The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-06

poslts OIL our people IN our savings banks
were increasing. We had prosperity IN
exampled in the history of our country
UP to the closing hours of the last Re-
publican administration, but with the
advent of the Democratic party into
power paralysis in business and lack of
employment came. And it came because
the great interests of the country saw
that legislation hereafter was to be con-
Quoted upon sectional grounds. for the
benefit OF the South and the detriment
of the North. 1t came because the
people saw that there was to be deter
mined effort to bring the great industrial
interests of the Northern States under
the operation of English treetrade.
Though the people and the business in
terests OF the country saw these things
the power ofsimmediate relief had gone
from their hands. Though they regret
cd the verdict they rendered in 1899 the
power OF reversal was not then within
their grasp; it will come, however, as
soon as the forms of law will permit;
and during the coming fall you will see
Repu bllcan House of Representatives
elected by the people to take the place
OF the present Democratic body that has
SO long trified with and ignored the in
terests of the country; body that has
practically denied the right of petition
and refused to even listen TO the appeals
that have gone up to them in behalf of
unemployed labor.
And | am justified in saying that if
Repu blican Congress had been elected in
1892 instead of a Democratic Congress
we would not have seen the terrible con-
ditions that have surrounded the in
dustrial interests of the people for the
last twelve months.
The business interests of the country
saw and appreciated the cause, as they
have demonstrated in every election that
hoe 1r7y.i ha CT 5Ast,k
months. They appreciate that depression
and disaster and lack of confidence,
came with the success of the Democratic
party, party that is governed and con-
trolled In it's legislation by the Southern
wing of the party, the same element in
that party that more than thirty years
ago undertook to establish government
of their own, founded upon the princi-
pies of slavery, State rights and free
trade; but the great industrial sections
of the country then arose in their might
and majesty and destroyed the founda-
ton upon which they were seeking to
rear their structure. Emancipation
came, and by the noble act of Abraham
Lincoln slavery is abolished forever: the
Southern theory of State rights is dead
and buried, but the principles of free
trade still lives with the South and they
are determined TO fasten them upon the
industrial North.
The blighting touch of their proposed
legislation has already been felt by the
people of Maine. In their tariff policy
they strike with a cruel and devastating
hand, at the great agricultural and luni-
bering interests of the State; they strike
with a merciless blow at our fishing,
our granite, and our slate Industries, our
pulp and our paper interests, our manu-
featuring enterprises and almost every
thing that Maine is interested in; and
to levy tri butte in the form of an income
tax upon the savings of the working
people, deposited in the savings banks Of
the State, and this is Democratic tariff
reform, EN- bodied in the Wilson bill, and
applied to the State of Maine: the same
tariff reform policy that the Democratic
State committee of Maine, speaking for
it's party here in this city within the past
few weeks Endorsed as sound Democratic
doctrine. They expressed in emphatic
language appreciation of the efforts
of their party representatives in Congress
to pass the Wilson bill and solemnly re-
solved that they believed it's passage
would be of benefit to the business in
terests of Maine and advantageous to the
masses of the people of the State. Bene-
fetal to the business interests of Mainel
Maine is manufacturing, commercial
and agricultural State. 1t is only an
imaginary line that separates large
part of her territory from a foreign
country, and when you strike down the
barrier of protection that now surrounds
the products of the labor of her people
and their industries, it's baneful effects
will be felt in almost every home in the
State.
The Wilson bill, advantageous to the
masses of the people of the Staten Bene-
fetal to the workingmen of the State.
So say the Democratic State Committee
of Maine, representing their party.
would like to ask the masses of the
people, the men who labor in our mills
and our shops and our manufactures,
how they expect to find employment at
home, at remuneragive wages, if Great
Britain is to do our manufacturing and
supply our markets and our people with
the products of her mills and her shops,
as proposed by the Wilson bill?
| would like to inquire of the men
who find employment in the great lime
industries of the State, industries that
are needed in building up prosperous
towns and cites within our borders, how
they can expect to Nhave continued en-
ployment in that industry, if we are to
surrender to Canada the American mar
ket, and allow her ana her cheap labor
to furnish us with that product and cur
tail the production of our own. J. would
like to ask the men who are employed in
the great lumber interests of Maine, the
men, that labor in ner forests, on her
rivers and in her mills, cutting and pre-
pairing that great product for market,
how Lhey expect to find emp1Ovment AFT