Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-16

are undef bonds TO represent the peo-
PIE Of the United States and not the
special parties in It,
Tariff measures are not measures
for the merchant merely. and the man
ufacturers The farmer pays just as big
proportion of the tariff duties as
anybody else"
The Governor explained the benefits
that might accrue to the farmer from
the digging of the Panama canal if the
merchant marine were restored.
"One of the great objects in cutting
that great ditch across the isthmus
of Panama., he continued lis to al
low farmers who are near the Atlantic
to ship to the Pacific coast by way OF
The Atlantic ports.
Now, at present, there are no ships
TO do that. And one of the bills pend
ing, just passed by Congress provides
fer free tolls for American ships
through that canal and prohibits any
ship from passing through that canal
which is owned by any American rail-
way company. You see the object Of
Il that. We don't want the railways To
fompete with themselves, because we
funde rsiand that kind of competition.
We want the water to compete with
the land carriage, so as to be perfect
~ stire that you are going to get better
rates around le the canal than you
would across the continent.
"Then there is another thing in
which you ought to be deeply inter
ested, which is IN the program of the
greah PARTY | belong to. That is the
parcels post. This is the only civiliz-
ed country in the world where the gov
eminent does not see to it that rates
established by tina government enable
men to ship their goods, large and
small, as they please from one end of
the continent to the ether. We have no
parcels post until you reach the ports.
and from the ports to the clear si9e Of
the Atlantic you can have parcels post
rates, but you can't have them inside
the United States. Because may / con-
lecture thereason ?-=beeause there are
certain express companies which OBJ
ject.
Now. ! move that the objections eff
al private enterprises be over-ruled. I
move that we establish a parliament
ary procedure by which they will not
even be consitiered.. not in order that
'pne1 who have made legitimate invest
ments of capital may not have their
proper return for 1t, but in order that
they may not look to the government
for their proper return fer ii. The
trouble with the business of the Unit
ed States under the tariff is that men
think they can't make money without
the assistance of the government. And
as long as you allow them to tainls
that, then every mothers son of you
is tied to the apron strings of the old
grandmother sitting in the Capitol at
at Washington.
But want at every turn of every
argument that | make of this nature. to
say that the legitimate business enter
prises of this country have absolutely
nothing to fear, provided they will stand
on their own bottoms, but that they
Have everything to fear If all they have.
under them is a prop of a tax which ev-
erybody is Obliged to pay in order that
they may be able 10 conduct their bust
ness.
There is another matter in which l
am deeply interested In the Democratic
platform are three lines in which the
party declares ii 70 be its duty TO devote
such funds of the national government
as il may constitutionally devote to such
purposes. 10 the promotion OF Industrial
agricultural, vocational education"
The governor explained that the plat
form in this connection meant system
of university extension to the farmer.
making available to the farmer the
knowledge stored In the universities of
the country on scientific farming.
There is one label that l often see
on goods sold in our shops that makes
me blush a little bit That label is made
in Germany Why should that be a
eommen6ation? Why should you prefer
to buy something made in Germany,
rather than something made in the Unit
ed States? The only reason is that you
believe the hands that made that ia Ger
many were better trained than the hands
that made the similar article in the Unit
ed States. And what / don't ike to adj
NIT. but admit, that in some Instances
that is true We don't give our lads a
chance to learn how, to do the work as
well Us il is done i'm Germany.
IF prosperity is not to be checked in
this courtry, we must broaden our Dor
ders and make conquest of the markets
of the world. That is the reason Ameri-
Ga issso deeply interested in the question
Of which have already spoken, the
merchant marine. and that is also the
reafon why America is so much inter-
ested in breaking down, wherever II is
ds,rgersto break it down,
THAT dnm against which all the tides of
our prosperity. have banked up, the great
dam that runs around all our coasts, and
which we call the protective tariff
II have never known anything like the
awakening that has occurred in the Unit
ed States in recent years. 1t is just as if
we had all been taking a long and COM
Portable sleep with sometimes very dis
turbing dreams. We would wake up once
in while in nightmare and say Who
is this sitting on my chest?' and then
we would turn over and go to sleep
again., and at last we walked up and
found there was somebody sitting on our
chests. And now we have come entire
ly to the consciousness of the new day.
There are not going to be any more
nightmares.
II believe there is going to be a great
handsome. peaceful, hopeful revolution
on the fifth day of November,i as1s, and
that after that revolution has been ac-