The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-10-16

lnbo puoiAe9o. CONFESS - " 1o IL -,
some what deceived when ] saw bhelr
publication, hut when the. manufacturers
came before us in committee OF Mays
and Means, took pains to question Gneni
as to the extent of their work, ana Iounu
that
WITHOUT AtsINGLE EXCEPTION (
Everything that was IN motion was
in motion simply Ito save their own
employees from scattering and themselves
from . breaking down their manufac-
turing organization. When mill runs
three days week do you suppose there
is profit in it for anybody, or when a
mill shuts down two days and runs four
days. or shuts down four days and runs
two days, do you imagine there ls happl,
ness In that village? Do not be deceived
workmen; do you not know Wnether
there is great demand for labor now or
not?
Now, my friends, while this condition
of things exists all over the country,
there sits in secret in Washington COM
mittee made up largely of Southern
Democrats, a-cotnmitteet that does not
adhere TO the present, even in outline. 4
of the DemocraticCo Committee of Ways and
Means. don't say it on account of any
sectional prejudice, though will explain
what mean by it, That
THE SOUTH CONTROLS
The Democracy, is evident from what
happened only yesterday, when the
Northern Democrats undertook to rebel
and say that the Southern brethren should
not wipe out the recognition of the right
Of the Federal government to have control
over its own elections !. How thoroughly
coWed they We're before they got through
with it. And yet Mr.. Springer, of Hi
nois does not know that he is a dough-
face. He thinks he isn't. These men
followed their support from the very
natural fact that the great bulk OF the
Democratic party comes from the South,
look for preferment for political honor,
and, therefore, they are controlled. Now
| do not care where any man comes from
North, South, East or West. What
care for in government matters is, what
are his principles? What is his policy?
What are the principles and what is the
policy upon industrial matters?
The Southern Democrat has been edu-
Gated under the doctrine of Calhoun.
He has been brought up in the spirit of
THE CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION
And the last Democratic platform. He
believes it thoroughly, and what he wants
is to sell his single crop of cotton across
the ocean and bring back its produce in
British labor. That Is what he wants.
Now, having the power, do you believe
that he means not to use it? If you do,
you don't understand Southern
f ssye mentality % lay of fApp ssem, not
that they have the courage Of their con-
victions, but they have the courage of
their lack of knowledge, No man rushes
on danger who thoroughly knows what
it is. There is no man so
brave in, the face off, disaster as
one who has never tasted it. 4 The South
IN man sknows nothing OF the bulk OF
When you tell them of the tremendous
institutions which grow in Northern
States they do not comprehend it, 1t is
only pictu re to them. but to us it is
LIFE AND PROSPERITY ITSELF.
You should see the look which they give
the manufacturers who come before them
Ifyou could witness the contempt which
they spour upon those Northern Demo-
Gratis who come before us for the purpose
of advocating protection, you would have
realized as you never will into what
hands you have fallen. Why, Governor
West, of Virginia. himself a Democratic
Governor of a Dcmocratic State
made one corner of the Capitol
fairly ring with his denunciation of the
proposition to put coal upon the free list,
although he is a free trader himself, and
had to admit that pnf laboring men
received for their labQrf in mining coal
not one cent sRighef wages than the
miners received in Nova Scotia; but he
o oad ste w0a said destroy the yonr mnea
closed?" He said, mo, they are not; but
I am afraid they will be. (" / said, Are
your mines closeds" He said, mo, they
are not; but amsafraid they will be. 4"
I said, Are you ready to give protection
to the other parts of the country" He
said he did not see the necessity. | said
"Why, the mills in New York and Massa-
chusetts are shut up already, and you are
only threatened, yet you talk in this
very violent fashion of what will happen
to your people" What he said of the facts
as to his people was truessof all the people
all over this country. If this Is the
shade of the Democracy that is hanging
over us, and this their attempted admin
istration, what will follow when they
dCUudlly UdhC pOSSoSSlOu VI Oulo COuAUIy!
Again ask, are we helpless? Let me
say that if the people of Ohio and the
people of the United States have not
had a sufficient objective lesson to burn
the idea into their souls that protection
is better for the people of the United
States; # they are going to act under the
sudden impulse and now to 60 back and
renew this old fight over again, then
L say with all my heart, don't go with
us, go the other way. We have had fight
enough, If you don't believe what I
have said, if you have not had this
lesson, perhaps another chapter out of
the same primer will teach you so you
will never forget it the rest of your NOR
tai life.
Therefore, say, if you are not satisfied;
if you still believe that the number of
manufacturing establishments in this
country has nothing to do with wages;
if you still believe that you can get
wages by such stuff, stay where you are
For my part,
I AM A BELIEVER IN PROTECTION.
believe in it because it seems to me to
be the general sentiment of the world.
AS I said to you year ago, every
country, except Great Britain is for
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