Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-03-08

is moved perhaps 50 that in one posi-
; tion i becomes to the disadyantagc of
! the people OF the farmers ON IN" west
! ern side If that artificial boundary
: line, if it becomes 10 their diSadVaEt
age To trad" with people on til" easter
" SIDE Of ;nat line. on the other hand,
, il the commission should set thai
boundary perhaps one mile or less ar
| more farther east. then it becomes al
! right for those farmers who are on
| the westerly side Of til" first proposed
| lin, to TRACE with those who are nov
inside the rev Maine lines Now that
! strikes ne. as say. as quite a peculiar
condition of affairs. | do not tina any
warrant for it in nature.
The same thing Is illustrated in the
case of Texas. When Texas was II part
! Of Mexico she needed protection
against the t'.ited States. When she
freed herself from Mexico and WAS an
| indepcndeut state she needed prutse-
| tion against the United States ami
+, Mexico too. But when she became a
| part at this Union she no longer need
ed protection against the United States
! but she needed protection against
| Mexico. The Rio Grandc, think is
tries. Sometimes it changes its course
! Some years ago. perhaps over night
ii changed its course so that some hun
drcds of thousands OF acres which mao
previous to this change belonged To
Mexico We're brought into the | tited
States. Now on that island "r li"ee OF
land were some hundreds "r thousands
OF sheep. Now we have a tarif on
l a
ton Now observe. that previous 10
that shifting, those sheep needed pro-
lection against American sheep, but
latter the Rio Grande changed its course
!they needed protection against MeXi-
can sheep.
Now another thing. We ar" build
ling a Panama Canal at an expense OF
srmc hundreds of millions. | suppose
We do 1t IL make trade easier, to ma <"
trade not more free. bat SO it may he
Hess trammellcd. Tho object of 4 tar
in is to make trade more difficult. Now
lit is absurd for this great government
to spend money on the one hahd To
lmake trade easier and on Til" othef
thand to spend money by the erection
Iof custom houses and the employment
Iof custom officials 10 max" 1t more
ldficult. one or the other ri those
1.-TWO propositions is manii"stiy wrong.
There is no escape from II. New as te
1.-THE idea that this proposition is goih.
Ito l." of advantage to the people ol
iCanada-a | think the gentleman
lfrum Houit0n quoted some rapcrS
lWhere il is said that it would he a good
timing for the farmers there. Ne" the
fact that it appears to be a good thlns
for the farmers of Canada Is no cyl
dence of itself that it Will be bad
Thing for US people or even for the
farmers of this country. 1 assume
that when two people trade on equal
terms that each of them considers the
trade is>ot advantage 10 him. Nobody
trades because the other man wants
to, he trades because he wants to him.
self; and il he is left alone the cha nces
Iare in the long run he will be able to
Hook out for himself just as well as
lany fraternh government can look out
ifor him. So say the mere fact that
La person who has something 10 sell
wants to sell it is not evidence of the
fact that il is a disadvantage to the
person who wishes to buy Now they
say that the fishing industry OF this
lnation would be killed. And the gen.
ttleffldn luDt'u SpllIt paper hD'if H'iAN
body said that tho fishing fleet Of Nova
Scotia would be increased thrcc-fold
They would sell US more fish presum-
ably but they would sell them because
We want them. not because they Wi'h-
ed to sell them. II We don't want the
fish they would not sell them to MS.
but it they sell us more fish they are
: manifestly expecting something IN re-
1 1. III, ~ t,,,yf Ia,
gentleman brought UP the proposition
OF there being 1.onn, ,000 people in Cana =
,ia anG .o,eun. 500 in the United States,
as il We We're to take all of their pro-
ducts, Tho 9i,ooooDo to take all the pro-
ducts ot the 1,000,00o. and give to the
100000 all of the products of the 91,-
0oo.Oou. That would be a very hard
trade: but the ~ 900, 900 would not be
: men l think of the average intelligence
> of this Legislature anyway if they
would consent to or would perform
any such proposition as that, Irob-
ably the 91,000,000 would buy OF the
100000 what the 100000 had that
they wished to sell which the 81 600,
600 wished to buy, and the 100000
Z would buy of the 81 100000 or some
part of them such portion as the 9l.-
: wished to buy, equally one to the other
There would be no advantage on ac-
count of the difference in number IN
/. the case of the gentfeman's town of
Houlton and Portland or Boston, they
have free trade between them. On the
same reasoning. it might be a bad
thing for Boston or Portland to trade
with Houlton because Boston or Port
land or New York are SO much larger
than Houlton. Now instead of extend
ing the tariff wall between this country
and Canada. why not put it somewhere
between Houlton and Portland or be-
) tween Houlton and Boston or between
! the State of Maine and Boston, be-
cause Boston is larger than the whole
| State; SO it would be better to put it
} along the boundary there.
want to call attention to one
thing. ] hold in my hand the report
Of the commission on the high cost
. of living, I think appointed by the
Massachusetts Legislature last year.