The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-09-10

bank and in iustifying the wisdom of their
tp ttpHn.lnued existence. lApplause.l You see
support, but they have their support and in
to give it to them.
Inis surplus, they say, we must reduce,
thia e sneleiore we must attack the tariff. viii
TINS aItaok upon the tariff, il the bill Is
| passed, reduce the surplus? Lowering the
tarin u0es not necessarily reduce the sur
p1us. 70 use figure that have often en-
cressed = eSsens the multiplier while in
| oleaSeu inportatiOns Increases the multiple
eand ana the result Is, and will be IA bigger pro
duct: so that, If this bill were IN mass 7nstead
Oh taking hity millions Of dollars of the rev.
| enue Oh tnls country 1t would be increased
| What next would have to be doneS Wbv
/ the gentleman from Texas, the pentleman
i from Arkansas and the gentlemen 1ron,
Tennessee, not having any industries where
they I'VE, would say the proper thing to do
would be to hack some more from the tariff
and so on until they get 1t to that beautiful
| ideal OF a Democratic tariff, one that abso-
lutely protects nobody, even by accident and
| admit that, II the free trade policy be true,
i protection by accident Is most inexeusable,
| because 1t Is the result of an ignorance which
Is worse that wickedness. GApplausel
| There are those who cannot see what the
future haslln store for them. There are those
/ whothink that, because they are not touched
| by the present bill, they will not be touched
| In the future. There are two or three Massa-
i chusettS wO0len manufacturers who say IF
/ you will give us free wool we will be salts
| fed" Do they suppose that the farmers Of
this country are going to allow themselves TO
| be sacrificed and still maintain that system
| with regard to the wooden manufacturer? Do
| they not understand that the moment such a
bill should pass the air would be thick with
Democratic orators, every one Of them pro-
| claiming at the top OF his voice that the
| farmers were being outraged, and that the
monopolistic manufacturers were still pro-
tected while the farmer was left in the cold ?
RAM auf fenW. .l.aI..
Grafton that they would deliver Laughter and
applause. Every man. who does not see
what this bill means in the future Is like the
man who is mentioned in the Scripture in
the sentence, the prudent man forseeth the
evil; the simple pass on and are punished"
lapplausel. Remember my friends, that
| questions get decided whether you deceive
yourselves about them or not, shutting your
own eyes never blots out the sun. Suppose
that thirty years ago the people Of the North
| had believed what was said to them; that
there was no question of human slavery be-
fore them at all; that all good Democrats
were opposed to slavery; that all they want
ed was equality in the territories that all
they desired was their constitutional rights,
and suppose we had listened to them; had
shut our eyes to the plain fact at that time
God mad made the question OF human slavery
question to be then decided, would Il
have been any the less decided because we
refused to recognize the truth? Every man
knows that II we had so refused, so shut our
free would have been all slave. So / say to
you now, that shutting your eyes to the real
issue here, that listening to these specious
denials and specious distinguishing Of the
issue will never prevent 1t from being decid-
ed. ! ou take the first step In the direction
In which they invite you aud when you have
reached your destination and the shock of
arrival comes, you will know where you are
u you don't know how you. came there.
Laughter and applause.l Just listen to their
arguments. D0u't listen to their designa-
tions. You can call an object anything. You
can call it Robinson Smith, If you choose to-
Names are easily put upon anything. 1t is
like tacking on label What you want is
the essence of the labeled. Now listen
to their arguments and see whether |
revenue reform Is not precisely the same |
thing as free trade. What worse thing can |
you say from the free trade point Of view /
TINS this; The consumer pays, exactly and /
precisely, the tariff tax on every imported /
article, and nearly or quite the same amount |
in enhanced value on everything that Is |
made under the influence OF protection"
Can free trader, anywhere, say anything |
more than that? What addition can any |
Democrat make to that statement? Can |
anything worse than that be said Of pr0tec- |
tionY must say to you that believe that |
nothing worse can be said, and believe that /
any man whose judgment makes him think /
that that sentence Is true Is free trader Il
and can never, honestly, be anything else. /
Wen, my friends, that is precisely what the |
Il
message. | know that he declares, at the |
end, that 1t is not question Of free trade, |
but that does not make 1t so. The essence |
is what we are after Suppose a man should /
should write underneath 1t "this Is not |
cow," would that prevent the original from |
giving milk under favorable circumstances? |
lGreat laughter and applause.l The inde- |
scribable folly OF attempting to deceive a ma |
tion by mere words Is something that does no /
credit to the intelligence lof either orator /
or audience.
