The Portland daily press., 1894-08-09


the Interests of Maine-The Party
of Free Trade should not be Entrusted
with Power.
Liyermore Falls, August sth. A great
crowd of old soldiers and their friends
greeted Governor Cleaves at the Camp
Ground at East Livermore today. 1t
was the occasion of the annual reunion
of the Androscoggin Veterans Associa-
tion, and they gave the Governor royal
welcome greeting his remarks with great
applause.
After the exercises at the Camp
Ground Gov. Cleaves and party drove to
Livermore Falls and grand Republican
rally was held here this evening ad-
dressed by the Governor and Judge Saw
age. An immense crowd was in attend
ance and the enthusiasm was unbounded.
The Governor discussed the proposed
tariff policy of the present Congress and
it's disastrous effects upon the industrial
and agricultural interests of Maine. He
declared that the Democratic policy of
tariff reform meant simply free trade, the
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goods of other countries to be put into
competition with the same quality of
goods now manufactured by our own
worknen thereby cutailing the product
of our own mills and manufactures. He
said their policy meant that the half
paid labor of other countries should
manufacture the goods for our own mar
L. had ~,
under protective tariff, by. our own
people. The Wilson bill means the sur
render of the American market to the
foreign producer, to the injury of our
own labor.
Under their proposed policy they take
almost every article the farmer produces
and either put it upon the free list or
reduce the duty to such an extent that
he must hereafter compete with the
cheap labor of Canada and other coun-
tries. Their policy is to protect almost
every industry in the South that re-
quires protection, and Withdraw that
protectiveEpolicy from the industries of
Maine, of New England and the North,
and leave our people to compete with for
eign producers.
The people of Maine have a deep inter-
est in a protective tariff. We have an
agricultural, manufacturing, and in
dustrial State; and you cannot with
draw the protective policy now in force
without injuriously affecting these great
interests; and even the attempt of the
Democratic party to overturn this policy
has had it's injurious effects upon our
business interests throughout the State.
We have seen, during the past year the
condition of affairs the people were told
would come, if the party of free trade
was entrusted with power. In their
efforts to strike down the policy of pro-
lection that surrounds labor and its pro-
ducts, they have deprived American
work men of employment, and reduced
the income of nearly very producer in
the United States. They heed not the
protests that have gone up to them from
the great industrial States of this Union
against this destructive policy; they ig-
more the appeals that have been made to
them by the great industrial and labor
ing interests of this country. but still
continue in their destructive work. And
while the organization of the Democratic
party in Maine endorses in its platforms
the free trade policy of Democratic
Congress, we shallSEfnd in September,
thousands of men in that party, who
believS in our State, in its progress in its
development and in protecting its great
agricultural, commercially and manufac-
turing interests; men who will place pro-
gress and patriotism above party, and
will not sustain a policy sosssdestructive
of our great interests, as are the provis-
ions embodied in the Wilson bill, now be-
before Congress of the United States.
Judge Savage made an eloquent and
able argument upoa the pending issues
of the campaign.
AT the citizens banquet at the River
side Hotel, after the Republican rally
at Raekomiha Hall, this evening, EGov-
eror Cleaves, Private Secretary Stevens
Judge Savage of Auburn, and Mayor
Noble of Lewiston were present.