Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-12

ma jority in Maine on Monday from the
standpoint of it's moral effect on other
sections of the country Judge Powers
throughout was given the closest at
tentiOn and was frequently and heart
lily applauded.
Chairman Thompson. in introducing
Senator Burrows ELECTED appla Use by
REFERRING, to him as the James q. Blaine
of Michigan.
Senator Burrows empna sized the i'm
portance of national issues, because he
said, you may lesislate and build as YOU
please in the State but if you leave the
national government to itself. whatever
YOU have built up may be torn down" If
the nation shall go wrong the State Of
Maine will be wrong. The only safety
is to take care of the republic itself in
the first place.
There are a multiplicity of Presidential
candidates, but our next President will
be MI. Taft or Mr.. Bryan. and the
senator remarked. Il will state to YOU in
strict confidence that it will not be Mr..
Bryan"
Ny Bryan in his Des Moines speech
ueCIdItu that TIE ldillI SHOULD De revised
until it reached a revenue basis. II would
seem that Mr.. Bryan and his party might
at least have waited before presenting
this issue until the recollection of soup
houses had faded from the memory of
the present generation.
Bryans remedy for trusts is to put on
the free list all foreign made goods that
compete with the trust But that would
not only destroy the trusts but the fnno-
cent men who are fighting against the
trusts. The Republican party believes in
regulating the trusts. and never in the
history of this country has the law been
enforced with such vigor and success as
under the administration of President
Roosevelt
Bryans remedy for bank panics, such
as we recently experienced is a guaranty
fund for all deposits. so that losses in
given bank shall be paid by an assess
ment levied on all banks. Senator Bur-
rows showed how that system had been
tried in the state of New York, and told
of the era of speculation it induced In
i've years 10 banks failed the others were
alarmed, the law was repealed The sys-
cent Republican legislation has authoriz-
ed the issue of $5Oo,0O0,O00 to be used, if
necessary, to move the crops in times of
financial stringency. The senator also re- !
Ferred to the commission of IS men an
pointed by a Republican Congress to go
to the bottom of the whole matter. study !
nNhaustively the financial systems of all
Countries. and build, if necessary, a new
system.
Senator Burrows also discussed and
'ontrasted the attitude of the two parties
lpon the merchant marine and then de-
voted his time to the consideration of
Mr.. Biyan's slogan, Shall the people |
'ule! asserting that there was never a |
time in the history of the republic when
the people ruled SO fully and absolutely
IS today. He discussed at some length |
and demonstrated the absolute lack of
oundation OF the subsidiary propositions
II Mr.. Bryan in this connection, namely. |
he election of United States senators by |
the people. publicity Of campaign ex-
lenses (the Republican measure for
which was blocked by Democratic ONO
Sitionl, and the return to the old rules
governing proceedings in the House of |
Representatives. les under which mi |
lorities could and did block the transac- |
ion of public business. and rules which
we're discarded in favor of the Reed rules
~ the Democrats themselves when they
anne into power. 1t is idle to talk of |
hese rules being despotic. No proposition |
AN go through the House except by the |
will of a majority of the members
Senator Burrows also paid his respects
n vigorous language to Mr. Bryan's
quickly discarded proposition of the gov
Arnment ownership of railroads. and
showed how excellently the civil service
commission and the courts are dealing |
With railroad problems. The answer to
Bryan's slogan, "Shal the people rule"
will be the triumphant election of Taft
md Sherman.
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