The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-18

forces of the world, it is not the only
| force there is; protection won't do ev-
erything. 1t won't raise the dead, 1t
won't make newspapers accurate, 1t
won't confine stump orators to facts or
even to correct figures: but it is one OF
the
Great Forces of the World,
and, when set in motion. it causes COM
petition between great nations.
Now, fancy the uniformity of prices
that we have had since the Mckinley bill
is to a great extent owing to the fact
that the greediness of importers over
stocked our market and kept prices
down: but, at the same time, the manu-
facturer knows that the goods cannot be
imported at such large profits hereafter
and therefore he will have more chance
for the American market, and therefore
he is encouraged to establish his manu-
facture; while the moment he establishes
his factory he knows he has got to be in
sharp competition, not only with his fell
lows on this side of the water but with
his fellows on the other side; and human
ingenuity is put to work, human ingenu-
ity is harnessed to business, and brains
have their natural result, which
is in the thing OF all
things desired by the human being,
friends that this competition OF the
United States with the whole world is
what is our certainty of lower prices anu
higher wages. Applause
/ said to you that the Democracy never
do what they say. My friends, they are
talking SO much free trade nowadays
that don't believe they quite mean it,
and vet it isn't safe to trust them because
sometimes when all other means are ex-
: hausted the wicked catch us by telling
us the truth.
Now what we want to do is to see that
the State of Maine is where she has ever
been since the Republican party was
formed steadfast and true, ready not
) only to do her duty, but to show the
way to all the people of the United
States TApplause. l am sure that the
First Maine District will not be found
wanting in the great work. [Great ap-
plause.l
General r. e. Frazier
was next introduced. General Frazier
, says he is not a general, but however
that may be, he is born stump orator.
He has a voice that will reach the utter
, most parts of any hall, and manner
J that entertains and pleases. In beginning
his speech he said that when he started
. from his home in Detroit he had no title.
when he arrived in New York he found
himself Colonel, and now he lands in
Portland full fiedged General. Il
, served" said the speaker, ''in the same
: Adlai e. Stevenson. [Great laughter. ]
U | T IN, lilo tho old npUr0 who was called
7 General Some one said to him
l 'sUncle, I did not know you was a
!, general :,
f g Oh yes, its easy to be a general alter
, YOU get to be colonel said the darkey.
t "'But I did not know you was
colonel
"'Oh yes, was born one; was born
in Kentucky
: 6 But if respect for the men who
fought for the Union entities any one to
n the title of general then | hold that l
g merit that title Applause
Gen. Frazier then began an argument
e on the general principles of the tariff,
, dwelling upon the capabilities OF the
people of the United States to compete
:. in manufacturing industries with any OF
> their neighbors. But they could not SO
:, compete and continue to pay the present
Z wages to labor without the tariff. The
= working man here receives " per cent
y more wages than the laboring man across
y the water, and his living costs him only
= II per cent more, If you reduce the
y wages of that man you degrade him.
. I am for letting the laborer IN this
week, and let the laborer across the
:, water eat oatmeal and liver if he wants
!. to. When the free trader is asked What
i the laborer would do if we should put
> him in competition with the foreign Ia
= borer, he answers: "Let him go to farm
q ing.'' swell. should like to see thai
e free trader try farming on some Of
the farms of Maine, where you have tt
= = shoot the seed into the ground with Z
" gum said the speaker. you are able
~ BY the money earned from your indus
:, tries, however, to pay for the products O.
Y the blooming and fertile plains OF thu
)! West. In is claimed by the Democrats
II that the manufacturers become very
:, rich. Well, if anyone is to become rich
70 I should rather see an American get thu
} money than an English Lord APP
. plause.
9 Referring to the Democratic claim tina
= the tariff produced Republican monopo
L lists, General Frazier cited the creates
!. monopoly in the country, the STANDARD
= Oil Company, which is
Managed and Officered by Democrats.
le and deals in an article that is not touched
q by the tariff.
/, One of the most telling passages of tn
4 speech was that in which the point wa
made that the tariff enables nation t
SO develop it's industries and resource
% that it may be independent in peace AM
r invincible in war.
lie Gen. Frazier's remarks on the SO
re called force bill, included some of tn
" best passages of the speech. He said b
e. had Just been in New York and ha'
J. made some inquiries about the humble
IS of dead men that are voted by Tamman
,e every year. He found there was goo
Il, many. He asked how many illiterat
g. men they voted. He found that Their
u were good many of them. He aske'
re how many men that cannot speak TIL
n English language, are voted, and h
n found good many of them, too. An
q what is true of Tammany in New York
g is true in great many Of the large cite
y &c +bo North Vet every one of tlOS