The Portland daily press., 1894-08-28

no bars. for neither one would desire to
leave the others. loud laughter
-"r. ofow then went on 10 picture the
prosperity of the country unoef th1ty
years Oh Republican. rules and the un1aVor-
aole eject produced by a return Oh the
oouth to power. The three IDEAS OF the
south We're slavery. secession ana Tree
trade. The two first sleep the sleep that
knows no waking, (applause) ana the thlro
Will soon be placed in sepulohre from
before which no one shall roll the stone.
(Applause.) Mr.. Grow, described now
clause prohibiting "a protective tariff nad
INST appeared in the Confederate constltu-
ton, then in sthe.C acknowledgements plat
FORM and finally there had been an efort
to carry out the idea in the National Con-
gress.
MI. Grow then went en- to show very
effeotually the animus of the present at
tempt at legislation Maine has its manu-
featuring and mechanical pursuits twice
as much capital invested as the two states
of West Virginia and Arkansas, whence
came the men who have had most to do
with this tariff.
MAINE PAYS TO LABOR
tWiee as inucn as 90 potu WoSt NlfSlHid
and Arkansas and Names mechanical and
manufacturing products are twioe.those OF
the-stwo states mentioned. Maine has an
invested capital of $4,000. 600 in mechanical
and manufacturing pursuits; they have S43,-
100000. Maine pays to labor in those pur-
suits S26.O0O.000: they pay S14,O900O0.
Maine products in those branches amount
to S96, 600; thosesof the.two states to $751;
000,000.
Pennsylvania has invested in mechanical
and manufacturing pursuits 1891 100000;
while the fifteen states of the whole South
have an investment of only S19,O0O,000
Pennsylvania pays $22,000,000 to labor in
those branches; the fifteen Southern States
pay less than this. Yet in legislating for
the American people they havesasrepre-
senJation in Congress of l56 votes, while
Pennsylvania has but 80 votes.
This is the first Congress in your day or
mIne when you could find a Democrat who
dared to stand on the floor of Congress and
decla1 that he was
A FREE TRADER.
They were FLOR tariff for revenue with in
cidental protection. Now we have thrust
upon us the English theories of free trade,
founded upon school of political economy
which has as its fundamental proposition
that labor is to be crowded on the cheap
est possible point. This idea has been TAX
en- up eagerly by the people of the South
who were of old brought,up to the idea that
the laboring man should not even have a
home.
Some of the Democratic.papers and:orators
were claiming that the present difficulties
were the legacies of Republican rule. Not
so. The legacies of the Republican party
are the greatest ever bequeathed to- any
nation by any party. (Applause.) They
were: A union saved and country freed
free homes for free MEN; banking system
under (which no ssbillsh older. has ever lost a
| dollar; "a system of Revenue protection by
which two thirds of the national debt has
already been paid.
When Mr.. Grow had conelu ded,
HON. v..B. DOLLIvEh.
| of Iowa, brother of Congressman Dolliver,
was introduced. 1t was no small task for
| any orator to take thesaudience at this time
| and interest them after such a speaker as
1 Mr.. Grow. But the young Iowan was fully
| equal to the task He was both witty and
| eloquent. He began by expressing his plea
sure at standing on the soil made famous
| everywhere by Hannibal Hamlin, William
| Pitt Fessenden James G. Blaine (applause)
| among the dead and your own matchless
representative Thomas B. Reed, (applause)
| amo1& the living. The speaker was graft
| fed at the number of women and children
| in the audience, and considered it sign
| that Maine would always be Republican.
He believed in teaching patriotism to the
| young through American history so that
| they may know what American statesmen
have thought, what American women in
their unedualsd patiencei have suffered
| that this nations npigitt be the leader and
teacher of mankind. loud applause.)
Mr.. Dolliver discussed party history and
finances, with many humorous passages
1 thrown In, las when he said that wit h truth
scattered around so numerously as it is this
year, there is no excuse for lying