The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-11

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and again called your attention to the
country although they have been in pow
er. They have done no harm to the
country although they have been in
power because there was Republican
Senate and Republican President who
prevented them from doing harm. Ap-
plause. They have been unable to repeal
any of your legislation. Has it been good
legislation2 When we started out with
Republican legislation we had an awful
crisis on our hands. I do not suppose
there ever was, in the history of the
world, an administration or party that
had anything like it to contend with. We
did not know it when we started, but we
had on our hands the most fearful war
that the world ever saw which was to
last for four solid years; war for
The Salvation of the Flag and the Repub-
lie.
We spent billions upon billions of dol
lars, and destroyed billions upon billions
more. 1t is perfectly safe to say that
more than six billions of dollars were
spent and wasted in this country during
the first five years of the life of this then
young Republican party: And yet
counting the year upon which we en-
we have actually gained in wealth one
billion of dollars every year from that
day until now. [Applause.] In ten
years we laid up money enough, salted
it, to buy Spain and all her castles, all
her farms, all her houses, all her ships,
all her cattle and sheep and all her treas
uries. Think of itagain. We sacrificed
hundreds of thousands of men, and yet,
counting the year that we came into
power, we have gained one million of in
habitants for every single year from that
time up to the time am now speaking
to you, until now we have reached sixty
four or five millions of people.
Take it again. In 1860 the product of
our farms was one billion eight hundred
millions of dollars. Last year it was
nearly six billions of dollars. In 1860
the product of our mills was but billion
and six hundred millions, while last year
it was nearly seven billions of dollars,
and today the products Of our factories.
our mines and our farms has reached the
wonderful and amazing sum of at least
fourteen billions of dollars. And what
is the best thing of it all, we have used
the whole of that fourteen billions of dol
lars, except about 10 per cent, in the
United States of America. (Applause.)
Why, my friends, there never was a
country in all history or in all this world,
there never was state, or an empire or
a monarchy, (and you may go back to
the day that the Garden of Eden was
settled and follow it down to the present
time,) that can compare with ours in
progress and prosperity. (Applause.)
And that has all been effected in the last
thirty years with no legislation on your
statute books except that which has been
placed there by the Republican Party.
(Applause.) From; the beginning of it to
the Very end we have been followed by
the Democratic Party,!as the sleuth hound
follows a deer simply to pull it down.
Why, take their utterance in their very
last platform in which they laid down
the principle that protective tariff is
unconstitutional. The moment an in
telligent man in this country reads that
his memory goes back like lightning to
the declarations of unconstitutionalit
which have followed the Republican
Party from the Democratic Party from
the day when the Republican Party star
ted to the very moment I am now speak
ing. Unconstitutionality! Why, when
Mr.. Buchanan, who was an intelligent
and patriotic man and one who loved this
country, but unfortunately, Democrat
and imbued with Democratic ideas, saw
this country dissolving and going to ruin
did not he and did not the whole Dem
ocratic Party declare that it was uncon-
stitutional to save it? Unconstitutional to
prevent rebellion! And when our troops
MARCHED down through Maryland do you
not remember the Democratic cry that it
was unconstitutional to march troops
through a sovereign state without having
first obtained the permission of that
state9 Well, we marched them down
through there but we did not obtain per-
mission. We put down the rebellion in
spite of the constitution.
To take another step forward. Do you
not remember when, in the darkest
hours of that rebellion-some of you re-
member it, and the younger men who do
not should have it called to their minds
occasionally-our soldiers had been for
six months without pay, and we had no
money to pay them and could not bor-
row, we were compelled to set the print
ing press at work, and we printed three
OF four hundred million of paper dollars,
and the Democratic party went into
spasms and declared that it was uncon-
stitutional? And yet we printed them
just the same, and
Saved the Country.
Do you not remember when those
greenbacks were 25 or 80 per cent, and
our bonds the same, and we Republicans
passed an act called the Resumption Act,
saying that we would pay our debts in
gold if the people wanted it, that the
Democratic party declared the act to be
unconstitutional? And yet we passed
the Resumption Act and kept it on our
statute books, and our greenbacks and
bonds went to par, and thegreenbacks
were at premium in all the great COM
mercial centres of the land? The day of
re- construction came, and we passed our
acts of reconstruction, and the Demo-
cratic party declared them all to be un-
constitutional. And yet we passed them
and the country was reconstructed Do
you not remember when we passed the
18th, 18th and 18th amendments? The
Democratic party declared them to be un-
constitutional, but we adopted them and
they are part of the constitution today.
If we elect Republican President this
next year and keep the Mckinley tariff
art IN onr hooks for four wears more and