The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-06-14


When the day comes that this republic can
not save itself froma dozen Of its own citizens
without aid from over the sea, / hope to be
buried thousand leagues under some respect
| able ana permanent mountain range.
A DOZEN MEN FIX THE PRICES
| for GO,0OO, 900 free men. They can never do it.
There is no power on earth that can raise the
price of any necessary of life above lust price
and keep it there. More than that, if the price
| IS raised and maintained even for a short time,
| it means ruin for the combination and still! low
er prices for consumers. That is one of the
| laws OF God working for his children. Com
pared with one of your laws of Congress, ii is
a leviathan to Il clam. But if the revenue re-
form orator on the monopoly is terrible, like an
army with banners, there is Il theme OH which
he can take up the notes Of the dying swan
How we do love to hear him on the impoyerish-
ed farmer. Then he is not sublime, he is pa
thetically great. / heard him first ten wears
ago. To me, innocent, untraveed it seemed
| as if the western farmer was the most woebe-
gone, downtroddcn, lucklesS, unsuccessful
displrlted devil on the face of the earth. The
eastern vampire has lnOrtgagcd his farm and
thrown down his fences, and scattered his sub
stance wantonly to the winds. In the func>s
of time, travelled West myself. You may
well imagine my establishment, who had never
seen ten acres together in corn, to behold fields
CT that great staple stretching away out 10 the
horizons edge, to see tracts of land which
seemed to have no boundaries but the visible
sky; land so rich that if we had an acre of il in
Maine, we would have sold it by the bushel ::
while on every side were the great brick houses
such rs only the squire lived in in our villages.
After some days of this became sulky. said.
gentlemen. of course we have robbed you.
Your congressman would not lie about trillcs
like that. But what disgusts me is that we do
not do it more thoroughly. The cleaning looks
bigger than the harvest. Then they conded to
me that the western congressman were great
orators. and did this for practice Since then
nave not been so much moved by it. Mr.. Reed
then dWelt at some length upon 1.-THE markets
of the world.' and argued that the best market
in the world was to be found where people had
the most money, and that was in the United
States after - years of protectionist rule. Con-
Guiding, he said: We have now spent 20 days
on the discussion of the Mills bill. Have YOU
noticed what has been the most utterly insight
iicant thing in the discussion: The most utter
ly insignificant thing in the discussion has been
the NILS bill. How do you account for it:
will tell you. If the principles you have cnlil-
cated are true. it is unworthy compromise
with satan. If the principles we have stated
are true. it is an unworthy ambuScadc, and you
know it. You mean this merely for one step.
! on mean to cut deeper next time GoU mean
the destruction of the system which now eX-
lists The whole case can be put succncly in
few words. If the principles You announce
be true. you must have direct taxation. If the
dollar you pay the custom house on the import
is followed by dollar to the manufacturer for
every like quantity of domestic goods which
your tariff accidentally encourages. fhen that
manufacturer Is il misfortune. 1t takes dollars
out of the farmer or lawyer without return. 1t
Is no reply. under this government. to say that
the indirect collection of 81 one-hat of which
Is lost to the people. Is easier because the poor
fools don't know it.. That is the old quotation
made from Colbert by the gentlemen from West
Virginia Surely i'll this country YOU do not
al trvin to Ont
of feathers out of the geese for
TIE MINIMUM OF sQUALLING.
You don't mean to take feathers out of the
American goose and deny him the privilege of
noise. No, if our proud bird ought to Stlrren-
der feathers, he is plucky enough to surrender
like an eagle. and if it is Il tax alone he bus Il
right to see just what feathers 90. The fore
fathers of these Democrats saw this. and. like
the honest men they We're. camored for direct
taxation. They We're right. Why do not YOU
act like them: Why not be bold: Why do you
hesitate: 1t is because - years of knowledge
divide you from them. In YOUR heart of hearts
you suspect your own logic: you dare not. You
may well hesitate. Whoever takes down The
map of 1860 and the map of ISIS will look W.
on the most wontrous growth that ever the
sun shone on i'll all its myriad courses around
the earth. 1t is Il marvellous Spectacle. II is
not alone the great cities, born like eXhalations
which Hash prosperity over the great lakes. the
Diotu pltiL>, tlc HnlSHtH uelt>. flcn with YER
dure or teemng with uncolmteu harvest 1t
is not alone the ped-up billions under which
the greatest national debt and war expenditure
combined the world ever saw. has melted like
an iceberg under a tropical sun. 1t is not alone
in the rejuvenated South turning its face to its
great future. Nay. it Is not even all of these
combined. 1t is the fact found by the most
cultured Englshman of our day that all this
wealth and prosperity has been 50 shaped that
it seeks the comfort not of the rich. not of the
lounsins owner of fixed income. not of the
pampered mlnlon of governmental power. but
of the plain people whom Abraham Lincoln
loved, and who are of right the chief glory of
this republic.
Mr.. Reed finished his speech at / - o'clock
and was greeted with rounds of applause. and
made the recipient of hearty congratulations
from his party colleagues. At various times
throughout the speech he was interrupted with
applause and laughter, in which the audience
in the galleries loudly joined.