Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-28
News by Telegraph
|. FR0I ALL QUARTERS.
CLEVELAND UNDER FIRE.
His Measures Again Dis
cussed BY Mr.. Blaine.
SPOLIATION CLAIMS REJECTED
BY The House In The
Deficiency Bill.
SOUTHERN ELECTION FRAUDS.
Both Sides Of The Question
Heard In The Senate.
SOUTHERN ELECTION FRAUDS.
cLEvELAND UNDER FIRE.

Heard In Inc senate.
CLEVELAND UNDER FIRE.
Mr.. Blaine Speaks Again On the Pres
ideat5s Policy, His SOmersault, etc.
A Telling Speech IA WaterviIle, Me.
VAUDEVILLE, Me-, Aug. 27.-Mr. Blaine
| was the central figure in a big Republican
rally held here to- day. Upon arriving from
Poland Springs: Mr.. Blaine was escorted to
| the speaking stand by uniformed companies,
| and was welcomed with the greatest enthu-
siasm. Hoarsness prevented his making
long speech: In opening, he spoke Of the
rapid growth and future prospects of Water.
vile, and declared that her destiny of pros
perity is fixed and settled unless interfered
with by some maladministIation of the
national government, such as is now threat
ened. Continuing, he said:
ssThe proposition now made by the Presi-
dent of the United States and the Democratic
House of Representatives is to change the
revenue laws and the protective system
under which Waterville has SO auspiciously
begun her manufacturing career. I shall not
spend any time in expressing sympathy for
themselves. All desire is to say to the
laboring men of Waterville, and through
them to wage-workers everywhere that if
there be a serious reduction of duties as is
now proposed on the articles which you are
manufacturing, you will not be able to MAIN
tain the scale of wages that is now paid.
WAGES VS.. FREE TRADE.
By way of illustration let me suppose that
instead of a serious reduction of tariff Presi-
dent Cleveland's proposition was to go to
direct free trade and put us on exactly the
same basis as England. Ia there any man SO
unwise as not to see that being reduced at
once to direct competition with English cotton
manufacturers we should be compelled to
have labor at the same price with England?
And if you seriously reduce the tariff your
labor will go down pro rata in the direction
of English wages. IF you hold the tariff as
protective in character as it now is you can
hold the wages where they are. But it is
the idlest jabber that was ever spoken to
idiots, will not say by idiots Qaughter)
to tell the American people that you can have
free trade in cottons or woolens or any other
manufacture, and that the owners of the fac
tory can pay you any higher wages than the
men with whom they come in competition in
the market. Suppose free trade should come,
do you suppose all the factories in the coun-
try would be shut, all the mills closed? Not
at all. But they will go with an enforced
and absolute reduction of wages, for it cannot
be helped, and labor could not help itself and
must submit.
LET LABOR PROTECT ITSELF.
And yet to-day, at the hour 1 speak to
wage-workers and wage workers throughout
the whole United States, it is entirely within
their power to protect themselves absolutely,
completely. Everyone of them has ballot
in his hand to protect himself and those de-
pending upon him. And if a man is not
willing to protect himself by going to the
polls and voting in the interest of American
labor, he ought not to complain of suffering
after the calamity is upon him. He should
stand it like man. If he thinks his attach
ment to the Democratic party is full pay for
his reduction of wages, we can only leave
him to his peculiar preference. Mr.. Blaine
alluded to the Presidents message as a
scheme to divert attention from the ques-
ton of protection and to stop as much as
possible popular discussion of that subject
which he feared would only strengthen the
Republican party's position. Continuing
Mr.. Blaine said:
The PRESIDENTS soMERsAULT.
Fellow citizens-I always try to speak
with respect of the President of the United
States, but if you will pardon me, must say
that his suddea and violent display of cour
age after his long refusal to vindicate the
rights of our fishermen puts me in mind of
scenes not infrequently witnessed in the new
settlements on the frontier where personal
courage IL always greatly esteemed. 1t is not
unknown to those remote and hardy regions
that man new to their ways fails to show
the requisite pluck and in consequence loses
caste among his companions. Suddenly he
becomes aroused to the necessity of regaining
lost ground and then goes to
absurd extremes. Nothing can hold him
back. He proclaims his courage in all the
extravagant lingo of the Rocky Mountain
region. Let me at him. says he, I eat
snakes, can whip my weight in wildcats
and throw in panther every few minutes
Qaughter) That's the kind of man I
am Such is the style in which the noun
tainteer presage his restoration to the status
fQfh rav lint ~ oil haFOaa w n
quailed in pluck have no love for such an
nouncements Of courage. Excuse me If the
course of the administration recalled this.
After failing to do anything for the fishery
question and declining all form of just and
proper retaliation, the President now asks
| Congress to give him the power to make an
effective onslaught on Canada to do some
thing. In effect the President declares that
he does not want to settle this question right
down at Portland and Gloucester; he wants
| to settle it out in Maine. He wants to have
| q disturbance all along the line. In the spirit
/ the President Is now in he will be satisfied
with nothing that does not put courage in his
| administration and protective tariff out of the
| minds of the people.
WHAT CONGRESS SHOULD DO ABOUT IT.
Well, my friends, I do not believe that
| congress will crafty the President. think
| now that the fishery season is over and no
| outrages have been committed the American
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| shall go over to next year. By that time
| there will be Republican President in the
White House and Republican congress in
| the capitol, and then we shall settle this
| question as it ought to be settled. If there
| are two men in the United States with whom
| personally sympathize they are Senator
| Morgan, of Ala, and VIM. L. Putnam, the
Democratic candidate for governor of Maine.
| Senator Morgan proved in an eloquent speech
| of thirty-seven hours land Mr.. Morgan is the
/ only man in the United States who can be
| eloquent for thirtyseyen hours) that if the
| Senate rejected that treaty it meant war. We
| supposed Senator Morgan meant war by
| England against us, but England has no such
notion, and we find now that Morgan must
have meant that the President would make
war! A novel direction for hostilities to
! take; but Morgan knew what he was about,
| too, and now seconds the President.
| CLEvELAND's MAKEsHFTs.
| As to Mr. Putnam, am sure he is most
honorable and estimable gentleman. have
known him well and have enjoyed enjoyed
his personal friendship for more than thirty
years. He is painstaking attorney. He is
i q conscientious lawyer. He has been
going through the State demonstrate
dent was in doing nothing to
redress the fshermen's wrongs for the last
| two years and how prudent and proper was
| the treaty which surrenders our rights in ev-
/ cry one of its provisions. The peaceful poll
cy of the president in making, that treaty was
the very one which Mr.. Putnam eulogized
| and defended and believed in conscientious
~. It was policy of negotiation and of
peace and Mr. Putnam approved it, and
while Mr.. Putnam is continuing his address
to the people Of Maine on that phase and
resting his candidacy on it, the president
takes the ground from under him and says,
''Stopl man, don't talk peace any more; we
have PLAYED that role out and it won't win.
We must now 20 to Canada with q vengeance
one and all. We must raise such q dust
about Canada that these laboring men and
wage workers will forget the
tariff and will think about enlisting
and having war on the border. Anything.
Pullman, anything that will keep the tariff
and NV free trade message out of the hands
of the people until this election is over. "
And then in little aside glance, the Presi-
| dent intinnates To them all sfDont be alarmed,