Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-18
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dowa) Repus lieassssha fbuowving are
some of the Excuses by which men
discount their memories.
But this Won't happen again.
Free Trade can't do 1t now.
Let's try it again. We would
soon know the worst and then we
can return 10 Protection again.
Let's try it again. Maybe it
won't do it again. And. besides,
has not Candidate Wilson said
that he would try it on us grad
ually. if he is elected? He knows
ii is an experiment and so he is
going to try it gradually"
To discount this evidence of the
silly season. let us read the following
and guess the name of its author:
"A great poverty and depression had
come upon the western mining regions
and upon the agricultural regions of
the West and South. Prices had fall
len. Men of the poorer sort were idle
everywhere, and filled with a sort of
despair. All of the larger cities and
manufacturing towns termed with un-
employed workinamen, who were with
the utmost difficulty kept from star
walton by the systematic efforts of or
sanized charay. Not until the very
year 1897, when the Republican ad-
n,inistration came in, did the crisis
seem past"
'who wrote that? Why. Woodrow
Wilson wrotesit in his History of the
American People" He wrote it when
he was an historian and not thinking
of ever being candidate. He wrote
it because it was the truth. Read 1t
again, now that you know who wrote
IL.
Not until the very year 1897.
when the Republican administra-
ton came in, did the crisis seem
past
After writing, in his history, the
truth of the "despair" which overlook
"men of the poorer sort" under the
last Democratic administration
Candidate Wilson makes the same
promises and claims that Grover
Cleveland made. s.
AS the National House was more
radical than Che executive in Cleve-
lands last administration. so is the
present Houss more radical than Prof
Wilson admits to be. In the open free
trade utteranees of Speaker Champ
Clark the country would. hardly ex-
pect counsel of moderation; and
Means committee, would wipe every
Shadow Of protection to markets. in
dustry and labor from the American
policy Would you expect gradual
revision downward" in the tariff bill
he would frame, in case Democracy
should win. this fall?
The national Democratic platform
boldly declares:
We declare it to be a funda-
mental principle of the Democratic
party that the Federal Govern
ment under the Constitution has
no right or power to impose or
collect Tariff duties. except for
the purpose of revenue.
The acknowledged leaders o
Teuocracv arc southernars who's
policy is best expressed In the deter
mination to close New England mill
and open them in the South. Wei
they certainly closed New Englan
mills in the days of Wilson German
ism, but they hit the South as hard a
the North. The New Orlean
Picayune. a Democratic newspaper. j
commenting on the Free Trade plat
fern Of the Democratic party says:
IT will be truly a joyful time when
turning into this country an unlimitt
flood of foreign products of every so
made BY European and Asiatic paup
labor. our own people will be enabled
purchase all they need at the lowe
possible prices. Everybody VIII then
able 10 buy every article OF food al
other necessaries at the lowest price
and IL it were possible TO satisfy humi
beings. all the American people shou
be truly happy with the possible exec
tion OF two classes. These would be o
own farmers. who would be forced
sell their products la competition wi
those of foreign pauper labor, and o
wofkmeD turned ouf of the closed a
idle factories. No matter how che