The Portland daily press., 1895-11-22

Buchanan. They needed only thsir nir
months actual experience to open tne.e
blinded eyes and for three successive
years they have been itsranng and reluel'
ating their verdict on the appalling TO
suits So OF this monumental incapaci1y.
tolerably understood, and, like Jo Tougn-
ey in Bleak House, the Democratlc
tramp has been moving and moving
on, " ever since it got in place, and Tor ~
the only voice of the elements is still 10
move on.
Under this revelation and revolution,
old lines are crumbling and states are
falling. With the blistering experience
OF these years. which is burning it's vivid
lessons into American consciousness, the
solld South is melting, Maryland ana
Kentucky follow Delaware and West
Virginia, as bright stars in the diadem OF
republican commonwealths. The glory
OF 1894 was to redeem the House. Ehe
rtlt OF 1898 is to regenerate the Senate,
not now, but two years from now. 10
complete the Republican restoration we
need only to carry the last bulwark and
rescue the presidency, and that will be
the crownlng triumph of 1896.
In 1899 the country sOwed the wind and
1t has reaped the whirlwind. The
shrivelled values, the shrunken work, the
diminished wages, the decreased con-
ounpulOl ullo lOI6lSu SOOuS UhkluS uiio
place OF home products, the mills ana
factories of New England and Pennsyl-
vania struggling against new British
invasion-all this is the natural and in.
evitable harvest of the nOxious seed that
was planted in an hour of madness and
delusion The venom of hostility to
American protection struck the deadly
blow, and it cannot escape its awful re-
sponsibility any more than Lady Macbeth
nOnl Id yy1no ont fhQ Snnt of I1TnrAn'S
blood upon her guilty hand when, in the
agony OF her remorse, she cried, "Out,
damned spot, out | say"
Speaking of the Democratic administra-
tion the speaker said: The American
people have had enough of it. They have
had enough of this debt-creating defoit-
making, syndicate borrowing, industry
economy, and they have deoreed another
"change.'
The first necessity of the government
is revenue, and, in the present situation,
the first responsibility is with the Presi-
dent. 1t is for him to propose, but it will
be for the House to dispose. Ii he is
willing that the needful revenue shall be
raised along the lines now clearly deter
mined by the voice of the nation, the
House will go with him. It still pro-
poses to disregard the public will, the
House will not violate his convictions
and will not trammel its future freedom
by following in any false pathway.
The duty is plain. If he wants sur
plus on right principles, it shall be his!
If he wants deficit and debt on his own,
his shall still be the responsibility The
House will offer no embarrassment II
he asks protection, it will give it, If he
prefers to bridge over the CHAINS of Demo-
cratic collapse with continued borrowing
he has already found the way.
1t will be for the Republican party to
reject this recreant and pusillanimous
una mericanism, and to reassert and re-
establish true Amricanism in home
development, commercial expansion and
national dignity and destiny.
True Americanism in home & develop
ment We shall defend. upbuild and take
care of our own. We shall support
American and not British or European
interests We shall not lower the flag of
protection. The dinner to celebrate our
Republican tariff will not be an exultant
feast of the London Chamber Of Com
merce, but joyful festival of the Boston
Home Market club, and the chief orator
will not be William L. Wilson, receiving
lis well-earned British plaudits, but
robust Thomas B. Reed (great applause)
or heroic William Mckinley or some
other equally true American.