morrill, to become a
Grover Cleveland or a james Russell
Lowell, as 1t would have been to have
turned Samuel Adams aud Bunker Hill
Warren of Revolutionary renown, into
English tlunkies and Tory apologists.
To the great Tariff measure of 1861, which
bears his name, the country owes beneii-
cial and prosperous consequences SO vast
In magnitude, that it would be difficult to
over estimate them. If measured by its
intrinsic value to the Nation the Morrill,
Tariff entities its author to II monument
of American gratitude loftier than those
which British pride have reared to the
memories of Nelson and Wellington. Ii
Is but natural that the proclamation of
war against the American system of
Protection made by Grover Cleve-
land aud the Bourbon democ-
rcy, aided by a powerful foreign
organization. should arouse his patriotic
order and nerve him to powerful defense
OF his cherished principles. Last Wednes-
day in the Senate, he made a speech.
which, by those who listened To its de-
livery, Is said to have showed none of the
traces Of old age, either in matter or man
ner. The following are its leading points
AS given by the Washington correspondent
OF the n. Y. Tribune:
He began by contrasting the last annual
messages of Presidents Washington and
Cleveland-the former giving announcement
TO manufactures and the latter being I'M
friendly to and denuncia,ory of manufac-
lures. A tariff for revenue only, the banner
imposed by Kentucky on the Democratic
party, was, he said, synonym for free trade
and Henry George, a free-trade propagantiist
had characterized the message and the new
Democratic tariff bill as a deadly blow at the
ugly fetch of protection. In the face of the
doctrines promulgated in the message of the |
President. what encouragement for the future. |
he asked had those farmers guilty of having |
made investments in sheep husbandry and of |
having lsbored for years to acquire the knowl- |
edge and skill Of good shepherds in the man
agement of their focks? What encourage
ment did the message offer to any new or even /
old enterprises. Was there any growing city
or town, any nook or corner in the country
which would have any hope of advancing its /
prosperity upon the radical changes of the
tariff as urged by the message of the Presi-
dent2 What new fields of labor would be
opened, or what old ones show increased ac-
tivity? Rather, which one among them all |
would not be slaughtered? With their occu-
pations gone, where were the many thousands
of discharged laborers to go?
The President, said the speaker, appeared |