Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-21
Tuesday. March q, 1911.
Mtheods of Those Without Argument

To carry a point which II has all
along failed to mak" its position Is M
deed desperate. Tie organ which car
ries to its people The declaration that
the kennebcc Journal assumes thar
the Changers and farmers do not
know enough t. act for themselves
has adopted falsehood in desperate at
tempt to bolster its claims. The Ken
ncbec journal has never for a singh"
moment assumed any such thing. nor
has it ever gwen any expression that
could be twisted into ANYTHING 81 the
sort by any honest man
Just as unreliable Is is this stat"-
ment which appeared in an unreliable
contemporary. the last of last week.
are other statements which it Is send
ing broadcast in is narrowing field.
The people OF Maine are deeply and
vitality interested in the question OF
reciprocal trad, with Canada. All
they ask now, or have asked, is fair
play IN the arrangement of any agree
ment with the Canadian government
This they have demanded from the
first and Will continue to demand un-
til they secure some amendments to
the arrangement now before the Con
gress. or have been voted helpless by
Il majority of that body which is to
be largely Democratic at its opening
on April I. People along the border
well understand prices on both sides
Of the line. They know that the claim
being circulated by certain newspa-
pers regarding higher prices on tho
Canadian side than are received on
the American side are wholly mislead-
inspiration as that which would have
secretly dumped upon tie people an
outrageous arrangement Of so-called
reciprocity, at the expense of the
farmers Along the northern border.
So-called "BaeheIdcrisms is an ex-
preston Of the honest opinion Of the
farmers Of New England and other
Northern states, regardless Of party
Mca who baxc= been loyal Republicans
all tier lives disagree with the ad-
ministration on this great question,
and they believe that they have the
right 10 b. heard; that their opinions
ar" entitled to respect. No man has
the right t. abuse or stismatize them |
because they ask that their views on |
tlis question be heard and given re- |
si"ctful attention. The assumption ny |
bigoted. self constituted experts in the
handling Of satire that these people |
are 10 be ruthlessly ovcrruled brow |
beaten ana aWed into silence is worthy |
"f the hypocrisy which dominates the |
atmosphere in certain sanctums de- |
voted Ia the consideration of selfish in |
tercSts alone. Suct. organs are wont
10 devote themselves largely to yelled |
inSiruatioaS against people as TAR
above them a. heaven is above the |
cartH ana against whom no word OF |
public criticism ever has been heard. |
one might think from reading the col |
umns % such Intentionally misleading
sheets that k WAS Il states prison
crime tor man to own an acre OF
Wild land IN the State Of Maine, and
that nothing in the way of meaning
less juIablcs of insinuations (Which
make n" charges yet lead the reader
to Understand that gentlemen who own
Wild lands are dcep-dyed rascais from
their bpotsplcs upl is too bad to in
ilict upon them,
Early in this fight against tie pres
ent reciprocity arrangement with
Canada. the krnncbec journal was
asked by it's subscribers and bv pa
irons of husbandry in Central and
Northern Maine. representing thou
sands of people who are not subscrib-
crs. % voice their side of this aues-
ton We have done SO. and we intend
To continue to do 50 just as long as
there is ray Of hope Of securing fair
play for the farming interests of
Maine. regardless of the etabs and in
sane attacks OF such papers as devote
themselves to hyphenatcd combina-
tiohs OF names that have neither sig
nificance t. the public nor to their in,
Yentor
IHt foolish attempt to ring Congress
man Burleigh into tie Kcnnebcc Jour
nal's course on reciprocity is on a par
with the gyrations ot such idiotorial
inventions or other topics. Congress
man Burleigh has not Yet come TO
Maine sine. the Adjournment OF Con-
eress, nor will he return for several
days 10 come. Neither has he written
OF caused TO be written d single word
on this question for the kennebe1
Journal
The silly inference that Congressman
EurleiSh has found time to engineer
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