Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-01
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 FROM ALL QUARTERS. MR. BLAINE 0N TRUSTS. How The President And His
 Party Disagree.
 GEN. HARRISON AT PUTIN BAY. Tariff And The Message Dis- cussed By Gen. Butler. CHINA REJECTS THE TREATY. Little Rock, Ark, Swept
 By A WaterspOut.
CHINA REJECTS THE TREATY.
mR. BLAINE ON TRpsTs.

They Are Not Due t0 the Protective TarlM-CIeveIand at Variance Vvith HIS Party on This @uestiOn-The Re- publican Platform is Explicit
 DovER, Me. Aug. 31.--Mr. Blaine ads dressed large open air meeting at Foxcroft this afternoon, people coming from all parts of Piscataquis county" In opening he pro- ceeded at once to the consideration of trusts, charging that they hourished to greater ex- tent under the free trade policy of England than under the protective policy of the United States. American trusts, he said, there is not one among them all that derives its being, owes its organization or came up under the patronage of the national govern ment.
 Every one derives whatever sanction it pos sesses from State governments, generally one State, but sometimes several. The Presi- dent, therefore, should certainly have known when he arraigned trusts in his message to Congress that Congress could not dissolve them when their charters were from State Legislatures or their organizations under State law.
 DEMOCRATS DISAGREE.
 It has been confessed by the Democratic House, by the ways and means committee, by Chairman Mills and every man that stood as
 
 possible legal connection with the tariff. The Presidents charge that trusts had their origin in the protective tariff has not foot of ground to stand upon and was contradic- ted in every line of free trade experience which the speaker had quoted from England. Now, when all chance to investigate the al- legged bribery by which certain United States congressman connected with one ot our largest u 1sts was charged to have obtained his seat is past, the Democratic papers can make loud howl about trusts. Then was the Democratic opportunity to get the true inwardness of trusts, but they shrank from it, and both inside and outside the adminis- trotien they determined to have no investiga- ton.
 THE PRESIDENTS sTRADDLE.
 Trusts have place in the campaign. They are State issues and the Republicans of Maine, at least, can be depended upon to look after those in their own State. The zeal with which the President started to sad~ de the unpopularity of trusts on the pro- tective tariff and upon the Republican party seems not even to have been heard of in Con- gress. Did they purposely intend to affront the President by taking no notice of his sug- gestion, or did the Democratic members of the ways and means committee and of the house coolly accept the confession that neither the President nor the United States, nor any private citizen of the United States could a10cE E06 6xl8C6lc6 or LruSCS OE cure the abuses thereof by voice or vote in 8 na- tional campaignl
 REPUBLICANS ARE EXPLICIT.
 In the Republican platform upon which Harrison and Morton stand before the people there is 6 resolution referring to trusts in which there is wide discrimination made as to the legislative power which shall con- troI them and cure the evils connected with them. The Republican party assigns trusts to the power that can deal with them; the President in his message referred to them where he knew all efficient action on the sub iect was impracticable and impossible. MT. Blaine concluded with reference to the Presidents retsliatory message and the fisheries treaty and asked: "But instead of asking for power to proclaim the suspension of all transit on Maine railroads why don't I the Secretary of the Treasury recall the privileges that he has given to the Canadian Pacific at it's extreme western X limit and let us alone here in our trade over ! the Neg&ntic and Grand Trunk linesl" To deny Canadians commercial privileges | through Portland, especially when it throws \ 6 large and constant and profitable, business \ into the hands of thousands of American | citizens, is absurd. think it would be \ wiser to have the policy of retaliation that ' hits the right party, and not resort to one \ that strikes your honorable and deserving ' men; and all this in order that MT. Cleve- \ lands administration shall be relieved of tht ' odidm of the gratuitous blunder of the Sec | retary of the Treasury.