The Republican journal., 1888-09-06
Mr.. Blaine at Calais.


as am! spoke as follows:
h.r. Chairman and Fellow Citizens: have here
an official copy OF the Mills tariff bill as it passed
the Democratic house and as it now lies on the ia
bles Of the Republican senate. If were to give it
name locally betting its character, should say
it was ga bill for the destruction of the material
interests of Maine" A voice, "That's So" and
arrlanse.l 1t is bill to throw open our American
market TO our Canadian neighbors without any
consideration or rccompense or exchange, but alb
solGieiy free of all charge. A voice, "They shan't
have them" IL invites the Canadians to bring in,
without duty. every form of timber, hewn and saw
ed and squared and sided, and every other form
in which wool is manufactured at the mill
Lest one might escape they put in general clause
which covers every possible article.
The bill then provides for admitting free Of duty
all forms of farm products, grain and vegetables
Wool, every form of stone that can be quarried
their meat of all kinds their milk and eggs, their
poultry, and their game In fact the Democratic
house says TO our Canadian neighbors: "lf you
want our American markets without cost and with
ont price you may have them, for everything that
comes from your forests, from your farms, from
your orchards from your gardens, from your dai
ries and your iiocks. All your meats and your
poultry and your game. the stones from your quar-
rice and the bricks from your yards. Ii YOU have
grown weary waiting and wishing for the markets
Of the United states, ], Grover Cleveland, Prcsi-
dent therefore propose to relieve your fatigue and
ask you 10 walk i'll and sit down and make your
selves at home in our highways and byways, and
especially in cur market places. Laughter and
applause.
JOCKEY TRADE WITH CANADA.
NJ friends, this giving away of markets
Stlii,es me all the more remarkable because the
very men who passed this tariff bill in the house
have been urging us for years to renew the recip-
goclty treaty with Canada For the last y years
since it expired, many efforts have been made in
congress 10 reopen the negotiation for reeprOc
i'E treaty, and having got tired, l suppose the
democratic party now proposes to establish a re
crocity treaty all on one side and without asking
the government of the Dominion to give way in
single point, without asking them to conccdc one
linn, tInf,t
away almost every material interest of Maine
\ voice: That's So" and applause. Why, gen
tlcmcn, viewing that merely as trade, as a swap,
| should be utterly ashamed of any decent horse
jockey in Maine that could not do better. Laugh
ter and applause. There is not a horse Jockey in
Maine who would not lose his standing with his
fellows il he traded his horses as poor a basis
as the democratic administration propose to trade
with Canat.;i.
We have in those items which the Mills bill con-
codes enough of value to Canada to have modified
the entire fishery treaty and to have secured great
rights to our fishermen. The revenue concessions
Gia2 10 Canada are worth vastly more, Il hundred
fold more, ;lian the tax of $50 ton our fish
ing vessels which they propose in the modus vi
vcndi appended 10 the late treaty. That would
never have yietu,i them Sl00000 at the very out
si.'e, int who snail calculate what this will yield
to Canada: Mr. kassoE-lt amounts to millions.
Ny friend IRON Iowa well says that it amounts to
millions, aye, many millions. Give, as the Mills
tariff bill proposes, give to the lumbermen Of Can
ada the market for all their product in the United
States, give to their farmers the right to bring
everything they raise. give to their orchards the
right 10 bring i'll all their fruits, give to their gar
drn5 the right to bring in all the vegetables, give
to their diaries the right to import their product,
9i'c To their Tuariics the right to supply the Unit
c states With building stone, give to their brick
yards ihc right TO make the bricks for our great
cities and manufacturing Towns, give to their grail
the right to bring in wood, give to their stock
growers and tler butchers the right to suppl us
with meat, and even down to the memories and
poultry wards, that the democrats might not omit
any thing, give them the right to supply us with
chickens and turkeys for New England Thanks
giving i'll honor Of President Clevelands surrender
III American rights and interests applause and
wien that Is ali done, you who live on the border
anu are in constant communication with all that
vast field OF trade don't need to lie told by me or
hy any one else that it involves millions of loss to
the citizens of the United States.
RECIPROCITY TREATY OF 81.
ii is 10 lac the most extraordinary proposal that
Toc!tv treaty iii 1s5i at the end of II years we
gave notice tdat it should be terminated. Ii l re
member Alright, Mr.. Chairman, that treaty only
gave reciprocity on y articles. believe Canada
had !hr advantage on 40 then laughter, but 10y
thc hI,l bill they will gain the other two. Laugh
ter Cant'ia is given in this bill a great deal
larger trade with the United States for nothing
ti.;;n was CIl odicd in the treaty which aimed at
reciprocity.
