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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05
The Blunder of the Boston Organ

Even the Boston Post INDUCES in the
absurd talk about American farmers being
"hampered'' by a policy of high protection
(which enhances the cost of the imple-
ments which they use in their occupation
We had supposed that our contemporary
at the Hub was better posted than its
language implies. 1t must be that the
real editor was absent from his chair when
such stuff as this found its way into the
columns of the Boston organ of Democra-
cy. Not q dollar is paid by the farmers %
NeW England in tares on foreign imported
agricultural tools. Our American farmers
can purchase those manufactured at home
of better quality than those made
abroad and at a lower price when quality
and freight are taken into account, thanks
to our Protective system, and to our pa
tent laws. The cheaper and clumsy i'm
plements of foreign manufacture largely
used in Europe would not be taken as a
gift by American farmers. Since the
enactment of the Republican Morrill, tariff
millions of dollars worth of agricultural
implements have been exported.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05
A Noisy Free Trader Answered.

Patrick Egan, Esq, now an American
citizen of Nebraska, formerly an influential
| Home Ruler in Ireland, the trusted friend
of Parnell, replies to some of Frank Hurd's
arguments for Free Trade and attempts
to show that it has not proved so disas-
trous to Ireland as the supporters of Pro
lection have claimed. The closing por-
ton of Mr. Egan's able communication is
the following;
If Ireland has become so prosperous un-
der English free trsde as Mr.. Hurd would
have us believe, why have there been from
| 1916, when free trade was established, down
to the end of 1880, according to Government
returns, 10000 ejectments, representing
nearly 10 600, 900 persons evicted from their
homes in Ireland? Why has the population
of Ireland decreased from $500 900 in 1916
to 400, 600 to-day? Why are the Irish peo-
pie still flying away from their homes as
from pesthouse? Why are Ireland's manu-
features and commerce on the very verge
of bankruptcy: Why? Because the inquities
of English free trade-not the wisdom of
God, as Lord Carlisle said-have converted
ireland into the fruitful mother of focks
and herds because English free trade has
killed out manufactures, and because Ireland
has no power TO put on protective tariff to
give them a fresh start and to nurture them.
Three years ago Mr.. Parnell claimed that
the Home Rule bill, then about to be formu-
lated for Ireland, should give to Ireland
the right to protect Irish manufactures
at least for limited period-but so great
was the alarm aroused among the English
'shopkeepers" and the Liberal Golden Club
Free Traders, that he has not dared since to
say one word more on the subject
INSTANTANEOUS Coon AMERICANS.
Mr.. Hurd appeals to the patriotism of
Americans for their old home, upon
the grounds that if American duties were
taken off Irish linens, laces, poplins and
certain kinds of woolens, the market of co.
5000 people would be opened to Irish
products and a prosperity would come to
Ireland which would terminate the sad i'm
migration which makes exiles of her people
in every land under the SUM- To say the
very least, Mr.. Hurd does not pay a high
compliment to the intelligence of disclaimer
leans, or to their loyalty to American inter
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05

Ii seems that knute Nelson, the Scan
dinavian Republican Congressman from
Minnesota, who voted for the Mills bill.
has written to the editor of the Alexandria
Mimi Post: Put me down as a high
private in the Harrison and Morton Club
of Alexandria. We must first elect Har-
rison and then strike for tariff reform"
This Minnesota member of Congress. of
Norwegian birth, is either learning wis
dom on his own hook, or the Scandinavian
voters of his neighborhood are leading
him the way he should go. They have the
good sense to stand by the country of
their adoption in all that concerns her
welfare, and the Bourbon Democrats and
their foreign allies will get little assist
ance from them. The Clevelandites will
do well not to crow any more about Free
Trade progress among the voters of Min
nesota.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05
Waterville Sentinel. I

