Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-06-07
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ton with which you have hitherto entrusted
me, and for which you have Yenominated
me today. To flll that measure is now no
easy task.
A party has come into the control Of the
government, announcing - its cardinal eco
nomic principles, the doctrine of the de-
funct Southern confederacy. 1t discards
the theories of Jefferson and adopts those
of Calhoun. 1t supplants the policy of Lin
coin with that of Jefferson Davis. 1t de-
nounces a. unconstitutional q protective
tariff under which we prospered for 80 years
beyond any precedent in history, and pro-
claims the gospel of free trade whose men,
ace alone has crushed our industries,
robed our labor of employment and brought
poverty and suffering to our people.
Why has it done this! Because in what is
now called the Democratic party the ex-
Confederate element is predominant. The
solid South gives to that party its only hope
Of national ascendency. The ex-rebeIs
know their necessity to it. They know how
completely they hold its fate in their hands,
and they do not hesitate to boldly assume
command of it.
They control its councils, shape its pol
icy and direct its action. Our Democratic
they have great weight as Democrats, Others
and domineering South, as the Democracy
did before the ar,well knowing the humil-
iating position of subordination which they
hold. But however they feel about the
place they occupy the old rebel South takes
the helm of the ship, trims its sails to suit
itself, steers whatever course it chooses,
Lob 1o tkA vhN aoH
upon this craft are only passengers.
furnishing votes and filling share of the
offices. That is all. It is the solid South
which is today running the government. And
what a mess it is making of it. Were it IN
spired by motives ever so patriotic, it is
fifty years behind the times and utterly
unfit to administer the government now.
Its people fail as completely to comprehend
the great industries of the North, how these
industries are interviewer with the personal
welfare of our people, and how blow
struck at them skaters the nerve centres
of every community, and brings disaster
and distress to almost every family, as if
they had spent their lives in the centre of
Africa, or the South Sea islands.
They have never done business. They
have never lived in business doing communi-
ties. For three generations they have been
raising negroes and cotton and fighting the
country.
They have had no opportunity to become
acquainted with this busy, Industrious.
progressive North and the legislation which
its industries require.
But they do not come to the control of
the government with entirely patriotic feel
ings. Their lack of enlarged views and
broad public spirit is not their only ditquali-
fcation for the government &C. the country.
They take the reins in their hA> 's. by the
grace of the Democratic party which they
manage, with two other very damaging and
even fatal disqualifcations. One is their
tenacious adherance to their old rebel
theories for which they fought to destroy
the country, and which every where and
upon every opportunity they bring to the
| front and struggle to engraft upon
the nation, and make them finally
triumphant. The other is their con-
tinuous efforts to get even with us for de-
feating them in their attempt to disrupt the
Union and set up on their own account.
Hampered by these fatal disqualiications
they are nov endeavoring to enact our laws
and administer the government. How
can they do it inteligently and well? Their
utter failure is seen wherever our eyes are
turned, in the ruin which they have brought
to almost every industry and every pursuit.
They have not only done nothing wisely
but have adhered to no principle. Their
policy of free trade so Ostentatiously pro-
claimed in their national platform, is found
to have meant free trade only for the North.
Their own industries and the great trusts in
the country which could contribute large
sums to Democratic campaign fund,
are most amply protected by their
tariff bill now pending in the Senate.
That bill is as protective as the present law, /,
but its protection is not for you. 1t is for
the South and the trusts. What a career it
has had in the Senate. Is there respecta-
BILE Maine Democrat who would be respon-
eible for it? Who is not heartily ashamed
of it? Who does not deplore its present con-
sequences to the country and is not dazed
at what it threatens in the future?
Has there ever been such aconscienceless
proceeding in our history? This tariff bill,
tariff reform bill l,kicked about 10 the Senate
to answer the purposes of stock gamblers,
one end of it in the capitol and the other
end in Wall street, the committee consort-
ing with the king of the sugar trust while
its doors were shut against the represents
tives of our great industries and labor or
CARNATIONS, and all the time the business of
the country languishing, the wealth of the ma
ton melting away and workingmen wander
ing about the country in enforced idleness.
This tariff bill, the child of ex-Confederate
prejudice and the greed of the great trusts,
as injurious to the country as it is infamous
in its paternity, now suspended between
life and death under the hands of its doc
tors, the free traders and the stock brokers
we behold as the issue of the great labor Of
the party of economy and reform. What
an offspring it is, and how it is being uursed
Divine providence and the king of the sugar
trust alone know what will be its fate. But
it is the progeny Of not the pride of that
conglomeration of diverse and discordant
elements known today as the Democratic
party. 1t would be entirely ridiculous if il
we're not disastrous.
i But the hostility of the controllers OF
wba. is now called the Democratic party
to the North is shown not only in their tariff
bill which is so absolutely sectional in it's
character, but no less in attacks of that
party upon the veterans of the Union arm
les.
In the White House, the Senate and
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