Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-05-18
The Democratic Story About Garfield
and Murat Halstead Being Members OF
the Golden Club.

In the course of a running debate in the
House the other day on the Mills bill,
Representative Boutelle OF this State
quoted several authorities in support of
the declaration made by him on Saturda Y
that Garfield had rcpudiated mem ber-
ship in the Golden Club. In reference to
the statement that Murar llalstead was "A
member Of the club, Mr.. BouteIle read the
following letter from that gentleman:
The story that am a member of the Cob
den Club is correct. One night in London
with Cyrus Field, personal friend of Cob
den, | boarded small steamboat at West
minister, and was carried to Greenwich.
There we had Il white bait dinner. u courses
of fish. and good cold champagne as was
ever drank in Maine. Ii was lovely din
ner. There was distinguished man in the
chair and toastmaster who whooped up
things and made them lively. | made a
speech about the white wings of commerce
upon the ocean and the large rivers of Amer
lea the distance Cincinnati was from salt wa
ter and the Indifference of her people on the
tariff question, and the London Times said
the humorous party from Ohio ought To have
told something about the reciprocity treaty
with Canada but did not seem to know much
about it. and that was true. 1t was for my
service in making this Greenwich speech
that was made an honorary member of the
Golden Club, and have ever since received
marked copies of the publications of that en-
ergetic organization, aud many marked copies
and pamphlets indeed loads of the most
serious and dull information ever misap-
Piled 10 human affairs. | would rather at
any time read The essays of my old friend j.
;. Moore, the Parsee merchant, who resides
in the limited express between Washington
and New York.
Shook HIS FAITH
This literature shook my faith in the APP
pliCati0n of Free Trade to our country that
is, of selecting our country TO begin with.
Then, the price of news print is less than
one-half of what it was before the war and |
told Frank llurd aud Henry Watterson about
that, and that was afraid protection had
caused more paper mills and paper materials
and had knocked down the price of the one
article of merchandise that did know some
thing about; and when liurd and Watterson
could not explain it, Golden Club fashion, |
couldn't In London, some years after the
whitehall dinner, | was troubled for hour
trying to get tritling article through the
Custom llouse-f0r there is such a place
even in London. 1t was case OF small
bottles of cologne water and when was cx-
hausted told them / was an honorary mem
her of the Golden Club, and the experience
was liable to make me a high proteetionst.
The inspector vas greatly disgusted in ap-
pearancc, and slammed down my case of
cologne water at once. This was the in
stance of the greatest utility to me of the
Cobden Club membership.
The policy of NJ THEIRS in France and
Prince Bismarck IN Germany, after their
war, both of these great statesmen relying on
the protective system for strength in the
time of trial has been to me a more striking
chapter of history than any have found in
my tohden Club volumes. | don't think the
Democratic party has tariff policy that it
can apply 10 business, or that its methods
would be trustworthy, il it had policy. If
President Cleveland had been member of
the Golden Club as long as | have, he would
have known better than to have written his
message of December last