Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-08
ppeal to the American people in No.

| appeal to the American people in No.
vember.
| When Napolean signed the title deeds
TO this vast country west of the Missis-
sippi he turned to the American COM
missioners and said: Now have
tgiven England a maritime rival" and
SO he had until Unsuitable greed and
criminal mal-administration banished
the starry banner Of their republic from
the high seas and abdicated the rich
domain of the ocean. In 1860 we had
the second largest merchant marine in
| the world, our sails whitened every
harbor and our flag floated in every
breeze under the heavens. How sadly
all this has changed after IS years of
Republican misrule. Last year of all
the merchant men that went through
the Suez canal not single vessel, great
or small, except battleships bore the
American flag at his mast head and
our flag is seen in foreign waters only
when flying over a man of war.
| Worse than this. more humiliating
than this, a few years ago when Con-
Sress appropriated a large sum of
| money to buy corn and wheat and meat
TO send to the famine stricken East
Indians, we could not send it in an
American ship, for the all-sufficient
reason that there was none to send 1t
In, but to our great humiliation had to
hlre foreign ship in which to send
over charity to our starving fellow
men.
When an American goes abroad he
must sail under a foreign flag on a
foreign ship, under a foreign officer.
Why have things come to this shame
rul, this pitiful complexion in country
that has the finest material, ships and
sailors in the world? Because our exor-
pltant tariff system has made it impos-
siole Tor an American to build ship in
competition with the British ship
builders on the river Clyde.
| Yet the Republican gang has the in
mite gall to 'prate about it's patriotism.
Our boys are rushing off to face death
IN search of gold in the Klondike
region, when the oceans of the world
contain million Klondikcs, if the Re-
publican party would only permit them
TO work the watery main.
Republicans claim in public to be the
great and only trust busters, notwith-
standing the fact that under Republic
can misrule trusts have sprung up like
mushrooms in a damp cellar and have
become plentiful as berries in June. 1t
is said that "straws show which way
the wind blows
Here is straw which indicates
that the trusts have nothing to. fear
from Republican trust busters. 1t is
the appointment of Attorney General
philander c. Knox, Republican trust
buster par excellence, to succeed the
late Matthew Stanley Quay of Penn
sylvania in the Senate of the United
States. There would have been moth
ing strange or suspicious about that
performance were it not for the in
nuences which secured the appointment
of Mr.. Knox. There can be 20 question
about his intellectual qualifications for
the position. The same can b said truly
of some other Pennsylvania Republicans
-Congressmen John Dalze4And DOS: &.
Sibley for instance. 80,
People will open their-eyes in astonisli-
ment and begin to inquire as to the, why
and wherefore of his appointment, when
they learn that the transfer of Mr.. Knox
from the attorney generalship to the Sen
ate was procured by the earnest and
successful efforts of Mr.. Frick, MIR. Cas-
satt and Mr. Donald Cameron to induce
limited States Senator Penrose, the new
Republican boss of Pennsylvania, to per-
init Mr.. Knox to be senator-for Govern
or PenfStacker.r who nominalIy made
lthe-aDpointment,t docs not appear to have
been considered at all in the premises
The. anazAmept of the people will grow
lake .Jonah,s gstird vine when they learn
lshst Nj. Flick is the heaviest stakeholder
I'm The 1ste& trust; that Mr.. Cassatt is
i presidsnt' Of. the Pennsylvania Railroad
4 Co. Which IS one of the defendants in
Ethe cSaLtfust suit now pending. and that
| Mt; Cameron represented the Standard
OF Trust and Wall street interests in
persuading. Boss Penrose to let Mr.. Knox
go to-the Senate.
Here We hayesthe strange spectacle
the mystifXifg andmaly-of three of the
chief trustsfnaghates in the land secur-
ing the appointment to the Senate of At
ty. Gen. Phiander C. Knox. who has
been exploited far and wide as the great
Folks who still dare to think will be
| forced to one of two conclusions: ~
Either that Mr.. Knox is the only lawyer
in America capable of conducting suit
against a trust-which is absolutely pre-
posterOus, for there are hundreds of law
yers as able as he is-and that the trusts
were anxious to get him out of the at
torney generals office, because they fear
him more than they do any other human
being; or CO that the Knox anti-crusade
has been a bunco game from the begin
ming and that Messrs. Prick, Cassatt and
| Cameron together with those whom they
represent, procured for him the senator $
reward for favors already rendered the
trusts secretly while in the cabinet, and
| to be hereafter rendered in the Senate.
According to the press reports Prcsl-
dent Roosevelt stood by conserving to
the transfer of Knox from the cabinet to
| the Senate just as Paul stood by consent
| ing to the stoning of Stephen.
One paper says: 1.-The President is
greatly pleased that Mr.. Knox will ac-
ccpt the position" which looks like he IS
glad to be rid of him.
Here is another straw: 1t has been told
in Gath and proclaimed on the streets