Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-06-06
Daily Een'.ehee Journal
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iailye purposes. The Republican party was
not seeking to re-estabIish a monarchy in
any part OF the world, against the wishes Of
. nee people who had thrown off the woke
OF oppression. You were not seeking. nor
were you attempting by threats, intimiaa.
uon OF oupilcity to restore q disgraced and
yrannical queen to her throne, And never.
during Republican administration d id YOU
permit the Americanfag, raised for the pur-
pose OF protecting American citizenship and
american rights in any foreign country, to
We lowered II disgrace. Yon were pursuing
= national policy, an American policy, that
PARTY.
Inca the nations manufactures were not
l1ie, labor was not out of employment,
..o4ey's armies were not roaming through
the land, nor were industrial enterprises
paralyzed. And when the Democratic party
came into power and assumed control Of
Doth branches of Congress the great bust
ness Interests Of this country did not then
realize, that they would attempt to carry
ont the destructive and pernicious policy
that was foreshadowed in their Chicago
platform and thereby strike fatal blow to
the industrial progress of the United States.
But when it became known that they in
tended to tear from its foundation the great
corner stone of protection, upon which the
prosperity and growth and progress of this
country had rested since the days of Abra-
ham Lincoln, when It became manifest
that it was their deliberate attention to
offer to Great Britain and all other for
eign nations the benefits and fseedom of our
markets and the unlimited opportunity to
ship the products of their cheap labor to
America free of duty, to be sold in compe-
tition with the products of the American
farm, the American manufacturer and the
American workmen, then it was that our
manufactures and shops closed labor was out
of employment or compelled to seek work
on half time or at reduced wsges, CONNER
cial values we're unsettled and financial dis
aster came.
Under the operations of protective tariff
policy, administered by a Republican ad-
ministration, the country moved forward in
the bright pathway of prosperity capital
was not idle, men found employment at
good wages and the deposits of our people
in the savings banks were increasing. We
had prosperity unexampled in the his
tory of any country up to the clos
ing hours of the last Republican administra-
ton, but with the advent of the Democra-
tic party into power, paralysis in business
and lack of employment came. And it
came because the great interests of the
country saw that legislation hereafter was
to be conducted upon sectional grounds, for
the benefit of the South and to the detri-
ment of the North. 1t came because the
pc ople saw that there was to be a deter
mined effort to bring the great industrial
interests of the Northern states, under the
operations of English free trade. Though
the people and the business interests of the
&C untry saw these things the power of i'm
mediate relief had gone from their hands.
Though they regretted the verdict they
rendered in 1892, the power of reversal was
not then within their grasp lit will come how
ever, as soon as the forms of law will per-
nit; and during the coming fall you will
see Republican House Of Representatives
elected by the people to take the place of
the present Democratic body that has 50
lorg trihed with and ignored the interests
of the country, a body that has practically
dc MED the right of petition and refused to
even listen to the appeals that have gone NJ
to them in behalf of unemployed labor.
And l am justified in saying that if Re-
publican Congress had been elected in 1892,
instead of a Democratic Congress, we
would rot have seen the terrible conditions
that have surrounded the industrial interests
of the people for the past twelve months
The business interests of the country saw
and appreciated the cause, as they have
demonstrated in every election that has
been held during the last eight months
They appreciate that depression and disas-
ter and lack of confidence came with the
success of the Democratic party, party
that is governed and controlled in its legis-
lation by the Southern wing of the party
the same element in the party that more
than thirty years ago undertook to establish
a government of their own founded upon
the principles Of slavery, state rights and
free trade; but the great industrial sections
of the country then arose in their might and
majesty and destroyed the foundation upon
which they were seeking to rear that struc-
ture. Emancipation came, and by the noble
act of Abraham Lincoln slavery is abolished
forever; the Southern theory of state rights
is dead and buried, but the principles of
free trade still live with the South, and they
are determined to fasten them upon the in
iustrial North.
The blighting touch of their proposed leg.
islation has already been felt by the people
of Maine. In their tariff policy, they strike
with cruel aud devastating hand, at the
great agricultural and numbering interests
Of the State; they strike with merciless
blow at our fishing, our granite and our
slate industries, our pulp, and our paper in
terests. our manufacturing enterprises and
almost everything that Maine is interested
in; and not content with this, they are seek
ing to levy tribute in the form of an income