The Portland daily press., 1896-06-03

Gnd SIN, shadows Wn1cn rail- where
slavery sued the favor of our ancient foe
and paid the price in a trade that was ali
but free, while labor remained unsIaved
Put the. pages of glory there, across
which slant the broad sunshine of orr
highest moral attachments, our higbes+
happiness and prosperity are the na pes
written by the Republican party which
record how 1T struck the shackies FROM,
the slaves, and armed with the pro-
tective tariff, went forth to conouer and
achieve, TO strike for America against
the world!
ana TINS weapon which God and the
fathers nave put into our hands the Re
publican party viii never surrender
never whlle there is a home in this broad
land for which it can win a comfort, or
from which 1T can ward blow!
ana Wnen, after 80 years of its I'M
broken achievements, the last Republi-
can president at the close of an admins
tratlon winch marks the height of our
national prosperity declared that there
We're no near frontiers to our national
development," he spoke with the pres
clence OF a statesman, but with the for
podlngs OF a patriot he was forced to add,
Retrogression would be crime" for
there were hands ready to commit that
crime, hands that for 80 years had been
kept from the power to do so, that then
hau ieIt the COVE nn1ent bankrupt
hands yet stained with the guilt of a
deeper crime
History repeats itself and within six
months OF the Inauguration of their
president almost in the same language
IN Whch Buchanan called the attention
OF congress to the condition in which his
administration had left the country,
cleveland called congress in special SEES
sion. And as in '61, the Republican
party rose to respond to the presidents
call. 1t could not give the remedy the
country needed, nothing less than its re-
turn to power could do that, but it gave
the remedy the president asked for. And
still the country languished, and still life
refused to come back to this stricken
land.
With the impoverishment of the peo-
pie, the purse of the nation began to
shrink.
1t was a grievious thing to have
brought the country to this condition.
1t was an ignominious thing the Demo-
cratic party was about to do, to turn
back the proud procession of our people,
as year after 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 procession to face deficit
and an increase in our bonded debt of
S262, 100000.
1t was an ignominious thing, even as
our people staggered under this accu-
mulating and uncalled for burden, for
that party to repeal that act that had
reduced taxation, given a surplus and
given prosperity and to replace it with
one that was so shortly to undo all its
benefits they repealed that act and with
it the whole policy of reciprocity, they
repealed that policy which had carried
CONSERVATION into every cabinet and
commercial body of Europe They re-
pealed this policy and every treaty I'M
der it. Thirteen we had, today we have
but one. They snapped the form
ing bonds with the republics of the
south They called back our white
winged messengers of plenty from the
fair island off the gulf, which we had
rescued from commercial bondage to a
tyrant even as God grant we may see it
rescued from that tyrant's bloody or
preston.
They called bach our white-winged
messengers and raised repellant hand
to drive that rich trade into the channels
Of our rivals. They said that this was
sham reciprocity, that they wanted a
reciprocity which would reciprocate.
The first reply to the tariff they made,
is the reimposition of the embargo on
our products which Republican reciproc-
ity had raised. They said they wanted
to capture the markets of the world, and
they repealed an act which gave free the
raw material for this purpose and made
the markets themselves free when dom q
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 thir own traditions
when they declared against even Incl
dental protection, but they were doubly
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 principle of protec-
ton 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 suffi-
GENTLY to save few. And in this COVER
rnent of ours, a government of parties
es it is, and must continue to be- what a
party is that my friends, whose only vir-
tue is that it cannot be depended on to
keep it's own promise!
They denounced Capitalization and
war taxes in time of peace, but they pro-
ceeded to impose the most obnoxious of
these, a tax which violated the most
cherished precept of Jefferson whose
great name they have profaned when
ever they have invoked it. One faith
full follower he has had in the modern
Democratic party, the old Roman faith
full among the faithless, and he, Allen G..
Thurman, in almost his valedictory to
public life, happy for him had it been
his valedictory to his party, tore off De-
mocracys mask and babe it confess it's
shame before the world.
''Mr. President said he in the senate,
II am an old man, too old to have much
more to say in this worlds affairs. L was
raised in a school that meant what it
said. What is the use of talking of be-
| ing opposed to Capitalization? Let us
give up; let us admit that we have been
humbugs; let us say that we have talked
to the people in words which had no
meaning because our actions were op-
| posed to our words"
Whatever the failures of the last
Democratic congress and this Democratic
administration, it has fulfilled this char
acterization by the ablest 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 in history?
What wonder then that at this very
| moment the air is thick with rumors
| fI,ot tho head of This daSpa irirer nd die