Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-01

Champ Clark Insists That Re-
vision of Tariff Is Proper Thing.

The exemptions in the income tax
feature of the bill are justified ON the
same grounds that exemptions IN q
state law are iustified-that is on the
ground that it is better for the state
to keep families together and to al
ford the average citizen a better
chance to live and educate his chill
dren. The income tax feature of our
Dill is the one most pleasing to me.
Great Britain has tried II every year
since the Napoleoniu wars except two.
At one time they suspended ITS opera
ton for two years and then went back
10 1t and it has become permanent
feature of their budget.
Second in importance to the reVi-
sion of the tariff downward was the
promise of currency reform. we are
now In the first stages OF the redemp-
ton of that promise. | think it may
be said without eNaggeration or bad
taste that we have at the present
time the worst currency system of all
the great peoples on the globe. 1t is
the laughing stock Of intelligent peo-
pie the wide world over.
Every man who has examined into
banking system has reached the end
Of its tether unless we issue more
United States bonds thereby increas-
ing the interest bearing debt of the
country and nobody so far as | know
wants to see that done, and it will not
be done except in care of war.
Perfection. is net claimed for the
Glass owen currency bill. 1t is claim
ed however, that il is a vast improve
ment on the present system.
The control of the new. banking
system will be in the hands of ths
government rather than in the hands
of the bankers. In fact, the great OBJ
lection to the bill from the bankers is
that the Federal government instead
of the bankers will control it. That
is a recommendation to the farmers in
stead of being an objection.
Another thing that viii appeal to
the country people of the United
States is the fact that this bill will
prevent the constant withdrawal of the
peoples money from the localities
where they live into the great money
centers which is one of the crying
evils of our day.
of course we are only beginning the
redemption of our promise to reform
the currency.
AT this particular juncture the
Democrats of the Sd Congressional
District of Maine hold the post of hon
or. For some reason nobody seems
to have considered the by-elections in
Massachusetts and New Jersey as in
dicatiye of the current of public opin-
ion touching the actions of the DEM
ocratic administration and Democratic
Congress. On the other hand by COM
mon consent everybody thinks that the
eelction in this district will give
sign to the country as to whether pub
lie opinion endorses President Wilson's
administration and the Democratic
Congress.
consequently the Democrats of this
district now have more power to in
fiuence the trend of public opinion than
they ever had before or will ever have
hereafter. President Wilson is doing
his utmost to give the country a clean,
intelligent, Democratic and patriotic
administration and a Democratic Con-
gress is holding up his hands in the
great task imposed upon him by the
suffrage of his countrymen
Il ask you to hold up the Presidents
hands and the hands of Congress By
sending Mr. Pattangall to Washington
with a rousing majority. That will
give encouragement to Democrats ev-
erywhere.''