Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-05

tur 1uitCu oldbcs 10 Dtzlu ltlt your pop
ulation has not increased. You do not per
haps have quite so many people in the coun-
ty to day as you had in 1860. That comes
from emigration westward. Brighter pros
poets lure young men from home. Then the
question remains, what has been the effect
upon the aggregate wealth of a community
which has not, as it went along, provided
more laborers, has not had more hands to do
the work. When you get a county that
has bounded ahead az some counties in our
western progressive States have, it is hard to
establish unit of comparison. In the coun-
ty that starts with 10000 and jumps in Is or
20 years up to sO, 900 or 80 600, you cannot
get a just unit. But here the population of
the county has remained at about the same
number during the last quarter of century.
Well, what has happened in this county with
20 600 inhaLitants? have the official data
in my hand. That will at
facts. From 1860 we date everything in the
way of industrial development in this county
( Laughter. II was the year Abraham
Lincoln was elected President and we start
ed with an enlightened, freedom-loving pro-
lection policy, one that wanted no slave and
NJ slnggard in the country. At that time.
this beautiful village, the shire town of your
country, had one little State bank of $4,000
capital, what that capital was represented by
heaven only knows daughter for in State
bank you never did know. The State bank,
under the old charter, rested for the security
of its till holders simply upon the integrity of
its officers. There was nothing else between
you and perdtion laughter, and good
many times that failed in different communi
ties, and dropped ont the whole value of the
bank. There were no deposits worth speak
ing of in the bank here in 1860. Now, with
a population of the same number you have
banking capital-savings banks and national
banks-of 1925 600. You have deposits
to S766,0O0 and you have a sur
plus earned of S62 900. showing that you
have 81 ,053, 900 of actual cash capital in this
town, compared to S75 900 he year Abraham
Lincoln was elected. Applause. Gentle
men, | submit that there may be much more
brilliant accounts shown where speculation
has been rife, where cities have grown up III
a night where a great gold mine has beer
discovered, where there has been some for
tunate bit of lottery that threw II community
Into great opulence but, for community
of farmers and wool growers and manufac-
turers,y you could challenge any part of the I'm
tied States, any county in the United States,
with only 20 900 people, and remaining sta
tionary with that 20 900 people, to show
finer record of what may be accomplished
under the Republican policy in that time. l
don't believe there is county in the United
States that can show the same condition with
finer results. As was coming here today |
saw a meeting of Prohibitionists. Maine,
for the last thrty-seven years has been under
a prohibitory law. | think the State has de-
rived great advantage from it. | think the
State is far richer and far better; that Frank
lin county is far richer and far better because
of that law, than the State and the county
would have been without it. But we have a
party now coming in and telling us in effect
that Maine had better not pay any attention
to Prohibition until we can organize nation
al party, and we can suspend temperance in
Maine, practically, till we convert Texas and
Alabama. That is precisely what this Ma
til nal Prohibition parity means, for those
who talk frankly ayow that they intend to
defeat the Republican party, and bring the
Democratic party into power as temperance
Laughter. Going to take the
Democratic party in Maine to promote tenn
perance, Laughter. And this Prohi
bition party, outside of prohibition, is
entering into partnership with the
Democratic party to defeat the Repub
licans if that were possible in Maine, to
elect that sound embodiment of prohibition
and temperance, David b. Hill, Governor of
New York, and all over the country so stab
the Republican party in the back and in the
dark, in order they say, that the Democratic
party shall be brought into power, and then
there will be a reaction against the Demo-
Gratis and by some political process, of what
the working is not yet apparent, the National
will come into power. Fellow
citizens, the Republicans of Maine have
worked many years in aid of temperance re-
form, and will not turn back from the good
cause to the immediate work this year to
defend the system of protection and insure
good wages to the American laborer. My
friends, this is the season of the year when
farm work is over. The hay crop is gath
cred 1t is time for leisure, picnickng
and excursions. | want you to make fewer
of those than usual this week and organize
yourselves into committee of the whole,
men and boys and ladies, to give the largest
majority that ever Franklin county gave for
any body, Tor Edwin c. Bnrleiyh on Monday
next, (great appause) and not simply be-
c luse he is Edwin c. Burleigh, for men are
nothing; not simply because he is running
for the governorship of Maine. but because
the vote given to Edwin C.. Burleigh and the
majority we shall give him, will be matter
of great courage to one party or the other IN
distant States. Remember that the day after
the battle Of Gravelotte one German soldier
was equal to two French officers, and if we
give the majority we should in this State,
YOU have by that act done as good as add
25O. 900 to the republican columns in the
States west of us. [Great applause
Immediately after the close of his address,
Mr. Blaine left Pennington by the special
train in which he had come, and, connecting
with the regular train at Brunswick, reached
his Augusta home shortly before 2. NJ.
Tomorrow he speaks at Old Orchard.