Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-30

| producing ana was not yet dUle u
produce what foodstuffs were re-
ouired to feed the country. Prices
kept going up. ctops that only few
years ago hardly paid for their rails
ing, were selling at a good profit, al
live stock was in sharp demand, ole
fields came again under cultivation
new land was broken. abandoned
farms resettled. mortgages were pai6
off, new farming machinery was
| bought, and 10, the American farmer
had come into his own.
! The young men and women are now
helping carry on the home farm and
the boy riding to market behind a
team of horses. worth more today
| than many OF the farms were few
years since. or visiting his neighbors
| on a Sunday. perhaps in his own au-
| tomcbile. no longer looks with envious
eyes upon his old friend in town
sleeping in hall bedroom and earning
his salary at the bench or the counter
| Today there are less abandoned
| farms in Maine than for years. and |
| believe the time is soon coming when
| they will be almost unknown within
! our state If the tariff has done this
| God bless the tariff.
| But with our farms. our factories,
| our uuarries and our merchants en-
| joying such prosperity, it is with sad
| ness that we see one of the great in
dustries in which Maine took so
| prominent part in the last century
languishing and well nigh gone-the
forei gH. carrying trade.
With q frontage on the two great
i,,h% =,
that <ef ANY other nation, we have
every inducement to revive our navi-
cation, which. crippled by the Civil
war. was still further injured by the
substitution of steam for sail in ocean
traffic. Yet the government has re-
fused it's help while a small share OF
the encouragement given by the gov
ernment to manufacturers would car
ry our ships into every port.
Statistics would not perhaps in
terest YOU 1t is enough to know that
this great industry has gene into al
most hopeless decay.
During the first three years of the
Civil war Maine sent into the navy
more than 5000 able seamen. to say
nothing of officers: How many able
seamen could she furnish the navy
il war should come tomorrow: How
many native born able seamen could
we and all the maritime states to-
getfer furnish to man our GOLFERS and
the vast auxiliary of our navy in
| time of war?
We are spending millions for battle
! ships while We are throttling the
greatest naval fitting school a nation
| can have--its merchant marine.
Our merchants are paying millions
| on cargoes carried in foreign bottoms
| to South America and our possessions
| in the Orient, which should go in Am
| erican ships manned by American
| sailors.
It is not only for our ship yards we
plead but for American vessels to
carry American goods into our neigh
boring markets now controlled by
England and Europe through their
| great advantage in shipping facilities,
markets which ought to be and. l be-
| lieve. soon will be open to us. and it
| is not only for our ship Yards and
vessels, but for the very Likelihood of
| the American navy-its enlisted men.
| Sometime enough of the country will
unite on this great question. so close
| ~ allied to the<principle of protection,
t. extend to cur shipping that need
| of protection to which it is entitled.
but we know that this will never hap
pen under Democratic auspices.
| Now comes the Democratic party
| and sings in siren tones to the voters
| of Maine: ELECT Democratic legis-
lature this fall and we will send a
| Democrat to the United States Senate
our first since 1859
Perhaps YOU may ask if this Moses
| leading Names Democracy into the
| promised land will favor the main
tenancc of the protective policy-if he
| is in accord with his party. certainly
rot You may ask if he will favor
| government aid to our shipping
| Again no. You NAV ask if he will
| favor any of the broad progressive
! policies under which our state and ma
! ton has SO enormously thrived for the
! past half century. BY no means, un-
| less he is political renegade. And
| finally you may ask if the best inter
| este of this state and nation will be
| better conserved by any Democrat
| however able. than by Republican
whose political and economic princi
| piles; spring from the same source as
! have those of that line of honorable
| and illustrious senators Representing
| Maine for more than half n century
| Hannibal Ham1in. Lot NJ Morrill,, Viii
| liam Pitt Fessendcn. James g. Blaine.
| VIM p Frye and Eugene Hale.
| oh, shade of Abraham Lincoln. even
| thou art invoked in this hour OF
| Democratic extremity For the first
time in history Abraham Lincoln,
than whom. while living. no man was
| ever more revled or abused by the
| Democratic party. has been brought
| before a Democratic convention as
! "the farSceing statesman and unCum-
| promising friend of Justice ard the
| common people And notWithStand-
| ing his we'll known unbounded faith
! in the pcrpctuitv of our great repuh-
liz and it's institutions, Lincoln is
rnpresentss. by using few phrases
| without the context. as 4 prophet of
dire evil. corruption in high places
| and finally of the destruction of the
! Republic You would think. from the
| Democratic Interpretation which toll
| lows this thundcrbot. that such cor
rupticn in high places" was to be con-
1 fined ONLY to the Republican party,