Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-09-05
GRAND RALLY
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| seem to a few interested persons that the
whole country ought with one voice to
| favor such a modification of the policy of
protection, but since the adjournment of
| Congress | have been in i Northern
States. and have found anywhere but lit
| tie sentiment in favor of so-called reel
| prociIy with Canada. The proposition il
| so impossible when boiled down that its
serious advocate appears almost ridicu-
lous The agricultural interests of the
country favor protection for the products
| of manufacture and ii behooves the man
ufaCturing interests of the country TO ia
vor a reciprocity that in return Will give
protection to the pr0lucts of American
agriculture. The American farmer has
ever been the best GUS omer Of the Amer
lean manufacturer. and while the manu-
facturers prosper by selling their prod
ucts to the farmer, the farmer will insist
upon the right to prosper by selling his
products to the manufactu Under that
policy both have rrospcred in the past,
and by that policy both will continue to
prosper in the future. and the strict pol
ley of protection cannot he maintained by
protecting those engaged in the manufac-
ture OF shoes while giving free trade to
those engaged in producing hides
The fact is that Republicans nowhere
favor such so-callcd reciprocity. The ad-
vocates OF that policy are found in the
Democratic parry and such policy Is
favored by that party b, cause Canadian
reciprocity is free trade pro tanto. The
Democratic party falls in with the claim
of the advocate of free trade reciprocity
with Canada. That such policy would
he Of great advantage to the farmers Of
Canada there Is no question. Ii would
give them free entrance by cheap water
transportation into the best markets tn,
American farmer has. 1t would be q
great privilege for the Canadian farmer
TO take his meat, his poultry, his butter.
his milk his eggs his potatoes, his hay,
his oats, his wheat. his barley and all
other products that he produces into the
markets Of Boston, New York. Buffalo,
Detroit. Chicago. Minneapolis and St
Paul, but in far as IL benefited the
Canadian farmer 1t would injure the
American farmer This one thing il sure
II the Canadian farmer Is permitted 10
feed these busy millions. the American
! farmer will he deprived of the privilege of
furnishing them food. If the Democratic
rarty and the advocates of so-cailed Ca
madam reciprocity outside of that parry
anywhere believe that the American
farmer will yield to such a policy the
idea should be abandoned at once.
Then too. the manufacturer cannot find
Il better market among prosperous Cana
dian farmers made SO by free trade with
Canada than he has had with PROSPEROUS
American farmers made so by adhcring
strictly to policy of protection that en-
braces the products of all American in
dustrics
Mr.. Campbell's speech was received
with loud applause.
Chairman Tilden then came forward ard
introduced Edward +. Brown of New
York Mr.. Brown disyus-rd the tariff
along lines similar to that oL Congress-
man Campbell, but went into the discus
sion more in detail. He said the free
trade idea had its birth i'm the South.
where great agricultural community IA
vored the idea of an expanding market
without protection. but that such policy
would surely work injury along other
lines. he also showed how difficult II had
been for the Democrats to frame a bill
that did not interfere with different inter-
ests when they We're in power ana to what
an extent the Mills and Wilson bills were
mutilated before they Were finally passed
so much so that they were scarcely rec
ogniza bic
The speaker also brought out some
strong figures on the trust problem. He
showed that only about per cent OF the
100000 people engaged in manufacturing
industries. and that they pay but per
cent. Of the wages and their products are
only about IA per cent. Of the goods made
in the country; also that the trusts own
ed but IA per cent of the property, and
that these estimates were made without
any allowance for their over-captaliza-
ton.
In closing. the speaker touched upon
the Presidential candidates and paid a
glowing tribute to Roosevelt, which was
received with great applause