Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-16

your Deftn ana detfNefing your tickets.
Write Re a postal now. I'll send YOU
maps, pamphlets and pictures by return
mail. Alex Stocks, New England Pass
Agt c., =. & @. r. r. Co.. 26f Washing
neither cares whether you live or die;
if you die why another VIII take your
place who viii work cheaper than you
land that is the chief consideration.
If YOU cannot enter into the renlorse-
less competition with the workers of
China, of Japan and other countries
on their SCALE of civilization. people
who work for ST. a year and even less
end support themselves, If you cannot
hold your own against them, you must
make away for those who can. 1T says
to oIr farmers, If you cannot turn out
food products as cheaply as the Indian
Ryot or the EGYPTIAN feliah you must
get out. II says to the manufacturer,
YOU must produce on lower scale of
wages and with cheaper men and wo-
men or get out of the way.
your home market. the grandest in
the world, market worth half of the
markets Of the world combined. may
he eVerrnn With the product of bar
bareus and semi-eiviized nations of
The world. with the products OF people
Who work for a trife as compared with
the amount. your workers receive. Your
mills factories and work shops may he.
closed down. and you f1ests Of work
ers. respectable men and women,
thrown into the street to starve and
die; but you must not object or con-
nlain because all this will result in the
great end of free trade. cheapness You
may think | have somewhat overdrawn
the picture, / assure you the reality in
india in ireland and in Great Britain
is Worse than my picture. In theSwort,s
ef the New York sun, free trade has
ruined every country in the world that
has been forced or cheated into its
adoption.
we have tried a tariff for revenue
only. on a free trade tariff in this
country q number OF times already.
and il can be stated as an absolute
fact thet every time we have lowered
the protective duties and in exact pro-
portion as we have made them less pro-
teetive have We brought on panic,
bankruptcy and ruin"
Mr.. Haines on State Issues.
introduced by Mr.. Webb as one who
pnaStsf>sS the tIS4llfA iHttillSeAGR which
the situation demands, a sane progress
siye, thesman the people want and the
next Governor Of Maine. Mr.. Hafnes
said
Il thank you for this most cordial
recertion. Your chairman has
placed on my shoulders good
stunt as Governor of the State
don't know whether I shall be able
to meet the expectations OF these in
troductory addresses. but whatever
experience / may have. I assure you
that if / am elected as-I am going to
be-on Sept. s-yon viii have the BEN
eft, one and all, the numblest citizen.
as We'll as the richest.
Il have been nominated as the Re
publican candidate for Governor of
the state and | want To talk to you
about The State What is the State?
Who is the State? 1t was Louis XIV.
I believe. who said, I am the state
After listening to some of the Demo-
/, cratic orators in Maine one might
think that they believed they are tho
State But there are f42, geo people who
are the State and | don't think there
was ever time before when those
people decided to take the affairs of
State into their own hands as now.
1.-THE government of this State was
turned over two years ago after al
most 30 years of rule by the Republic
can party, for some reason-I don't
know what l don't know what the
reason was. and / don't care. hut /
believe that finances had something to
do with it. When my friend Pattan-
gall. one OF the brightest and keenest
men in Maine would take out his
watch at a political meeting and say
thafethe was Just enough money in
the treasury TO keep things running
fen 81 seconds. the people began to sit
up and take notice.
when this S5-secend watch came
out. before We knew 1t it had created
a perfect fuTore. Now the financial
system of the state of Maine had been
a matter of growth. Previous to 1879
the taxes assessed for State purposes
were principally used for the state.
In 1872 a wicked Republican admins
tration said toat it was about time to
begin to e9ualise taxation a little and
extend orti, school svs.em as We ought
TO. The State legislature voted TO as
sess all property aSmill--a special mill
for TIE lenefit of the common
| schools Ia he sent back to the towns
| in proportion 10 population. In 1893
| another wic'-ed Republican admins
tration added another half a mill
That went on until the Legislature of
| 19O9-and that legislature did more for
| tho benefit OF the State of Maine than
any other since the days of the Civil
] war. The Democrats like to refer to ii