Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-06

| cultivated; manufactures grew rapidly,
and the region which few years ago had
been one great miners camp became one
of the most prosperous and promising OF
! the whole Union. California and Oregon
| had in twenty years, by the census of 1880
added more than 81, go O00, 90 to their
wealth, and have been accommodating far
greater ratios during the last eight years,
of whose results We have no official
return. Besides an immense product ct
cereals and an enormous growth of WOOL,
California is entering upon the cultivation
of the tropical products, which have been
brought home to US over both oceans, and
if not arrested in her industrial progress
in the workshop, on the farm, and in the
orchard, she will acquire prestige and
wealth which viii put her in the front
rank of the States of the Union. Imperial
in extent the Pacific slope is destined TO
be imperial in the strength and splendor of
sther full development.
Fellow citizens Of Maine, I have said
nothing as yet specially concerning our
own State. Argument is not in fact need
full in the presence of these thousands Of
witnesses to the progress which she has
made since 1860. Upheld, encouraged, stim-
ulated by the protective system, Maine has
increased her wealth more than threefold,
and is daily progressing in al even
more rapid ratio. But our progress is
now to be arrested, our property threat
enec, by the recommendation of the PreSi-
dent of the United States and the action OF
the Democratic party in Congress. The
tariff bill which the Democratic House has
sent to the Republican Senate impairs every
industrial interest in Maine, and even
threatens the destruction of some. From
the granite Guarries or our coast to the
lumber camps in our forests, from the cot
ton factories Of New York and Andres
coCgin to the starch factories of Aroostook
from the wool growers of the Hill country
to the lime burners of the Penobscot Bay,
every pursuit Of our people will be iniur-
iously affected by what seems TO be almost
the malignity of the proposed legislation.
What has Maine done that the Democratic
party should be allowed TO cripple and
&c destroy her great material interests!
For all the radical changes in our complex
industrial system which President Cleve-
land recommends and which the Demo
cratic House has seconded, the one
excuse, iterated and reiterated, is
that the tariff system had produced
a large surplus. The simple truth is
that the surplus was allowed to accumu-
late by the maladministration of the Treas
ury Departmental surplus which it was
both the right and the duty of the Secre-
tary, under the law. to apply to the reduc-
ton of the public debt. We are not allowed
to ascribe motives for public action, but
can not refrain from saying that under
any Republican Secretary that has eveI
had charge of the Treasury the surplus
would have been steadily employed in the
payment of the debt, and would not have
been allowed TO accumulate to the detri-
ment of the business of the country and to
tne loss Of millions of the peoples money.
II Secretary Faircbild had followed the
line of the law, President Cleveland would
never have found the L" condition" upon
which his message of last December was
based. Never in the history Of the world
has there been such progress in the devel-
opment Of agriculture, such vast accumu-
lation of material wealth, as have been re-
allied in the United States since the
policy Of protection was adopted in
1861. The benefits have reached every
section, every State, every class OF
workers. Our National advancement
has been the cause of gratitude az
home, of amazement and admiration
abroad. President Cleveland now proposes
to interfere with the system Of protection
which has wrought these great results.
He proposed to institute dangerous expert
ments where we enjoy the full record of
fortunate experience; to give Us change
where we now have stability; to commit
Us to doubt where we now have certainty;
not to give Us system that has brought
unprecedented prosperity, and return to
system which in our past history has three
times ended in bankrupt treasury and
created wide distress both among the
wage-workers and the capitalists of the
country. l do not believe the people of
the United States will approve of the
Presidents policy. l am sure the people of
Maine will disapprove it with emphatic
voice. Friends of the protective system, re-
member with your work and with your
ballots the fidelity and ability with
which Charles A. Boutelle, your repre-
sentative in Congress, has labored for your
interests. Return him to his post of
honorable duty by an increased majority
of votes, and a still larger increase of
your trust and confidence, if that is pos
sible. Remember, also that the aggre-
gate expression of Names opinion will be
registered in the vote for our candidate
for Governor, Edwin G. Burleigh-every
inch man, and with every breath stout
defender of protection. And, finally, re-
member that the vote OF Maine in Sep
TENDER will be an index OF how strongly
the popular strength is consolidating in
support of our splendid National ticket of
Harrison and MOrton-two candidates who
represent on every page of their political
record, and in every purpose that inspires
them. the great PRINCIPLES and patriotic
purposes of the Republican parry.