Mr.. Burleigh's letter of acceptance which
we publish in another column, is mos,
clear and lucid statement of the issues in
this campaign, which are of the greatest i'm
portance to the people of the State at large.
Mr.. Burleigh makes no attempt to cover all
the issues involved, but very properly de-
votes himself singly to what he well calls
the ''leadlng and absorbing issue to the
voters of Maine. He then proceeds in a
way singularly explicit and cogent to show
how the tariff issue bears upon the interests
of the farming, mechanical, numbering gran
lite and other industries of the State. "Should
the Mills bill become law" he says, 1.-the
field of labor in Maine will be narrowed
and those who shall still find employment
would have to submit to ruinous reduction
of wages. The prosperity of our State, SC
rapidly developing in late years, would be
arrested, and we should once more have
familiar acquaintance with hard times among
our people" The people of Maine are not
going to vote themselves .'hard times" this
wear.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05
Look Out for tho Secret Designs OF the
Enemy---A Traitorous Scheme on Foot.

Look Out for tho Secret Designs OF the
Enemy---A Traitorous Scheme on Foot.
Well authenticated rumor comes to Us
that the liquor saloon keepers in this
country have entered into an organized
arrangement to try to defeat the re-elec-
ton of Mr.. Carlton, the Republican candi-
date for County Attorney. These gentle
men do not like it that Mr.. Carlton has
complied with the requirements Of his
oath to faithfully enforce the laws against
crime. The violators of law never take
kindly to the officers who do their duty.
IL is not strange that theiI
selfish and criminal love of gain
induce them TO attempt to strike
down the officers of the law at the
ballot-box. They do not deem il safe fol-
them to attempt to strike them with the
club or the bludgeon while in the dis
charge of their official work. viii they
stand any better chance Of accomplishing
their ends through political agencies ana
conspiracies. Rumor says they have
raised a considerable sum of money and
intend to have agents with split tickets in
every town Of the country, with
special design of defeating
Mr.. Carlton. Republicans will
be on their guard against this nefarious
scheme. No sincere Republican will be
caught playing into the hands of the
enemy. All friends of Temperance will
see to it that the liquor saloon keepers do
not reduce the majority for the present
County Attorney. Watch the polls care
fully. Scrutinize the votes in circulation
about the polls. The Republicans of Ken
nebec want clean, unbroken majority of
three thousand on all the candidates.
This is great national year, and victory
comes by maintaining unbroken ranks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05

ests, when he seriously addresses to them
such an argument as this. The condition,
too, which be implicitly attaches to American
or he should rather have said Democratic
sympathy with Ireland, when he asks; How
can Irish Americans who ask for American
sympathy with their kinsmen refuse the as
sistance of their countrymen who are engaged
in a similar struggle:" can only serve to
amsse the intelligent reader.
Between the struggle in Ireland and that in
which Mr.. Hurd and his brother Free Trad
ers are engaged, there is not one particle of
similarity. In Ireland my countrymen are
struggling for protection for Irish labor, pro-
lection for Irish manufactures and commerce,
protection for Irish homes; while Irish land
lords, English monopolists, and Mr.. Hurd's
friends, the Golden Club theorists, want free
trade in Irish eviction, free trade in Irish
land, free trade in Irish labor, and free
market for English manufactures in Ireland.
In conclusion will reply to the honorable
gentleman's quotation from the speech OF
Daniel O'Connell before the Anti-Corn Law
League by quoting the views of John
Mitchell, the sturdy Presbyterian Irish rebel
of IS; the man whose example did more than
that of any other of the brave, brilliant band
of young Irishmen to stir up the spirit OF
resistance to oppression and wrong among his
countrymen; the man whose teachings and
writings thousand times more than those
of O'Connell-are to-day the National gospel
of the manhood of Ireland. John Mitchell
wrote in his paper. THE United Irishman,
in 1913: THE detestable system of free
trade and fair competition which is de
scribed by Louis Blanc as That speciou'
system of leaving unrestricted all pecuniary
dealings between man and man, which leaves
the poor man at the mercy of the rich, ano
promises to cupidity that waits its time an
easy victory over hunger that cannot wait
the system that seeks to make Mammon, and
not God, or justice, rule this world-in a
word, the English or famine system-mus'
be abolished utterly-in farm, in workshop
in town and country, abolished utterly; and
to do this were worth three revolutions OIL
three times three" Faithfully yours,
PATRICK EGAN.
! Lincoln, Neb., Aug. %, 1888.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05
Press Comments.
(Somerset Reporter.

