Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-30
Wilson Starts For Picnic
But Finds He Is Campaigning
--Goes Els Miles Through Pa.

lHey are eSEap1Siltu py your abundance
which You ship to foreign countries. And
| in the meantime, everything that you use
on the farm. everything yan wear and
a great deal of what you eat but do not
| yourselves produce, including meats,
bear heavy duty, which brings about the
Interesting result that you are paying for
the wealth of the United States and get
| ting nothing or equivalent to it. so far as
the tariff is concerned.
You hear of corrupt influences, yes
tenen You hear of those corrupt influ-
ences being exerted everywhere that they
can be exerted. ! would be ashamed IL
said things of one party was not
willing TO say of the other if it was
guilty and / am willing to admit that
in certain instances, in New Jersey, the
leaders, little handful. but nevertheless
| the leaders-of the Democratic party
have had alliance with these corrupt in
huenees and the worst machine you can
get up against is not a machine that is
altogether Republican or altogether
Democratic but machine that is made
up of both and works together at every
turn of public affairs. You have them
in Pennsylvania and we have them in a
greater part of the United States, but
what | want to call your attention to
| is that the men who conducted those ma
chimes are II small fraction of the party
they pretend to represent, and that the
men who exercise corrupt influences upon
them are a small fraction OF the business
men of the United states. And what We
are banded together to fight against is
not a party, is not great body of eiti-
zens. but a few men who subsist by de-
ceiving us and cannot subsit a moment
after they cease to deceive us.
THE chairman of the meeting. Mr.
Creary. kindly referred 10 me as the
next President of the United States.
Now | don't know whether | am TO be or
not but / do know this: I am going to
have Just as much fun one way as the
other. / would like To have the fighting
advantage that that great office would
give me, but having been born of fight
ing breed, / don't have to have the office
to do the fighting. ! have enlisted for
| life and / don't have to be an officer.
can shoot Just as straight as private"
Il have never believed, no thinking.
man has ever believed, that the peo-
pie Of the great state of Pennsylvania
approve of things that We're notori-
the state. I heard, today. a sort of
cynical laugh when Rep. Palmer. who
introduced me- alluded 10 these things
1t was not the laugh of surprise. 1t
was the laugh of familiarity
Pennsylvania has not bumped
herself recently. l would say she
hasn't bumped herself until recently.
And Pennsylvania has sat by inactive
while that kind of government has
been carried on with the apparent
acqufescence of her own voters.
What happened in the Congress
which has just adjourned? The House
of Representatives with the acauies-
cence of the Senate. which is not
Democratic, passed what was known
as the Farmers free list bill What
did that do? It put agricultural inn
ple,rents lumber. shingles. meat. salt,
| on the free list. and bagging and ties
| for the Southern farmer. Ard what
| happened to it? 1t was vetoed by the
| President becanse-let ne say paren-
| thctieally ] have great personal re-
| spect for Mr.. Taft, but Mr.. Taft has
not given himself those wide eonnee-
| tons Of sympathy which enable a man
| to understand the demands of the peo-
| pie of the United States-Alr. Taft
| vetoed that free list bill because, con-
sciously or unconsciously, he repre-
sents not the people of the United
| States, hut those who have their
! power in trust for their own purposes.