The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-05-14
PERRY PAYS VISIT
TO BRUNSWICK
CANDIDATE FOR U. S. SENATE
SPENDS A DAY IN CITY.
TALKS OF HIS CANDIDACY.


in opposition to Hon. A. o. Bacon, |
spent yesterday in the city in the in
terest of his candidacy, and during |
the day he met a large number of his !
fiernds and was very cordially re-
ceived by the people of the city gen.
orally.
Mr. Perry was seen by a News re-
porter during the day and, in an in
terview said:
Il have not been in your city be-
fore in number of years. 1 am
struck with its growth in that time.
1t always seemed to me very attractive
and with great possibilities. 1t is the
only real coast city We have in Geor-
gia. l do not see the shipping here,
however, and as much promise of ex-
panding business as l saw then.
"Have you used or have you been
allowed to use all the advantages God
and nature blessed you with? Every
thing human must either go forward
or drop back. l realize that, and
am therefore progressive democrat
and believe in advanced legislation.
Is it not what you want? Senator
Bacon has been praised by some be-
cause he has been conservative. But
We are passing through a critical pc
riod in the history of our republic,
when ultra conservatism means death
and peril to our civilization.
"The need of the times is for bold
and prompt measures, otherwise we
will go upon the rocks. What does
this revival of Roosevelt and the
crowds which throng after him mean:
1t means that the present conditions
and the system under which we live
have become intolerable. The people
are determined to have something
done and they believe Teddy will do
it. The danger is some revolution in
our institutions that may be disastrous
in the end. But it shows that it is
no time for ultra a-conservatism. The
inaction of the government, the stand
pat rolicy especially of the U. S. SEN
ate, the failure to exert efficiently
the federal power, alone adequate to
curb the trusts, is responsible for
the conditions of things.
Senator Bacon has been Lne OF
the conservative. He has never
walked up the situation and his
craftsmanship has been unequal to
the crisis. In spite of the rich re-
sources of the nation and the bless
ings of. Providence upon our labors,
there has been a blight upon our ef-
forts and we have mt realized the
general prosperity that we have had
right to expect. A few thousand
millionaires, the benefciaries of the
great trusts, have been growing more
and more opulent, but the common
man finds it harder and harder to
make both ends meet.
Take your own city. Have you
ever thought how the policy of pro-
lection kept alive and nursed by the
great mnopolies and by the republic
can party has kept you back? Take
manufacturers. 1t costs just double
to build and start any manufacturing
establishment in Georgia as it does
in England on account of the tariff
on every article entering into con-
struction and operation Has that
not helped to keep you back here?
Governor Foss says 1T has taken
manufacturer to unearth the inJus-
tice and fraud of our present tariff
system Senator Bacon has virtually
supported the portective system as
have shown in my published letter.
Take our shipping laws intended in
a short sighted policy to protect the
northern shipbuilders. They have
driven the American flag from the
ocean and destroyed legitimate ship
building. You have the naval stores,
the live oak, the pine right at hand,
and you are near the steel of Birm-
bottom, you have the best location In
America for a shipbuilding plant which
would employ 5000 skilled laborers
at $500 a day How much money
would that turn loose in your city?
There is going to be "a great demand
anna canal is open. Think of how
that canal ought to double and triple
your trade here in a few years
"The canal is not in the Gulf or
Mexico, but way east of the Florida
cape. You are practically as near as
Galveston or New Orleans. Look at
the map; and you are much nearer
the coal, the wire and steel and cot
ton which will go by millions of tons
to China and Japan and South Amer
lea and the Pacific coast Nearer, too,
to all this freight than most any other
Atlantic port. I am only saying only
simply what you know, but how to
get he benefit of this is the question.
am in favor of making the canal toll
free-free as the ocean. It would,
take Senator Bacon a thousand years
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