Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-03-08

J tDtSi ttA tTuSts VT S'StbiS 81 i''Si nv
for their farm machinery, machinery
with which they can do better work.
! The Observer. published in New
Brunswick under date of Feb. | says:
: Never since confederation has there
been such Il golden prospect lor earle
ton county farmers as is held out by
tho new tariff agreement announced in
Parliament last Thursday. Through
out canada III, message that lion, Mr..
Fielding bore was considered the most
important achievement ever made for
the canadian people. For weeks
committee composed oC Canadian and
American tariff experts have been ar
ranging an agreement of reciprocity.
or free trade particularly in farm pro-
ducts, and tho concessions gained from
the Americans are Il surprise to every
| Canadian. for those who have read the
' full report will have noticed that our
neighbours conccde to Canada much
more than we have given.
| The new ARRANGEMENT will not be
come law until the measure passes
| both Parliament and Congress. That il
will pass the farmers here by most
decisive majority goes without saying
but there is reason to arprchend that
/ the measure may be killed in either TN"
! House at Rrprtse natives or the United
States Senate.
| over in Ar"oStouh farmers are get
| ting - cents a dozen TOR eggs, 30 cents
J for oats II cents for pork. Slo for hay
When this tariff agreement passes
Carleton county farmers will be situat-
! ed on an equal with their Yankee
neighhors. and the day the measure
becomes law every farm in Carleton
county will increase i'll value - to 80
per cent
The day the United States House
and Senate passes the nr, posed meas
ure. Carleton county comes in for not
only her own but a great slice OF her
neighbor's market
DO they know what they are talking
about 1t is nothing but class legisla-
/ tion while the farmers OF this great
nation are selected for the sacrifice.
! And you have accomplished nothing
| by il. You wont relieve the labnrer or
| the manufacturer or the cons umer. but
| you will injurc the producer. Now I
| say. gentlemen Of this House. that the
time has been in the past Wien DEM
! ocrats and Republicans stood togeth
| er for Maine and for this great nation
of ours. They stood together shoulder
| to shoulder when the Union was
| threatened They stood together for a
United Republic. they marched Shout
| der to shoulder. they We're one. and
they saved the Union and they saved
! the state IF Maine. Again they stood
! together. Democrats and Republicans.
some years ago when it was proposed
| @,t- II
degrade it and make of a dollar fifty
| cents. and they stood together shoul-
DER to shoulder and they saved the
money in this country. The time has
come now when they must again stand
shoulder to shoulder to save the aeri-
| cultural interests of this nation, Too
much tall. has been made about the
| consumer who must depend upon the
| farmer. The vital source OF 3li our
| life comes from the farmer. Back to
| the farm we must go for prosperity.
| The farmer is the life blood of the Re
| public. You must save the farmer if
! YOU would have the nation and III"
| ps sople: and ] say the time has come
| when the producer must be given some
e, protection and YOU must have some
| regard for min. The great agricultural
| interests Of this nation, the millions
| of farmers today that protest against
| this measure must be heard and they
will be heard, they will be heard in
| this House of Representatives or they
! will fill the House with those who will
hear them. say that in agricultural
| Maine W. should stand today a uni;
against this treaty, and say that the
| majority of this committee, composed
| of Republicans and Democrats alike
are right when they state that this
measure, this resolution, ought not to
pass.
NJ PLUMMER of Lisbon: Mr.
Speaker. l would have been willing Il
have this matter go by without this
House taking any action whatever. II
however. wo must do one thing or an
other. think perhaps it might be
worthy of consideration to direct their
attention to what is best to be done
| am no. of those who would agree
with the gentleman from Houlton tnat
this reciprocity treaty spells runation
to the farmers of this State. In fact
personally, I may say, so far as l am
concerned. think it would be of adj
vantage to the farmers of this State
ana tie anu the wage carriers
Of the country to strike off all tariff
boundaries. all tariff walls. between
this country and Canada or any Other
country whether that country see III
to do so or not. The gentleman from
| Houlton said he would not bring Il
up IS partisan question. and neither
do I. There are of course more or less
on both sides of both political parties
vino favor, some a reduction Of tn.
tariff. possibly some even free trade
Inasmuch as the tariff question enter:
into this to so great an extent l would
like 10 call the attention of the House
| to one or two points.
1t strikes me that the tariff is kim
of { peculiar proposition anyway.
| assumes some things that appear t.
| me to be utterly incongruous. utterly
opposed to one another. For instance
at the time of the Rebellion we block
AIDED the Southern ports for the pur
pose of preventing trade, and we did /
! principally for the purpose or prevent
ing exports. Now I assume that tht
| North would have had no objections 4