Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-23

tion of the principle and policy of the
Democratic party.
The people do not like their income tax
They do not like their way of dealing
with the Sugar Trust;
They do not like what they have done
for the Whiskey Ring;
They do not like their foreign policy;
They do not like their plan of repeating
the tax on state banks circulation and
reviving the wildcat currency of the times
before the war;
They do not like their sectional policies
They do not like their protecting sugar
and rice of the South, and their putting
Northern wool on the free list.
Mr.. Cleveland has brought the party in
two years to the condition to which il
took 100 to bring the onc-hoss shay of the
Puritan deacon:
"First a shiver, and then thrill,
Then something decidedly like spill
And the parson was sitting alone on rock,
At half past nine by the meeting house clock
Just the hour Of the earthquake shock.
You see of course if you are not a dunce,I
How it went to pieces and all at once.
All at once, and nothing first
just as bubbles do when they burst"
This is not merely II meeting for con
gratulations. The Home Market Club,
| suppose, means to maintain this contest
until it is settled, and settled rightly.
have been much delighted with the do
ings of "A meeting held in Boston, night
before last, of the gentlemen who, / sup
pose, you are to consider as your antag
onists One of their speakers said that he
cnvicd the Home Market Club, because il
had always boldly said what it meant
and meant what il said. Those gentlemen
purpose hcnccforth to throw of the mask
of tariff reform, which they admit has
been mask, and to stand out as free
traders Their speakers have been in tho
habit of saying politely that we lied whcr
we said that they were free traders. They
propose to be honest hereafter, and hardly
conceal in their own speeches that they
think they have not been honest up to this
time They say in their constitution:
''The method of the League shall be tt
| enlist the conscience, intelligence ant
patriotism of New England against The
system called protection, which, at tho
dictation of organized wealth, taxes The
whole American people for the benefit O
the few.
Well, am glad that these gentlemen
have not only changed their name ant
their principles, and resolved to live al
honest political life hereafter, but hav'
changed their venue. They appeal to th'
conscience, intelligence and patriotism o
the people of New England The only con
science, intelligence and patriotism thel
have succeeded to satisfy up to this time
is the conscience, intelligence and patrio
tism of Tammany Hall and the Black Bel
of the South. The bureau of education
published, after the census Of 1880, maj
which it called the map Of illiteracy, wher
the different parts of the United State
were shaded with black, or were left IL
proportion to the Ignorance which th'
census disclosed.
If they had accompanied it with ;
similar map which had shown the region
where secession or disuniOn sentiment hat
prevailed in the time of the war, Nortl
or South, and if they had accompanied i
with similar map showing where TIN
free trade sentiment of the country bat
been the strongest, the three maps would
have been substantially identical, and eacl
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