Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-24

lfeIti'S ana none IN transportation,
the increase being confined mainly to
the cost of food. He notes that wheat
enactment of the Mckinley bill and
that it now brings $120 at the farm
ers' doors: that corn was then SELL
ing at SIS a bushel and that it now
brings $50: that beef on the hoof
was then selling below the cost of
production and that it is now selling
at $01 IL. The Senator believes that
| this increase is due to the enormous
advance in the demand brought about
partly through the increase in the
purchasing power of the American
workingmen and the fact that the
100000 who We're idle and had little
or no purchasing power in 1897 have
regained that purchasing power and
joined them, making total increase
of some 100000, each and all of
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stuffs than Il years ago.
| At this point the Senator turned
aside to meet the complaint of the
so-called insurgents, that during the
five months the tariff bill was under
get clear understanding of the pur-
poses of that bill and what was con-
tanned in it, saying, that the majority
had done its duty as it saw it and
that the difference between the in
surgents and the majority is that
''they We're the largest contributors
to the 9,716O0O words in the tariff
speeches in the Congressional Record
and contributed hardly line to the
tariff law, we who supported the bill
stayed in the kitchen with the cook
and know exactly not only the in
gradients, but the amount of each and
the time required for perfection in the
cooking of cake which will be en-
joyed this Christmas by the whole
American people, and the cake will be
larger and richer with each recurring
anniversary
After calling attention briefly to
the enormous crops of this present
year and the high prices which the
| farmers will receive or have received
therefor, Senator Depew spoke a word
in regard to the food supply. He
noted that the same fears had been
given expression in Europe for 300
years and yet that each generation
had found the means to live better
than it's predecessor He stated that
he was impressed during his recent
visit in France with the arrange
ments whereby every foot of ground
this said "the French farmer is the
banker of Europe. He has loaned to
Russia a thousand millions of dollars
and enormous sums have come from
his stockings and gone into the gov
eminent and municipal securities and
promotions in Algeria and the French
colonies" He believes that the rea-
son why the land in this country is
not similarly cultivated is because no
necessity has yet arisen for it. The
market demand is not yet sufficient to
Induce the immigrant to settle, work,
study and economize.
The Senator called attention to our
lack of intelligent comprehension of
the future productive and trade pos
sibilities of South America, and our
failure to give Mexico, South Ameri-
considering our possible resources of
food supply.
Evidently he believes that the
United States will eventually be-
come more of workshop than a
farm and that when that time comes
the means for feeding this great nom
food producing population will ap-
pear. In conclusion the Senator said.
|"Uncle Sam on this Christmas can
smoke his pipe in peace and while
serenely surveying the future felici-
tate himself and congratulate the peo-
pie upon the happy conditions of the
; present and our brilliant prospects
for the future
The people of the United States owe
Senator Depew a debt of gratitude.
Every man who is familiar with the
facts knows that what he has said
is true. They knew it before he said
it, but it needed his expression OF
those facts to place Congress and the
people in the proper state of mind te
enjoy this Christmas season He has
given expression to that which needed
4 to be said, in a most happy manner
ms country is prosperous. Tht