The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-05
any regard for Northern indus

This bill then went to the Senate.
Mr.. Frye gave very entertaining de-
scription of the hands into which the
bill fell in the Senate There was SEN
ator Harris of Tennessee, Confederate
major general, who said he didn't know
anything about the tariff, and didn't
care a damn; Senator Jones of Arkansas
colonel in the Confederate army, who
lives in town of 600 inhabitants, but
who is honest enough to feel that he has
made mistake in his action on the
tariff; and Senator Vest one of the
trainers of the Confederate constitution,
who put into that document clause
prohi biting any protective tariff. THESE
men called in Roger q. Mills, and Mills
Jones and Vest framed an utterly horrl-
BILE bill, much worse than the Wilson
bill originally.
| But all the Democrats III the Senate
were not of the Mills-Vest stripe. There
was Senator German, from an indus
trial state, although Southern one
Mr.. German is Democrat who under
| stands the business interests of the
country. He was loyal in the war, and
he is a.good fellow. Then there was
| Senator Smith Of New Jersey, another
| good fellow, from an industrial state
He saved your friend Haskell's SILK
industry in. Westbrook (applause) when
was Senator Brice of Ohio, another
man who understood the industrial
| needs of the nation.
These men got together, and there was
an interesting dialogue like this;
| Gorman-Your bill must be changed:
| it canEot be passed.
Vest-Why not?
Gorman-Because your majority will
be only two if we all vote for 1T, and
/ here are three OF us who Will not vote
/ for it. a
So the bill was taken back, and after
/ over 600 amedments had been ADDED 1t
was brought back.
Speaking of Mr.. Cleveland's action in
allowing the-tariff bill TO become a law
! without his signature, Mr.. Frye referred
| to the great profits which the whiskey
trust reaped from that performance.
The managers of the trusts, by raising
money to take their whiskey out of
bond, realized millions of dollars in
/ profit.
Did Mr.. Cleveland mean to give the
| time? Oh, no! Such a good man could
| not do such an awful thing. (Derisive
| langhter.) But the whiskey trust has
| paid the Democratic campaign expenses
| it will be ready two years hence, when
he expects to be again the candidate OF
the Democratic party II be was
| not such a good man / should sus-
| pect him. (Laughter.)
| Mr.. Frye then went on in plctur-
esque denunciation of the bill, which he
| described as a regular Dolly @.rden
| concern. Shouts of delight.) 1t is an
outcast and Ieper. Every man hates
| it. And vet it is law. (Applause.)
| There was an exception however. to
| this general condemnation. England,
Germany and Canada were delighted
| with the bill.
Mr.. Frye, after criticizing various
| features of the bill spoke of the ad va
loren rates, which are conducive to sue
cessful frauds on the part OF foreign
| importers.
You know Charles P. Kimball. He
used to bea carriage maker In Portland
He was twice Democratic candidate for
/ governor in this state. He is good fell
low. whom you know we'll. Cleveland
| appointed him consul at Stuttgart. A
/ few years ago I called on him in SUIT
CART.
"How is your Democracy. Charles,
Isaid |.
"Thin," he replied.
"How is your freetrade?"
| Thinner How much do you suppose
| I pay my coachman here?"
Il don't know
Forty cents day and he boards him
slef. How much do you suppose / pay
my COOKE"
4 Il don't know"
.Fifty cents aweek. Do you see that
corset factory over there? The girls
4 who work there are paid 20 cents a day
and board themselves. Those corsets are
sold in the United States, and hap
pen to know that they are invoiced at
/ Just half their COST"
This shows how an ad valorem of
duty operates.
/ The duty on champagne, absinthe and
4 other luxurious drinks had been re-
duced nv the bill $l,2O0,OO0: on china
ware, $4,000, 600; on ostrich feathers,
/ $500, 900; and diamonds had been put on
| the free list. Twenty-four million dol
/ lars had been taken off luxuries and put
| onto sugar. And yet they are parading
as the friend of the poor man.
In CONCLUSION. Mr.. Frye said it was
| important that we should give full
and emphatic condemnation of that bill.
| The business men of the country were
anxious for relief from agitation, but
| Cleveland declares that the agitation
has only begun. Wilson declares the
same thing The duty of Republicans
is to prevent this agitation. In West
brook every Republican should vote
the ticket. The governor is unexception-
able; your candidate for Congress is
one OF the great men of the nation; your
| candidate for state senator has already
served once successfully your candidate
for representative to the legislature is
worthy of the Office. If we will throw
majority of $4,000 for the Republican
ticket in Maine it will be a note of
warning that will be heard all over the