The Portland daily press., 1896-06-03

the tight this year on our own grounds
and not on those of our opponents, that
we will not be deceived by side issues, or
lured on by false lights, that above all
will we not allow patriotism to be put at
Issue with the party which has been it's
very embodiment from it's birth to this
hour.
We congratulate our opponents, say,
on their outburst of patriotism. But at
the same time we beg to remind them
that the germs of patriotism are to be
found at home, that patriotism peglns
with the care of our own people.
The Democratic party boasts OF It's OPP
position to Capitalization. We, too be-
lieve in state rights, but the rights of the
state of Maine, for which we contend, are
the rights of our people to be left alone
unmolested by laundering and vindictive
laws to develop her resources and to
reap the reward of their patient labors.
We too, can say with the most eloquent
spokesman the south has ever had, we
teach ''our sons to love the soil they stand
on, the body of our old mother, the
| mountains that are her springing
breasts, the broad acres that hold her
substance, the dimpling valleys inwhich
| her beauty rests, the forests that sing her
songs of lullaby and praise, and the
brooks that run with her ripping
| laughter"
But the love we would incuIcate, tine
| love we bear our mother state is one
which would make her ever fruitful, her
| breasts never fail her children, so that
| they need never leave the bosom on
which they are raised. 1t would quarry
| her mountain sides, make her broad
acres yield up their substance, her val
| leys be the happy homes of her children,
| her forests resound with industry and
| her waters turn its wEeels. This is the
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children born, and this is the heritage OF
which they have been robbed by the
Democratic party!
| What, I ask of you men from every
| city and hamlet of Maine what has be-
come of that prosperity which made our
state a marvel among her sisters far
! more richly endowed by nature than
she? What but gone with the advent to
| power of this Democratic party.
| Fifty did our faithful senator exclaim
| as he stood in the senate defending his
state from the onslaughts OF the Wilson
| bill, Maine, like BoZarriS, lies bleeding
| at every vein"
Hardly worse could it have been for
our people; far better it had been for
some, since the Democratic tariff, had
| not an axe been laid to the trees of our
| forests, had devastation laid waste our
fields, pestilence swept the hills of our
nocks, and the floods of the Androscog-
gin dried at their springs, such has been
the havoc wrought upon them by the
| Democratic party.
| MAN marks the earth with ruin, his
control stops with the shore" Not sc
with the ruin the Democratic party
would work; they attacked the last peo-
| pie in our sta who could withstand that
| attack the last who deserved it: they at
| tackled the toilers and the industries OF
the sea. Those of our people who have
| stamped the men of Maine as a God
| fearing and independent race wherever
| they go: those industries without which
| our rock bound coast would not have
been pressed by the foot of the settler
until century after they We're.
| It was injustice to our fishermen to put
| fish on the free list. 1t was scarcely less
| than crime against our state to do So
| For if there is a country on earth against
which the interests of our state demand
/ that the protective tariff should be used
| releutlessly and without relaxation it is
that unnatural and unhappy remnant OF
British dominion on this continent just
beyond our borders; ours geographically,
| ours historically. ours by the sacrifices
| of the men of Maine who fell at Louis
burg and with Wolfe before Quebec! And
by the unbroken teachings of Republican
craftsmanship while Canada chooses to
/ indulge the sentiment that maintains
| that line and cuts us off from our posi-
ton as part of North American con-
/ federation stretching to the eternal
| SHOWS she shall be made to know the
! cost of doing so, and shall not indulge
| that sentiment and at the same time be
allowed to fatten off our markets.
But Democratic legislation has given
to her that for which she would pay any
price, the object of all her contention, her
insolence and harassments, given to her
! without reciprocity or the attempt al re-
ciprocity, though the most perfectly de-
vised reciprocity treaty that ever was
made would not be worth the price OF
such concession.
/ But the Democratic party did not stor
here; they attacked that other industry
upon which and allied trades the census
reports of a few years ago declared to be
/ dependent the prosperity of so of oul
towns. and nearly third of our people
| that industry which has done more thar
any other aye, which has done ALL tt
make our state famous throughout thu
world, which has carried it's name anc
the flag of our country into every por
that would float keel, and furnished tt
that flag it's defenders wherever it ha.
been assailed upon the seas, which in the
last great struggle enabled us to double
our navy within eight months and estab-
lish an actual blockade from Hatteras I,
the Rio Grande. They attacked tn
American ship they attacked the indus
by of shipbuilding, ship-owning and ship
sailing, triple as the trident of Neptune
whose kingdom it invaded, and older thai
the ancient province of Maine, older thai
our state upon whose arms are emblaz
oned the sailor and the anchor, it's EN-
blems and the emblems of that age O
glory in which the men of Maine ha
more than their share!
when sailors rights were won,"
"Yard locked in yard, hot gun-lip kissin
| gun"
They attacked this industry, say, a
they always have attacked it, thong
never before in our history had that vi
cious attack been led by an America
president, as it was by Mr.. Clevelan
when at the launching of triumphan
production of an American shipyard h
sounded what but for congress NOR
patriotic than he, would have been tn
death knell of every shipyard in tn
land And the Democrats of Maine pre-
scented this pitiable spectacle; the Demo
cratic shipbuilders of the Second distrie
went down on their knees to Dingley an
Frye, the Democrats of Maine did tn
same in the memorial of the state legis
lature, to our Republican representatio
to save them from ruin at the hands {
their party associates.
And the Democrats of Ratb in scarce