Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-09
sAnothers Wilson. Revision, )

Candidate Wilson has resolved to
deal with snotbilg .bpt the tariff ques-
ti0n. In his efforts in this respect he
has so far completely ignored the
Democratic party platform. But DR..
Wilson, on the tariff question, just as
he does ON alb Others insists on dodg-
ing the real issue. He viii not face
the facts of free trade as they have
applied TO tile industrial conditions
of this country He absolutely shuts
his eyes to the disaster that the Dem
ocratic policy1of free trade, or reduc-
ing tariff, brought about in this eoun-
try by The Wilson BILL
Four years ago the officials of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers of America
pleaded hard to have the republican
policy of protection adhered to. They
succeeded and their industry was saw
ed. They plead again and they want
the wage workers of the country again
to help them save preserve their means
of livelihood. This is most assuredly
a serious question as it concerns the
bread and butter of scores of our
working men, and their families. There
can be do doubt as to results of the
free trade policy of Wilson because it
has been tried in the past and has
been the means Of utter disaster.
Twenty, Years. ago. when Harrison
was a candidate for reelection on the
Republiean ticket the Democrats told
us that -four years more of Grover
would DIS the country good-what we
needed was tariff revision downward.
We got ii in the shape of the Wilson
bill. 49,
Now the Democrats tell us the Ma
ton has grown so big ana strong that
mere tariff legislation cannot injure it.
So they propose to give us another
Wilson bill under another Wilson.
We can judge this Wilson only by
what the other Wilson did, inasmnch
as their opposition to protection is
identical and their methods of handl-
ing the tariff question the same.
The loss in wages and business in
siuced by the old Wilson bill exceeded
in dollars and cents the cost of four
years Civil war IN the sixties.
But we have several times as many
men engaged in gainful occupations
now as we had in the Cleveland days.
Therefore the consequences of a tar
iff policy injurious to American indus
try viii De Just that much greater in
volume and the number of individual
victims
Natural laws of trade have not
changed. They are the same now as
two decades ago,
If you want to know what the Will
sonism of Woodrow means ask manu-
facturers. business men and working
men cid enough to remember what the
wisconsin Of William L. brought
about.
1t is not safe to be too confident of
strength either in the man or in the
pride goetpbefore destruction and
a naughty spirit before fall
If woodrow Wilson is elected and
writes his tariT principles into law,
; workingmer VII pay the piper
There viii tiSgR be no scarcity of la
Dor, but there wifi be scarcity of en-
ploypent. The Labor World.
Low cost of lying is dearly bought
when earning capacity is reduced in
even the same proportion. And when
mills and shops shut down because
they cannot sell their product, the bur-
den OF low cost OF living falls ON the
class least able to afford II, OF course
The farmer suffers but he seldom goes