The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-07

cultivated; manufactures grew sspidly
| and the region which, . few yeass ego 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 1850
added more than u, $50 600 600 to their
wealth, and have been ACCOMPLISHING far
greater ratios during the last eight years
| OF whose results we have no Official
return. Besides an immense product Of
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 work shop. on the farm, and in the
orchard. she will acquire prestige and
wealth which will put her in the front
rank OF the States Of the Union. Imperial
IN extent the Pacific slope 10 destined to
be imperial in the strength and splendor Of
jher full development
Fellow-citizens Of Maine, I have said
nothing as yet specially concerning our
own State. Argument il not in fact need
full in the presence of these thousands of
witnesses to the progress which she has
made since 1850. Upheld, encouraged, stim-
ulated by the protective system, Maine has
increased her wealth more than threefold,
and 10 daily progressing in an even
more rapid ratio. But our progress is
now to be arrested, our property threat
ened, 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 quarries on our coast to the
lumber camps in our forests, from the cot.
ton factories Of New York and Andres
coggin 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 injur-
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
to destroy her great material interestsl
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
large surplus. The simple truth is
that the surplus was allowed to accumu-.
late by the maladministration of the Treas.
ury Departments surplus which it was
both the right and the duty Of the Score
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 eves
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
the loss Of millions of the peoples money
If Secretary Faircbild had followed the
line of the law, President Cleveland would
never have found the 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 at
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 experiences; 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
prosperity, and return to =
system which in our past history has three
times ended in q bankrupt treasury and
created wide distress both among the
and the capitalists Of the
l do not believe the people Of
the United States will approve of the
policy. 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-
in Congress, has labored for your
interests. Return him to his post of
duty by an increased majority
Of votes, and still larger increase of
your trust and confidence, if that is pos
sible. Remember, also, that the agSre-
gate expression OF Names opinion will be
registered in the vote for our candidate
FOR Governor, Edwin c. Burleigh-every
inch man, and with every breath stout |
defender of protection. And, finally, re-
member that the vote Of Maine in Sep |
tember will be an index of how strongly |
he popular strength is consolidating in |
support Of our splendid National ticket of |
Harrison and Morton-two candidates who
on every page of their political
'ecord, and in every purpose that inspires
hem, the great principles and patriotic
purposes Of the Republican party.
PRESS POINTS.
st. LOUIS Globe Democrat: The Republican
reed is the same now that it has always
,een, and the Democratic creed is equally