There nee! not have been a moments dispute on
the fishery question If we stand ready to con
ce'ie the American markets to Canada as the Mills
i,lll docs, Canada Will give equal rights in her
fisheries !or the enormous privileges conceded,
and pay boot for the chance. And vet President
Cleveland recommended all the concessions in the
Mills ill and in addition made treaty with Eng
ianh surrendcring tho rights of American fisher
men. Couldn't he have found some other Ameri-
can rights 10 give mp: When arrested in his sur
render q" our fishing rights by the defeat of the
treaty in tie senate, the President, as we now all
lnnN 50 well. in order to show his deep tlispleas
urc with the republican senate for its course, pro
poses To go 10 the opposite extreme (unti after
election and punish Canada. Why, hy the same
course of reasoning, will not the President as soon
As the senate defeats the Mills bill make another
s"n@rsaut and change as radically in regard to
fuJ h.. hos in AID 10, tr,n
his leiatcd letter Of acceptance disclose such
l,'ilral. hui temporary change will show him to
be protcctionist up to the point of prohibitory
tariff: NuHi ii be one whit more inconsistent
than his sudden conversion on the fisheries.
Al! these questions, which directly involve the
rros rerity Of our state and of every man in it,
>h0uits not be mere issues between republicans
and democrats. The value of days work, the
protection OF our industries, the preservation of
American rights, all larger questions than
party organization or party triumph. You pay
your taNeS in Maine; you pay your taxes in the
ntcf! states: YOU yield obedience; YOU owe allie
glance yea observe the laws, you live under the
ila%. Yea stand ready to fight for the national
H"ion rs you already have fought Beyond the
frontier, across that river, our neighbors choose
another government, another allegiance. They are
subjects OF Queen Victoria, they loyal to her
majesty. They live under a foreign flag. They
% exactly As they have right to do. neither
dispute their right envy their situation. 1t is
!lier right 10 choose for themselves, it is our
right 10 choose for ourselves. But am opposed
tectoaly opposed to giving the Canadians the
sentimental satisfaction of waving the British
flag, paving British taxes and the actual ca sh re-
muneratl"n of American markets, [Great APP
plausc. They cannot have both at the same time
II they come with us they can have what we have,
bat il is an absolute wrong against the rights OF
American citizens that millions of men who owe
the United States no allegiance who have no part
hor lot with Us, who not of lis, but choose to
he foreign to us; il is an absolute wrong for dem
oc!a'c congress to say that they shall have exactly
The same share in our markets and the same priyi-
reyes OF trade under our flag that we have. Ap-
pausc
IT is NOT FAIR Play
] do not believe any gentleman from the other
SIZE who may now be doing me the honor to listen
70 me would say TO himself, glad he light be of
the advantage, that it was fair play. 1t is not fair
pay. 1t Is not looking out for the rights of those
who are one,lient, honest and loyal citizens and
government would DC III default as to the duty il
owes the humbcst citizen If it choose to saw that
we have no market here that shall be sacred to our
people any more than il shall he sacred to these
who are alien to us and owe allegiance to Queen
Victoria. have nothing whatever to say against
the Dominion Of Canada as government, nor
against lis inhabitants. The Dominion of Canada
Is an energetic and able government There are
able and clever men at the head of it. They have
done wonderful work and they have made won
lcrul progress, and don't believe there is a cti.
zen Of tile United States from end of the coun
Try TO the other that envies the people of the Do
nilnion AL the prosperity they may attain. The
those of US who are trading with her. l wish them
godsrced. But so far as | can help it | do not
mean that they shall be Canadians and Americans
at one and the same time. Great applause1 They
can choose their si,le of the question and remain
over there. We will obey all laws toward them
we will maintain all treaties with them we will
stand faithfully by word in letter and spirit
we will treat them as neghbors and in peace as
friends, men descended from the same British
Isles that the vast majority of citizens of the
United States are, but repeat that we don't love
them well enough to invite them in to sit down at
our hearthstones and take part of that which be-
longs to our own iireside and own children l have
spoken freely because have nothing to conceal or
withhold Great applause.
locked with Il good deal of interest to sec what
ernor, would 10 when the President made his ex
Laughter. Mr. Putnam one of the commits
sioners who negotiated the treaty, and ever since
he was nominated for governor he has been de-
Tending the treaty. illustrating its advantages if he
could find them, committing himself in every line
and letter to its provisions. | thought that Mr.
Putnam would hesitate to change his course after
being so deeply committed, but hear that in Cal
MS three OF four evenings since he fops with the
President great laughter, and says that If we
cannot manage to give the Canadians all the
rights they want i'll the fisheries and surrender all
our own, and if the senate won't let us do that
why, iGasmuch AS we don't see how we can re-
venge ourselves on the senate, we will revenge
ourselves on Canada. Laughter Well gentle.
men, the position is so illogical and SO absurd and
so maMifesily a campaign dodge to be used till
dignity of an argument.
ENGLISH APPRECIATION.
The English papers, so far as have SEEM alto
Eether appreciate the Presidents position and
they arc quite willing that he shall have this little