The Portland daily press., 1894-09-10


but one law for all of us, must. in some way
or other, manage to agree as to what that
law shall be. 1t does not matter how much
brains each individual may have; it does
not matter how much integrity each one of
them may possess, if we have not got that
saving common sense which induces an
agreement as to something which, on the
whole. will fairly fit the law to the people,
why. what is the good of their brains and
what is the good of their integrity, what is
the use of their antiquity. what is the use
of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson,
and all the dead people whom our Demo-
cratic friends are SO fond Of? (Laughtero
Take 1T down to where we can have the
thing in handful. Suppose that half
dozen men proposed to act together Some
one of the number wants to go fishing, an
other one wants to go cunning, the third
one wants to keep grocery store, and the
other three do not want to either hsh or cut
bait, or go ashore. Great laughtero Now
each one of those men may be an Intelligent
man. They may be perfectly honest, would
not pick pocket or deceive any OF the
others. Andyet, as a half dozen they are
dead failure, and il theyrstay in that frame
of mind they have got to quit. Now
multiply that half dozen by couple of
million for mnltiplier, taking in tho
family. wives and children and everything
of tl.at sort. and you have got something
that is like the Democratic party.
Laughter0 And, like my proposed half
dozen, they have either got to agree or to
quit, and inasmuch they cannot agree,
the people of the United States are going 60
have themquit. daughter and applause0
This history of the last year and half is
wonderful thing. Those of us who talked
about it before the election of 1892, told you
it would be SO. But there is always GER
tain portion of the world that cannot under
stand thing they do not sec. They say
that Kaffir, when he looks at picture of
a wagon on a piecesof white paper, does not
see the wagon Ittakes certain amount
of education to sse.a wagon on a piece of
paper. A wagon sticks out, but a wagon on
| apiece of paper is fiat. The Kafir don't un-
deTstand 1t. There are certain portion of
the population of the United States largely
| in the Democratic party. who'do not under
stand about these things until they see
them. Well, today we have got an advant-
| age in making this talk. This large portion
of our fellow citizens today cal see 1t. 1t is
| visible to the naked eye. Iaughter.) And
| after all, that is the foundation for solid
| Improvement. No argument was ever COM
pleted when it left the platform. The argu-
mcnt has got to find connection in the audi
aences or else it 'is;worthless. UNLESS what
tsay accords with the facts which you know.
RI say it in vain. sWhen said it before the
Pelection of 1892, thsrejwere a good many of
! you with whom ! did not get connection.
| Those gentlemen samong you ! reach to-
| night. Maughter3and applause)
| We have suffered for the last eighteen
| months. haYen'ss wes %Thus our city has
been living uwer the shadow of a terrible
misfortune. Our workipgmen have been
spending.their'saving s. OR poor people have
been obliged9o call upor4t their credit. and
our Democratic leg islators have been busiIy
at work trying simply to get themselves ont
of what they thought was a victory, but
which turns out to be scrape. Well, it has
| been q costly thing. At any time, MY
| friends, when you are determined to reject
| the counsels of the wise. yen can always
have teaching which is more effectual than
| the counsels of tho wisest men ia the world.
| You can always Hase the teachings OF. ex-
lSperience. A wise man will tell you wisdom
Tor small SUM. experience, tells. you
wisdom at a treme Rsleps price. CA pplause)
The wise men told you the truth from the
platform, and you at..easily in your seats.
| Experience has since told you the truth,
and you are sorrowfully looking over your
savings bank accounts today and try ing to
| find on What has become of your earnings.
| Experience is the best teacher. You will
learn the lesson the most faithfully from
| her, but the price is terrible. We have been
paying that price for year and a half, and
! we must conEhne to pgy n for about two
y y ears aast and q l0ns VT not hope at
1t is not natu klkoT 4 Republican speaker
Ito join in a Nam about the lack of
prosperity in this country. When We were
really rich and prosperous, our Democratic
| brother used to like to 90 over the country
| Neutrality-suspicious. sorrows'ald our spfferings,
| believe that now, instead of talking about
| national calamity, he prefers to discuss
state issues. His mind is absorbed, not in
| the loss of wages or the loss of property,
| but in the tremendous question of re-sub-
| mission. daughter and applause.) When
| he can get his tongue upon those questions,
then he sails off BEAUTIFULLY; but he don't
| like to talk about the calamity that he used
| to speak of that didn't exist, because he is
| face TO face with calamity that does exist.
| I am glad to say that the State of Maine
/, today is, perhaps, the most prosperous state
N this Union, or was before the last tariff
bill was passed. Mind you, say the most
| prosperous in this Union today, none of US
| being very prosperous. The city of Port
land, for instance, seems to be doing a good
deal of building. But we are out in the
| eddy, almost by ourselves. and there never
was time when great national misfoI-
tune was not late in reaching us. I hope
! that it may now, in some measure forget us,
but it cannot quite. Our lumber interests,
-FOUR manufacturing interests, have all
suffered, and may have period of suffer-
\ ing before them still greater than in the
| immediate past. But if the people .of the
| United States do their duty this autumn,
we shall begin to:see.a bright CLEAN of hope
for the future, of hope and of rescue, and
| your voice will be the first to sound.
| How natural 1t was that all this difficulty
| which has come upon us in a large measure
| should come as it has What is the basis of
| the government of free people, 1t is the
government of the average intelligence of
that people. and the moment that you have
| a condition of things where the government
| Of the, nation is intrusted ito level of in.
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