We publish elsewhere Hon. Edwin c.
Burleighs letter accepting the Republican
nomination for Governor of Maine. Mr..
Burleigh recognized the fact that the State
campaign is overshadowed by National issue
in a presidential year, and very properly and
pertinently calls attention to the disastrous
effect, the proposed Democratic tariff meas
ures would have upon the interest of the
State of Maine. The letter is one that com
mends itself to the people of Maine, ant
shows that the Republican candidate fol
Governor has an appreciation of the vast and
varied interests of our State, acquired in the
school of experience in business and state af
fairs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05

A great amount of political engineerin,
will be done by friends of candidate to Sc
cure for their man the first place on the tick
ct, and the best man will probably secure
the coveted Mace. Then If endorsed nv N.
majority of the people, the election is as
sured. Electric Bitters has been put to the
front, its merits passed upon, has been in
dorsed, and unanimously given the first place
among remedies peculiarly adapted to the re.
lief and cure of all Diseases of the Kidneys
Liver and Stomach. Electric Bitters, being
is safe investment. Price SOC
and 81 per bottle at J. NJ. Mixers Drug
Store. sept3d&wlychwky.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05

The letter of acceptance of Hon. Edwin
c. Burleigh, our candidate for Governor
speaks for itself. 1t has no uncertain sound
it discusses all the pendant political issues il
manner to commend itself to the good ant
patriotic judgment of the people, it is thor
oughly sound on the various questions which
commends it to the interest of the State anC
nation. Honest voters cannot be in doubt a.
to what are the political opinions of the gen
tleman whom we are to elect as the chic
magistrate of this State in September.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05
10 CENT CIGAR
CITY OF AUGUSTA.
Treasurer's Notice.

Tdrcs on Non Resident Real Estate IN the City Of
augusta, IN comfy If kennebsc and State Of
Name, for the year 1857:
The following list of taxes real estate of non.
resident owners In the city of Augusta for the year
1857, IN bills committed to Guy Turner, Collector OF
said city, the 10th day of June lss7 has been
turned by him TO me M remaining unpaid, ON the
18th day of June 1855 by his certificate of that date
and now remains unpaid and notice is hereby given
that II the taxes and interest aud charges are not
months from the commitment of said bills 40 much
of the real estate taxed viii be sufficient TO pay
the amount due therefor, including interest and
charges will without further notice be sold at pub
lie auction, ut my office In Granite Block in said
city of Augusta, on the z9th day of December A d.
lsss. nj 2 O'CLOCK In the afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05

In our comments in Mondays Journal
in regard to the false statements relating
to the Central House and Mr.. Burleigh,
we enormously said that the story had
been copied into the Boston Herald. In
stead, it was the Boston Globe, which has
also published the square and manly
retraction of the editor of the Portland
Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05
(Machias Republican,

vote for Burleigh on the 10th of Septem-
Der is vote for Harrison in November. The
presidential battle in this State is to be fought
on that day, therefore every voter who favors
Harrison for President should vote for the
Republican candidate for Governor. Bur
leigh and protection is the watchword
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05

in the direction of the nearest drug store, i.
not too fast for any person to make who i.
troubled with constipation, dyspepsia, liver
complaint, or sick headache, and is, there
fore, in need of DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pei
lets. Gentle and effective. One dose.
sept5
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05

