The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-09-15

1t will be A. ID. 1886 before the young man
who casts his first vote for Harrison and
Morton this fall will have arrived at the
political dignity of the old Tippecanoe veter-
an whose presence is such feature of the
Republican rallies this campaign. Before
that time many issues will have come and
gone, but in all probability the question of
protection and free trade will be one issue
that will be neither new nor old. There will
be always some men who cannot let well
enough alone, who always prefer bird in
the bush to one in the hand, who will oppose
whatever industrial system the country may
be prospecting under. At least this has been
the teaching of the past in this country, not
only from the time of 1910 out from the time
of the formation of the government In all
probability, too, the policy of protection will
then as now receive the approval of the
people of this country. OF all the European
nations to-day but one approves free trade,
and that nation does so because of lis excep-
tional position as a day laborer for the rest
of the world. The great nations that have
domains of their own wherein their people
may be supported from their own resources
prefer protective policy that will develop
those resources and thus conduce to national
independence. By 1896 this country may
have become so great and populous that 1t
can defy the competition of the world but
the example of the older nations of Europe
does not indicate such probability. 1t
seems more probable that the march Of i'm
proyement may by that time have unlocked
that stupendous storehouse OF cheap labor
In To md +ho&
toned at last to the use of machinery, may
be storming our borders with goods cheap
almost beyond the dreams Of Imagination
Whatever else may happen til, young voter
need not be troubled by any fear that the
time may come in his political experience
when there shall be no tariff question to talk
and vote about.
Aside from the important doubtful States
there is no more interesting campaign going
on than in the neighboring State of New
Hampshire. Besides the tariff issue, which
is bringing large acceSsions to the Republican
ranks in New Hampshire as In all the other
industrial States, there is more important
development Of the temperance question
than has arisen in New Hampshire for many
years. The last Legislature passed an
amendment to the moribund prohibition law
OF the State that has had remarkable success
In making that law effective. This amend.
ment, now generally known in New Hamp-
shire as the nuisance act" provides that,
whenever at least twenty legal voters in a
town or city may petition to court declaring
any place where they know rum to be sold a
nuisance, the court may issue an order as in
tha Of for TIL. Il
ter hearing the injunction may be granted
against the rumseller on proof that the allie
cation of the petitioners is true. The law
provides no penalty, but leaves the rumsel-
Ter in the hands of the court for punishment
for contempt if he dares to continue selling.
So much dread have the New Hampshire of
tenders of this law that where it has been in
voked they have generally closed up their
business. 1t was not to be expected that so
Important an issue as that involved in this
question would be kept out of politics,
nor mas IL peen' When the Republicans met
In convention they put square prohibition
plank into their platform, and nominated for
Governor Hon. David II. Goodell Of Antrim
President Of the State Temperance Union
the organization which has been the MOTIVE
power In the temperance crusade. The
Democrats, on the other hand, have adopted
license plank although Chas. Il. Amsden
of Pennacook, the Democratic nominee for
Governor, is also member of the Temper
ance Union. But Mr.. Amsden is not the
leader Of the New Hampshire Democrats il
he is their standard bearer. A man in Ports
mouth named Jones, big brewer, dictates
the party policy, and he is the great enemy
of restriction of the liquor traffic in New
Hampshire. The effect of bringing this
question into the canvass will of course be tC
change the positions Of many voters. Al
the last gubernatorial election the Prohibi.
tionists drew enough votes away from the
Republicans to throw the election into the
Legislature. This year large portion Of
them, certainly, ought to support the Re
publicans, whose position is all that. could