Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-08-30

! lhs common 10 give way IN single pom
and without asking them to concede or
item or line or word in THEN tariff. TIL
bill gives away almost every material intel
est Of Maine. A voice, that's So" an
fappiause.l Why, gentlemen. viewing ths
merely as trade, as a swap, l should be Vi
lterly ashamed of any decent horse jockey, i
Maine that could not do better. Laughte
and applause. There is not horse jocke
in Maine who would not lose his standin
with his fellows if he traded horse
on a. poor a basis as the demo
cratic administration proposes TO trad
with Canada. We have in those item
which the Mills bill comedies enough of val
ne to Canada to have modified the ensir,
fishery treaty, and to have secured grea
rights to our fishermen. The revenue con
cessions made to Canada are worth vastly
more hundred fold then the tax of 81 80
ton on our fishing vessels, which they pro
pose in the modus vivendi, appended to the
late treaty. That would never have yielded
them 500 900 at the very outside, but who
shall calculate what this will yield to Canada
| Nr. kasson, 1T amounts to millions. ~
Ny friend from from Iowa well says that il
amounts to millions, aye, many millions.
Give as the Mills bill proposes, give to the
| lumbermen of Canada the market for all
their products in the United States. Give to
their farmers the right to bring everything
they raise give TO their orchards the right
TO bring in al their fruit give to their gar
deners the right to bring in all their vegeia-
bles give to them the right TO import their
products: give to their quarries the right to
supply the United States with building stone,
give TO their brickyards the right to make
bricks for our large cities and manufactur
ing towns; give to the graziers the right to
bring in their wool; give 10 their stock grow
ers and butchers the right TO supply US with
meat, and even down to the henneries and
poultry yards, that the democrats might not
omit anything; give them the right to supply
US with chickens and poultry for new
England thanksgiving III honor of President
Cleveland's surrender of American rights
and interests. Applause. And when that
is all done you who live on the border and
are in constant communication with all that
vast field of trade, don't need to be told by
me or by anyone else that II involves millions
of loss to the citizens of the United States.
1t is to me the most extraordinary proposal
that ever was made. The United States
made reciprocity treaty in 1854, and at the
end of twelve years we gave notice that 1t
should be terminated. If remember Alright,
MI tudlIlidh, tiIdt tich'y ohiy so'S ASSi-
procity on forty-two articles and | believe
Canada had the advantage on forty then.
Laughter But by the Mills bill they will
gain the other two. Laughter Canada
is given in this bill great deal larger trade
with the United States for nothing than was
embodied in the treaty which aimed at reci-
proclty. There need not have been mo-
ment's dispute on the fishery ques-
ton if we stand ready to con-
cede the American markets to Canada,
as the Mills bill does, Canada will give us
equal rights in her fisheries for the enormous
privileges conceded and pay boot for the
chance, and yet President Cleveland recon-
mended all the concessions in the Mills bill,
and in addition made a treaty with England,
surrendering the rights of American fisher
men. Couldn't he have found some other
American rights to give up? When arrested
in his surrender of our fishing rights, by the
defeat of the treaty in the Senate, the Presi-
dent, as we all know SO well i'll ORDER to show
his deep displeasure with the republican
Senate for lis course, proposes to go the OPP
posite extreme (until after elecuon) and
punish Canada. Why, by the same course
of reasoning, will not the President as soon
as the Senate defeats the Mills bill, make
another somersault and change as radically
IN regard 10 tariffs as he has III regard TO the
fisheries. MAY not his beiated letter of ac-
ceplauce disclose snch radical but tempo
rary change, as will show hlm to be protec-
zionist up to the point OF prohibtory tariff
Would it be one whit more inconsistent than
a,s sudden conversion on the nsherIesf
All these questions which directly involve
the prosperity of our State and ut every mau
in it should not be mere issues between re-
publicans and democrats. The value OF
DAYS work the protection of our industries,
the preservation of American rights are all
larger questions than party organization or
party triumph. You pay your taxes in
Name, you pay your taxes III the United
States, you yield obedience, you owe your
allegiance, you observe the laws, you live
under the tiag, you stand ready TO tight for
the national union, as you already have
fought. Beyond the frontier, across that
river, our neighbors choose another govern
ment, another allegiance. They are subjects
of Queen Victoria, they are loyal To her
Majesty. They live under foreign flag
and do exactly as they have right to do.
neither dispute their right nor deny their
situation. 1t is their right to choose for
themselves as it is our right to choose for
ourselves; but | am opposed to giving the
Canadians the sentimental satisfaction OF
waving the British flag, paying British taxes
and the actual cash remuneration OF Ameri-
can markets. Great applause. They can
not nave both at the same time. III they
come with us they can have what we have,
but it is an absolute wrong against the rights
of American citizens thai millions of men no
owe the United States no allegiance,
who take no part nor lot with us, who are
not of us, but choose to be foreign to us, it
is an absolute wrong for democratic Congress
to say thst they shall have exactly the same
share in our markets and the same privileges
of trade under our tiag that we have. APP
plau e. do not believe any geLtlen ton
the other side who may now be doing me the
honor to listen to me, would say himself. glad
as he might be OF the advantage, that 1t was
lair play. 1t is not fair play tits not TAX
ing care of your own. 1t Is not looking out
for the rights of those who are ODE iient, hon
est and loyal citizens, ami government
would be in default as to the duty 1t owes the
humblest citizen if it chose to say we have
no market here that shall be sacred to our
people, any more than it shall be sacred to
those 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 its inhabitants. The
strong government. There are able and
clever men at the head of it. They have
done wonderful work and they have made
wonderful progress, and don't believe there
is a citizen of the United States from one
end of the country to the other that envies
the people of the dominion all the prosperity
they may attain. The greater prosperity she
NAV attain, the better for those of us who
are trading with her. | wish them God
speed. but so far as can help it, do not
mean that they shall be Canadians and
Americans at one and the same time. Great
applause. They can choose their side of
the question and remain over there. We
will obey all laws towards them. We will
maintain all treaties with them. We will
stand faithfully by our word in letter and
spirit. We will treat them as neighbors,
and in peace rs friends, men decended from
the same British Isles that the vast
majority Of the citizens of the United States
are, but l repeat that We don't love them
well enough 10 invite them in to sit down at
our hearth stones and take part of that which
belongs to our own tireside and our children.
I have spnken freely because | have nothing