The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-08-28
FRANK w. COWEN.

Mr.. Gowen Writes an Eloquent Letter to
The Journal in Which he Says Free
Sugar will Drive our Flag from the Pa
cifc and Urges the Election OF Peters.
To THE EDITOR OF The JOURNAL. The
special election, soon to be held in the
Third Congressional District in dear old
Maine, caused by the sad and untimely
death of the late Hon. Forrest Goodwin,
whom | knew intimately, is receiving
nationwide attention, and rightly so
from The fact that never in our history
as nation have the people been con-
fronted by SO serious a proposition as
they are now facing in case the Wilson
Underwood tariff bill becomes the law
of our land. | do not hesitate to say if
this Democratic free trade tariff bill be-
comes a law it will, through its pro-
vision for free sugar, be the means of
driving on. flag from the Pacific. In
other words, the sugar industries of
Hawai-, where Cleveland hauled down
the Stars and Stripes and Mckinley put
them Up again amidst the plaudits, of
his countrymen, and of Porto Rico, will
be utterly destroyed, and the planters
especially those owning smaller planta-
lions on those islands. will be ruined and
the American shipping in this industry
driven from the sea. All our sugar
+rada with tloco islands - oor,ioI Nv, -,
our own vessels, this business having be-
come, under protection, large and pros
porous. In fact it amounted last year
to half that of the total foreign COM
merce carried in American bottoms as
the following figures show:
CARRIED IN AMERICAN SHIPS
Porto Rico. -....................$ 8l,4C00O0
daWah Observation-Disclosures. 1880, 600
Total ...-...- ........... 161, 200, 600
Total foreign commerce.. -. S 322, 450, 900
This Democratic tariff hill will not
only wipe out our cane and beet sugar
industries, but free wool will DESTROY
the wool industry of the United States
and this vast business will be replaced
by free wool from Australia and the
Argentine Republic. 1t is unnecessary
for me to call the readers attention to
all the articles put on the free list by
this insane Democratic tariff measure.
The placing on the free list of potatoes,
corn, lumber and wood pul p will work
great injury and hardship to the farmers
and the lumber interests of the grand
old State Of Maine, and do not wonder
that Hon. E. M. Lawrence, the nominee
Of the Progressive party in this contest,
was led to say:
If the present administration sue
ceeds IN carrying out its policy, it will
strike the axe at the root of every legit-
innate business in this District, utterly
destroying it,"
The great industries of Maine are dealt
staggering blow under this tariff bill,
and the beet sugar ard citrus industries
Of California are equally hard hit under
It's provisions. and the final result will
2robably be the closing of the sugar
s-eet factories in this beautiful South
A'it. Nt'itC ttIe tul ia iiIC rate Oil lemons
will enable the Sicilian producers to
drive the California lemon from the At
!antlc seaboard. Haven't our American
people rad enough in the past of Demo-
cratic free trade, or tariff for revenue
only ? Have they forgotten the Wilson,
'Iorman tariff, and the dark days of '93
II hAn ON oo+,,r
forced into bankruptcy and our me-
chanlcs were starving as result of the
artf smashing and wage destroying
programs of the Democratic party?
England is already heralding the joyful
news that British trade will be largely
increased under the reduced American
Garitf Of the Democratic party.
When | was boy in Center Montville
l remember that the declaration of Hon.
Samuel j. Randall that Belgian and Brit
lsh iron makers were bidding for our
contracts was harshly criticised by many
of the Democrats of that town; but to-
day we see the dangers which this far
seeing statesman foresaW now threaten
ing the industries Of cur country under
tie free trade policy of the Democratic
party. II | were congressman would
never vote SO lorg as God gives me
breath to tear down our protective tariff
wall in favor of European nations. In
other words, believe in the words once
uttered by one of the great leaders of
the Republican party, which quote as
follows:
Wherever dusk proved labor bends
over the red forge, wherever the fur
mace flames illuminate the night, wher
ever the hum OF spindles and the clank
OF hammers makes musical the day,
there the doctrine of protection shall
stand, an armed guard to defend the
homes of the land We will build around
the looms and the anvils of America a
protective tariff wall over which no Eu-
ropean can climb, and under which no
Asiatic can crawl"
And now comes Gov. Foss of Massa
'chusetts claiming in recent statement
that nm accoupt If tho taviff nolicv of his