The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-14

.- .i ID. E. Manasco and John G. Cook of
 Birmingham are considering plans for
 the erection of a factory in Birmingham for the manufacture of machines which,
 as predicted by experts, will revolution7 ize the motor power and lighting prob | lems,
 The machine they propose to manu- facture is the American Current motor,
 recent invention by J. II. Martin Of | Springfield. Mo, of which they have control. At present one of the machines | is being set up on the drainage canal | at Joliet H.. for demonstration purposes. The first try out will be given there about March 20, at which both Mir. Cook | and MT Manasco will be present. Promii | nent engineers from all over the United | States will be there to witness the dem
 onstration Many of them who have all | ready examined the new machine have
 stated that the practical application of it will reduce the cost of power and lights to a minimum.
 MT. Manasco stated yesterday after
 noon that the machine which is being manufactured for the demonstration will
 produce over 100O-horsepower and that Q such machines would produce more power than the power plant in operation now at Joliet.
 The machine derives it's power from the natural current of the stream At Joliet, the canal runs 6la miles per hour and the machine which they will use will produce 0O0-horsepower. The dam ming of streams is entirely eliminated, the machine absorbing only the natural current of the stream in which it is in stalled.
 Mr. Manasco stated in speaking of the
 prospective demonstration at Joliet that
 the machine is to be placed between two
 barges in the canal. The framework ls
 steel with Ii blades or veins five of which are in the water all the time. .........................
 try and abroad. Instead of each of these government commissions investi- gating the same facts independently, believe it would be practical Tor a single board of experts, statisticans, economists and engineers, to be em- powered to get the facts, not for the confidential use of the president or the departments, but for Congress and the public.
 "Isam opposed to ship subsidy, which once entrenched will become another corrupting influence in our politics.
 Opposed to House Programme
 q am opposed to further extrayagance'
 on the advice of interested persons only, in building battleships and political navy yards, and favor an unprejudiced com mission to investigate and report what IS
 required in fthe way of national defense
 q am opposed to the dollar diplomacy which has reduced our state department from it's high place as kindly intermed- iatory of defenseless nations into a trad ing outpost for Wall street interests, aim- in,r to exploit those who should be our friends.
 .'I am opposed to the Aldrich currency scheme, which, under the guise of priv ileged elasticity to op- cnrrency system and relieving monetary conditions, IS Tn reality means of concentration of the currency and the credits of the United States under a 50 year franchise into those hands which have already secured con trol of the banking and insurance re- sources of the country.
 "I favor a policy of government own ership and operation of Alaskan r;,ll roads and coal mines and of an Alakan
 steamship line by way of Pacific ports | through Panama to New York Opposes Reciprocity | "I was opposed to the Canadian rec l iprocity agreement when President Taf' submitted it to Congress, January .b, | 1911: I was opposed to it when it was | before the senate argued against 1t voted against it, and l am against it | now"
 Accompanying his platform, Senator | LaFollettee makes this statement: r When Roosevelt became President, the total amount of the stock and bond is
 sues of all. combinations and trusts, in cluding the. railways. then. in eomblnl tlon. was only $S,7s4,oooC0o, when ht 1 turned the country over to Taft whom | he had selected as his successor, th' l total capitalization of the trusts ant
 combinations amounted to the enormous
 sum of 1,672 0C0, GOO, more than 70 pel
 cent, of which was water. Prices wer ! put upon transportation products of th' I mines and factories to pay interest ant
 dividends on this fraudulent capitalza
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