The Portland daily press., 1888-08-10
THE SPEAKING.
Mr.. Reed Presents the Tariff Issue
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Mr.. Reed Presents the Tariff Issue
Clearly and ForcIbiy.
f. M. Higgins, ESQ., introduced first to the
audience, with few appropriate remarks,
Hon. Henry B. Cleayes of Portland. Mr..
Cleaves, who was received with applause
and cheers, said:
MIR. cLEAvEs's SPEECH.
Mr.. Cleaves congratulated the Republi-
cans of York upon the suspicious opening of
the campaign. This is year for Republi-
can triumph and the success of Republican
principles. The signs of the times are UNI
mistakable that this is to be a Republican
year. and that Maine, in September, will
stand true and firm in the Republican col
umn. [Applause.l
The Republican party is entering upan q
campaign of grave political interests to the
people. We are contending for the advance
ment and success of those great principles of
Government which shall give prosperity to
our institutions, to our great manufacturing
and commercial establishments, and agricul-
tural interests, upon which the prosperity of
our people largely depends. We live under
an American system of Government and be-
lieve in legislating for the advancement of
the American people, and that our first duty
is to our own country and to the interests Of
American industries.
This government is to be administered for
Americans and not for the benefit of
should be preserved for the benefit of Amer
lean products. We believe in tariff which
makes the competing foreign product bear
its portion of our public burden, and which
which does not compete with the product
Of our own county, TO come here free of
duty. We say to the foreign producer who
employs his labor at half the price that is
paid to the American workingman, If you
want to bring your merchandise, which is
lean market to compete with the well paid
labor Of Americans, you must pay duty
upon such product. The Democratic party
in the present campaign, under the lead of
the President, has taken its position upon
this matter. They cannot recede from the bold
and aggressive ground they have taken. The
history of the party shows that it is party
OF free trade tendencies, and that it does not
believe In protective tariff and in the pro-
lection Of American industries and American
labor. While they argue truthfully that ag-
riculture, manufactures and commerce should
go hand in hand to secure the prosperity of
our people, yet, by the legislation which they
propose, they attempt to strike down some of
the greatest and most successful industrief
of this country. While they say that they
untertake to relieve the people from many
burdens imposed on them, they have careful
ly and studiously protected the great sugar
interests and the rice industry of the South,
while they strike with an unerring hand at
the great lumber interests of Maine and the
wool industry of Ohio.
Mr.. Cleaves exposed the inconsistent
course of the Democratic party on the tariff
for the last thirty years, and called attention
ternal revenue taxation. The assault on the
industries OF Maine by the free trade wing
of the party he condemned, as also the treat
ment of the old soldiers, and the fishermen
by this administration. "The issue," he
concluded, IFS with the people, the voters
will respond and after the fourth of March
next you will have party In power in this
land that will not seek to pattern after
England, but an administration that will
be American in name and deed"
Mr.. Cleaves was listened to attentively
throughout, and literally applauded during
his speech and at the close.
MIR. REEDS SPEECH,
At the close of Mr.. Cleaves's speech the
band rendered selection, and then Mr..
Higgins introduced Mr.. Reed.
The Congressman from the First District
has addressed many audiences, but it is doubt
full that he ever had more gratifying re-
eep PHO than that rendered him here today
by the Republicans of York. After the APP
plause and cheers had ceased, Mr.. Reed be-
gan speaking as follows
Fellotc Citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen:
To address such crowd as this, gathered
on such day as this, seems almost super
fuous, If the object is to convince the breth-
rem Laughter and a.pplausel. Your very
alive to the issues of this campaign. / do not
purpose this afternoon to address you many
partisan manner. do not even intend to
make an old fashioned party speech. / shaIl
speek merely of things personal to you, of
things concerning your homes and your own
firesides.
Continuing, Mr. keed said that this is
a world where we live by work--of
some kind. Whatever feeds or clothes us
comes from labor. Today the old issues
owed by new questions which challenge at
tention. l hope, said the speaker, that /
have here some men who have lacted against
the views / have presented because have
something to say to the men who do not owe
allegiance to any party, except as the prin-
clples of that party are approved by them.
Old questions are always being settled and
passing away, and new questions are con
tlnually coming up to be settled by the po-
iitical parties and the men who compose
tnem Some men dream of day when the
wisest and best men will govern and control.
believe in day already present when gov
eminent is carried on by the courage and
good sense of all men, some wise and some
not so wise. And should hate to have the
world governed by all the wise men who
have wisdom, without the aid of some of the
men who have sense Laughter and APP
piauseJ Men do not learn alone by books:
railroad may teach more than a series OF
schools, though | think very well of the
schools. A factory may teach, a farm may
teach, IN fact almost anything may teach
man who has brains, and if the man has no
brains, nothing can teach him. Laughter
and applause
Now the past can be left to itself. and |
wish to allude to it for no partisan purposes.
But would have you call to mind that for
twenty-five years the Republican party were
in power and the other fellows ont. The
other Fellows naturally did not like it.
flaughterI and | don't blame them. They
said all sorts of hard things about us while
we were in power then. And now. we are
out OF power they represent that we are lust
as wicked as we ever were. Now # Won will
look back four years and recall what the
Democratic orators said, you will find that
the whole of their complaint was of the ras-
Gals who they said were in power. isTTnrn
the rascals out" was their campaign cry. in
fact. Now the Democrats have been in near
ly four years, and have been turning out.
They have turned out some good men, some
men, too, who are perhaps not so good but
no rascals. Now this fact that they have
found no rascals or stealings, shows that
we are not worse than the average of citi-
zens laughter and applause.J am remind