The Portland daily press., 1888-08-10

sMy friends. / have found it about as well
TO be fairly honest in this world: Now
think, my friends VINO may De IN the OPP
are fairly honest and now why don't you
come with us? [Applause.l
Now. gentlemen, / shall address myself to
your reason. The old party questions are
settled-pretty fairly, too, think. A new
question confronts us. 1t is not the South
ern question, the question of the bonds, or
the questions involved in the old battles
with the Democracy. Ii is the question of
protection and free trade. Now my friends,
about the wrong thing, or else the righteous
would not have such hard time TO keep
things going along right. Laughter Ii it
was easier to do right than wrong every one
would do right, and that would crowd the
paid, in the sense Of being profitable, then
all the sneaks would be yirtuous,
and that would be a very, democrat
izing state of affairs. Laughter
Now there is something very captivating
about this theory of free trede.. They say to
you that If you want wooden clothes or cot
ton clothes, you would if we had free trade,
get them much cheaper over in England than
you could at home. But what is the condi-
Tion under which you must buy those cheap
wooden or cotton goods over there? 1t is the
condition that you have the money in your
pocket. and that they think you have it there:
Now, II we all lived on our incomes and did
uOb nave w WUIA, tUlS lutd VI UuylDB Jul
things abroad would be good one. But we
are not that kind. Laughter and applause.l
Now, how are you going to buy those cheap
goods If you haven't the money? What good
are low prices if your pocket is empty?
then is free trade not advantageous? Because
we are not only consumers, but also make
things. Now why do we make thingsp Be-
cause people may want to buy things which
we make. And we shall get our money by
m kiuo fhinnc that manila MI huu Ruf
If foreigners can make things cheaper
than we can, it will stop our
sales, and we cannot get the money with
which TO purchase. And If we have no
money, OF what good Is the free trade cheap
ness Of foreign markets? [Cheers.] Now,
there is no one here who is not willing that
the makers of the articles which he uses
shall profit. Ii you want TO get along in this
world you must give as well as receive. You
must be middling honest; [Applanse.l Now,
does any farmer think why he sells the thing
he produces? 1t is because there are mouths
to put them into. [Cries of yes and ap-
plause.l Now, if you shut the mouths of
the laborers of this country by destroy ing
his productsp Not certainly to the other
farmers, for their mouths will be full.
lCheers.l Now, do you want a practical
proof OF the advantage of busy manufac-
Allen, of your town, of the building up of
the industries in the neighboring town of
Sanford, and of the great advantage it
had been to the farmers to have
home market at their doors.
Every farmer in that region knows today
day that his farm is more valuable because
he can sell his products at his own door.
Sanford is only one instance. There are
hundreds of such between here and the Pa
cific.
Now do farmers pay so much more for
what they buy? "Well," say some of the
dudish orators, clothes cost so much more"
Now went into store in Boston yesterday
and asked , for an oyer coat they showed
asked them when l would get the coat. They
said in two weeks. 1 wanted coat at once,
so | went to another store. And l got this
coat Showing a wooden oyercoat). 1t is
wooden, large, honest and durable, and it
cost me $14.. Now if any man wants good
oyercoat in this country he can get it for
$14; If he wants frills, he must pay $40
Now are you mourning much over the fellow
who pays $40? Laughter and cheers.l Now
| tell you everything in this country tends to
the advantage Of those whom Abraham Lin
coin called the "plain people" or what /
might parophrase as the average men and
women. SO you will find that in the
tastoo twenty bys five 5 yea5 While tba pre-
that the wages have grown greater, while
all that you buy has grown cheaper. "Oh,"
says the free trader, the tariff is wicked
thing, for it enhances prices" But it is a
down. Did you ever think what it costs you
to bring barrel of flour thousand miles
from the west? 1t costs you no more than
it does to cart it from the Station mile to
your house.
We produce seven hundred million dol
lars worth year of manufactured articles
made in our factories. In the meantime have
the farmers suffered? The figures show that
the farms have increased in value, and you
know that your farmer is better off now
than he D0 HQ buc
money, more clothes, more carpets in his
house, more pictures in his rooms more
newspapers, more education.
VOICE. hope you don't include the
LATEST ones.
Well / think even they get along better
and If there are any of them here, tender
them my congratulations as well as my
sympathy. Laughter and applause.
Now what is the converse of this? Now
the President says,-and if he don't know,
no one does, for he has writted message
telling all about 1.-THE says that on what
ever you import you pay the cost of the
article and the duty additional, and that
whatever goods made in this
country you buy, you pay the cost with the
amount of the duty added, as well as the
profits of the merchants. Now, if you apply
to this theory of the Presidents the test of
figures, you will find that the people of this
country must have wasted in the last %
years the stupendous sum of a thousand
million dollars a year. Do you believe it?
That is the result of bringing loose talk to
the test of facts. 1t is always worse for the
who makes it, even if it be President. The
prosperity of the country is the best answer
to the President
Now, what do they propose to do2 They
proposeto reduce the tariff, they say. We
are getting too much money, they say. Well,
it looks like it. Laughter. But there are
some things that we ought to do with some
OF this money. There is one class of our
citizens that ought to be considered. be-
lieve that every old soldier who is suffering
from wounds should be literally pensioned,
and l believe, in addition, that no old soldier
who comes to restitution should be thrown
upon, any less rich set Of people than the
life to save. LAppiausel. Until we have
a, certain portion of the surplus
which we cannot say is lying idle.
Now just pension bill is stopped on its
who will not give a day for its consideration,
although petition signed by every Republic
can member of the House Of Representatives
asking for such consideration, is now in the
hands of the Democratic speaker of the
House. There are other just and reasonable
expenditures also, which it is the part of
prudence and economy for this government
to make.
This surplus is what troubles the. Demo-
Gratis. But this Mills bill may not do away
with 1t. To lower the tariff does not
necessarily lower the income of the govern
ment, for the amount of the imports may
increase so much that the resulting revenue
will be increased If the Mills bill should
pass today, venture to say that in two
years we should have bigger surplus than
we have today.
have listened in Congress to 70 Demo-
cratic speeches on the tariff, and defy you
to find one that does not contemplate greater
reductions of the tariff in the future. Now,
gentlemen from the South, / intend to
speak of no sectional issue-I think we have
settled that-But the South has
always had certain tariff views.
The Confederate constitution expressly pro-
hibited protective tariffs, and so much has
that idea gone forth that Mr. Putnam, per-
haps because he may have got hold of the
wrong constitution [laughterl says it is in
ours. [Laughter.] But the Southerners can
not help acting what they believe, and they
force the Northern Democrats to go with
them. Now men ought to be good party
men, but only so long as the party Is
going their way; after their party
ceases to 60 their way they ought to be good
party men in the other party. Applause.
believe that men are thinking of this, and
the same line of cleavage Is showing itself
that showed when Hannibal Hamlin march
ed from Kittery to Eastport, thronged by his
old comrades, who came out with him In OPP
position to slavery. / hope to ind Jdst such
line Of cleavage this year.
IL has never been NY intention 70 speak
unexpectedly of the President. and 90 not
intend to criticise him, only so lar as IL Is In