The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-03

Toll and men eonstitutionally opposed
to work. and last the much abused and
long suffering paid hireIings of the
plutocratic press
surely this audience might rise and ex-
claim, We are the people!''
Mr.. W. II. Mclaughlin of Scarboro
conducted the opening exercises. He de-
llvered an Grafton which follows. It will
% seen that Mr.. Mclaughlin feels the
genuine
POPULISTIC AFFECTION
for newspaper men. This IS verbatim
ct literatim:
CHAIRMAN MCLAUGHLIN GRAFTON
In these times events chase one another
WITH such rapidity, across the stage OF
human affairs, that the record OF week
seems like the history of an epoch. Dur
Ing the little time since we were here the
purified Democracy has suffered from
tho detection Of Grover Cleveland and
Alex Higgins Also the candidate for
governor has shown himself to be too
sensible to attempt to ride two horses in
Numerically opposite. directions.
| have no personal knowledge, but
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good Jug, and if SO he was wise INDIE
Gliding to stick to his line, as there will
always be a lively demand for jugs in
this prehi bitory community. It is sing
ular and lamentable fact that the business
men of this city and the members of
the Board of Trade know, If possible,
less about the financial question than the
farmers of the country.
8 When the Sherman law was repealed
tuUa fhav Mt ho mi
of Trade to pass resolutions Of satisfac-
ton, ut course that was calculated to
bankrupt their customers, and they had
the audacity to invite j. NJ. Todd and
W. FL. Sargent to their meeting for the
same reason that Samson was brought
into the house of Dagnn to make sport
for the Philestines, while they set back
and laughed to scorn our two brothers
as they portrayed the very condition
that have since comesto pass, while they
seemed to take delight in admitting that
they knew nothing about the subject
themselves, but one of the same mer-
chants reported two weeks since, that az
of his small customers through the state
had failed in few weeks. and his turn
might come next; and ID would serve
him about right.
see that the women are going to take
hand in this campaign, and il they do,
the triumphant election of the young
Demonthenes of the prairie is assured.
1t was woman you know, that was
last at the CROSS and first at the sepulohre.
The Cross has played an important part
in this campaign. "Thou shalt not cru
city labor upon cross of gold" And
how much 1obler occupation 1t is for the
women to be enlisted III cause that will
bring joy and sunshine into tho homes
of Ioyerty and dispalr than to pass their
time in pouring tea and serving ice
cream to lot OF feather headed parsons.
see that the reporters have dignifed
our little gathering with the name
of a Sunday school," I thank. them for
the suggestion and accept the name. 1t
has long been an aim OF the church that
the Sunday school WAS the nursery of the
church, even MS the rnmshop has long
been recognized as the nursery of the
Democratic party.
The reporters are pretty bright lot of
young Fellows whom 1t comes to treating
subjects within their range, and when 1T
comes to reporting murder or ''hoss''
trot, they usually get thar" with both
OF great problems that affect the destiny
of millions born and to be born, they jab
around with their pencils, m ordering
the most exalted sentiments OF patriots
who are striving to save sinking land.
Another deplorable tendency among
those young men, is the levity with which
they view all matters Of this Kind, and
we find tho most serious deliberations
of statesmen reported in tho phrlance of
the ball ground and the prize ring. Some
examples, 1t we may Judge those young
men from their writings. life with them
as with their plutococratic masters, is
nothing but bowling farce, and their
motto is let US eat, drink and be mer-
~, for tomorrow we die" | wonder If
hos fuif flaw haxz ovvors md /, h 11kC, r
of the past. Let me read to them a line
from Froude's description of the lives of
the classes they serve as they existed in
Rome in the expiring days of that civil
lization we are copying after: The
rich were oxtravagant, for life had ceased
to have any interest save for its material
pleasures. The occupation of the higher
Glasses were to obtain money without
earning il. and to spend 1T in idle enjoy
ment. Patriotism survived on the lips.
but it only meant the ascendency Of the
party that would maintain the existing
order of things. Religion, once the foun-
dation of the laws, aud the rule Of per-
sonal conduct, had censed to influence
thum. The educated disbelieved it, but
built temples to the gods with increasing
splendor, but of belief that life had
any serious meaning, none remained be-
yond the circle of the patient, Ignorant
multitude.
And while / am on this subject, l
would like to caution these young men
to be bit more cautious how they
monkey with the fifth commandments. I
/ believe it is the the fifth that says:
Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor."
1t was too bad the way those trifiers
tortured their reports of this meeting
last Sunday, to make it appear that the
things that took place did not take place,
and that the things that did not take
place took place. The original reports
we're garfield enough, but as they tray
elled, each dabster added his need of
Misrepresentation until when it reached
Boston they were but hideous caricatures
of the truth. 1t might be supposed that
something better might be expected Of
the leading papers Of a city. that boasts
that it is the headquarters of two-thirds
of all the virtues and intelligence and all
the "oulchaw" of the country.
Here is city where the Puritan and
the "Lord's annointed" have had full
sway for $50 years. Here they are full
believers in the theory that all the liba-
tions of wealth should be poured out on
the top layer of society, and nll of it was
ever designed by the great dispenser of
human events would dribble through