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

voter We know that nation to be
great Independent and powerful. must
have a diversity OF industries. must be
able TO supply largely within its own
borders those things essential TO its wei
longer deceive by shouting in their plat
forms and by their speakers and press
about the markets OF the world, and AZ
the same time ruthiessiy strike down the
reciprocity treaties that were given as a
preference in many foreign markets
What we desire first. of all, is our own
the world. We have n population that
consumes more per capita than any other
on the face of the globe.
they call raw materials, unmindful OF
the fact that what is one man $ raw ma
terial is usually another's finished FRO
duct--and that the line OF derlarcatioil
between them IS my uncertain-and
as an Illustration, they open our mar
kets 10 Australia and Canada and place
the wool of the farmer and the rough
lumber of the saw mill on the free list.
We INSIST that the correct principle IS to
put, SO far as we can. upon the free list
those things. Injuries excepted. which
we cannot produce ourselves and to tax
those which enr1e into competition with
us in oar own markets. We contend that
every dollar sent abroad for what We can
easily false manufacture at home in
Jurcs Our workingmcn by depriving them
Of employment and tends to imDoverisl
tie country We believe 1t is the part oc
Wis,lrI1 ami patriotism to enact such tar
iu Jaws rs shall lie in the interest al our
Ill
foreign countries and their products.
We advocate an honest dollar that shall
be good everywhere. We claim TO have
the best government,-our people are
equally entitled to the best money. We
demand and now have a sound currency
based upon gold. the standard recognized
and adopted by every prosperous CIV
ilized nation of the globe. We know
there is a limit 10 the amount of silver
currency that fiatof the government can
float and use at par with gold. We see
convincing evidences of this fact in the
many tons of silver piled in the vaults
OF the treasury of the l.. s., which no
effort can scatter abroad and keep in
circulation. The insane cry for "A free
coinage OF silver al "A ratio of sixteen to
one means u silver b5Sis.-a debased and
deprecated currency and a radical
change in all values,-a scaling down of
all the deposits in our savings banks
and trust companies. 1t would rob every
deserving soldier and soldiers widow of
near one-half their pensions. 1t means
that gold shall go into hiding and nee
from our land: cease to be money and a
part OF our circulating medium, and be-
come d commodity. IL means in part at
least, both national and Individual re-
pudiation. disnonor and bankruptcy by
paying all public and private obligations
in a currency worth some 30 per cent OF
its nominal and face value. consum-
nation which can only be beneficial TO
the impTovident debtor class; which would
sacrifice the best interests and honor or
the whole country to enrich few SILVER
states and silver mine owners II IS a
delusion of the same genius as the nat
money craze which was SO prevalent IN
this country some ID to 20 years ago. ana
is equally pernicious. To yield to IL
would be to cut loose from progressive
and highly civilized ma tons and adopt the
currency system of China, Mexico. ana
Peru. The purchasing power OF the dol.
lar would be reduced that labor would
he insiduously robbed of large share
of its earnings and especially would this
be true OF all fixed salaries. History
furnishes no instances of wealthy:
progressive nation like ours in n time of
folly of changing its standard to a dis
honest and deprecated currency. And
triumph of the Republican party next
November will insure us against any
such dire calamity.
and fair ballot and an honest count.
There can he no greater crimes than
those committed against the purity and
fraud intimidations. corrupting in
flucnces, or virtual disfranchisement of
classes of men who have a constitutional
right 10 vote Nothing can he more preg--
nant with danger to the STABILITY ana
perpetuity of this free government All
acts of this kind destroy confidence In
lcrtions make them a sham and under
mine and debauch the public conscience.
They have been too prevalent IN some
Every consideration OF honor and well
fare demands it, Men who hold offices
ana assist i'll shaping the policies of this
country should he elected by honest and
real votes. Certainly If we would per
pctuate and transmit unimpaired to the
millions vet unborn who are to succeed
US. the blessings of this free government.
which has cost so much of blood and
treasure, the people must know and be-
iieve that the verdict of the ballot box Is
the viii of the majority freely and fairly
This is emphatically a Republican year:
and our party is marching forward to
certain and signal victory. IL refers
with confidence to its record-to the
grandeur of it's achievements-to it's pa
fYT. In ,4I
the best interest of all classes. BY and
through the triumphs of its policy this
ea,ion was preserved and .purihed,,-the
shachles were struck from four millions
of slaves and all attempts of Reputation
and dishonor of our obligations have
been we trust relcgated for all coming
nItiTE credit has been placed uppns-H
veaSf Sigh plane. 1t has successfully
have confronted us as people and has
solved them all in the interest of hu-
mainly and progress. And when in the
not far distant future the history of our
country during the last half of this 1911,
century shall be dispassionately writ
ten-!which is the best century this world
ever kneW--for in Il peace hath had her
victories not less renowned than war.
the brightest pages of that history Will
be that party's splendid acts and re-
true and noble men, who have shaped:
guided and controlled its policies. And I
confidently assert that its mission is not
shall come.-as it surely wil.--when the
constitutional rights of every man. in
every State and part of our land shall be
fully respected and enjoyed, it will then
find other fields in which to labor for the
myriad millions of the common lot.
Devotion TO the cause OF freedom and the
down trcdden and oppressed-conse-
Grated and hallowed its birth. 1t has
ever championed the rights of the COM
mon people whom Abraham Lincoln
said-he believed the Lord loved best as
he had created most of them.
/ have no unkind words for the indt-
vidual members of the Democracy. 1t Is
with that party as an entity with the
policy of its leaders and its damaging re-
cord for the last half century that l
take issue.-I do not claim that We have
a monopoly of all the cardinal virtues.
| know there are good men in the ranks
of that party. or at least that there were
until this last advent of Grover Cleve-
land to power. | confess. however, that
il has been one Of the mysterious prob
LENS that I could never solve that they
| should remain there. And Judging from
the elections of the past two years
think they have nearly all left but the
office holders. In Maine the party seems
to have very largely centered in and
crystalized around a close corporation
known as the plum trust. BY some fatal
ity it has managed to be in opposition to
almost every Ynea sure % IN nrO.