Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-19

A man may lose money and not die a
bankrupt. One may have consumption
and not die of 1t. This is science and
sense The success of this new remedy
proves it. fir, top, col, nr,U
came to manhood after the civil war
and knew little of it's agonies or its
arimosities, found glorious example
of American possibility and achieve
ment in the canal driver. the college
student, the school principal, the col
lege president, the Union general, the
illustrious debater in the House OF
representatives., the brilliant and mag
netic Garfield. In defeat and in vic
tory. for the policies which stood for
the development of American indus
tries. for America for Americans.
whether native or naturalized. and for
the reciprocity which bound the North
American and South American con-
tinents together. we had the PIumed
Knight of our enthusiasm and our
love, James G.. Blaine. AS a new gen.
Grafton came to the majority, to whom
the past was legend. the present the
difficult task of development and pros
perity, and the future theory without
experience. the Republican party again
happily practiced. in its control of the
executive and the legislative branches
of the government, that policy of the pro-
lection of American industries and
that practice of sound finance which
gave to the republic its era of greatest
prosperity and its period of the
largest returns for capital, the fullest
employment for labor, and the highest
wages for work in the history of our
nation in the closing year of the ad
ministration of that able and accom-
plished statesman. Benjamin Harrison.
A few weeks preceding the conven-
ton of four years ago at Minneapolis,
had an afternoon with Mr. oiaine.
With marvellous intuition he forecast
the future He said: Substantially
all the forces of opposition, of distrust
and OF disappointment. of theory and
OF imagination which accumulate
against party that has been in power
for over 80 years are now concentrated
for an assault upon our position and
are certain to succeed. The Demo-
cratic party and its allies of Populism
and of all other isms are destined in
this campaign. no matter who is our
candidate or what is our platform. to
secure possession of the government"
The country knows to its loss, its sor-
row. and it's grief. that the prediction
has been fulfilled in every part. In its
fulhllment the United States has tho
experience and Europe has the bust
ness and prosperity.
We meet to take up the broken cord
of national development and happiness
and link 1t once more to the car of
progress. our industries stagnant. our
manufactures paralyZed, our agri-
culture dishearteneu. our artisans
unemployed. our finances disordcred,
paired. our position among the ma
items of the world questioned, all look
t. this convention and call upon its
wisdom for hope and rescue.
The conditions created by the prac-
ticc of Democratic policies. the promise
OF Democratic measures. and the differ
ences of Democratic statesmen would
seem to argue an unqueStioned and
overwhelming triumph for the Repub-
lean party in the coming election. No
matter how brilliant the promise. no
matter how serene the outlook it is
the part Of wisdom. with the nicer
taintics of politics and our recent eX-
perience of the tragic shifting of issues,
to be careful, prudent and wise in plat
form and in candidate.
The last few years have been a cam
paign of university extension among
the people of the United States. and
while we may in platform and candi-
date meet all the requirements of party
Obligations and party expectations. we
must remember that there is Il vast
constituency which has little feality
votes for the man and the principles
which are in accord with their views
in the administration of the country
The whole country North. South
East and West without any
division in our lines. or out of
them. stands. after what has hap
pened in the last three years, for the
protection of American industries. for
the principle of reciprocity, and for
America for Americans. But COM
ract neighborhood of great common
wealths, in which are concentrated a
majority of the population. of the
manufactures. and of the industrial
energies of the United States. has found
that business and credit exist only
with the stability of sound money.
1T has become the fashion of late to
decry business as unpatriotic We hear
much of the ''sordid considerations OF
capital. employment" industrial
energies" and prosperous labor" The
United States. differing from the me-
diaeval conditions which govern Older
countries. differing from the militarisn
which is the curse of European ma
tions. differing from thrones which
rest upon the sword. is pre-eminently
and periodically commercial and q
business nation. Thus commerce and
business are synonymous with patriot
ism.
When the farmer Is afield sowing
and reaping the crops which find g
market that remunerates him for his
toll. when the laborer and the artisan
. find work seeking them and not them.
selves despairing of work, when the