The Portland daily press., 1900-08-30

~ = NAa0 oAAABf no salug che nation
which invents, makes and sells aubonaab-
10 machinery win always have the pres
tige over the country which buys that
automatic machinery and works it's peo-
pie twelve hours day
He said that labor agitators were say
Ing that II we keep the Philippines the
laborers over there would come over here
ana displace all Of our laborers. Why /
would bet all / have In the world that
there isn't native Filipino In all of
those III islands who can run moving
machine or reaper. They mag oe able
to use shovel on a railroad alter they
get acq TAINTED with it but 0nat's all.
The speaker in the course Of his argu-
ment said that awhile ago he was sneak
Ing IN Vermont when a clergyman told
him he was talking too much CONNER
cialism. lie said that the thing to think
OF was all the souls to be saved in the
Philippine islands. The speaker said that
one good shirt would 90 more to civilize
q Filipino man than all the ministers in
the world and that commercialisn is the
first thing to be considered and the say
Ing of souls viii come afterwards.
Are we qualified to enter into this COM
merciaI WARP Yes, we have 1.-THE gold, the
inventive genius the monopoly on the
production of coal, iron and steel.
Mr.. Brown went on to show thar Eng
land produced in 1879. 40 per cent OF iron
ana steel and we produced is per cent
In 1898 England produced thirty per cent
and we produced thirty three per cent.
In 1910 according to the estimates of
eminent staticticians we will be. produc-
ing hfty-three per cent of the iron and
steel and England less than sixteen per
cent. Then we shall have eight millions
Of iron and steel TO export.
Now / am telling you all of these
things" he said, so show you what we
mean by expansion. We don't mean to
enslave all the people of those islands but
we do mean to sell them and the millions
of the East our goods, and to have them
carried to the East In American ships.
Now what does this mean to the farmers
in Maine? 1t means that more men viii
be taken away from agriculture to carry
on these manufactures and all of these
people must be fed and You farmers here
in Maine viii help to feed them. Expan-
sion means the development OF our ship
ping, our manufactures, the Increase of
our wealth and il means something else.
1t means a decrease In the amount OF
agricultural foreign products which
we have been importing. We can raise
everything we are now buying excepting
tea and India rubber in our own colon
les and we ean pay for them, not in gold,
but in goods of our own production.
*sIf Mr.. Bryan wants to have the flag
down IN the Philippines / would almost
agree to let him If no would agree 80 put
that flag up over the blacks of North
Carolina and guarantee them the right
Of franchise. Mr.. Bryan is not honest,
that's what is the matter tn him.
''The Democrats say we are putting
Americans in all the Offices IN Cuba.
That not true. There are only 1906
offices IN Cuba and only 2s6 Of these are
flied with Americans and the rest are
filed with Cuhans.' -
SIR. Brown closed by telling what this
country has done for Cuba and Porto
Rico and what it means to do and urged
/ the Republicans of Maine to roll up an
old fashioned majority in this state on
September 10th.
Senator Fairbanks OF Indiana was the
next speaker. His reception was a hand
some one He said he had always adj
mired the Stats of Maine. We have adj
mired your craftsmanship. I dom t know
of any state which has been so conspicu-
Gus as has Maine. He said that this state
has more influence on the political
thought of the country than any state in
the country. He paid a glowing tribute
to Blaine whom he said was cheated out
of the Presidency by the great leader of
the trusts, Richard Croker of New York.
There is no one who can treat with the
fmperalist issue who ism a master of
satire and ridicule. 1t ism t an honest
issue. 1t is meant to deceive. He said
that Stevenson had no place with Bryan
on the Democratic ticket. It should be
Aguinaldo. In 1899 Stevenson said that
there was but one issue ana that was
the tariff. It is dead ana buried now. In
1896 another Issue was invented. That
issue was defeated. Why did they wish
to abandon the free silver issue2 Because
everything they had prophesied about
free silver had been proven false and to
go to the people with that meant defeat.
What Is Imperialism? have an made
quate idea. They thought 1t sounded
like a fierce word. They knew the great
heart Of the human race hated imperial
ISM They knew there was q large foreign
element thoroughly loyal to the American
principle whom they thought they could
fool. There is no party in favor of inn
perialism and the Kansas City platform
is an insult to the intelligence of the
American people. No one can read the
speech of Bryan without believing that
he is a subtle and crafty politician. He
has sought to liken himself to Jefferson
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