Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-11
BINDING FRIENDSHIP
OF NORTH AND SOUTH.
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crease ought to have been made $1,000
but any step in the right direction
should give us satisfaction. And it
has finally done the justice to pro-
vide that when federal judges are
travelling. expenses shall be paid.
1T has added to the safety appl
ances for the prevention of injury to
railroad employees and passengers and
the saving of their lives. provision
for the inspection of locomotive boil
ers. which. ii is hoped. VIII still fur
Their diminish that loss of life and
limb. which, before the federal safety
appliance acts were finished We're
shocking in their number and a shame
full disgrace to the railroads and to
the government that permitted them
1t has provided for the purchase
erection and finishing of embassy
buildings and legations Tor our am
baSsadors and ministers abroad SO
that our ambassadors and ministers
shall be properly housed and shall
live in style and dignity BETTING
tn" official representative in a for
eisn country of great nation like
ours. The absence of such a pro-
vision has made it impossible for men
of ordinary means to hold diplomats
Office and has brought about the alb
surd result that we who preach a
political equality of lich and poor,
practically limit our representatives.
abroad to millionaires.
This Congress has passed the So
called Appalachian forest reserve bill,
authorizing experimental forestration
on 1t large scale and the expenditure
og s2.00o0Q0 A year Tor this purpose.
The same Congress has made "A proVl-
sion by which we can issue per cent.
bonds to pay for the Panama canal,
and this without disturbing the val
ues of bonds already issued and driN-
ing down the price of such bonds to
less than par. This was made possible
only by the votes of conservative
Southern congressman with sound fl
nancial ideas. There is no better evil
deGce of the business solidity of the
South than that its representatives.
vote wisely on financial legislation
This augurs well COR the result of the
deliberations of the monetary Commls-
sion, which embraces in its member
ship so many prominent southern rep
resentatives and senators.
I'm the same session the officers vi
thc line o. the army were increased by
80: the quartcrmasters by 30 and the
engineers by Ca very wise proNis-
ion, enabling the government at Wash
ingtCn to furnish instructions t" the
militia in each state and to enable the
engineers corps of the army much
more efficiently ana promptly Ia car
ry out the river and .arbor improve
ments, To which the country is now di
rectins So much of its attention.
in the naval bill the strength OF
our navy is increased by two battle
sIil., two golfers, eight torpedo boat
destroyers, four submarine torpedo
boats, two gunboats and two sea going
tugs. This is in accord with the plan
adopted some years ago and if the rate
is maintained We shall have d navy
com mensurate With the dignity of the
country and able to resist possible at
tack.
The same Congress has provided
fer the fortification of the Panama ca
nal The canal was built partly Tor
commercial purposes and partly for
defensive purposes. 50 that the elfec-
tiNtiesS vi our IdNN HtISitl bt tOuDltu
i'll that it could be quickly transferred
from the Atlantic to the Pacific sea
boaru and vice versa. There We're good
men who insisted that the canal ought
t. he neutralized and not fortified al
ALI In other words, by general inter
national agreement, it should be held
for die use of all nations both IN time
of peace and war. The result would
have been that While We could have
used the canal we built in time of wal
to defend ourselves. We could not pre-
vent our enemy from using the same
canal FOR the purpose of attack. With
dne Difference to those who have taken
tins view. il seems to me that this is
carrying the love of peace to an iiog-
zeal extreme. is adhering to a mere
snibboleth and not treating the sub
Ject with the common sense and prac.
tical view that ii deserves
"A great disappointment of the SEES
sion was the final defeat of per-
manent tariff board of five. to be an
pointed by the President. whose duty
IT should be to acquire through i'm.
partial investigation all possible in
formation as 10 the cost of production
Of articles at home and abroad. and
all other facts relevant in the fixing OF