The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-01
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Ihere Is TO be no discrimination against
foreign products and no discrimination
among nome products. The wool of the
farmer and the woolens of the manufac-
turer are TO be protected. All the
products @of agriculture and all the pro-
ducts OF the most delicate manufacture
are to be protected. Our victory will also
mean the settlement of the currency
question. Precisely in what way it will
be settled have no right positively to
assert, For my own part l may be per-
United to say that l am against the gold
recommendation of President Cleveland,
Secretary Carlisle and their faction OF the
Democratic party. | am also opposed to
the other extreme, namely, the unlimited
| coinage at this time by the United States
alone, of silver bullion, which would
send gold to premium and destroy that
parity between the two metals TO which
the Republican party and this Congress
are solemnly pledged. / am in favor Of
that bimetallism to which all parties
have been hitherto pledged and to which
the Republican party is especially
pledged, and which means that silver
shall be restored at the proper ratio, to
he equal of gold for all purposes, to be
with gold. upon the we'll known system
of bimetallism, the measure of the
worlds values. To wisely and Justly
solve that question, the Republican party
may be safely trusted.
Gentlemen of the convention, besides
restoring prosperity at home, the coming
Republican victory will give to the gov
eminent new foreign policy, based up
on sound principles and upon considera-
| tions tending to the interest and honor
of the nation.
waited fifty years for an opportunity
properly ana safely to aid in establishing
Cuban Independence. There lies the
great island almost within sight of our
| coasts, in the hands of European power,
q perpetual menace to the United States.
1t has been for three quarters of a CEN
tury almost universal American senti-
ment that whenever the right time came,
We should see Cuba released from the
| cruel dominion of Spain. The whole
| island is in revolt, almost as one man;
and Spain is resorting to atrocities for
hidden by civilized warfare. We are not
| asked to do what 1 would gladly see done
to recognize and maintain the indepen-
dence of Cuba; we are only asked to
| recognize Cuban belligerenoy. Upon that
| recognition by the United States all the
other independent republics of Central
and South America will also recognize
| belligerenoy, and the freedom of Gu ba
will be assured beyond the possibility Of
| suppression. Yet admit that in the
case of Cuba we are not acting from a
regard for self interest only, but in ac-
| oordance with the impulses of strong
sentiment. Thank God, we are a nation
| OF sentiment. What was il that brought
our Pilgrim and Puritan ancestors to
| these cold, bleak, dreary and desolate
coasts? Ii was the sentiment of devotion
to human liberty. What caused the
Revolutionary war, when Our fathers re-
volted and took up arms against Great
wi ai n rat har rloT a 10 n,
| tear Was that, and were the other initial
acts of the Revolution caused by con-
| siderations of self interest? No; they
were the outbreaks of sentiment
| What caused the North to resist the ex-
| tension of slavery into free territory ?
| Was it self INTEREST," No; it was the SEN
timent of hostility to human chattel
| slavery. What is all we see about us of
riches and grandeur, in this country
worth to us or to our children il we are
| to live rs a nation wholly according to
| the principles of sel9shness, aud are to
turn deaf ear to the Macedonian cry,
| ''come over and help u.s." from the little
republic of Venezuela, and to pa~ no
heed to the means and groans Of l.ying
Cuban patriotsp
| What are the memories worth of the
New Hampshiremen of the Revolution
and of the brave spirits that went out
from us and gave their lives on the
battlefield In the great pro slavery re-
bellion if they do not teach us, now that
we are the wealthiest and one of the most
powerful nations on the globe to be
guided in our conduct at home and in
our policies abroad, not merely by self
interest but ms we'll by the highest and
the hottest sentiments of which the hu-
man heart is capable, sympathy for the
| weak and the downtrodden, and affection
for the slaves and victims of oppression
and wronged everywhere on the face ofthe
| globe. but especially when they cry to US
from the near islands of our own seas and
from the feeble republics of this western
world.