Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-28
Maine and the Free Trade FaIlacy.


"In the face of the rapid destruction
of the forests within the United States.
the Government of the United States
is doing what it can to hasten that
destruction by putting a penalty on the
Use of lumber from Canada. Lewis
ton Sun.
The money We spend in Canada for
lumber or anything else goes out OF
circulation in Maine The money we
| spend away from home is not only lost
to our home merchants but lost to
local circulation. Any man who
| spends his money at home helps build
up and maintain the prosperity of his
J community. Abraham Lincoln stated
the proposition very clearly when he
| said that when We buy an article abroad
| this country gets the article. and the
foreign Country gets the money; but
where we buy an article at home this
| country gets both the article and the
! money 1t may in the opinion of the
| Sun be a good way to promote Maine
|
to be used in affording employment to
| the labor of Canada, but we think it
| will experience some difficulty in max
| ing the citizens of Maine believe that
| such is the fact One thing is certain.
| No farmer Of Maine will ever get any
| part of the dollar sent to Canada in
payment for the products of his farm:
| no merchant will ever get any part of
/ it in payment for goods; no working
man will ever get any part of it in
! payment for his labor. 1t has passed
| out Of local circulation. 1t has ceased
to be a part of the prosperity of Maine,
and become a part Of the prosperity of
Canada. Possibly the Sun can per-
suade the people of Maine to endorse
tins l:inn of a policy, but we very much
doubt it. our people still have a very
distinct and painful remembrance of
the hard times that prevailed in this
State and throughout the country
when the Democratic party was last in
power in this country. Never were
the relative merits Of free ado and
protection given a faircr, more
practical. or more convincing tryout
in this country than during the Rcpub-
ican administration of Benjamin
Harrison and the Democratic admlsis-
tration Of Grover Cleveland which
succeeded il
The party Of each in the beginning
Of his administration had been in the
asccmtlancy in both branches of Con-
grcss. and each was therefore able
without hindrance to carry into effect
the distinctive principles and policies
Of his party. Both came into power
, in time Of profound peace. and both
were confronted in the beginning by
Practically the same general con-
ditions one demonstrated the results
that follow the practical application Of
Republican policies, the other, the re-
suits that just as inevitably come from
! the practical application Of Democratic
|.
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