The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-04-14


couraged at the prospect Of making them
selves heard, but matters soon quietsd.
Perry Belmont began to speak sat ten
o'clock.
Mr.. Belmont introduced Augustus Van
WICK BY referring to the iatter's canvass
for governor.
Justice Van wyck was recsived with
great applause. He said;
JUDGE VAN wYCK'S SPEECH.
That country shall be great commer-
cially several things must 90 exist within
Its borders. 1t must have the necsssafy
natural resources; its people must oc
skiiliul and industrious snssrprise mus, :,
be fostered by just laws and the spur OF
free composition, and finally rs the very
corner stone OF the whole structure the
sense OF Individual honor must be sus-
tained ia full life.
OF these fsaturss there are perhaps only
two not plainly in operation In the whole
circle OF our Industries today. Abund-
ance Of our natural resources there Is no
room TO doubt The skill and readiness
to labor of our people are not Less evident.
The plain American has never beeD sur
passed as whole hearted believer In the
gospel Of honest toll. Nor happily, 10 1t
open to question that our merchants ex-
blbNt III Alt t0olT uSuuukc Us 6bo - c~A<oS
of honor as can be found within the com.
pass Of the globe.
Commerce one of the civllizers of the
world, Is necessary element In the pres
eryation of the prosperity and tho hsppi-
| ness Of our country. 1t must be fostered
first by the frsest competition between
our own people In all home enterprises,
occurring Tor them untrammeled business
intercourse and enlarged opportunities
for individual Advancement. and second.
by the freast competition between the In
ternal freight lines from and to the sea-
| board, securing the lowest practical
| freight rates to the ocean for all kinds OF
prod uots.
venture to affirm, however, that some
thing remains to be desired In these two
particulars / mean in respect to just
laws and the spur to free competition.
The laws ara not Just which burden the
many to the end that favorites may grow
fat, rs in the case under our So called pro-
tective tariff; and when monopolies are
suffered to lay their hands on the throat
of indi vidal enterprise, the spur Of free
competition is blunted II not destroyed.
We have seen in these more recent days
disposition evinced In certain quarters to
dismiss the Declaration Of Independence
ms no longer applicable In Its leading
principles to the conditions OF modern So
ciety. In putting themselves In this atti-
tude toward the basic doctrines OF the
Republic, the supporters OF a tariff Tor
the enrichment of the few aud trusts for
the Killing of equal opportunity are not
open 70 charge Of inconsistency. 1t is
the foulest mookery CT reason to profess
in one.breath devotion to the doctrine OF
tho equality Of all men before the law OF
the land, md in the next TO applaud
tariff system which squeezes the blood
ont Of the average man Tor the fattentpg
of select individuals who have mastered
the art Of depraving all Federal goyern-
ment and directing q new feudaiism
which purposes to subdivide the land In
TO Plutocratic Dukedoms.
In respect to these matters, citizens
who think as the founders Of the republic
did, take their stand firmly on the ground
that co ualiy before.the law means equality
OF industrial opportunity In so far as the
action OF the government Is involved.
The tariff has been one prolific source OF
monopoly. and the monstrous misuse OF
| the franchise giving power another. Our
| iron, steel, coal and sugar trusts may be
taken as examples of what the tariff has
| brought to pass, while In the consolida-
| tion of our railroads, gas companies, cleo
| trio light companies we have iliustra-
| tfons OF what has been and is being ac-
! &C - plished under the legislative power to
| bestow valuable public rights upon pri-
vate corporations. Into the details Of our
existing tariff shall not enter at present
| but shall challenge any of Its support
ers to name single considerable branch
of industry over which Its so-called pro.
| lection has been extended which 10 not
now controlled by a ccnfederacy OF con-
| spirators against competition. The In.
FAINT industries have become giants who
have taken 1t upon themselves to rule foI
| their own ends the nation which nour
| ished thsm under the impression that
when matured they would be the best ol
servants and the very pillars Of economic
liberty. That the Democratic party must
address itself to the correction OF these faI
reaching evils II 1t is to hold the allegi
| ance of the Democratic masses is moi
doubtful. Tho cause of tariff reform was
never more urgent than 1T is today, and
never before was it less disputable thar
at this hour that no real relief can bt
looked for at the hands of the Republican
party.
NO ALLIANCE WITH ENGLAND.
In 1741 Admiral Vernon commanded
the English expedition against Cartagens
on the Northern coSst of South America
then fourishing Spanish possession
His forces included thirty six companies
Of American troops from the thirteer
colonies; among them were some OF th'
Washington family, who afterwards gay'
his name to their place on the Potomac
and also Smollett who described the in
cidents of the disastrous attempt In hi
| RodeIick Random. The defeated forcei
rendezyoused at Jamaica in the Wes
Indies and from there Admiral Vernon
cold bioodedly wrote TO his home govern
ment that he would disband ana SETTLE
the battalions from the thirteen colonies
| in East Cuba rather than restore them
| to their home where they "would wish tt
establish manufactures, which would in
jurs those.at home" lin Englaud). From
then to now her policy has been one Of
sharp rivalry and competition with
America; 1t impelled the revolution Of
1176, fought for business AS we'll as pobti
cal independence; brought ON the wa
of 1879 waged against the insolent claim
of England for the right to search oui
ships OF commerce while riding the high
ways of the ocean; caused her to contest
svery inch of our Northern boundary lint
from ocean to ocean; made her encoura u
our family troubles in 1860 to 1865, io'
which she was compelled to pay us mill
! ions and admit her wrong; and actuated
her, in violation of the Monroe doctrine,
| to attempt an unwarrantable enoroach
| ment unon the territory or Venezuela