Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-20
NASHER KINDS SPEECH.
At Yarmouth He Served a Voiley Of
Facts and Made Many Friends.

Yarmouth. Aug. 19.-The reception
accorded Asher Kinds here last eve
ming was the most enthusiastic in this
part of the State in the campaign.
Mr.. Kinds in opening his speech said
that he/ fe,t greatly embarrassed at
this Introduction and had half made
up his mind not to say anything about
1t. bar FELT compelled to say some
thing. The truth is said Mr.. Kinds
that being called the greatest parla-
mentarian in this country, while d
great compliment undoubtedly, is
nevertheless not such a great cOmpli-
am the only one in the parliamentary
business in the country" He then Went
on to say that he represented a party
which had been the only political
party in the business ign 80 years. a
party whose politics and achievements
though they had been bitterly assaile6
We're universally recognized as the
things above all others which had
contributed to the prosperity of the
! country. He spoke of the great lead
ers of the party, of the men who SUI
| fered abuse and whose motives had
been assailed, but whose names now
| lived among the most cherished ira
ditions of the past and the anniversary
| of whose births the nations had come
| to honor.
Comparing the abuse which these
men suffered to maintain the principles
which have made. this nation great
| We now come to realize that the criti-
! cism and abuse which may be heaped
upon the Republican party today is
| but the froth upon the surface and we
| know that party's policies are the
| great policies not only of yesterday
| but of today and the day after
| He said that according to the oppo-
| nents of the Republican party in this
campaign there is but one issue. The
Democratic orators say nothing about
the constructive legislation of the Re-
publican party in the last Congress.
They say nothing about the great
things which have been accomplished
in the way of progressive legislation
by the Republican Congress, but be-
cause there happens to be FIVE or six
articles in a tariff bill containing more
than 1000 articles which seem to be
wrong they ask the American voter
| TO cOnGemn Ifidt party.
| why don't they refer to the great
constructive policies OF the Republican
party. CT its legislation for the con-
servation Of the natural resources OF
| New England. for example; to the
| Legislation to regulate the contribution
to campaign funds: to the legislation
to regulate the railroads and the many
other things which might be referred
| to-" Criticism is always necessary to
keep a minority party in line, but the
great party which accomplishes things
must expect some criticism ana must
originate some constructive legisla-
ton, he said. Not only that. but it
must be ready and it is ready at all
| times to explain and defend its acts.
He said that Is years ago when the
tariff was much higher than it is to-
day. the prices We're very low on all
| sorts of commodities.
"'rhen the Democratic party claimed
that low prices were caused by high
| tariff. Today. after Il years under a
| tariff much lower by many per cent.
| the prices are very high on some COM
| moGites, too high perhaps. ard the
Democrats claim that this is due to
the high tariff. He then told the story
about the demon who visited Germany
and found that man blew his fingers
to keep them warm and blew his broth
to keep it cool, and he said that this
demon retired from earth in disgust
because he could not understand how
a man with the same breath cOuld
blow both hot and cold. "The demon did
not understand the economic principles
| nd hat &c,
Just the position of our Democratic
friends.
He said that he admitted that prices
wera high. The pendulum had per
haps swung too far in one direction
| IL years ago when prices We're low.
ap<l it had swung too far the othSf
way today when prices We're high.
This wsS due to natural conditions, to
the laws of supply and demand and
not wholly to the tariff Prices We're
high in free trade England, in Ger
! many. which has d protective tariff.
| in France, which has a moderate tar
| If. ard in Canada as Well In these
countries high prices We're not attrib-
uted to the tariff in this country.
He said the tariff did raise the prices
| to some extent otherwise we should
be swamped by an influx of foreign
manufactured goods. The tariff is
like the heel of a mans boot" said
Mr.. Kinds. mo one ever claimed that
boot heel would make an ordinary
man have the stature of a giant, nor
woul6 a boot heel prevent a dwarf
from remaining a dwarf. High prices
may in some degree be due to the tar
lift hut the tariff is not the sole cause
for the high prices which prevail
He then told the story of the Ger
man empire; how Bismarck built up a
protective tariff to make Germany a
manufacturing nation and he said that
the greatest epitaph of that statesman
was manufactured in Germany"
which is to this day to be found on so
many goods bought in this country
and sold all over the world.
Bismarck's policy had been the poll
cy OF the Republican party. That
party had believed in building up the
manufacturing industries 1t had real
lied the fact that a nation could not
be great or prosperous unless it relied
upon something else than it's agricul-
tural production. He told how under
the policy Of the protective tariff the
wages in the factories had been in
in ta 10. how il had ma x,