Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-08-30
RALLY AT CALAIS.
Mr.. Blaine Addresses the Large
Open Air Meeting,
Showing What the Mills Bill
Would Do for Maine.
Reciprocity that Doesn't ReciprOcatc.
Serving John Bull and Courting Uncle
Sans PaVorS.
Music, Cheers and Flowers Greet Names
Statesman Along the Route.


CALAIS, Aug. 30.
| Mr.. Blaine visited Calais to day to address
the people on the issues of the hour and he
was enthusiastically greeted by thousands
1t was his first visit to this town since 1876.
With his son Walker and his son-in-law ,
Col. Coppinger, he left Bangor at 9l5 A.
NJ on special train of two cars, one of
them the private car of General Cram of the
New Beunswick railroad and arrived here
about 2 80 z. NJ The special car with its
distinguished occupant was an object of in
terest at several points on the journey. No
tably so at Winn and Vaneeboro where the
only demonstrations took place. At Winn
there were music, flowers and cheers for the
Maine statesman, and the party was increased
here by Hon. John A. kasson of Iowa and
Gen. John l.. Swift of Boston who spoke in
this town on the previous evening. At
Vance boro there was 40 minute stop and
the travellers lunched in the dining room
which forms part of the depot, while the
band serenaded Mr.. Blaine.
Afterwards Mr.. Blaine was asked to speak
and meeting was organized, Perhaps 200
people surrounded the chief visitors the band
playing Marching through Georgia" and
then Mr.. Blaine was presented by ex-post-
master Horace Kellogg. As he walked TO
the center of the open space in the middle
of the crowd cheers were called for but he
waved his hand deprecatng and said mo,
no." and they were not given Hewas heart
| lily applauded however and then he said, l
agree with the chairman that should perform
the very agreeable duty of introducing a
long personal ard political friend of mine,
distinguished gentleman from the far wet
| | am sure you would rather listen to him
than to home folks ! will only say that l
am glad once more to be on the border to
greet you, and to go through as | am now do
ing every county in Maine whereI can al
ways say that have the qualification of be
irg received with a eordiaity which i'll turn
! feel for every man, woman and ch.ld within
the borders of this good old State. | intro
duce to YOU Hon. John A. kasson of Iowa.
| Mr. Kasson made a short speech mainly on
tariff issues and the meeting broke up with
cheers for Kasson and Blaine.
At st Stephen n. b., the terminus, Mr..
Blaine and party were greeted by reception
committee of which Mayor McCusick of
! Calais, was chairman, and were escorted to
the Calais side of the river which
is one boundary line of the two
countries here; at the American end
of the bridge they were received by the
young mems republican club and hundreds
of other people, with two bands, and were
escorted to the green where the meeting was
held. There, elaborate arrangements had
been made, the speakers stand being car
peted as well as being decorated with bunt-
ing, and having plush-covered chairs for
furniture Within five minutes after the
speakers arrived the streets were crowded
with people, and every point of vantage was
utilized Indeed, the audience included
people from other towns within an easy trav-
n. B., and it was variously estimated at from
5000 to 5000. DIR. Charles +. Swan presided,
and with but a word OF two of introduction
he introduced Mr.. Blaine; after cheers for
Blaine and for Harrison and Morton had been
given, Mr.. Blaine said:
Mr.. Chairman and Feliow Citizens:
am very glad to find myself once more
on the eastern border of Maine. When |
last had the pleasure of visiting Calais, it
was in company with my distinguished friend
from Iowa, who now sits beside me, and
whom you will hear with as great pleasure
now as you heard him them. Since that
time you have had very destructive fire and
yet you have so rapidly recovered that | am
sure YOU present far more beautiful and
more prosperous appearance than you did
before the calamity occurred. You have
overcome your adverse fortune with char
acterstic energy, and yet feel justified in
declaring that if the revenue laws had been
during these years of your struggle, in the
form that is proposed in the pamphlet hold
in nv hand Calais would not have been
what she is to day. | have here an official
| COPY of the Mills tariff bill as it passed the
| democratic House, and as it lies on the tables
of the republican Senate. If | were
to give it name locally befitting
| its character should say il was "a bill for
the destruction of the material interests of
/ Maine" A voice, THAT'S So" and ap-
plause. 1t is bill to throw open our
| American markets TO our Canadian neigh
! bors, without any consideration or recon-
| pense or exchange, but absolutely free of
all charge. A voice, they shant have them.
/ Il invites the Canadians to bring in without
] .f nl,.ar hn and rod
and squared, and sided and in every other
form which wood is manufactured at the saw
mill. Lest one might escape they put
| in a general clause which covers every pos
sibe article. The bill then provides for ad-
hitting free of duty all forms of farm pro-
duet, grains and vegetables, and fruits and
flowers, and for admitting all their wool
and every form of stone that can be quarried,
their meat of all kinds, their milk and their
eggs. their poultry and their game. In fact
| the democratic house saws to cur Canadian
/ neighbors IF you want our American mar
keis without cost and without price you may
have them for everything that comes from
\ our forest. from your farm, from your or
charis. from your gardens, from your diaries
and YOUR fiocss, all your meats ard your
poultry and YOUR game. the stones from your
Quarries and the bricks from your yards If
you have grown weary OF waiting anu WISH
irg for the markets of the Unite States, |,
Grover Cleveland. President III, reof, propose
TO relieve your fatigue. and TO ask you to
walk in and sit down and make yourselves at
home, and in our highways aud our byways,
and especially in our market places laughter.
My friends, this giving away of our markets
strikes me as all the more remarkable be-
cause the very men who passed this tariff
hill in the Hpuse have been urging US for
wears to renew the reciprocity treaty with
Causda, and for the last twenty-five years
since it expired many efforts have been made
in Congress to reopen the negotiations for
reciprocity treaty, and having got tired,