Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-10-01
TRUTHS TOLD
Vigorously and ConvincingIy
by Ex-senator EdmundS
At Dinner Given by the Norfolk Club
in Boston.
Wholesale Arrest Of German Soldiers Charged
With Being Anarchists.


address of the evening was By Hon. Geo.
F. Edmunds, the venerable ex-senator of
Vermont. 1t was brilliant effort. He
Republican party since 1861 and the opposi-
.ion it had rec, ived TO its wise legislation
from the Democratic party.
Referring to the recent legislation of the
Democratic party on the tariff, he ssid
Now comes this Democratic performance
laughter, and with this dead and alive
Uill when the President of the United
States, the head Democrat, declares to be
perfiiious, and truly, and allows it to be-
come a law. What is the conss quence?
rhe consequence is that the Cubans, Span
iards, Brs zlllans. the whole set, all round J.,
Immediately Withdraw from their under
taking, made automatically, and put them
selves on the same footing that they were
before, and the American flour and the
American cloths and the American hams
and bacon and the American cured fish
pays the old fashioned duty, while the gen.
erous Democrats say to them, You may
bring all your things into our country with
out pay ing any DUTY at all, and conse-
quently, as it was in Brazil when we re-
duced the duty on coffee 20 years ago on
the false theory sf giving the poor man 3
cheaper breakfast, the price of coffee in
Rio, which furnishes seyen-tenths of all the
coffee used in the United States, went up
as quick as the telegraph could flash by
Just the amount that Congress had taken
off, and $l0.000,000 year dropped out of
The treasury and into no Americans
pocket. That is what YOU have got now,
gentlemen, with this new order of sweet
things that these gentlemen have given
daughter, and | don't care, US | said be-
fore, by what name men call themselves,
for parties are nothing but aggregations of
men who must cooperate and work to-
gether to accomplish great public ends; l
don't care by what name men call them
selves, Democrats, Republicans or what
rot. If there is any man calling himself q
Republican here who likes that sort of
thing then he better vote what is called the
Democratic ticket; but if there IS outsi ie
of US in this city or in this state or any
where in this country, any honest man who
calls himself Democrat and does not like
that sort of thing, he better vote with US
and stop it. (Applause.)
| do not think it would have been posi-
bic for any administration that could have
been put together by all the competitors
and rivals of the UUted States in the trade
and operations of man TO have framed a
law, which is called this reform tantf bill,
that would have worked more adversely to
America and more favorably to foreign in
terests than that. There i, your Ohio wool
man and your Vermont wool man and your
Massachusetts, wool man and your wOolen
rDauuta cturar. Some of the woOlen manu-
facturers used to tell me at Washington,
why we are naturally interested in having
free wool because we can buy it cheaper
[ would say MY friend, are you quite
sure about that
| have got in nv pocket what | cut ont
to read here, but will not because every
body knows it. You have all seen it by a
newspaper, a clipping from London news
paper on tne wool market in London, which
/. the great wool market of the world, as ell
YOU wool men and manufacturers know and
everybody else, that Immediately the GER
tanty of the Democratic tariff perform
ance was made manifest the prlce OF
wool in the London market rose, and rose
l,rgely. Is that for the benefit Of the
American wooden manufacturer, do yOn
farc,? Is that the kind of wool he wanted
to huv? Is it for the benefit Of rs poor men
who have to wear American made clotn
which the Democrats say is dreadfully
bad thing?
have heard the Kentucky senators,
very good men, say, why, a great deal
netter cloth can be got in England than
,an he got>>iu the United States. great
deal cheaper" But we p, ople who have to
ear American made cloth, are we going 20
get anything any cheaper because wool
has risen in London, do you suppose? And
nat is the Democratic proposition. But it
j. amusing lose all patience wrh myself
when talk to intelligent men and take up
vour time talking about such things, be-
cause the way faring man, though a fool in
the street, il he can read a newspaper and
keep his eyes open, can't fail TO know it.
And there it works all round on every
.ide. Every country with which we have
had reciprocity which was equal snd fair
upon the principles that | have stated has
gsiued by jus; that much On its side by
ur making free trade for them, and the
breaking up of these reciprocity arrange
nj nts which were provided for in the Nc
Kinlev bill has enabled them to tax our
producers snd our exporters by just thst
amount. Supposing all you gentlemen
who are engaged IN manufacturing can
stand it for a year or two and try it, mar u
facture Just as much as you did before and
the foreign importstions amount to a couple
of hundred millions of dollars of the
same sort of things that you sre producing
Now, il YOU made just as much as you did
before of these fabrics of every kird that
enter into consumption ana you have got
two hundred millions more that is made
outside all put 90 to your market, do you
think that is going to keep up your prices Z
lake il not
You have got al excess of supply, and il
there 10 enough market 10 take it up, then
should be glad TO kno~ what you are going
t, do with your men when it is once taken
up ard filed up again, who are now en-
z gei in these pursuits. Suppcsing that ali
OF us can buy our coats and our Shoes and
everything that we need from abroad
cheaper than we can buy i, of YOU ard . 9
d, it, then you don't produce it. Whist are
You going TO do with the men that the Dem
ocratic party claim TO be so very fond of,
the hard-working, poor men, the dsy-so-day