Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-05
CAM RAIGN.
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Democratic statesmen to remove this
safeguard. Sometimes they have called
t free trade and sometimes tariff for
-eVenuc only Three times they have
aacted their policy INTO law and the
country remembers 1851, ISIS and the
ears following. when the sound # the
,rinding was low and our workmen
rad tl!e streets in idleneSs.
Again their counsels are the same.
II control OF the House Of Representa-
ives, they have, this summer, formu
ated and passed a tariff for revenue
,nIy, For sinister purposes they com
Promised with insurgent senators up
n schedules which represented no
principle and Which preserved no ratio
between raw material and manufacture
d product Committed to the sound
Principle of scientific tariff revision,
hey fer supposed partisan advantage.
asst the tariff again as football on
the gridiroR of politics We accuse
he Democratic party in Congress and
their allies, Of narrow and blind see
.ionalisn. We accuse them of flag
ant disre gard of the business and in
lustrial interests of the country. We
lccusc them OF playing politics when
hey sat in the seats of statesmen.
I'VE recognize the wisdom and APP
)laud the ffrntness of President Taft,
he resolution says, for interposns
yetoes against such rash, i'll conceived.
disastrous tampering with the prosper
ty and business Of a great people.
Of
: DESIGNATED as long step toward
he greatly to be desired end of re
moving the tariff from politics.
at has never been and is not now
he resolutions continue, the Repub-
lean doctrine to abndon the protec
i've policy or 10 re-adjust schedules
n accordance with general theories Ill
disregard Of business facts. We again
leelare in favor Of a downward re-
,ision Of schedules that have become
,ither outNorn or oppressive instead
If protective, but We are not in favor
If crude and haphaZard revision which
while in theory reducing rates of du-
V. liz fact results in Gripping or de-
;troying established and useful indus
ries.'
The two concluding paragraphs say:
We heartily endorse the administra-
ION of President Taft, who, without
leing a politician, has steadily grown
IL tie confidence and affection Of the
people and has exercised in his high
office administrative capacity ana jul
licial Judgment which made him a
iafc and sound leader. He has Sc
cured an unexampled body of whole
some legislation He has advocated
he complete divorce from politics of
our Civil Service and has justified his
has held firmly the standard OF ju
licial independence to the end thatswe
nay have a government of laws and
rot of men. He has seen to ii that
hese laws shall be obeyed by gigan-
JIG corporations as we'll as by indivd-
lals. He has assured the commanding
position of our highest court by his
appointments. He has preserved the
,eaee along our Southern border. He
las written his name high among the
statesmen of all time by his proposals
or general arbitration of interna ton
i disputes.
with such a President to sustain,
With such candidates to elect, with
UGH momentous danger threatening
he wage earners and Industries of our
,wn and all other manufacturing
tates, we cau upon our citizens. ir
of party, to cast aside par,
isanship and prejudice to study calm-l
y. honestly and as responsible mem-I
'ers of q great commonwealth, thel
neaning OF this campaign and tn re-
ord their decision at the polls"