The Rev. DR.. Cyrus Hamlin, in letter
to the Portland Press upon the predilec-
ton of many college Presidents and Pro-
fessOrs for Free Trade. remarks that when
Free Trade became triumphant in Eng
land her far-seeing statesmen perceived
the Importance of Free Trade with Ameri-
ca. Treatises were written holding up
Free Trade as a fundamental law of pO-
litical economy, and the Golden Club
came into being to convert Europe. but
still more America, to this theory,
As theory it was charming and perfect.
For the class room it was delightful. Our
college Presidents and Professors all adopted
1t and were petted and praised in England.
They were often made members of the Cob
den Club. British gold is freely paid for
the orati0ns of ambitious students on Free
Trade. England having possession of so
many of our schools of learning is making a
supreme effort to keep possession. believing
that they will finally govern the public senti-
ment of the country. For this fond delusion
she is indebted to her inability to understand
this country.
The grand march of events in our country
does not change its step for anything few
Professors and Presidents of colleges may
put forth.
1t is an interesting and important fact
that of those students in colleges who are
indoctrinated in Free Trade distractions
by the professors in love with Golden
Club propagandism, a majority of them
when they have fully passed into the
channels and marts of business, abandon
their foreign notions and give due regard
to American experience and the common
sense views of American statesmen
Nothing can be more absurd and vision
airy than the idea that because one is
able to instruct pupils in the ancient elias
sizes and in metaphysics, he is therefore well
qualified to teach them the rules of bust
ness and the facts and principles of com
mercial wisdom. The utter failure OF
Profs. Sumner, Perry and Lowell in this
regard, is significant.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05

No mans wages should be so low
that he cannot make provisions in
his days of vigor for the incapacity
of accident or the feebleness of old
age.-Benjamin Harrison.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05
Somerset RepOrter.

Hon. Edwin c. Burleigh, our nominee for
Governor, is a man of fine business qualifica-
tons, thorough knowledge of state affairs,
of high standing in society, a firm believer
in prohibition, true temperance man in
theory and practice, and life long Republi-
can who will honor the high position to
which he is named.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05

The Boston Pilot is a stanch and per-
sistent defender of the Democratic party
and expresses good deal of enthusiasm
over the Presidents message, but qualities
what it says by the remark, 1.-The weak
ness of the message lies in its date" and
adds:
Had the Senate passed the fisheries treaty
Mr.. Chamberlain would have laughed at
America, and these and other determinations
and clippings of the rights of Americans
would have gone into law either by stipula-
ton or the absence of protest"
From which it would appear that what
ever value the Pilot conceives the message
to have is attributable TO the firmness of
the Senate in refusing to surrender Amer
lean rights. As often as Cleveland gets
into tight place Democratic newspapers
think to shield him from blame by assert
ing that the Republican Senate can pre-
vent him from doing serious harm. This
may be very well for a majority of the
Senators. but how it helps the Presidents
case puzzles moralists or casuists to ex-
plain.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05

