Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-20

both upward and downward limits and
that by so much as you raise duties
above the difference in cost of pro-
Guction at home and abroad, after due
allowance for the foreign custom of
selling goods cheaper abroad than at
home, by so much you permit domestic
monopolies to overcharge domestic
consumers.
"A few years ago said Mr.. Hamil-
ton, boys wore out their fathers old
clothes made over according to
ncighborhood pattern; now they have
to have store clothes and socks to
match their neckties and college
yell. A man was considered well-off
if he kept horse and buggy; now he
has to have an automobile if he has
to mortgage the place to get it. The
average business man does business
with telephone at one ear, STEM
ographer at each elbow, telegraph
Office next door, wireless station
within easy reach, an automobile at
the door and before many years he will
want a flying machine to avoid the
crush in the street below
1--WE now have 100000 factories, en-
ploying 100000 people, keeping time
to the demands of 90,0Q9.000 folks.
The protection policy has built up an
annual factory output of $4,000, 900, 900
paying out $3,0O0000,000 in wages and
has kept the machinery of protection
in motion until it has developed a
horsepower equivalent to 90,000,000
men. The country never was more
prosperous.
"a fn
cheap city humorists. preyed on by
grasshoppers, locusts and money
sharks, and misled by predatory poll
ticians. Now he has come into his
own and | am glad of it. He is one
Of the safest, soundest, cleanest ele-
ments in our civilization. The city
would have dried up, rotted or eX-
ploded but for the country That came
into town day before yesterday Too
much of the country has been coming
into town though. The farmer is re-
ceiving only q fair price but middle
men are charging too much for hand
ling and trying to attribute the re-
sponsibility to the farmer. The time
has gone by however when thrifty
gentlemen can take toll Of the farmer
and out of the consumer and fool both
at tho same time.
Mr. Hamilton charged the cheap pol
itician with singing one song in the
city and another, of a different tune,
in the country. He described the sit
uation as filled with contradictions.
everybody pickering to locate the
blarle for high prices. pills. reso-
lutions. Investigations, commissions.
boycotts. antl-meat societies. anti-egg
societies. anti-fooCk trust and vegetar-
ian organizations are rampant and in
the midst of it Democratic gentlemen,
after time honored custom. are dill
gently trying to convert discomfort
into votes.
We are getting farther away from
the old fundamental human relations
that sustain and console folks. We
are always going somewhere and going
very fast and generally go our ways
separately although we jostle one an
other on the sidewalk 1t is an age
of steam enginism. We run the ma
chine and the 'rachine runs us. The
talk on the street today becomes the
law tomorrow Politics means parties.
parties the people and parties have to
have leaders and chief priests and
ScrlneS anu p1aflSeeS ana camp Iol-
lowers. This is the golden age Of the
spot light. opera bouffe, whirling der
wish sfcrm of politician who leads for
while but the true leader must build
success on fundamental right
Discussing tnscrupulous dealers and
the segregation of food supplies, Mr..
Hamilton declared the cold storage
system made it possible. if not Gus
tomary. for the frozen remains of an
ancestor to remain in cold suspense
until its progeny had grown to mid
die age and then for them to meet in
fricassed reunion on some bill Of fare,
both as strictly fresh. The unmater-
nal incubator had become the mother
of the chicken.
There shall not grow up among u.s.
concluded Or. Hamilton, "a privileged
class above the law. This govern
ment shall wisely control men and as
sociations of men. The government
shall not fail of its mission among
men,