Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-06-06

to have continued employment in that in
dustEy, if we are to surrender to Canada
the American market, and allow her snd
her cheap labor to furnish us with that
product and curtail the production of our
own.
l would like to ask the men who are en-
ployed in the great lumber interests of
Maine, the men that labor in her forests,
on her rivers and in her mills, cutting and
preparing that great product for market,
how they expect to find employment at
good wages, when we invite foreign
province to furnish that product to US with
their labor, and thereby paralyze our own
lumbe ring interests.
And well may the great agricultural in
terests of the State inquire how they can
hope to escape the disastrous consequences
that will follow the practical operations of
the proposed Democratic tariff legislation,
which permits the agricultural products of
other countries to be put into competition
with the products of their own farms. The
Republican party has always maintained tina.
the great agricultural interests of the nation
were entitled to protection; that they were
entitled to tariff that would fully protect
and while cotton may now be king in some
sections of the Union, agriculture is the
foundation of the nations growth and pros
perity.
These important questions are before the
people of Maine for consideration, ard their
answer will be given in September. Let
her speak with d voice that shall be heard
from one end of the country to the other.
Let her give to her distinguished Republi-
can candidates for Congress, to her several
county tickets. and to her representatives
to the State Legislature, msjorities that
shall bury the principles of free trade so
deep that they will experience 70 political
resurrection in this progressive and indus
trial State of Maine-prlnciples that deserve
TO lie in common grave with slavery state
rights ard secession.
While national issues are involved and
will be discussed in this campaign, yet the
Republican party of Maine points with
pride to its grand record of the past in the
administration of the affairs of the State.
The great cause of education, so important
to the welfare of commonwealth, has al
ways been generously sustained. You have
maintained an able, an independent and
non-partisan judiciary, whose judgments
are always founded upon the broad princi-
are knowledged to be among the best in
the country. You have pursued financial
policy that has been for the interests of the
State and the people; and in these times of
depression you have been not been pursu
ing the national Democratic policy of in
creasipg your issue of bonds, running the
people in debt,creating deficiencies and ad-
ding to their financial burdens; but you
have been reducing your bonded and your
floating Indebtedness, and relieving the
people of just so much taxation.
You are not creating liabilities in excess
of your income, but are paying promptly
all legal demands from the receipts of the
treasury. And in addition to paying the
current State liabilities during the past year,
you have paid on the outstanding temporary
loan of the State, the sum Of 5000 600, and
an additional sum of $50, 900 has been paid
on your bonded indebtedness; reducing the
State debt during the year $3.50, 700.
This year the State tax assessed upon the
cities ard towns has been reduced $7S, 555.-
81. And even with this large reduction,
you will still be able to pay from the re-
ceipts of the treasury the present year, the
entire balance of 100000 due. on your
temporary loan and the further sum of $780,
600 required by law on your bonded indebt-
edness making a total reduction of your
outstanding State debt, during the years
1898 and 1894, of 100000. -
And at the close of the present year with
your temporary loan entirely paid the finan-
cial condition of your treasury will be such.
that you can in the future meet
any reasonable demands that may
be necessary to promote the in
terests of the State, of her people and her
benefcient institutions, without any embar-
rassment to the treasury; and you will still
be enabled to continue the policy of grad
ually reducing the annual State tax levy
upon the cities and towns of the State. And
should our opponents desire to conduct
their campaign upon State issues, as we'll
a, national, we welcome the freest discus
sion.
And in conclusion my friends, looking
back over the past record of the great party
that was brought into being to resist the en-.
croachment of slavery upon the free terri
tory of the nation, YOU can find its grand
and progressive work recorded in the legis-
lation of your country. In its early history
four million slaves were made free Amer
ic n citizens. The shackles were struck
from their limbs; ard it is a part of the
grand work of the Republican party in
the future, to break and destroy the letters
and chains that are now, under the guise of
tariff reform, being forged for the enslave-
ment of American labor and American in
dustries. Then prosperity will again come
and abide with the American people. Let
us, as members of the party of progress, as
citizens of grand State. and as American
free men, address ourselves to the work
that is before us.
When the Governor had finished nothing
remained but for Chairman Boutelle to de-
clare the convention adjourned, which he
did, thanking them for the honor given him
and for the hearty cooperation of all pres
ent. The convention adjourned at twenty
minutes past two o'clock.