Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-25
Tuesday, April IS, 1911.
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Congressman eouId's Bold ~ Stand.

We luu tlle ItdiHe VI SOHS freshman
Gould of the Third district of Maine.
FOR the measure. 1t was known that
the two Republican representatives
blinds and Guernsey would oppose
the reciprocity" plan, and McGilll-
cuddy had announced his intention to
support it. but Congressman Gould
had successfully lodged the Skowhe-
gan Grange when invited to make his
position known Now the patrons and
the farmers of Skowhegan and the
Third district may know that Mr.
Gould supports the measure which
they have so strongly opposed.
We had expected that Congressman
MEG lllicuddy would be found on the
side Of the protected manufacturers in
the plot to reduce the cost of living at
the expense of some one other than
the protected manufacturers, but We
had hoped that the representative of
the Third district-so distinctively =
farming district-would stand loyal to
his PEOPLE. whose wishes he ought TO
know are beyond the Importance OF an
exploded political hobby-free trade.
we should have liked much to hear
Mr.. Gould's explanation of position
the ground on which ne bases vote
against a great majority of his con-
stituents. We had hoped he would
address Skowhegan Grange. and in
structed our representative there to be
sure to report him if he did speak to
the patrons, as we understood he had
promised to do. If Gould, like Kinds,
had defended his coming vote before
the National House and had thus put
himself frankly at issue with his con-
stituents, his reasons might have been
strong enough to have convinced some
of them that he is right and they are
wrong-as he generally is. But he
dodged-as did the Democratic Legis-
lature-untii the last moment then
voted according TO the dictates of the
party whip.
We wonder how many of our read
ers have read or are reading what
Congressman Kinds said about Dis
tinetion Between Farm Home and
Factory" Could Congressman Gould
answer this paragraph to the salts
faction of his farming constituents:
THE fact that Canada has New
World conditions, that her labor is not
crushed down as in the older coun-
tries, furnishes. l will admit, a fair
argument that you might with safety
remove the duties on manufactured
goods In the future when conditions
of labor shall have equalized. The ar
gunlent, then, may some day be sound
when applied to factories. Is it sound
when applied to farms?'
Congressman Kinds answers his own
question as follows:
no; AND FOR THIS REASON,
THAT THE FARM IS PRIMARILY
NOT A FACTORY, BUT A HOME.
Capitalists gather up money, build
mills call in laborers. and turn out
product for the main purpose of pay
ing dividends on the capital they have
gathered up.
THE farmer acquires land that he
may found a home.
1T is not the lack of bricks, ma
chinery, or factory sites that checks
the expansion OF factories, but the
disappearance of dividends
The expansion Of farms ceases only
when there is no more land under the
western sun.
Dividends are the fundamental con-
ditions Of manufactures.
Areas of land for homes are the
fundamental condition of agriculture.
"If the faetory's product falls in
price below the dividend producing
line, the factory shuts down to wait
for better times. The building OF new
factories IL discouraged.
Did any Of you gentlemen ever
hear Of the farms shutting down as
factories shut down because the bot
tom fell out of the market for their
products? We heard that the far
ners Of Kansas once burned their corn
wnen they could not sell it. But
farming went on, because the homes
could not stop.
When cotton goods fall in the mar
ket, TIE cotton mills curtail produce
tion and save loss by running fewer
weeks in the year
when the farmers products fall in
the market, he must pr2aa+ee" not less
but more, because the expense of the
home must be met.
Manufactures, organized by trusts
and gentlemen's agreements, easily
control output and prevent oyerpro-
duction.
Farmers, by the necessities of Their