The Portland daily press., 1888-09-07
WHY WOOD PULP IS TO Be PROTECTED.
Mr.. Blaine AlIudes TO the Letter Post.
ed In the Warren Mills.
Democratic Influence In Favor Of a
Patent and Its Product.
Ten Thousand People Cheer the
Maine Leader at Berwick.


Maine Leader at Berwick.
SOUTH BERWICK, Sept. 6.-Thousands of
enthusiastic people of Maine and the neigh
boring States greeted Mr.. Blaine here this
afternoon, when he made one of his last
speeches in the State campaign. Special and
regular trains from Biddeford and Kenne-
bunk, in Maine, Dover, Exeter, Rochester
and other points in New Hampshire. and
Lawrence In Massachusetts, Jeanne in heavily
loaded. and when the monster meeting was
called to order in the Academy grounds, and
Mr.. Blaine was presented. it was estlmat-
ed that 10000 people were present. Upon
this basis the meeting was just about as large
as that at Old Orchard yesterday, but it con-
tanned much larger proportion Of men
Forty veterans of 1910 from Dover, N
H.. were at the meeting. Mr.. Blaine, him
self, arrived in town before II o'clock, and,
with the other speakers, became the guest Of
Mr.. Walter @. Burleigh. a son Of tine late
Hon. John III. Burleigh, who was for several
years his colleague in Congress. From Mr..
Burleigh's house, which adjoins the Acade-
my grounds, Mr.. Blaine was driven to the
place Of meeting shortly before o'clock.
A procession had been formed of home and
visiting campaign companies. and it marched
to the Burleigh residence, and was drawn up
in open ranks to allow the Blaine carriage,
which also contained Gen. Adam Z. King,
of Maryland, and r. E. Frazier, of Michigan,
to pass through. In this procession several
of the places already named were represent
ed, Biddeford by its umbrella brigade. Mr..
Blaine was heartily cheered as he neared the
grounds in which he was to speak, and his
appearance upon the speakers platform was
the signal for renewal of this enthusiasm.
Just word from the president, Mr.. w. II.
Downs, chairman of the town committee,
was all that was given by way of introduc-
tion, and then came the more formal greeting
by the crowd and a short speech by Mr.
Blaine. The speech was as follows:
MR.. BLAINE's SPEECH
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
One Of the great difficulties in discussing
the tariff question is to get frank and hon
est response from our opponents. If they
Will consent to any statement Of fact-mark,
/ say Of fact-tbat may be derived from the
statistics Of the United States, or the expert
ence of manufacturers. their cause is gone.
IApplausel. And therefore, they do In a most
systematic and persistent manner misrepre-
sent the essential truths Of the whole ques-
tion. read in Democratic paper within
week, that all the statements made by the
Republicans to the effect that Iaborinx men
In this country received better pay than la
boring men in England, was simply Repub-
lican lie. lLaughter.l Well, 1t took a very
Il AnRTUpfIn
make that statement, and so far from the
truth is it that if you take the average wages
paid to skilled labor in England. under free
trade, and to skilled labor in America, under
the system Of protection, the average run
ming through series of years, it stands in
| the relation Of 10 to 1920. That is. to put
the case in nutshell. the skilled Engli sh la
| Dorer Is able to earn $40 where
and the difference between worEins
ior $3.50 instead OF $40 week, makes vast
difference In the pecuniary condition Of
| man IN the course Of five, ten or fifteen
| years. 1t makes the difference be-
tween being able to lay up something for
rainy day and being compelled to spend ey-
| erything he earns as he goes along for mere
subsistence OF oneself and family, and con-
stltutes that wide sweep, that immense dis
| tance between the condition Of the whole
mass Of labor in this country and the con-
dltion OF the whole mass of labor in Eng
land
have said already, as / now repeat, that
when you get down to the last element and
introduce this tariff question to the basis on
which 1t must ultimately stand or fall, it is a
| question of wages to the wageman. 1t Is not
question OF defending capital; it is not a
question OF helping the rich. II you adopt
Tree trade instead of protection in this
country, would like any man to point out
by what possible process you can keep the
wages of American labor above
those Of European labor, [applausel, and
Ihe whole question lies therein.
have made my appeal on be-
half of Republican policy to the vast multi
tude OF men, and they constitute the vast
malorities OF every people on the face of the
globe, who earn their bread in the
sssson sSsss is hf5 to bs b5s'e' decided and this bis
the votes Of those men. 1t is in their power
TO approve Mr.. Cleveland's tariff policy or it
Is In their power to uphold the Republican
policy OF protection. Many Of them know the
tarlff policy practically and thoroughly. All
OF them have experienced the benefit Of pro-
lection and to them is remitted the question.
nave said that misrepresentation is what
we meet, and have here an illustration in
the concrete OF what have stated in the alb
stract. have said within the last ten days
that among the apparent designs of the
Mllls Dill was to strike blow at the material
interests OF Maine-I might, in broader
sense,have said New England-and showed
from quoting the bill that the manufacturer Of
cotton and Of wool, the farmer, the man who
mas an orchard, the gardener. the dairyman,
tne wool growing, the man who raises meats
and poultries, the man who quarries stone,
the man who makes brick, almost every
material interest in Maine which Is now pro-
tected is to be subjected to the free competi-
tlon OF Canada / reaffirm all have said and
emphasize every point made. This morn
ing find a letter in the Portland Argus Of
from N q ~ =
Boston, who are very large paper makers,
to their employees at Cumberland Mills. IL
is the first time in my experience in Maine
so lar as recollect, that the owners of a
manutactory OF any kind made direct ad-
dress to the men who were working in il on
any political issue. This appeal began by
making this statement to these employees:
'As you know, politics were never mixed In
tne relation OF Mr.. Warren. senior, to the
men at his mills, and we need hardly say that
the same policy win be continued now" But
in a,speech recently delivered by one of the
Republican leaders In Maine, we find him re-
ported as saying. that a proper designation
OF the Mills tariff bill; (Which has recently
passed the national House of Repr esenta-
tiyes), would be bill for the destruction of
the material interests of Maine. So
lar as the measure referred to affects the
paper making or wood pulp interests of
Maine, winch are certainly very important
the above statement is not, in our opinion,
truo"
This is very large firm that thus talks,
and they inform all the material interests OF
Maine that In their judgment my statement,
ior IL was to me they referred was not true,
Tor the wood pulp interest, they aver. has
not been affected. Well do you know why
~ mas not been affected, Mr.. Chairman? In
the original Mills bill wood pulp was on the
Tree list, like nearly all the material interests
OF Maine But the men interested in wood
pulp, and interested in a patent which
controls Its manufacture, largely Demo-
cratic In politics, made a combination,
went down to Washington and with
Democratic influence reversed the decision
OF the ways and means committee and left
wood pulp just as much protected as 1t was
under the Republican tariff Laughter and
applause. And now Warren Il Co. beg to
assure the people that my statement about
the interests of Maine being struck, does not
in the least affect wood pulp. Warren &
Company know why. l don't believe there
is anybody in the United States that knows
better than Warren Il Company the exact
manner in which, and the exact methods by
which, and the exact agencies through which
wood pulp Is Just as well protected as IL was
under the Republican tariff, for the Mills bin
has not touched it. Being perfectly secnre
in their own industries, the firm of =. ID.
Warren & Co. can bear with a degree ~
Christian resignation which is truly admira-
BILE all the msfortunes Of the other material
interests of Maine. Laughter and applause.1
They are not in the least affected by the men
of the quarries and the farms and the orch
ards and all the other industries haSn1
hrokpn down. They can stand q N 49, sNts.ab