Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1892-10-20

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millions Of dollars. But most Of 1t,
whether by Republicans or Democrats, is
spent for good cause. 1t costs good deal
to run your country, and give you this
great postal system, this coast system
even your New England department, your
war department. your ships. they cost
something; and l am inclined to think the
difficulty is that we do not spend enough,
for some of the departments are not de-
veloped as they ought to be; but the shame
OF 1t Is that the Democratic party assailed
our Congress for spending so much, and
when they came into power spent even
more. You see difference in the parties
in the commercial and economical expen-
| ses
The Democratic party in its platform
and in Congress has declared in favor
of the repeal Of the tax on State banks.
We can have no State banks now. And
why? In order that the old State bank sys.
TEN may not be revived To-day you have
the best national currency in the world or
that this country ever saw, and dollar
| Dill issued In Texas or Kansas to-day is
| perfectly good here or anywhere else.
! Some Of you can remember the days of
the old State banks when nobody dared to
| take bill in Massachusetts that was is
sued thirty miles from Boston; you had to
| look and see If it was genuine or If the
bank had not stopped payment; it involved
questions of exchange, and the desire now
Is to return to 1t. Why? Because the
Democratic party-not here in Massachn-
sets, but the Democratic party at large
is impregnated with this fallacy of cheap
money. And that is why, coming to the
second question, the Democratic party is
In favor of the free coinage of silver; that
I { is b,
dollar, and free silver means cheaper cur
rency. 1t is the same thing running all
| through. We are candid and say to YOU
that that same disease runs into the Re
publican party. In some States there are
some Republicans who yield to that falla-
cy, only the fact is the great body of the
Republican party is In favor of sound
currency. The great bulk of the Demo
cratic party. as shown by its vote in the
convention and in Congress, is in favor Of
debased currency, while some Of them
agree with us Now, why do they want
that cheaper currency? In order that they
may skim down their debts, pay their
debts in cheaper coin, get discount of 20
per cent. on every debt they pay. But
who are the creditors OF this coun,ry9
The great body OF the laboring men. La
Dor has hardly anything except It's hands
10 idpuf hHti itS toIl All tlt has got To
buy bread with is his labor He is the great
creditor of this country. He is the man
who would suffer. We IN New England
are not prepared for any such doctrine as
that, and so | say, wipe out the name Of
Republican or Democrat, and we should
agree here with one vote with the party
which puts in its platform that 1t will
give us a good. sound currency. Now
some one speaks up and says, cleveland is
not a free silver man" | do not think he
Is honestly. | think he is good sound
man on the currency itself. but it is not
MIR. Cleveland that will be elected II Mr.
Harrison is defeated. You elect the party.
and even with man OF sound. strong will
like Mr.. Cleveland, 1t is very noticeable
how much he Is affected by the influence
back Of him. Last spring there was a
contest In the State OF Rhode Island and
the one great Issue there was the coinage
of free silver. II was pending in the
House of Representatives. With the tar
III it was almost the only question on
which the election In Rhode Island was
decided, and Cleveland went there to
speak on the question, but he never utter
ed one word In favor OF an honest curren-
cy. Why? Because the Democratic par
tv going to hold its convention In
May, and in the interests of his party, in
his own interests, he did not dare to come
out against a sound currency lest 1t might
hurt him In the convention.
Now, give him all the credit you please,
yet the influences of the party control him.
There IS not any question about Harrison.
Applause Where Harrison goes he is
not afraid to state that he is against de-
preciated currency. Applause Now, |
think that is due very much to the native
courage Of the man, and also to the fact
that he knows that the party behind him
is with him.
Take the tariff question. We may differ
very much upon that. But ask anybody
here, supposing the business interests OF
this country were in your hands one or
two years, after ten years dispute, after
Mills bills and other fellows bills which
did not go through, you at last adopted
the Mckinley law and In the last year 1t has
been in operation, and the whole business
interest of the country has adapted itself
to it. Is there a business man here who
would say he would set aside that law?
Do you think IL would be a good. safe
thing to do? And that is what is going to
control this campaign. II is not the flags
you raise, though | am glad to see the Old
American flag raised; 1t is not the sky
rockets; it is not the bands of music; it is
not Mr. Surbridge and /; II is the quiet
common sense and business interests of
the people which have confidence in Harri-
son and his administration. which have
adapted themselves to the business and the
present order Of things.
Let me talk little while on the tariff,
for ! am inclined to think we are all alike
on that. There Is one thing We agree on.
You cannot get rid of taxes 1t don't
make any difference whether you have Re
publican or a Democratic administration,
you have got to raise very large and enor-
nous sums of money. You cannot keep
house unless you have something to buy
fuel with. 1t costs billion dollars per-
haps to run this government. How are
you going to get it? Nobody will give it
to you. No, you have got to raise it
somehow Now there are two ways by
which you can raise money and carry on
your expenses. One would be just as in
bingham; let MIR. Gardner, whom l see
sitting over there, go round and collect so
much from each man. You do not pay a
cent directly toward the support Of the
government Nobody thinks that would
be wise way. We say here are good
many goods coming in here every year
from foreign ports. We say we will raise
our money by putting duty on imported
goods. Everybody in the world agrees
with that, Republicans, Democrats, Pro-
hibitionists, everybody. Don't you know
that is what Great Britain does? Great
Britain raises more money from tariff than
WE do. There is no such thing as free
trade. 1t is merely name Every gov
ernment raises its governmental funds
| from duty. The free trader or tariff re-
| former says that is the English system
They say put your tariff on imported arti-
cles which you do not raise in your own
country Therefore the Englishman puts
a tariff on tea, coffee and on sugar and on
wines, and only three or four more arti-
cles, and the free trader, so-called, in this
| country, says: Put it on tea and coffee
| and sugar and that sort of thing we do
| not raise any of those in this country We
raise little sugar down In Louisiana, but
| not enough to count 1t Is so little we
can only raise it In a small part Of Louis
| lana. What is the result? A tariff of that
kind of course adds tariff to the cost of
the article. If sugar is worth cents a
pound In Cuba and we put on tariff Of 2
cents, we pay cents. You add the tariff
to the cost and that becomes a tax, be-
cause we do not raise any tea and cannot
compete with China in tea. Now, some
say whatever we do not raise in this coun-
try let it come in free. If you can buy it
for four or five cents let your people have
1t for that but put your tariff on those ar
ticles which we can raise in this country,
because as to those articles we are COM
peting with foreign man, and for heav-
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