Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-09-05

my good Democratic friends, if you arc
here, that will disagree with this prop
oSltion: Have you ever had in all the
history of the repubic-befoTe the Civil
| War and since the Civil War-a Con-
gTess that has enacted more and better
Legislation than did the Congress
which adjourned or the the Goth day
OF June last? Now stop and think a
minute. Run it over in your mind.
l Will not take time to tell you what It
Twas; You know what it was. Did You
lever have President who more faith
fully observed his oath that he would
see to it that the laws were executed
than has Theodore Roosevelt? Cap
lplause)
Now l am told there are some dis
trlctS in this State in which our Dem
ocratic friends have candidates Tor
congress. Candidates for Congress 10
do what? Are YOU Democrats? Yes.
II You 50 down there, you must know
| that It is government through par
| tieS You have got to cooperate with
| the party If YOU vote with your friends
| from the South, as they always Vote
| when they get a chance. for free ships
I in the coastWise trade" That is what
| they want. You being in the majority
| in the House. will you vote along the
| lines of making confusion and agitation
in the country by passing through the
House a tariff bill? VIII you or will
you not? Nill YOU support the hands
Of Theodore Eposevelt's administration
Honor bright? / am told that You
| can't draw an answer even with a
corkscreW from one of those candi-
dates. Naughter.)
| Now go along and settle
your Cwn local troubles. l don't know
about them. You Republicans all look
| alike to me. You may quarrel about
your home policies. 1t is up to you to
settle that. l have no lot or part in
| it. But whatever may be your views
| about your local and State issues, as
| 0ne citizen of the republic, with one
| interest from the national standpoint,
| look you in the face and say:
Friend and brother, what shall we do
to continue the present condition OF
prosperity everywhere throughout our
borders from the Atlantic coast to the
| Golden Gate, from the northern to the
southern boundaries? Everywhere
| here is a cry for labor labor, labor, on
| farm and in factory at a price that is
ore-half greater in wage than it was
when William Mckinley took the cath
| If office on his first election. ] would
| ike to see it kept that way. Wouldn't
,"u, my friend / don't think l can
| End anybody to dispute that. Well.
says somebody, Cannon. after all
there is Il good deal Of humbug about
his protective tariff bcneliting labor,
isn't therc?' We pay 81 for labor
acre where 81 is paid in England. We
pay 1925 whore 81 is paid in Germany.
We jay $50 where $l00 is paid in
France.
oh, We'll says my friend. that is
way over across the ocean. How is it
Up there in Canada?' Canada has 4
protective law of her own. 1t is rot
so good as ours hut it is helping her
condition. But Will just ask you this:
Arc there any French Canadians hero
Il this audience working in these fac
cries keeping these shops and run
ling these boarding houses? Why
God bless you. | have got a county of
'rCnch canadians in my Congressional
district They ar" among the best citi-
zens5 VIC have i'll the state of Illinois
farmers, factory men. proprietors, no.
ell keepers. restaurant keepers, Shoi
keepers, prosperous people. true. loyal,
Town here. but .thrcc-Quartcrs OF those
french Canadians in tine county OF
Nankakcc III my district vote now and
AYE voted for the better part of a
generation the Republican ticket CAP
lIausc) Now, my French Canadian
friends, what made you come over
here? Didn't you come over here be-
:ause You could earn more wages ana
In l,1rt or N
better? Isn't it in the line of your
Jcst interest? Why. if there is any
body on earth interested in this ques-
ton of protection it is the man who
by daily labor lives in the sweat of his
face
But say, says somebody, Cannon
Ill these foreign countries don't like |
IS. They won't trade with us have |
heard that ever since | can rccollect
DO you know that in the United States |
If America we produce onc-tnird of |
both the agricultural and manufactured
'roluct Of the civilized world? Take |
he whole continent of Europe. add
Great Britain, add European Russia |
md we produce in the United States |
IF America with our eighty millions OF |
people Onc-third of the agricultural |
products and one-third Of the factory |
products and more than on"-thiTd % |
he products Of the mines Of that great |
population. We consume SO per cent. |
of ii amongst ourselves. and the small |
Per cent. we send abroad makes US the |
greatest exporting nation on earth
And now we are spending more ana |
more Of our factory products and of our
agricultural products. Well, isn't il
wonderful that for a whole generation
-houen foreign countries don't like us
our foreign trade has grown so enor-
nously just from cur little surplus that
We send abroad?
Well says somebody. you Repub-
leans are always claiming everything.
You say God is with you. The rair
comes ana the sun shines and you have
Dr"spercd and You appropriate it all
You say God is working with you
Look here. my Democratic friends |
sE't it a little wonderful that for 2
whole generation God never has work
ID a single second with you? Uaugh-
Ter and Applause)