Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-06
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declared the other Democratic factions
Ia be an unregenerate lot OF looters
and produced evidence in support OF
their contention. 1t is gratifying now
to note that they all join under the
banner of Folk and reform.
This united support has called fortl
from the candidate. Mr.. Folk, state
ment Of Democratic principles and the
most significant feature of this is that
the Democratic party should INSIST
upon "eradicating d tariff for any pur-
pose other than revenue"
! The country will do we'll to carefully
consider Mr. Folks words, no tariff
for any purpose other than revenue;
| not revenue with incidental protection,
| lust tariff for revenue. That is a
frank, explicit statement: let's see just
what it means.
A tariff for n" other purpose than
revenue means, if it means anything DIT
ALL that whatever duties are to be
levied shall be levied with view sole
~ to the amount of revenue to be
the subject Il moments thought. a
tariff for no other purpose than reVc-
nue. is one which must be levied in
such manner as to raise the re-
quircd revenue III the simplest and
most general way possible. To con-
slider its effects on any industry is to
embrace the doctrine of protection, the
very thing Mr. Folk declares should be
summed
Now. to produce revenue, duties
! must be levied on articles which will
be imported. and, if naught save the
getting of revenue is to be considered
| then the tariff should be on such arti-
| cles as will best produce the revenue
and coffee
AS most articles manufactured from
use. are. under d protective tariff. made
in this country. they now would not be
found in the category of articles OF
general necessity imported and 81
would not be subject to such a tariff as
Mr.. Folk proposes. According to him
cottons should come into this country
free of duty. Immediately the queS-
ton arises: How long should we con-
tinuc to manufacture the cottonS VIC
| interesting relation to this question
were presented during recent debate
| in the National House of Representa-
tivcs, facts which were not denied be-
cause they could not be. The follow
ing reference to them is taken from the
| Congressional Record:
| Mr.. Mckinlay OF California; was
in Charlotte. y. c., a few weeks ago as
the guest of the manager of one of the
great cotton factories there. He showed
me Il fine cotton LOOM and he said tC
me:
| Il am the agent of the inventor anG
one of the owners of the patents OF
this cotton machine. Three or foul
years ago Japanese buyers came ovel
to our factory and purchased 400 OF
these machines to be used in their fac
|
| tories near Kobe | was expecting t.
send some American mechanics tc
Japan to place the machines in posi-
ton, just as we do today when we start
Il mill in the South, but the japanese
! told me that We did not need to send
American mechanics; they could take
care of the placing OF the machines
| themselves. So we sent 900 machines
as directed"
Those were all the machines We ever
sent but they are operating thousands
| of them now. They took one of those
machines into their machine shops
and duplicated them by the thousands
at far less cost than we could furnish
| them, and less than they could be solo
for in America. Today they have
| 100000 cotton operatives working with
American machinery making products
! that must soon come into competition
with American products here in tho
| United States and not in the markets
of Asia. That is what protest
against. In that mill in North Caro-
lima the gentleman took me into :
place where the cotton was rolling of
the last roller. He picked up I
handful and said: The difference OF {
| half "A cent or even less per yard il
what we get for this cotton mean;
| prosperity for our business or dcStruc
| ton" | said to him: What do yol
| pay these men and women working a
the looms?" and | was simply sur
priSed to see what favorable labor con
ditions they have in that factory
| Bright. keen young men and womcr
| were working at the looms. He tolt
me: We pay $40 to ST. "a week. ant
| thew earn that money upon the ma