One other thing. have been over this
district somewhat laboriously proving that |
II that doctrine Of the President Is accurate |
there must be woeful results which follow. /
First, for every dollar we put into the treas
ury by the tariff on imports there must be at
least fve dollars wasted by the increased ex-
pense Of buying the protected article manu-
factured in this country, and / figure ont
that there must be at least thousand mil
lions OF dollars lost every year. Now you
can imagine my satisfaction when l found
that an ancient Roman, Judge Thurman, |
standing at Port Huron, upon the Canadian
border-a very appropriate place Ilaughterl
had announced that for every dollar paid |
into the treasury five dollars went into the
pockets OF the grasping manufacturer, and
dollars every year. Now, do you realize |
what a thousand millions Of dollars is? Why |
this entire city could be lost in one corner Of
it, and nobody know where 1t had disap-
peared. Not only thousand millions, but
a thousand millions every year. and
that has been going on since 1861
Mr.. Townshend, one of the lights, or to be
accurate, one of the darknesses of the De-
mocracy, Llaughter announced In 1882
that he had calculated the exact sum and he
found 1t to be fifteen thousand, five hundred
and forty-seven millions Of dollars. A pret-
ty large sum. Now, adding a thousand mil
lions per annum since that makes very near |
ly twenty-five thousand millions Of dollars |
that we have wasted. Do you know what
that means? Why. II means more than this
whole country was listed for for taxes in
1860. In other words, by this system, we
have thrown our country out Of the window
and must be sitting out Of doors tonight,
laughter and applausel and during the time
we have been doing this all the accidents of |
life have been against US. Our population |
has not been at work all the time. During
the three or four years OF the war we put |
three millions Of men, perhaps more. North
and South, into the field. That meant three
millions Of men In the flower Of youth, in the
full strength Of manhood taken out Of the
workshop, taken from the farm, and from
the factory, to become mere consumers in
stead Of producers. Instead Of making /
things to add to the wealth of the country /
they were shooting each other, and not only
that, but they were sweeping the Southern /
States. from Mason and Dixon's line TO the
Gulf OF Mexico with the bosom Of destrue-
tion. They were destroying property with |
all the activity Of vigorous natures, for this
Is what war means IL means death and de- |
struction. Sherman was right when he said
War Is cruelty and cannot be refined"
And then we ran in debt three thousand mill |
lions of dollars in order TO pay for that war.
Did you ever take map Of 1860 and contrast
1t with the map Of 1888? In order to fully |
realize the change which has taken place
you ought to take trip Of twenty thousand
miles with that map Of 1860 in your hands. |
In that great region beyond the Mississippi,
beyond the muddy waters of the Missouri,
instead of the great American Desert, in
stead Of the Alkali Plains, which are pic
tured upon the map, you will see happy
homes, thriving settlements, prosperous VII
lagos, the large towns, nay, even the greatest
cities teeming with population. Instead Of
the cactus plants, which are themselves |
the very images Of DISSOLUTION, you will see
blooming, cultivated fields and millions Of
Inhabitants. All this has started into being
during this period of time when we have |
been wasting a thousand millions of dollars a |
year. During this time also, one hundred
and twenty thousand miles Of railroads have
been built great lines spanning continent
and cr0wding three thousand miles Of dis
tance into the space between two Sundays |
Que hundred and twenty thousand |
miles Of railroad, every mile costing from
twenty to one hundred thousand dollars; |
railway lines SO numerous that the rates Of
transportation seem TO be almost fabulous.
lou can bring barrel of flour from Chicago,
distance Of 100 miles, to this place for
about twice the sum ii will cost you to have