Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-03

And this weapon which God and the
fathers have put into our hands the Re-
while there is a home I'm this broad land
for which it can win comfort, or from
which it can ward blow!
And when after thirty years OF It's un-
broken achievements. the last Republican
president at the close of an administration
which marks the height of our national
near frontiers to our national develop
ment he spoke with the prescience OF q
statesman but with the forbodings OF q
patriot he was forced to add. 'Retrogres-
| hands ready to commit that crime, hands
that for thirty years had been kept from
government bankrupt. hands. yet stained
with the guilt of deeper crime.
History. repeats itself and within six
months of the Inauguration of their presi-
dent almost in the. same language in
which Buchanan called the attention OF
| Congress to the condition In which his
Cleveland called Congress in special ses-
sion. And as i'm 81, the Republican party
rose to respond to the presidents call. It
could not give the remedy the country
| needed, nothing less than its return to
power could do that, but it gave the
remedy the president asked for. And still
the country languiShed, and still life re-
fused to come back to this stricken land.
With the impoverishment of the people.
| the purse of the nation began to shrink:
1t was grievous thing to have brought
the country to this condition. 1t was an
| ignominious thing the Democratic party
was about to do. to turn back the proud
year they marched with unfaltering step
to pay the debt of the war. every year a
hundred millions, it was an ignominious
thing for the party which had caused
that debt to turn back this proud pro-
cession to face a deficit and an increase
in our bonded debt of two hundred and
sixty-two millions of dollars.
1t was an ignominious thing. even as
our people staggered under this accu-
Imulating and uncalled for burden, for that
party to repeal that act that had reduced
taxation. given surplus and given pros
perity and to replace ii with one that was
so shortly to undo all its benefits They
policy of reciprocity. they repealed this
policy which had carried CONSERVATION
into Q, every cabinet and, commercial nm body
with it every treaty under it. Thirteen
we had. today we have but one. They
snapped the fast forming bonds with the he
our white winged messengers OF plenty
from the fair island off the Gulf which We
a tyrant. even as God grant We may SEQ
it rescued from that tyrant's bloody OPP
preston,
They called back our white winged mes
sengers. and raised a repellant hand to
drive that rich trade into the channels
of our rivals. They said that this was
sham reciprocity. that they wanted a reci-
procity which would reciprocate.
The first reply to the tariff they made.
is the reimpoSition of the embargo on our
products which Republican reciprocity
had raised. They said they wanted to
capture the markets of the world. and
they repealed an act which gave free the
the markets themselves free when doing
so would not cost our supremacy In our
own.
False to the interests of the country
they were not true even to themselves.
They were false to their own traditions
when they declared against even incl
Il toll 1nY1hIv
false when they failed to fulfill this pledge
of their national platform.
They gave us free trade sufficiently to
show what it means for the country, and
they recognized the principleof protection
sufficiently to expose the hypocrisy of all
their pretensions.
They gave us free trade sufficiently to
paralyze the most of the industries of the
land. they broke their promise sufficiently
ours. government of parties as it Is.
and must continue to be, what a party
is that my friends. whose only virtue Is
that it cannot be depended on to keep It's
They denounced Capitalization and war
taxes in time of peace, but they proceeded
tax which violated the most cherished
precept of Jefferson whose great name
they have profaned whenever they have in
voked it. One faithful follower he has
had in the modern Democrats party. the
old Roman. faithful among the faithless.
and he Allen G. ThIrma an in ALMOST
him had it been his valedictory to his
party. tore off Democracy's mask and
bade it confess its shame before the
world.
Mr.. President" said he in the Senate.
Il am an old man, too old to have much
more to say in this worlds affairs. was
What is the use of talking of being OPP
posed to Capitalization? Let us give up:
let us admit that we have been humbugs:
let US say we have talked to the people
in words which had no meaning because
our actions were opposed to our words
Whatever the failures of the last Demo-
ministration. it has fulfilled this char
acterizat;on by the ahlest, purest leader
the modern Democracy has ever had.
What wonder then. in the face of this
record. that such party has been driven
to the resort of every discredited party
What wonder then that at this very
moment the air is thick with rumors that
the head of this despairing and discredited
party. if it can be. said to have a head.
awaits only the adjournment of Congress
to precipitate such a situation in our
foreign relations shall distract atten-
ton from its record of failures?
up and down the land proclaiming that
their party is to give. what 1t has never
meet the approval and aspirations of the
American people?
Gods knows we need such a policy. an
American policy commanding respect and
self-respecting: a policy that shall put an
end to the jeers and gibes of Europe that
rather than be great in history we prefer
to have no history at all: policy COM
mensurate with our greatness as a great
power. great in commercial and material
greatness. but greatest of all in that we
can rise above and beyond this greatness
and count it all for naught in the asser-
ton and defence of principles the value
of which such greatness cannot measure!
God knows / say. we need such policy.
but as he is just and merciful. by the
shame and humiliation with which he
has seen fit to chasten this people through
the fundamentally of the Democratic
party. he will never lead us to seek such
a policy. through the maintenance In
power of "A party whose conduct of our
foreign relations has taught us the need
of such a policy as We have never realized
1t before!
God knows we. shall never seek that
policy through the maintenance in power
of that party whose whole administration
of our foreign relations has been linked
with one virtue and thousand crimes
and that virtue assumed when it's presi-
dent. put on the Republican uniform and
Republican doctrine, a doc
tr rhse, ENFORCED by the first Republican,
that ever called for its enforcement since