Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-18
Now You See It and Now You Don't.


Now that the Lewiston journal has
discovered that Representative Asher
c. Kinds of the First District of Maine
stands for exactly what he announced
that he stood for in the campaign in
which he was elected to Congress- that
paper may be expected to assume its
usual role of critic Instructor, father
confessor and all around political
spanker. AS an I am holier than
Wart Republican paper which Con-
gresham Dingley owned and directed
for so many years. consistently pur-
sued, attacked and rallied at Congress-
man Charles +. Littlefeld. then it
pounced on Senator Hale, it buTeted
and slammed at SWaSey, it kicked and
yoWled at Burleigh, and finally dumped
in the entire Maine delegation as being
IN the service of everything but de-
cency up to the time that two Demo-
cratic representatives and a Demo-
cratic senator went to Washington
from Maine. In the last campaign.
the Lewiston journal fought nobly for
Asher Kinds as the representative of
all that is good and intelligent in
Maine, and now we with quite sec
ton of the general public of Maine. are
wondering just how long it will take
TINS paper to work it's feelings up to a
point where it can daily assail Mr..
Kinds in hyphenated invective as a
representative of the trusts and all
that is evil in American political af-
fairs.
Mondays Lewiston journal saws.
mere are said to be but fifty reaction
arr arlfs %, OF both parties following Cannon
lives. or about 10 per cent. Tho senate
9f the 6lst Congress was reacti0nary nm
ger the leadership of Democrats like Raj
IcE ana or Republicans like The Big Sin
J. he landslide of 1910 partially modernized
tNe senate. The only danger of reciproc-
itY in The Upper House of the 62d Con
Sfcss IS from such non-repre sentatlves as
dcteated popular choice of United States
senators In the last Senatc-such reac-
tloharies, be it borne in mind, as arrested
the prosperity of farmers, of carded wool
manufacturers and others in the United
states through the ungodly Aldrich sched-
ues.
II is agreed the reciprocity agreement
VIII pass the House this week by ma
JoritE of six or seven to one. 1t is fore
"asted that no progressive DEMOCRAT or
progressive Republican will join Cannon
al astacKnG 1atts platform.
Mr. Kinds argument is based on the
assumption that the Cannon agreement
fails to care for the farmer-that his pro-
nucts are put on the tree list ana mat
what the farmer buys is yet heavily
taxed. But it should be noted that Tafts
plan is to diminish duties in harmony
farmer will enjoy free trade in products
that we do not adequately produce and
lower taxation on products that are en-
titled to protection But followers of
Cannon are desperately lighting down
ward revision of other schedules in the
larger field of the world as they are op-
posed to fair trade with Canada, They
critcise the Canadian agreement and re-
fuse to give the farmer better show
in the wide world where the price of his
products is fixed. Did st thee ever:
We presume that it's reference to
the plan to diminish duties so that
the farmer will enjoy free trade in
products that we do not adequately
produce" has to do with the spectacle
of the Maine farmer swapping dol
lars in a ton of hay for cents in wire
with which to bind it, That is fair
specimen of the fairness of the re
ciprocity" plan-ialt it does not refer
to the hoped for saving in the Lew
isto.l Journals paper bill.