Allen j b. or unknown house
and lot No, A. Bridge st. III. alO0 90 .
Berry, Phebe. ! house lot,
No. 40, Florance street. 800
Brann, Mrs Lena, house ana
lot, stone street, 900 20 i
Clark, Mrs. A. c., house and
l acre OF land OF Neal, 100 %
Campbell. Rufus, 10 acres land,
Mud Mills, meadow, $500
Cooper, q. F., about 81 acres
of land, Mud Mills, meadow, 1890
100 acres of land. Mud Mills,
formerly occupied by w.
Day, +. H., 40 acres Of land
near Hallowell line Of q.
Dudley, j. w., Is acres o.
land, 3rd range Of Jas. II.
Dudley, 300 20
Duglass, Geo. w, Iof Goar
lot, about so acres, west OF
Mud Mills road Of Allen
Lambert, 27b 90
Doyle, Margrett, north half
Of land near Sidney line, Of
Cook, 25OO
Emerson, Orrin, or unknown,
house and land west side of
Mud Mills road, 9Th range, 100 90
Gardiner. u. r.. 8 acres inca
dow land, east of Mud
Mills road, S0Oo
Greenlief Granville, about II
acres of land. 4th range.
east of river, 1000
House, barn and 70 acres OF
land, formerly }. Randall
lot, 40 90 4,
Hallowell, Lorenzo and Dan
lei and LenHrd Studley, I'd
acres OF land, lot 30, 9th
range, adjoining Togus
Pond, 100 %
Haws, Marietta. II acres Of
land, part OF lot il9. 4th
range, east OF river, 1000
fewett, Mellen, or unknown,
II acres Of land Of Nathan.
lei Perkins, near Sidney
line. $50 90
Haws, Gethro and Chadwick,
80 acres Of land, south OF
road leading to Windsor,
from McFariand's Corner, $40 % !
Littlefie d, Mary A., lot No.
8, Martin land. Patterson
L6ngfeliow, A. r., ss rods of '"
land, next HalloeeIl line, 1000
Miller, John r., house and
lot on Hallowell road, 100 %
Redlon, Emery s., house lot
cor. of Florsnce street and
Western Avenue, 800 %
Robinson, stephen, lot OF
land Of james Keen, 5000
IS acres land Of J. II. skates, 1000
shaw, Joseph, house, barn
and land, formerly to
Harvey VI. Leighton, i.io0OO II
Smith, Orren, 10 acres Of land,
3rd range, OF ID. II. Young, 10000
Stone, Mrs. Lutha, house and
lot, Bangor street, home
stead Of the late Charles
Booker, 1000
Townsend, Octave NJ, or un.
known, acres land Of
Howard Dearborn, 5000
Wheeler Henry n, house lot
Sewall street, of estate OF
Mrs. q. Z. Herrick, l75 90 Z
Trask, Charles, 81 acres land,
9th range, 100 90
Linoean, Alphonzo, barn and
about acres OF land on
Weeks Mills road, 100 90
Wilson, Otis D., II acres of
land on Coonbs' Mil road, 1850 co 20
GUY TURNER, Treasurer ,
Augusta, Sept. 3, 1885. City ,
sspSdafaylw
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05
Republican County Nominations.

KESNEBEC COUNTY.
SenatOrs-Herber' VI. Heath, Augusta.
WIN. 7. Haines, Wateryille.
Commis sioner-C. Wentworth, Clinton.
Treasurer-James y. blanchard. Chelsea.
Sherif-G. I. stevens, Oakland.
Judge Of Probate-HruTy >. Webster, Gardiner
Register Of Probate Howard Owen, Augusta.
CIsrk of COurts-W inned >. Choate, Augusta.
Att0rney-L. T. Carleton, Winthrop.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05
TO Carpenters and Builders.

TREAsuRER's OrFIcE,
EASTERN BRANCH N. II. ID. v.s
To0Us NE, Aug rs, 1855
Proposals for the erection of a wooden once build
ing, TO be built on the grounds Of the Eastern
branch, N. II. ID. v. e., will be received until y
the bids sill be opened Plans and specification,
can be examined II the Governors efhce, on ana
after Tuesday the 18th inst. The Home reserves
the right to reject any and all bids.
es II. COBAUGH. Treasurer.
sug16deod6t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05

Governor Richardson, of South Caro-
lima, declares that the greatest problem
which God has given to the people of that
state sis how to rule 600, 900 blacks with
only 400, 900 whites" The King Ku klux
methods were tried and discarded after
experience had demonstrated that they
were not approved by Providence; the
Red Shirt brutalities failed and were aban-
doned in the same way and now intimida-
ton and the tissue ballot are recognized as
the most able means of "solving the great
problem" The same criminal agencies
are used to elect members of Congress
and a President to exert their influence to
break down the industrial interests of the
manufacturing States and to keep in power
the partisans who sought to establish the
Confederacy and to destroy the Union,
and because Republican newspapers aud
speakers refer to the wicked violation of
the Constitution and laws of the Nation
and the rights of civilized men, they are
occused of raising the bloody shirt.
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Hos. L. g Hoaa Of Michigan, will speak fol.
lows
Hallowell, Wednesday, September s.
Waierville, Thursday, september 6.
Gardiner, Friday, September.
Pittsneld. Saturday evening, Sept.s.