Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-07


all law. and had caused the saloon
l;eerers, gamblers and keepers OF
houses Of ill-fame 60 chuckle with
glee.
sir. Goodwin went on to say that il
was o matter of serious consideration
as to what would happen in the next
two years in the State if the Demo-
Gratis were returned to power. AL
ready, under a Democratic admins
trfttion al of the cities in which the
Democrats were in control were wide
open, and return Of the Democrats
to power would mean that the sober.
industrious people of the State would
be at the mercy of the Democratic law
breakers.
Increase of Taxes.
The Democrats had promised to re-
duce the tax rate of the State, said
Mir Goodwin, but they did not keep
their promise there They tell us in
their campaign text book that they
found the State tax rate five mills and
left it feur but they forget to tell us
that meanwhile they raised it to six
in 1911, the highest tax rate since the
Civil War.
The speaker said that all the spe-
ial session Of the Legislature did in
three weeks at an expense of $4,000
vas TO pass a ballot box act, which
will go 10 a referendum. whitewash
Democratic sheriff in York county,
@ho was charged with bribery, and
urn out the poor prosecuting officer,
Tho was doing his duty. because he
happened to be a Republican.
Mr.. Goodwin took up the saving
claimed by the Democrats of 800, 900
year in the various departments as
claimed by the Democrats in an un-
signed card which was handed him
by a member of the Democratic town
committee. He declared that the state
ments appeared to be compiled by a
Baron Munchausen, printed in the
land Of Utopia, and read like chap
ter from Alice in Wonderland.
He found that they claimed that
some $50 900 of this amount was saved
by reduction in the expenses of the
cattle commission. From an extract
from the cattle commissioners report
in the WateryiIle Sentinel he learned
that while the cattle commissioners
under the Republican administration
had slaughtered some 1895 tuberculous
cattle while the Democrats, up to the
time Of that report, had killed but 500
cattle. Commissioner of Agriculture
Buckley had refused to state to
Journal reporter whether or not any
more cattle had been killed This
saving in the expense of the cattle
commission had evidently been made
AL IL oF
the people II was better to slaugh
ter the tubcrculous cattle than it was
to allow the people to be slaughtered
by the tubereulous cattle.
Free Trade and Reciprocity.
THE Republicans have always be-
lieved in protection and it has always
been the policy of the country. except
for one period of four years, during
which railroads went into the hands of
receivers. mills and factories We're
shut down. soup houses were estab
lished and bread lines We're formed in
the cities.
Under protection we have grown
and prospered and while there may
be a few things about the present
tariff that should be corrected this
correction ought TO be made by those
who believe in the protection OF our
industries and our homes and not by
enemies without and by foes within.
should suppose that all laboring men
would prefer to vote for good wages
and high prices for American products
in preference to free booze in Maine"
Reciprocity important Issue.
Mr.. Goodwin then took up the dis
cussion of reciprocity with Canada,
which he said was an important is
sue. In Canada wages are low and
the standard of living low, while in
this country the wages are high and
the standard of living high. He ex-
planned that the principle of reciproc-
ity was adopted by President Taft
without understanding how it would
affect the Northern states. The reci-
procity agreement was adopted i'm this
country taking the duty off Canadian
lumber. hay and pulp. but taking no
duty off our products. Canada at
that time did not accept the measure,
fearing that it might mean annexa-
ton, but if the Liberals should carry
the Canadian government it would be
adopted by them and go into effect to
the great injury of our working men.
The agreement has already been
adopted in the elections in the prov
inces of Quebec and Saskatchewan
and it is probable that it will be de-
clared for in Canada at the next gem
eral election.
1T is for us to see to it that our
senator's and representatives in Con-
gress that we send to Washington are
pledged to repeal the Canadian reel
procity agreement" said Mr.. Goodwin.
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.
He spoke of how free trade would
affect the splendid cotton industry
and put the cotton mills of Augusta
in competition with the mills of Cal
cutta where the laborers received
from two to eight cents a day.
The tariff had but little to do with
the high cost of living, for it had in
creas ed by leaps and bounds while the
tariff had not been changed for five
years THE population has increased
seven times the producing area. that
is the trouble" said the speaker.