Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-10
MAINE DISPATCHES.
ALONG THE COAST.
Mr.. Blaine Speaks in ROCkland
and DamarisCOtta.
What Republican Communities
May Expect from "Tarif
RefOrmerS."
The lmpertinence Of Andrew Carnegie,
the Poor Scotch Boy,
Who Dared Build an Industry Worth
S5,ooO.OoO Annually to Laboring
Men

| ho'hLAsp, oept' o.
Mr.. Blaine spoke in Knox and LincolI
counties to day and finished his tour of tn,
State for the Maine campaign.
He left Augusta on the morning train il
company with General Adam Z. King ant
Congressman McComas of Maryland anc
Robert f. Frasier of Michigan, and upon ar
rival in this city at noon took specia
train over the Knox & Lincoln railroad fol
| Rockland
AT Damariscotta Mills there was demon
stration as the train stopped for minute
and at Thomaston an extra car was provided
and both cars were crowded by people bound
for the Blaine meeting.
But the weather interfered to some extent
with the arrangements for that meeting, fol
just after the train reached Rockand a steady
down-pour began.
Mr.. Blaine had only short time to stay in
the city, however, and he was not unwilling
to speak i'll the open air on such day, as all
the people who wanted to hear him could not
be given accommodation in the hall. So 30OC
people assembled on the square near the Gus
tom house and cheered and applauded as
heartily as they had done at the depot when
the train arrived.
Although it was raining heavily, Mr.
Blaine himself stood on a covered stand
wearing his hat and overcoat, and, being pre-
sented by Mayor William S. White, made
-, f.stln
Mn. BLArNE's SPEECH.
Mn. CHAGRMAN:
There is one important issue to which in
State campaign which closes to day, have
failed to refer. Every democratic speaker
who has come to the State, every democratic
speaker who lives in the State every demo
cratic newspaper that is published in the
State has endeavored to treat the issue
which have thus far utterly neglected, as one
of national significance. | mention it now
lest | might be- accused of endeavoring to
of criticism on so momentous an issue as
the one referred to in the minds of the Pres
derts SUPP orters in Maine.
This important question which has so ag
tated the democratic breast is that in June
last journcyel from Lon Ion to the III Highland,
of Scotland upon Mr.. Andrew Carnegie
coach and what makes it SO important is that
have never exI ressed regret for it and have
even been guilty of saying that should like
to do it again.
In the Democratic criticisms | am no
placed Sc deeply uader the ban of public dis
pleasure A. Is Mr Carnegie himself. and al
MIR. Carnegie is gentleman whose friend
ship have enjoyed and priced for many
years, thought that on this last afternoon
of the campaign | might in few words in
troduce him to closer acquaintance with
his partisan critics.
MIR. Carnegie is the son of a Scotch emf
grant and reached the United States when he
was u child of II or -. He had nothing
but good principles and for lad of hi
age a good education. He had not dollal
of capital, nor the prospect of acquiring
one except by his own efforts, but he had
brains, acute Judgment, great energy. won
derful courage and comprehensive grasl
of business affairs given to but few men
His course has been one of steady industry
persistence and hard labor, and he has at
tained such remarkable success that toda,
he owns, | believe, the largest steel work
and iron works combined either in England
or America, and has extended his business
on so great a scale that for the past sever
wears he has paid out in cash to American
laborers S35 900 600; or $1,000, 900 eacl
wear, or between Sis, 900 and $50 600 ever
secular day He is conducting his business
on the same scale today and is paying on
wages TO laboring men at the same enormous
| ate.
He has added to this great tinaucia
achievement generous self-culture, b.
which he has become one of th'
most intelligent men in the coun
try, and has made valuable and interest
ing contributions TO literature. One work
specially devoted to the exposition of indus
trial development in the United States, ha
attracted n remarkable degree of attention i
Europe as well as at home. He has, more
over been a generous contributor to worth
charities, and has founded several popula
libraries TO which laboring men are especial
guaranteed free and constant access.
| suppose our Democratic frienis wh
crticise Mr. Carnegie so severely think
was a great impertinence for Scotch lad
plant in the United States so immense an Ii
dustriaI establishment or several establish
meuts. as indeed there are. | suppose the
think that his paying S5,0oo'O 900 year c
wages TO American laborers is an insult
: the mechanics of America, and that it ha
better have been paid in his native land.
, suppose they think that in the hundreds
thousands Of steel rails which he has mani
featured, he WAS only contributing to tho'
gigantic railroad corporations which nav
: been an oppression to the pubic ana
stencil in the nostrils of a free people; tina
) in short, they think such men as Mr.. Carn
gle, who put a good living and good wag'
: within the reach of so many thousands OF Il