Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-06-11
Logical Talk by Mr.. Heath.
ADDRESSES GOOD AUDIENCE HERE
WEDNESDAY EVENING.

ADDRESSES GOOD AUDIENCE HERB
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
Some degree of interest In the coming
primary election, as we'll as desire to
hear q speaker of marked ability. wal
demonstrated by the assemb bling Of . fail
audience In New Hall Wednesday even
ing, when Hon. Herbert n. Heath, can
didate for the Republican nomination fol
United States Senator, In the course oil
his automobile tour Of the state, was to
address the people of this place.
Very soon after the hour Of 7:30 sci
for the meeting, Walter L. Gray called
the assembly to order, and with only
few words introduced Mr.. Heath, who
was already personally known to many OF
the audience.
A meeting at later hour at Norway
was to be addressed by Mr.. Heath, and
he doubtless cut his remarks shorter
than he otherwise would, nevertheless
he spoke about forty minutes. Much OF
what he had to say was in an easy con-
versational tone, though he occasionally
adopted a more impressive style Of de-
livery. Every sentence was plain and
clear, and framed in simple language,
that any one might comprehend. he
was given the strictest attention through
out.
At the outset Mr.. Heath stated that be
was initiating custom which is new to
Maine of appearing before the people In
a primary campaign. It took him some
time, he said, to make up his mind to
be candidate for position which had
been held by so many distinguished men
in this state-a position OF so great i'm
portance, for really the senate is the
most important unit in the government
Of the country. Still he was willing TO
admit that he had ambition, and the
thought that he might have part in the
great fight that will be fought out on the
floor of the senate in the next twelve
years, to meet the crisis that IL now be-
fore the country, and avert the disaster
that threatens, was the deciding consid-
Grafton.
Having thus introduced the personal
thought and disposed of it, Mr.. Heath
then took up the subject of the direct
primary, saying in part:
You are to have a great privilege this
year, for we are to make our nomi-
nations under the direct primary system.
The time has gone by when few party
bosses could get together and parcel out
the places for an indefinite period. Now
every voter is an integral part OF the
government. If you want the Republi-
cans to win in Maine this year, the great
est service you can render is to 60 to the
primaries on the 18th of June and vote
for somebody-not necessarily for me,
though feel confident that should win
on a full primary, but for somebody.
Indeed, do not see how citizen can be
a true Christian, unless he rounds out
his service to others by taking part in
the primaries.
have said that great crisis is upon
the country. 1t is not political crisis.
The politician can see great crisis 10
every campaign-the crisis meaning
whether he is tn be elected or defeated.
The present crisis is one that you your
selves, like all thinking men, have
been noting and fearing.
The speaker then read the declaration
of Abraham Lincoln, made near the
close of the war, in which he voiced the
fear of what might come, saying that the
great corporations would become en-
throued, all wealth would be aggregated
in the hands of few, and the republic
destroyed. Reviewing this clause by
clause, he said: Great corporations have
been enthroned. That is a matter of
common knowledge and everyday read
ing. GAN wealth aggregated in the
hands of a few" Not yet quite true,
but too dangerously near true. "And
the republic be destroyed" Not yet
true, but it will be unless the American
citizen wakes up and meets with wisdom
and courage the situation now before US:
don't need to cite facts. You are all
intelligent, reading citizens. You know
these facts. Now the American people
are not afraid of great wealth, in itself.
The Astor estate, honestly won, has no
terrors for us. But when man has a
thous md millions, won by dishonest
means, through unjust laws or the
absence of laws, that constitutes a
menace to the country.
The great question which must be set
tied by the Republican party Is the con-
troll of these great corporations. All
wealth is somebody's sweat. And when
the people see a large share of that
which they have earned going into the
Golfers of other men, there are millions
in this country that are not going to
wait for the slow process OF law.
Thoughtful men, business men, dread
the strike in the dark which threatens
us when the avalanche breaks loose.
Talk about prohibiting trusts! They
are here, not to be escaped. We have
tried that method, and it has not proved
a success. But there is a way out.
Twenty-Five years ago, the railroads
everything, as the trusts do
now. They owned state governments,
and some courts-not that
of Maine, thank God! for under what
ever party, that will remain pure. We
apopted a plan of regulation of the rail-
roads. 1t has been almost successful.
When We get to the point Of making
physical valuation of the roads, think
it will be wholly so. Similar regula-
ton must be applied to the trusts, aud
there is ample constitutional authority
for doing it. There may be some other
way, but some way must be found, lest
anarchy break out by the act OF the
aggrieved, dowutrodden, toiling millions.
Turning briefly to discussion of the
tariff, Mr.. Heath expressed the opinion
that the Payne-Aldrich tariff act was
wrong. So is any tariff that has ever
been passed by the log rolling methods
that have prevailed, state trading with
state and section with section. The
scientific method of revising schedules,
after the securing of full information
gathered by a tariff board, was advocat-
ed. Give the American producer the
measure of protection required by the
In the cost of production, and
then let Yankee grit and ability meet Its
competitors. Mr.. Heath expressed the
opinion that the Republican national
convention would favor q revision OF the
tariff by this method and on this basis.
Will the Republican party meet these
issues? said Mr.. Heath. Why, the Demo-
cratic part of the country is looking to
the Republican party to do 1t. The
Democratic party is not constructive
party, It is q party of negation. / be-
iieve that whoever 10 the nominee of the
party at Chicago, the platform of the
convention will favor progressive action
on these problems which must be met
and solved by the Republican party.
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