The Portland daily press., 1888-08-28

rage, but now, at the close of the fishing sea-
son OF 1888, when there has not been single
unfriendly act by Canada against our fisher
ermen, when. in fact, all our fishermen are
coming home and three-fourths of them are
already on the way, the President says: Il
want you to pass law that will allow me to
stop all transit trade with Canada. l want
you to give me chance now when there Is
nothing at stake to get at these fellows
Loud and pro tracted laughter.l l was not
willing to retaliate when there was some
thing to retalate for but now, as / have lost
little credit by holding back and you Re-
publicans have rejected my treaty, dast'
you alias the boys in play say to one
another-I 'dast' you to give me authority to
rouse commercial trouble with Canada. l
want to show you how will punish Canada
my treaty just see what l will do II you
Will empower me to raise big row general
ly."
Fellow citizens, always want to speak
with respect Of the President of the United
States but, If you will pardon me, must say
that is sudden and violent display of cour-
age after his long refusal to vindicate the
rights OF our fishermen, which puts
nae in mind Of scenes not infre-
quenty witnessed In the new set
Elements on the frontier, where personal
courage is always greatly esteemed. 1t IS
not unknown In those remote and hardy re-
glons that man new to their ways, fails to
show the requisite pluck and In consequence
loses cast among his companions. Suddenly
he becomes aroused to the necessity of re-
gaining lost ground and then goes to absurd
extremes. Nothing can hold him back. He
proclaims his courage in all the extravagant
lingo OF the Rocky Mountain region. "Let
me spssss ss h' 0vs re' says he hn eat
weight in wildcats and throw in panther
every few minutes" CLaughter) "That's
the kind of a man am"
Such is the style in which the mountaineer
20 thn okrk..
bravery but the old heroes, who never quailed
In pluck, have no respect for loud announce
ment Of courage. Excuse me If the course
OF the administration has recalled these
scenes. After falling to do anything for the
hshermen, leaving them to be abused and
outraged through two summers and declining
all form OF just and proper retaliation the
President now asks Congress to give him
power to make an effective onslaught on
canada to do something that will tell. In
effect, the President declares that he does not
want to settle this question right down at
Portland and Gloucester and Halifax He
wants to settle it out In Manitoba. He wants
to have disturbance all along the line. In
the spirit the President Is now In, he will be
satisfied with nothing that does not put
courage in his administration and protective
tariff out of the minds of the people.
Well, my friends, don't believe that Con-
gress will crafty the President / think
now that the fishing season is over and no
outrages have been committed, the American
people will direct that the whole question
shall 60 over to next year. BY that time
there will be Republican President
great aappla1sel in the White House, and
Republican Congress in the capital and then
we shall settle this question as it ought to be
settled; settled as the Republican party has
always dealt with Great Britain in holding
high the dignity Of the United States and
informing Great Britain, as General Grant
did in the case Of the Alabama, that the
fishery dispute was to be settled on terms of
full equity and justice to the American fisher
men and in accordance with the honor of
both nations. Great applause.l
Fellow cltizens, II there are two men In the
United States with whom personally SYM
pathize they are Senator Morgan, OF Ala
bama, and VIM. l.. Putnam, the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Maine Laughter.
Senator Morgan proved in an eloquent
speech OF thirty-seven hours, and Mr.. Nor
gan Is the only man in the United States
who can be eloquent for thirty-seven honrS
laughter, that If the Senate rejected that
treaty, that meant war. We supposed SEN
ator Morgan E meant war by, England against
us, but England has no such notion, and we
lind now that Senator Morgan must have
meant that the President would make war
novel direction for hostilities to take. but
Morgan knew what he was talking about.
and now seconds the President
And as to Mr.. Putnam,-a most honorable
and estimable gentleman l am sure he is /
have known him well and have enioved his
personal friendship for more than thirty
years; he is a painstaking attorney, he is a
conscientious lawyer. He has been going
through this State demonstrating how entire
ly right the President was in doing nothing to
redress the fshermen's wrongs for the last
two years, and how prudent and proper was
the treaty which surrenders our rights in ev,
policy of the President in making that treaty
was the very one which MI. Putnam eulogized
and defended and believed in conscientiously.
1t was policy of negation and of peace
ana Mr. Putnam approved it. and while Mr..
Putnam is continuing to address the people
Of Maine on that phase and to rest his candi-
dacy upon it. the President takes his whole
ground from under him and says: "Stop.
Putnam; don't talk peace any more. We
nave played that note out and it won't win.
we must now go at Canada with vengence.
one and all: saughter.l We must raise
such dust about Canada that these labor
ing men and wage workers in the country
will forget the tariff and will be thinking
about enlisting and having war on the border
Anything, Putnam. anything that will keen
the teriff and my free trade message out Of
the minds OF the people until after this elect
ion is over" And then, in a little aside
glance, the PRESIDENT iDtimates to them all .
TINS row with Canada after election"
Laughter.
All, my friends, the Presidents machine is
contrived to run about seventy DAYS.
Laughter.l But 1t will run without harm
to to the men who are front Of it and, NAV
not add, that it is admirably arranged to
kick and kill the man who is behind it."
lGreat laughter and applause.I
The other speakers of the day were Hon.
Seth l.. Milliken, the Congressman from
this district, Hon. John A. Kasson, of Iowa,
and General John l.. Swift, of Boston. I'm
mediateiy after his own speech, Mr. Blaine
left the stand and, catching the regular
train a few minutes later, he arrived in
Augusta before 4 p. m. His next speech
viii be at Calais Wednesday afternoon.