Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-11

there may be the widest difference
as to methods to be pursued and the
manner in which certain well recog-
niZed principles shall be applied to eX-
listing conditions.
mo the people of this country will
not trust the administration of it's
affairs to a man who has spent his
life in constructing and advocating
theories only to abandon them in the
face of current events which proved
them false, simply because he is
persuasive orator and they believe him
honest when there is opposed to him
a man whose honesty and integrity
is undorbted, who has spent his life
dealing with facts and not with theo-
ries. who has done things from his
youth up, making good in the many
md important positions which he has
hed-a man peculiarly qualified by mis-
temperament, education and expert
enCe to be n safe and sane President
Swinging from national to state AFT
fairs, the reporter asked the senator
il he had not Il message for the Re-
publcans in the present State CAM
paign.
Indeed l have" was the prompt re-
sponsc, II am deeply interested in the
result though 1 am taking no active
part in it for what seem to me good
reasons. 1 have probably made more
political speeches than any man llV-
ing and feel justified in retiring from
| the list of campaigners but this does
not make my anxiety for Republican
success one bit the less. I am inter-
cstcd for the best good of our State.
wish to see elected to its Offices men
of character, experience, honesty. actu-
ated by the single purpose to serve
the state to the best of their ability,
| The Republican party has in the past
| furnished such men and will supply
them now.
II am Interested, too, because TINS
election will influence for good or ill
| the whole country in the coming cleo
ton of it's President. To me, upon the
success of the Republican party In
November depends the revival of bust
ness a restoration Of confidence and
an era of prosperity equal to that of
the last decade and no man ought 10
desire more than that.
81 cannot regard the election of Mr..
BRYAN as otherwise than menace of
direful import to the country. Presi-
dent Cleveland was a much wiser and
| an. and vet the people cannot have
forgotten the terrible distress which
followed his second election and con-
tinued through his term of office. For
| the only time in nearly half century
the Democratic party was in full pow
err. the President and both houses of
! Congress Failures without limit, re-
| ceivorships. closed mills, furnaces and
| factories. millions of men hunting for
work thcv could not find. soup houses
established in all the cities to feed the
starving.
"NVhat did the party accomplish
with its power? Only one law of i'm
portance, known as the wilson tar'H,
q marvellous result of ignorance and
incapacity. free trade in spots protec-
ton in spots, tariff for revenue only
in spots. Mr. Cleveland declared 1t
infamous and allowed it to become a
law without his signature. I need not
remind YOU how it worked for you
cannot have forgotten. ] don't need to
charge and don't believe that the
Democratic party would willingly ana
willfullv injure the country. but for
n half-century it has been party OF
obstruction opposition-never but the
| L
"Now there is undoubtedly to be
revision of the tariff. l was, when IN
| the House. a member of the committee
on ways and means. We revised the
| tariff 1t was StupendouS work re-
uuring large experience and intimate
| knowledge of all the Industries OF the
country and a determined purpose 10
save these industries and MAINTAIN the
good wages of our working men 10
Won wish to place this revision III tito
hands of utter inexperience Coupled
with strong leaning to free trade OF
to a tariff for revenue only-a near
neighbor to it? Surely in the interests
Of Maine you do not. linen see TO- IL
that four Republican representatives
are elected to the National House.
"What is the policy of protection?
| Every product in our country lnt'
which labor enters costs for tina. lapor
from 25 to 50 per cent. more tnan IL
docs in our competing countries. Pro-
lection simply says Before YOU can
send vour products into our markets
to compete with us you must pay 10
tho sunrort of our government a duty
eo,,valent to the difference In cost Oh
the nroduct' 1t does not exclude the'h
from our market but does give lhSii'
no advantage over us. Do the farmers
of Maine wish Canada to have the up
nor hands of them all in all products
of the farm?
| ar observe that Democratic speakers
saw that we sell in foreign markets some
manufactures more cheaply than at
home One would think that this was
discovery made by them. but the fact
;s that from the time. to the contrary
| Of which the memory of man rnnneth
not this has been done by every lndus-
TRIAL nation in the world. 1t is simply
the disposal of surplus for Whatever
# will bring. If not disposed of the
mills must shut down and the hands be
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