The Portland daily press., 1894-08-31
DEERING.
Spirited Republican Rally at Wood.
fords Last Evening.

Issues of the Hour-George c. Hopkins,
Esq, Presides.
The Republicans of Deering had a
snirited rally at Lewis Hall, Woodfords,
last evening. George C.Hopkins, Esq.,,
presided, and introduced General George
A. Sheridan. General Sheridan. who
made delightful address, began with an
humorous explanation of his title.
which comes from the fact that he was
once adjutant general of Louisiana. He
said that he was. no relation of the fam
Gus Phil Sheridan. whom he had served
under in the war, and whom he had
valued as friend.
He didn'ts think there was great neaA
of making Republican speeches this
year. The Democrats were doing that
and doing it very effectually. The Dem
| ocratic party was living up to it's rec
ord. For SO or 60 years the Democratic
party had been wrong.
That is, the policies which it had adj
vocated had Ultimately been rejected as
worthless by the American people. On
| the tariff the Democrats had not been
right since the early days Of the ..repub-
lie. No low tariff has ever been beneic-
ial to this country. That from 1916 to
| 1924 did not make the country either
| greater or more prosperous.
| An eminent Democrat, Thomas II. Ben
| ton, said of those times that there were
| no prices for property, no sales except by
the sheriff orsmasshal, no purchaser ex-
cept the creditor or some hoarder of
money, no employment for labor, no
| sound Of the hammer except that of the
auctioneer, etc. Henry Clay, the great
| Wing, denounced that tariff in equally
| strong terms.
| Again, under another low tariff, we
had the awful panic of 1887, when this
country sweat blood from one end to the
| other.
| But the Democrats say that from 1916
| to 1861 we had period of low tariff, un-
| der which, to let the Democrats tell it,
| this country progressed as never before.
If that claim is true we ought to bend
our knees nightly in petitions that we
may not have another such period of
| alleged prosperity.
At the end of i've years after the
enactment OF the low tariff of 1916, the
export of our breadstuffs had fallen off
and our iron mills were closing down.
| We had great advantage in those years
too The Mexican war liberated millions
of dollars, gold was discovered in Cali
fornia, and the Grimean war shut off
the Russian wheat composition, yet In
spite of all this Eve did not hold our
own. The panic of 1857 was repetition
of that of 1887. But to proceed to the
end of the low tariff of period of Il
years. What do we find in 1861? The
Democratic goyernment is turning the
government over, after its IA years Of
prosperity. and whatsis found? A coun
try distracted by civil war. an army rot
4 ten with -disunion. a navy scattered over
the earth, a treasury bankrupt, and {
land cursed by dearth and idleness
This was what the Democratic party
turned over.
The speaker then went on to describe
the government as the Republlca ii
turned it over to Cleveland in 1885, witt
united people, a noble navy, a splen
did army, an oyerfiowing treasury, ant
great fame as the frst. nation of tn
earth. Tad 9 d
General Northumberland that tn
American people had revised their opin
ions since 1892. Ohio, New York, Ore
gon, had shown that they W ere ashamed
of their conduct on that year. Physic
ians say that a man can read more intel
ligently when his stomach is not to-
full. ST sometimes think" said tn
speaker, that this is the reason VIII,
people are seeing more clearly this year
applause and laughter.)
General Sheridan elected loud ap
plause by his comparison of the presen
Democratic attitude, that the protectiv
tariff is unconstitutional, with the fac
that Washington, Madison, Jackson
Benton and Webster had all believed i
to be constitutional, even i Grove
Cleveland does not. tLaughter)
The speaker gave very happy accoun
of the counting of the quorum by Speak
er Reed, and the subsequent approva
of that proceeding by the Supreme Cour
of the United States.
No one this year was hearing the Dem
ocratic orators telling the laboring mel
that if they would vote the Democrati
ticket they would have, more work an
higher wages. They have voteti for tn
free trade and reTgetting lower wages
and are lucky TO have work even at that
Carroll Dwight has shown that
man in England can live II per cen
cheaper than man similarly circum
! stanced in Massachusetts; but while til
5 Englishman earns 500, the Massachu
sets man in kindred pursuit gets S16(
or 60 per cent more. These are facts tina
speak volumes as to what would happe
if we should have free trade.