The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-07-28
A Sea Captain Oh the Political Situa-
ton.

To TILE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL. Now
that the two parties have held their con-
ventions and selected their standard bear
ers to claim the suttrages OF the Ameri-
can people, we must soon expect to hear
of the beginning of the campaign, and the
Then. with an honest ballot and honest
count, we may hope to see who the Amer
lean people desire should occupy the
White House for the next four years
Both candidates for the Presidency have
a fair record and it is hard to see where
politicians and stump speakers will find
very much mud to laub either candidate
with. The public record Of Mr.. Harrison
is good: his private life is without stain.
Mr.. Cleveland has no black marks against
him and his record is fan above rppoach.
II is true there were some things about
his four years administration that were
not III the interest of the American people
to foreign steamship companies for car
lying American mails, and giving the con-
tract to supply the army with blankets
to an English manufacturers We want an
administration for the American, without
counting the favors of foreigners We
can supply our own army with blankets,
and supply American steamships for car
ryiny the American mails, without paying
a foreigner to perform that service. The
I'M American part Of Mr.. Cleveland sad
ministration is likely to affect the public
mind next November, and defeat him.
England looks on our national election
with an evil eye. She wants the United
States to adopt her free trade policy, and
she does not expect many favors in that
direction from the Republican party, and
hence favors the election of the Democrat
tic candidate as the one most likely to
show her considerations
The influence of the Government on us
is like that of the atmosphere around us.
Its benefits are so silent and unseen that
they are seldom thought of or appreciate
ed. We seldom think of the single ele-
ment Of oxygen in the air we breathe; and
yet, let that simple, unseen and unfelt
agent be withdrawn, the life giving ele-
ment be taken away, and what instant
and appalling changes would take place
in all organic creation. 1t may be that
we are all what we are in spite of the gen
eral government; although it may he that
without it we should have been far differ
ent from what we are now. 1t is true
with natural resources superior to ours.
That portion of the country known as
the Southern States. stretching from the
Chesapeake to the Rio Grande, is fully
equal, if not superior, in its natural capac-
ity to any other portion of the Globe; but
how many ages and centuries passed be
fore its capacities We're developed to reach
this advanced stage Of civilization. The
same hills rich in ore, the same great riv-
ers, the same valleys and plains. are as
they have been since they came from the
lldHu Oh inc Nlcdlol. l neulcdUeu lnt
uncivilized man roamed over them. fol
how long no history informs us. 1t was
only under our institutions and form OF
government that the natural resources OF
the country have been developed. This
development is the result of the enter
prise of our people under the operations
of the government and institutions under
which we have lived. Even our people
without the fostering care of wise gov
eminent never could have accomplished
what they have. The organizations of So
Getty have much to do with the develop
ment of the natural resources of any coun-
try OF any land. The institutions of a
people, political and moral, are the re-
source from which the germs of their or
ganic structure quickens into life, takes
root and developes into form, nature, and
character. Our institutions constitute the
basis from which springs all our charac-
teristics of development and greatness.
Look at other governments; look around
the world and admire, if you will, the royal
robes of kings, the gilded palaces OF