The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-06-26
DEMOCRATS OF MAINE
Say Republicans Are to Blame For
the Business Depression.
Denunciation OF Chair
man Moore Also Says Something
About Hawaii.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LEWISTON. Me-, June 9e.-Demoo oorats o
the Pine Tree state opened their oonvsn
tion here today. Hon Joseph 4. Moor
of Tbomaston was chosen chairman.
The resolutions favor . submissiol
OF the prohibitory amendment to the peo
pie and favor q s. shour Law, supper
President Cleveland's administration sne
tariff reform.
Chairman Moore outlined his party
views as follows;
Gentlemen of the Convention: w,
meet today. when the business depression
gives the maligner and oroaker a pretexl
for upbraiding the Dem oorstio party, and
an opportunity, by Misrepresentation and
fslsehood. to make the unthinking aud
illogical believe that party respo nsible for
1t. The Democratic party IL not in the
slightest degree responsible for its origin
or continuance. The cause lies at the
door of the Republican party entirely
and completely, from whom we received
II as an unwelcoms legacy.
Money and Misrepresentation they be-
lieve the most potent instruments to as
sure success and continuance In pow er;
and they have used both without stint.
In government policy. in politics, In
any great moral aud religious reforma-
tion. IL is not possible to specially arouse
the friends OF cause to activity without
also arousing its enemies, and so in the
radical move OF the Democratic party for
tarin reform, every trust, every special
industry, singly and in combination, that
were fattening at the expense of the
masses, came to the aid of the Repub bli-
can party; their natural allies poured
money into its treasury, threatened and
frightened their employees, and the cleo
ton of 1888 seemed temporarily adverse
TO the reform.
No New Organizations Needed.
New political organizations are formed
to wage war against class legislation; but
III rightly viewed, they are unnecessary.
The true remedy is TO join with the Demo
cratic party in its war against granting
special privileges, do away with paternal-
ism in the government, and give the
largest individual liberty consistent with
order and proper maintenance of gov
ernment, and If all the ills they suffer are
not thus cured, they will be reduced to
minimum.
Protection is egolsm; free trade Is
altruism; the one is selfish, the other un-
selfish. Protection seeks the aid of the
government for personal aims and gains.
The thorough going protectionist is most
likely TO be n man who has something OF
his own he wants inflated. He usually
wants protection on what he manufac-
lures, and free trade in what enters into
the composition OF the article.
Com binations are formed TO this COM
mon end. and the Republicas party is the
medium. They influence legislation, or
try to. by shutting down manufactures
ON the pretext that proposed tariff legis-
ton Will ruin them. and so compel their
help to sign protests. They produce suf-
Iering that they may make greater
gains. For political effect these Repub-
lican protectionists encourage. IL they do
not organize, what they term industrial
armies, and then point to them as the
product OF industrial depression, from
threatened tariff reduction, knowing its
alsity, and that such armies are made |
Up. not OF honest laborers seeking em-
'loyment. but mainly of men who "toil |
lot. neither do they spin"
The Income Tax.
Now there are different views as to an
ncome tax. and much has been said foi
md against IL. Like other forms of taxes.
hose who have to pay it object most. 1t
) the easiest tax paid. for it is on per-
on's known ability. Give me the income
nd I'll not quarrel about the tax.
BE not impatient at the delay OF con,
ress. An important q aestion is involved
q the Wilson bill, and he who thinks il
an be passed in haste by Democratic will
as not duly considered its magnitude of
etail, nor the obstacles that hostile
minority can place in the way. and have,
} their disgrace and the country's i'm.
Try. Republicans are only filibusters
nd the Republicans Of Maine endorsed
hat.
The governor and lesser lights an
thematize the Democratic and applaud
lie Republican party for treatment of the
'ldier. They expect soldiers to forget
lat Repu blican bosses in Maine sus.
ined them in the field with paper credits
hen lives were at stake, that they might
1T money in their purses How many
ldiers have been in the United States
nate or national house from Maine,
ow many years did Veteran Cleaves
.Ys te=wait- before could be-reeer-l-
zedf My memory tells me that when
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caves and Civilian Burleigh, the vet
an had to step aside. Veterans, they
Y. are good voters, but poor ofiicehold-
About Hawaii ,
in the affairs of
'eign countries is Democratic doc !
ne, and has been observed. We have
en- saved the disgrace that would have c
'ached to US by the abduction Of Ha-
III, under Harrison's So called treaty OF {
nexation, made with revolutionary
first established and then
ognized by that administration for
It purpose. Its wrong was confessed
Offering to pay the deposed queen.
Ix- Minister Stevens had the i'll breed
! TO charge, In an open letter, the
'ereign with whom he had had diplo-
tic relations with licentious conduct. =
W did he knowf II by virtue of his
eial position, he was base to state it.
IL from rumor. bsser still. His let
J, read impartially, condemn him. .
he course OF the president and Secre-
y Gresham In Hawaiian matters has
n too honorable 60 tolerate the con- q