The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-06-30

tries were being started, new lines OF Irdue
were being opened, additional lines Of
railroad projected, and in the near future
we should witness the American iron horse,
constructed of American iron and steel,
the product of American skill and labor,
traversing the great counties of Washing
ton and Aroostook, bringing their people
into closer business relations with all sec
lions of the State, widening and broaden
ing their industrial and agricultural enter
prises and permitting them to reach the
American markets without crossing for
eign territory or seeking in their journey
the protection of any other flag than our
own. While the people were combining
their energies to encourage industrial
growth and build up American interests,
the Democratic policy of tariff reform
would retard and depress
MI Cleaves then referred to the action
of the Democratic House of Representa-
tives in its attack upon the great wool
producing interests of America. He said
they We're undertaking to destroy this in
dustry under the fallacious plea for free
raw material; that the value of fleece of
wool represented the care, industry and
expenditure of time of the American
farmer and was his finished product
when ready for the market; that
Maine was interested in this great sub
iect: that her tocks embraced nearly six
| hundred thousand and were of the value
| of more than one million seven hundred
| thousand dollars. But under the principle
of tariff reform this industry was to be
sacrificed, wool admitted free OF duty,
the value of the American tlocks depre-
ciated, and onr people were to be depend
ent upon other nations for this great nat
ural product of American agriculture.
Mr.. Cleaves claimed that under the policy
of protection we We're buying wooden
goods, the product of American labor
cheaper than in almost any other market
in the world. He claimed that the cheap
ness which the Democratic party of the
South proposes to obtain by permitting
the free importation of the goods and pro-
ducts of other countries meant the de-
struction of the markets which of right
belonged to our own producers, the Grip
ping of the agricultural and industrial
enterprises of Maine, and the gradual i'm
poverishment of the men who produced
products for the American market. He
said that the Republican party never
would consent to put the industrial and
producing people of the country into com
petition with the poorly paid labor of
other countries: that the Democratic pol
icy of tariff reform would permit this, but
the Republican policy of protection would
prevent it.
MI. Cleaves continued, saying that the
people of this country have more thar
once seen the practical operation of the
principle OF tariff reform that is now be-
ing advocated by the Democratic party;
that it was the same principle that more
than once heretofore. has brought upon
the people financial disaster and depres
sion when great public improvements
were checked, industrial enterprises pa
ralyzed. agriculture depressed and the
people without employment.
| The people saw its operation in this
country for a few years previous to 1860
and when the Republican party assembled
at Chicago in the latter year. facing The
darkness of the future it boldly declared
under the leadership Of Abraham Lincoln
and Hannibal Hamlin. for the great prin-
| cipleS of nationality and protection -
American industries; and when the ico-
pie came out OF the great contest, which
followed the declaration of Republican
principles at Chicago. the country had
only about fifteen billions of national
wealth, which. under the policy of pro
lection has increased to more than sixty
billions and is observed in the growth and
development of towns and cities, in cult
waited farms and prosperous homesteads:
in better educational opportunities and
institutions, multiplied churches, chart
table, benevolent and Christian assoca-
lions, all exercising that moral and health
full influence in this community that makes
homes happier people better and the
State more prosperous.
Mr.. Cleaves said that the products of
the farm, the factories and the shops
We're continually Increasing in this coun-
try: that more than ninety-two per cent.
of the products of American labor We're
finding a ready market in the United
States. and that under the principles of
reciprocity our country was opening up
new markets with other nations that
would require more than our surplus
products. and the beneficial results We're
being seen in the development of Maine 5
resources and industries.
Mr.. Cleaves paid a tribute to the men
who saved the republic and said that the
principle was then established for all time,
that this nation had the right and the
power to preserve its own life. and that
the American people in this contest would
determine that they had the right to pro
tect and preserve their own prosperity.
He said the old soldiers of the republic,
who from the intirmities of age or by rea-
CURED We're 40 longer able to do battle in
the active affairs of life, should have food
and shelter and that they should have it
as men and not as a charity, and that he
believed this to be sound Republican doe
trine and a principle that would be up
held by the people of this country, young
and old.
Mr.. Cleaves commended the admins
tration of President Harrison, and the
wise and vigorous foreign policy of the
State department under the direction of
Names distinguished statesman, Mr..
Blaine.
Concluding, Mr.. Cleaves said that free
wool, the free importation of agricultural
products, the unrestrained importation of
goods that come into competition with
Names industries would not be for the
best interests of our people; that clip
ped and deprecated dollar, whose first
purpose after it entered the channel of
trade was to pay for labor and for the
products of Maine industries would not
be beneficial to her interests. He said
that the Republican party stood united in
preserving the American market for the
products of American labor, and in main
tanning standard of money that would
travel and hold its value with the ''circuit
of the sun. He urged upon the conven-