Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-22

intended to undermine the power of
Maine in the affairs OF the nation.
Here is typical lpresent day
Dingleyism:
yet Names yet candidating ex-con-
Sressmen and its surviving Repuhhcan
delegation in congress demand that the
FARMER stand against Reciprocity and
with Harvester and Lumber trusts. Does
the Maine farmer fail TO note that ms
trust sheltered defenders hahinally hide
their own alien purposes IN rhttorlciri
sympathy with the land -culuNatof' Dut
when it comes TO business, are not the
Big Six with Lorimer.
Here is another from the same edi-
torial
''The Democratic chairman of ways and
means correctly remarks that Tafts Ca
madam reciprocity agreement recognizes
the injurious effect of retaliatory arrest
of the national commerce, such as fol-
lowed Hale's paper schedule. TO the great
injury of progressive American print
paper makers
And then we run up against this:
Suppose. for example the several trusts
promoted by the Aldrich schedules, con-
trary to the platform, seeing Senator
Cummins, Big Stick in the of1Ing should
sheltered in the technlcalities and eva
sions judicially invoked, and submit To
the Carnegie plan of rate regulation, or
TO the competitive price. selt-determned-
would it not them be proper that the
giants in industry converted TO protective
industry in harmony with Tafts 1903 de-
mand. should have the fair treatment in
the tarif that We accord To competitive
shoe and cotton manufacturing indus
try?'
And this:
THE Cannon Republicans in the House
should not. and probably Will not sue
ceed in their jocose attempt TO tack the
Democratic free list onto the reciprocity
bill The Democratic speaker will rule out
the Republican joke because IL is not ger
main An effort will be- made promptly
to wind up open debate ON rtciprocltE
try the Joke baffied in the House. The
fight against Special Privilege will be
won-though more than The Big six fali
by the wayside
The real advantage of this class of
literature lies in a fact which we fear
our readers may have overlooked. that
the order of arrangement makes no
difference in the sense" of the con-
struetion. These paragraphs, ar
ranged in any other way, would read
lust as intelligiby. You may read
them backward or forward and get
lust as good an understanding of
what the author was driving at. In
fact we think they read better, aside
from the line or two now and then,
where studious attempt is made to
abuse a Maine Republican in Congress,
if every other line is read consecutive
ly. If up to this time you have not
possessed yourself of the key, here is
another which may assist you:
For, be it borne in mind, that Senator
Cummins bill enacted in law would un-
doubtedly force the trusts TO abandon
their conspiracy against the consumer,
as well as against the Sherman law, and
thus restore the American protective sys-
TEN to the fair domestic position which.
according to Dingley and DolliVer can
alone Justify its existence.
That is the sort of argument" that
is put out to convince the farmers of
Maine they are all wrong on the pro-
lection question and always have
been. Combined with it are the con-
stant idiotic assertions that the senti-
ment is overwhelmingly for reeiproc-
ity," and the abuse of every Republi-
can who has represented Maine since
1898. In the face of it has been the
storm of protest from every section of
Maine the refusal of the Democratic
Maine Legislature to endorse it. the
growing opposition in Congress. in
both parties-and all in the face of
better understanding of the question.
The sentiment AGAINST has not de-
creased with advanced information,
but has increased. showing what we
claimed at first, that the subject had
not been given proper consideration.