Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-26

carry the Canadian government it
would be adopted by them and go into
effect TO the great injury of our
working men. ut is for us to see
that our senators and representatives
in Congress that we send to Washing
ton are pledged to repeal the Canadian
reciprocity measure" said Mr.. Good
win. You cannot trust the Free
Trade Democrats in Congress to be
favorable to the interests of the state
of Maine, for they never have BEEN
Free trade with Canada will af-
feet one seventh of our population.
who are engaged in the pulp paper
and lumber business he continued.
He contrasted the wages received in
the pulp mills in this and other coun-
tries. Here a machine tender gets
from 81 to S. per day for an eight
hour day, in Germany, $780, in Swed-
en-. $3.50, in Norway, Sl.60 per day,
while in England they get $40 per
week and work IL hours day. Here
a second hand gets So per day. In
Germany. $780, in Sweden, $110 per
day and in England, s. per week The
| lahorer gets sl.75 per day here, $0.75
per day in Germany and Sweden, SOTO
per day in Norway and IS per day in
England.
Wilson's Platform Like cleveland's.
Mr.. Wilson, the Democratic can
didate for the Presidency. says that
the protective system is unjust and
UBIQUITOUS and believes in tariff for
revenue only. His platform is the
same as that upon which Grover
Cleveland was elected in 1892. Some
of you older men remember that in
1893 the Democrats had control of all
the branches of the government and
a free trade tariff bill was passed.
| Then the mills and factories We're
closed and railroads went into the
hands of receivers and soup houses
and bread lines We're established all
over the country.
Then came the passage of the Ding
ley bill, II years ago. The mills We're
lreopened. new industries spring up and
the laboring men found employment and
/ from that day to this the United States
/ has been the most prosperous country
| that the sun ever shone upon.
"Why should the Democrats in Con-
gress from our State want to repeal so
good a lave" asked the speaker, and
went on to state that it was because
1.-THE Maine Democrats, when they went
into caucus, were obliged to do the bid
ding of the Southern free traders. If they
wished to remain regular and have. a
place in the party councils. Senator
Johnson Sam Gould. Obadiah Gardner
and Dan McGillieuddy are good fellows
| but they have to do as the Southern
democrats say" he added.
| "If it is ever my privilege to go to
| Congress there is one thing that thank
God for, and that is that l shall not have
to caucus with Southern Democrats
against my own State declared Mr..
Goodwin amid great applause.
| Mr.. Goodwin at this point gave some
/ attention to the claims made by Con-
gresham Gould as to the large number
| of pensions he had obtained for the old
| soldiers.
congressman Gould says that he has
| got more pensions for old soldiers since
| he has been In Congress than Governor
Burleigh got in IA years
| Hes a liar!" cried a voice in the
front part of the hail. and the owner of
the voice was found to be Charles o.
chairman of the Gardiner Board of
| registration.
"The very statement is so absurd that
| ! think he is" said Mr. Goodwin, after
| the applause and laughter had subsidized.
| HE must give me the names of those
he has got the pensions for before /
shall believe it. I doubt If he has secur-
Cd six in the town of Skowhegan. l
| know, however, that in the town of
Searsport alone Governor Burleigh has
L . At.
diers in the IA years that he has been
| in Congress- Great applause.)
The speaker then took up the high cost
of living and showed that it could not
be attributed to the tariff but was com
mon the world over at this time. There
/ had been no change in this country in
the tariff for the past five years and yet
the cost of living had increased by leaps
and bounds. We have bread riots in
France and laborers in free trade Eng
/ land are able to have meat only once
a week wages are so low and prices so
thigh. supply and demand control the