The Portland daily press., 1888-09-03

where you can buy the cheapest, and you
sell where YOU can sell the dearest" And
they are willing to make him believe that II
he can buy cheap manufactured goods ana
+ ien is ms worth, that this is
Christian doctrine. This Is a .damnable
doctrine, and 1t is Democratic IApplause.]
What business has one American to tear
down another American ny.a clIl3en,s l: business
man to say in the West that he shall be pros
porous and you shall not be? III this is
Christianity, in the rough language Of the
West, "Hell is full Of just such Christians"
'Why." he says to HIM, "You can buy Eng
lish manufactured goods cheaper than you
can buy American manufactured goods, and
if you adopt free trade it opens this country
to the markets of the world" What are the
markets of the world? Why, they are the
land, and Russia. and Austria and Italy. The
only one of these countries that is not pro-
tected country Is ngland, and ii the English
market is worth anything, it is open to you
now; and anything the Democratic party
may do by way of legislation in America
won't open the markets of France and Ger
many to the American people. SO you see
you do not open the markets of the world to
the farmer, and he cannot sell bushel Oh
wheat more tomorrow to England than he
more mouth in, England to feed;
Free trade don't create men and
women to eat wheat England buys just as
much wheat today as she needs, she VIII
buy no more tomorrow than she does today;
and if she she can buy cheaper from Russia
or India, she will buy it there. What do we
want with the markets of the world? 1t is
the world that wants our markets. Jap
plause.J
The greatest thing in this country, next to
our men and women, is our markets. The
internal commerce of the States is greater
than the commerce of all Europe. There are
more goods transported down through that
little river where live, upon vessels, than is
There is more business done over the Penn
sylvania Central Railroad than the whole
commerce of England. We have got the
markets, my Democratic friends, don't you
forget it, and we are going to keep them.
Now, what are we going to gain by this kind
of business? Ii we give up our markets,
what is England going to give us in ex-
changer True, it may be cheaper manufac-
tured goods; but the Englishman makes
them. and the Englishman gets the pay for
them, and the result of it will be that we
will put this money into the hands of the
English workingmen instead Of our own. If
you fellows want to work for English cheap
wages, you want to vote, the Democratic
ticket; but you never will do it as long as
the Republican party lives. have got no
kind of sympathy with that kind of work.
ingmen. l only wish they might be set off
inl little country BY themselves and run
for little while, and see what would come
of it.
Why, what have we got to complain of in
this country? We have prosperous Union,
we have got perfect free trade between all
these States. Ii l make thing in Michigan
can send 1t here to you people and sell it.
met yesterday in this Falmouth Hotel man
from Lansing, Mich, who was here selling
his goods, and he also sold these same goods
In washington Territory. Where there is a
0raQffm4rkQf Ic IN int arab q nn nj no Ia
there is a diversity of employment. One
man can do one thing, and one another. If
you should send New England operatives to
the West to do farming, they would starve to
playing on one Of those instruments up there
lpointing to the band would clear this hall
in fifteen minutes. As Artemus Ward, who
was native OF your State, believe, once
deliver such lecture as Edward Everett
can, and Edward Everett cannot deliver
such lecture as / can" We have got to de-
velop the best characteristics of man in the
way In which he goes. So, where we have
all these industries we have the best intelli-
gence of every citizen directed in the way his
conscience or his ability leads him. In this
way we are absolutely independent of other
nations, and If, as Major Mckinley said in
his tariff speech in Georgia short time ago,
country, we should suffer for nothing but SUI
gar, tea and coffee. Ny conscience for
country What Republicl Self-sustain-
ing in every particular. If we have war, we
can manufacture our own guns, build our
own ships, make the clothing that we put up
on our soldiers, and the West will send you
grain that will support them.
The Democrats say we are only taking
step in free trade, we are for reform, we are
for incidental protection,we are for anything
to beat the Republicans. 1t it the same dog
by another name every time. 1t is tendency
toward free trade, and when man has
tendency to the devil, don't you follow him.
Laughter and applause.l
| General Frazier continued at some length,
giving the main points of the tariff argument
in clear and logical manner. which was
continually enlivened by witty remarks at
the expense of the Democratic party. He
had much to say also of the Irishman in
America, and there was tremendous burst
Of applause when he said there were not so
many Irish Democrats as before James G.
Blaine.began his career.
| In speaking of the surplus, Gen. Frazier
| said that that seemed to be a new thing
| to the Democrats, but that he had a way Of
| disposing of it; that after cities like Port
land had been defended by the proper forti-
| fications, he would spend the rest Of it or at
least considerable portion thereof, in an
attempt to repay the soldiers for their in
valuable services to the country.
| The speakers remarks were interrupted
| by almost incessant applause, and at the end
three r0using cheers were given for Harrison
and Morton, and three for the speakers of
| the evening.