The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-09-06

formed. secrecy which gave the mauufae-
turers and farmers interested no OppOrtuni-
ty to be heard, leaving them as their only
resort what the Congressman called leave
to print their objections "And | see, "said
Mr.. Reed, shat one farmer in this district
has avalled himself of the leave TO print" 4"
Loud laughter at the expense of the Hon.
William Emery.l Passing to the sectional
phase of the question Mr.. Reed asked:
"Were the changes made in the interests of
business? They started out with a geo.
graphical bill, and then by intricate amend
ments made IL still more to confine to the
science of geography. And they showed
wonderful knowledge of where every Demo-
cratic district was located" Laughter
Mr.. Reed described the absolute silence with
which the Democrats met exposure of their
STAINLESS method of framing bill that they
could pass, and their subsequent attempt to
divert attention by declaiming on trusts 'We
forced them to admit, however," he said,
that one important change in their bill was
mace after representations had been made
by the President of the great sugar trust.
Wood screws, too, were at first put onto the
free listin order to relieve the people of rob-
berry, as they said, and then put back to save
ces." Mr.. Reed said, "were desecration Of
the functions of government. The Demo-
Gratis were farming out to partisan interests,
not the small offices, but the business inter-
ests of the country.
Closing, Mr.. Reed said; my friends, the
question is not what the orators believe, but
what you believe. And next week the vote
Of the people will show that the people be-
lleve in the system that has made the great
ness and grandeur of the American people"
Mr.. Reed was loudly cheered as he closed,
After the applause had subsided, Mr.. Allen
proceeded, amid hum of expectancy from
the audience, to introduce ''our own great
statesman of Maine, the first and foremost
champion of protection, James G. Blaine"
Loud cheers.l
MIR. Blaine, when the audience was quiet,
spoke as follows
MR.. BLAINE's SPEECH.
Mr.. Chairman,-The Democratic members
OF the ways and means committee, Of whose
one-sided proceedings Mr.. Reed has just
spoken, had all been reading. before Con-
gress assembled, that oriental story in
which man charged with crime was brought
before the cadi for examination and punish
nent. After his accuser had stated the case
against him, the cadi was about to pronounce
sentence, but yielded to the prayer of an
other, who wished to say something in his
defence. He made the innocence of the ac-
cused so plain that the cadi said the man
might go free. But he declared that the case
had taught him the great lesson of never en-
barrassing himself by hearing more than one
side OF any question. Laughter and ap-
plause.l And SO these Democratic members
OF the ways and means committee, these men
so well acquainted with manufactures of
woolen and cotton, of iron and steel, down in
Arkansas and Kentucky llaughterl. said
their minds were made up on the subject of
the tariff, and they did not want to hear any
thing from New England manufacturers on
their side of the question. Laughter They
were afraid their judgments might be chang
ed by hearing the facts, and therefore they
sat down, Illuminated their minds by the use
Of "tallow-dip," and framed the Mills bill
Laughter and applause.
Well, gentlemen, that Mills bill l heard of
across the ocean, and 1t gave great joy to the
manufacturers over there. happened to be
in England when both the national tickets
foreseen just the turn this campaign might
take, l think | should have preserved the
copies OF all the English papers l read.
From one end of Great Britain to the other
as they say, did not read single paper
and read many-that was not in raptures
over the nomination of Mr.. Cleveland and
the platform on which he was placed, and |
did not see in any English paper whatever
the least possible approval Of Harrison and
they represent.
This had gone on so strong and so long,
and was making its weight so felt in the
minds Of the American people. that every
body began to inquire why should England
be so unanimous on one side, or unanimous
on both, Tor the Democrats and against the
Republicans; and it was becoming an embar-
RAISING question. The President felt that
the tide began to run so strong that some
thing must be. done to make the voters Of
this country believe that it was the Republi-
can party that England was favoring laugh
teri, andif you have read some Of the finest
specimens OF what, in the Southwest, they
call double-breasted lying, you may have OBJ
served IL in recent issues of papers support
ing President Cleveland fol, reelection.
read one not a hundred miles from
where l stand-I will not further name il, /
do not want to be personal-that said that
no more ingenious falsehood was ever PALM
ed of upon the American people than to say
that the Republican party was not favorite
in England. That the whole Tory admin
istration, with Lord Salisbury at its head
am quoting the paper-was just radiant with
hope, anxious and overbOrne with expecta-
tion for the Republicans 70 be returned to
power in order that the markets of the
United States should be kept at the low ebb
OF enterprise and prosperity into which the
protective policy had driven them in the last
70 years, laughter THAT just keeps us in that
l0Wly condition and England would main
tain her march across the seas and across
the continents and secure prosperity of
which we never could dream until we
adopted free trade after the pattern laid
down in President Cleveland's message of
last December.
Lord Salisbury was selected by the Demo-
cratic paper am quoting as the one English
statesman who is SO closely attached to the
civil war Lord Salisbury was known as
Lord Robert Cecil, and he was one
OF the Englishnien that openly and
defantly. placed their desire for the success
OF the rebellion on the ground that England
ought to so manoeuvre that the prestige Of
this country could be checked and thwarted
by its disunion. [Cries of THAT'S So"
you're right, "you bet" and applause. /
said to myself as was reading this paper
that Lord Salisbury was Just exactly that
KIND of q friend to. the Republican party
that Jefferson Davis now Is. [Great laugh
ter and applause.]
As. l read all these things, an anecdote
which l heard As years ago, suddenly came
back to me. well remember when the H.
lustrious grandfather of Benjamin Harrison
was nominated for President [Applause.l
was in my native State of Pennsylvania,
that.had never failed the Democratic party
up to that time. But when Harrison was
gaining so rapidly in the popular esteem,
Just as the younger Harrison now is, [great
applauseJ tnat the Democrats began to fear
adelphia and took one of their cleyerest
orators, who could speak in German as, well
as in English and equally well in both,
and sent him to Berks, then and
now the Gibraltar of Pennsylvania Democ-
racy. The rumor had got abroad that
even the Berks column Of Democracy was
wavering. l will not name the orator for he
has long been in his grave, but he went up
to rally the old Berks Democracy. His last
strong point was, and he held a history in
his hand to prove IL, that the story the Wings
were circulating about the heroism of GEN
eral Harrison at the battle of Tippecanoe
was perfect fraud. Laughter. That bat
tie, he said, through the utter incompetency
of General Harrison, was about to be lost
and every man sacrificed to the fendish fe-
rocity of the savage foe they were fighting
when, at the most critical moment, the field
was saved by Major General Martin Van
Buren, coming gallantly to the rescue at the
head of the New York reserves. [Great
laughter.] That story, my friends, Is the
model which the Democratic editor followed
when in desperate attempt to hold the Irish
vote he invented the funny falsehood that
England just dotes on the Republican party,
[great laughter and Is yearning, eager, anx-
i0us for our success.
Gentlemen, it is too late in the campaign
for any diversion to be made, even by SO
great a parsonage as the President of
the United States. The Republi-
can party, defenders of the
tariff, have been challenged by the adminis-
tration to contest. The Democrats have
had some months Of trial. They are getting
with the contest They say, in the
language of the boys, "Give us a rest on the
tariff" [Laughter.l "Let us talk about the
Welland Canal tolls" that great grievance
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