Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-06-22

destruction Of the markets which of right
belonged to our own producers, the Grip
ping of the agricultural and industrial ca
rsrprises of Maine, ani the gradual impov-
erishnsenr OF the men who produced pro-
duets of the American market. lie said
thai the Republican party never would con-
sent 70 put the industrial and producing
people of the country into competition with
ths poorly paid labor of other countries
That the Democratic policy of tariff raform
wouki permit this, bat the Republican pol
icy Of protection wouh prevent il,
4 Mr.. Cieaves continued, saving tha, the
J people of this country have more than once
f seen the practical operation of the principle
Z OF tariff reform thar Is nov being a,irocated
/ by the Democratic party; that il was the
same principle that more than once hereto
j fore has brought upon the people financial
disaster and depression when great public
! improvements were checked. industrial en-
terprises paralyzed, agriculture depressed
and the people without employment. The
I people saw lis operation in this country for
u few wears previous TO 1850, and when the
Republican party assembled al Chicago in
/ the latter year facing the darkness of the
/ future IL boldly declared under the leader
! ship of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal
I Hamlin, for the principles OF nationality
AMI protection 10 American industries; that
when the people came out of the great con-
( test which followed the declaration of Re
{ publican principles at Chicago, the country
had only shout fifteen billions of national
wealth, which. under the policy of protec-
ton, has increased TO more than sixty bill
lions and is observed in the growth and de-
velopment of towns and cities in Guilty yated
farms and prosperous homesteads, in better
educational opportunities and institutions
multiplied churches, charitable, benevolent
and Christian associations. all exercising
that moral and healtAful influence in the
community that makes homes happier, peo-
pie better and the State more prosperous.
Mr.. Cleaves said that the products of the
farm the factories and the shops were con
nnually increasing in this country that
more than ~ per cent. of the products of
American labor were finding a ready mar
ket in the United States, and that under the
principles of reciprocity our country was
opening up new markets with other ma
tions that would require more than our sur
plus products, and the beneficial results
were being seen in development of Maine's
resources and industries.
Mr.. Cleaves paid a tribute TO the men
who saved the republic and said the prin-
ciple was then established for all time and
this nation had the right and the power to
preserve its own life, and that the Ameri-
can people in this contest would determine
that they had the right 10 protect and pre-
serve their own prosperity. He said the
old soldiers of the republic, who, from the
intrmities of age or by reason of wounds
received or disabilities incurred were no
longer able 10 do battle in the active affairs
of life, should have food and shelter, and
that they should have it as men and not ms
charity, and that he believed this TO be
sound Republican doctrine and principle
that would be upheld by the people of this
country, Young and old
Mr.. Cleaves commended the administra-
ton of President Harrison, and the wise
and vigorous foreign policy of the state de-
par,ment under the direction of Maine's
distinguished statesman, Mr.. Blaine.
Continuing. Mr.. Cleaves said that free
wool, the free importation of agricultural
products, the unrestrned importation Of
goods that come into competition with
Names industries would not be for the best
interests of our people. That a clipped
and deprecated dollar, whose first purpose
after il entered the channels of trade
was to pay for labor and for the products
of Maines industries would not be bene-
fetal To her interests. lie said that the
Republican party stood united in preserving
the American market for the products of
American labor and in maintaining n stan
dar,l of money that would travel and hold
its value with the circuit of the sun" He
urged upon the convention united action
and earnestness in the coming contest, say
ing that if Maine did her duty in September
she would roll upa Republican majority
that would strengthen the hands of the Re
publican hosts throughout the nountry. He
sa,! that Maine was firm and immovable in
her Republican position and that her people
were as true and devoted to Republican
principles as were her soldiers to the flag of
the country in the hour of the nations
peril. Loud and long applause.