An Answer To Mr. Blaine

Mr Blaine's home organ, the Kennebec Journal, a few days since, in attempting to show that the loss of population in Maioe trom 18G0 to 1870 was not nttributablo to tho tariff, saiil : "The most of the people in thig dintriot bilieve that tho loss of our young maai i lieanuy lighting againstthe Domocr.i..; rebellion, and taking away of othoiis byinduoementxto go West, arosufficient to account for the dectease ia population noticed. Tho tariff certainly did not cause the war, and therefore is not responsible for the loss of life it occasioned. As to those who went West they found tho same tariff there as here, so they did not escapo it by leaving Mainc, and were not foolish enough to t hink so. It the editor of. the Commercial will mako a close and scientific investigation he will find that the potato-bug, the weovil, and the running away of Democratio conscripts into Canada carried away more meu trom the State of Maine tbiin the cause he has assigned." This the Bangor Commercial very offectually answors, as follows : As the above are tho only reasons, other than the tariff, which Mí. Blaine can aseign for tho unparalleled depopulation of his district, puerile as they are, it is perhaps worth while to give thera a passing noticc. These causes are five in number, as follows : 1. Loss of young men in the ftrmy. 2. Western emigration. 3. The potato-bug. 5. Running away of Democratie conscripte. The first cause is disposed of by the statement that tho twenty-five towns in question, as shown by the Adjutant-General's reports, lost less than fivo hundred men in the war and by the war. The number of births in those towns from 1860 to 1870 were about ten thousand. As to the second cause, it is quite true that hosts of the sons and daughters of Maine have gone West. But what bas driven theru there '( Tho tariff, and not the potato-bug and the weovil ; for the weevil disappeared from our State before tho present tariff was . inaugurated, and tho potato-bug has harrïly appenred in - the State at all. In regard to the last cause, we havo to say that, like some other of Mr. Blaine's ' tariff jokes, it will turn to torment hini. In 1866, before the e vil effects of the tariff had begun to be feit, the Democratie rote against hiin in the election of that year, in those twenty-five towns, was but ;!,152. In 1872, the Democratie vote against hiin in the samo towns was 4,087. ïhis matter of the loss of nearly eight thousand population ia twenty-five towns of Mr. Blaine's district is a very serious one. It attracts attention all over the country. The reasons that Mr. Blaine has assigned through his organ do not stand the test of analysie. His poor attompt to explain the cause of sucb. an unparalleled loss has so failed that the conclusión that his proteotive tariff is the real cause stands tenfold stronger than before. Mr. Blaine is Speaker of the United States House of Representativas. He is a candidato for the Republican nomination for the Presidency. He has written a letter in defonse of proteotion and in condeinnation of free trade. The eyes of the whole country are now turned. npon tariff cursed and smitten towns ín his own district. The people want an cxplanation of the unexampled loss of population in thoso towns. Jokes, clap-trap and glittering generaiities will not siitisfy them.