The Portland daily press., 1894-11-23

what it means. Mr.. Reed knows what it
means. The Republican party of this
country knows what it means. In The
first place it means business. 1t means
business in both senses of the phrase.
The A merican people have got tired OF
idle capital and idle workmen, and they
look to the Republican party to put. a
stop to the cause of this condition .or
things, which is the Democratic party.
They were in earnest and meant busl-
ness when they.did it, and they did 1t
because they were in earnest, to have
business revive aud.improve. 1t means
also that the people of Massachusetts
had become tired of the collection Of
political infants who had been Drattllng
and chattering for the last few Years
aboutfgrave economic.questions, and have
concluded that they are not mt to be
trusted with edged tools.
Our. majorlties have been large, put
the real majority is much larger than
has..been shown by theHelection returns.
Wherever elections are free, there the
American people have spoken in favor
of the principles of the Home Market
Club. Whenever they have not so spok-
en-, it is because their voice has been
stif1ed.
This does not mean the condemnation
of free trade alone-it is the condemna-
ton of the whole principle and policy OF
the Democratic party. The people 90
not like their income tax
They do not like their way OF dealing
with the Sugar Trust.
They do not like what they have done
for the Whiskey Ring.
They do not like their foreign policy.
They DO not like their notions about
currency.
They do not like their plan OF repeal
ing thestax on State Banks circulation
and reviving the wildcat currency OF
the times before the war.
They do not like their sectional poll
cies.
They do not like their protecting su-
gar and rice OF the South, and tneir put
ting Northern wool on the free list.
Mr.. Cleveland has brought the party,
in two years, to the condition to which
it took 100 to bring the one-hoss shay OF
the Puritan deacon.
"First a sbiver, and thenfa thrill,
Then something decidedly like spill
And the parson was sitting alone on
rock,
at. half-past nine by the meeting-house
clock,
You see. of course, if You are not
Ounce,
How it went to pieces, and all at once.
All at once, and nothing first
Just as bubbles do when they burst"
This is not merely meeting for con-
gratulations. ThesHome Market Club,
suppose, means to maintain this con-
test until it is settled, and settled right
Ily. | have been much delighted with
the doings of meeting held in Boston
night before last ofsthe gentlemen who,
I suppose, you are to consider as your
antagonists One of their speakers said
that he envied the Home Market Club
because it had always boldly said what
it meant and meant what it said. Ihose
gentlemen purpose henceforth to throw
off the mask of tariff reform, which
they. admit has been mask, aand z 60
stand out as free traders. Their speakers
have been in the habit of saying politely
that he lied when we said that they were
free traders They propose to be honest
hereafter, and hardly conceal in their
own speeches that they think they have
not been honest up to this time. They
saysin their constitution:
The method of the League shallzbe to
enlist. the conscience, intelligenceand pa
triotisnl of New England against the
system called protection. which, at the
dictation of organized wealth, taxes the
whole American people for the benefit OF
the few.n
Well, I am glad that these gentlemen
have not only changed their name ana
their principles, and resolved to i've an
honest political life hereafter, but have
changed their venue. Ihey appea, 70 ene
conscience, intelligence and partlotlsm
of the people of New England. The only
conscience, intelligence and patriotism
| they have succeeded to satisfy up to this
| time, is the concience, intelligence and
patriotism of Tammany Hall and the
Black Belt of the South. The Bureau OF
| Education pu blished. after the census of
j.,b ia
| illiteracg. where the different parts of
| the United States were shaded with
| black, OF were left in proportion OF the
! ignorance which the census disclosed.
| If they had accompanied 1T with
similar map which had shown the re-
gions where secession, or olsunlon sensi-
| meut had prevailed in the time OF the
war, North Oh South, and If they had
| accompanied it with a similar map
| showing where the free trade sentiment
| of this country had been the strongest,
the three maps would been substantially
| identical, and each of them would nave
| answered well enough for the others;
| The region of free trade, the region OF
! disloyalty, the region of lawlessness and
| of crime are the regions, and the only
regions where the doctrines of these
| gentlemen who appeal to the conscience,
| Intelligence and patriotism of the Amer
| lean people have thus far wound any
| considerable footing. Inc Solo Soutn.
| the criminal districts of our great North
ern cities, the Knights of the Golden
| Circle of Indiana, have furnished the
| conscience, intelligence and patriotism
| thus far upon which these free trade
/ preachers rely.
MIR. Garrison says they hitch their
wagon to a star il may be. But it is a
falling star, which will go out in dark
| ness and in sorrow.
l. These gentlemen talk of their purpose
| to appeal to the conscience of the nation.
| The only conscience that has so far re-
sponded to their appeal is the conscience
| Of the Democratic party, the conscience
! OF Tammany Hall, and the conscience of
the Solid South. These gentlemen talk
| ing of appeal to the conscience of the
country, who, since they were born,
have never lifted an honest or manly
voice against the disfranchisemens of
| tho American people by the stuffing of
| ballot boxes or the fraudulent counting
of votes. They say that they wish to ell
list the intelligence of New England
| against the system called protection
which at the dictaton of organized
wealth, taxes the whole American peo-
| nle for the benefit OF the few.
| nbese qentlem en- falsely estimate the