Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-21
Republican Nomination
Mr.. PattanqaIl on the Tariff.

- average man of his audiences in the
Th,re district. II his anxiety to be-
fiddle the tariff issue, he seems 10
forget that the Third district is gen
erously sprinkled with men who know
as much about the tariff as he. Quite
probably many men who remember
the other Wilson bill'' only to-
yiyidly. will listen TO Mr.. Pattangali
before the campaign ends. Then IL
would seem he forgot or was taking
+. desperate chances with everything TO
gain and nothing TO lose, by such
~ utteranees as those quoted from hi;
campaign addresses
----~ Such open attempts to mislead ~
would be witty generalities and side
stepping. is seldom recorded against
public speaker, particularly can
didate for Congressional honors
sss Probably not man in his audience
at Clinton the other night, was un-
aware that Mr.. Pattangall was max
ing self understood misstatemenf
when he said:
.scane sugar is practically all raised in
the South and yet the cane sugar indus
- try of Louisiana is the only one that Will
be wiped out by the new tariff bill
Mr.. Pattangall must know that tn"
..sweetening' which the present ad-
ministration is attempting to put upon
this country means the saving of s5S,-
100000 annually to the sugar trust
and the wiping out of the 500.0oo,0Oo
annual income of the beet sugar in
dustry of the entire country. IT'S
true that Louisiana will suffer as
result of this gift to the sugar trust
but why the necessity of making the
present to the American Refining Co.
millionaires?
Mr. Pattangall asks questions of
Mr. Peters in a manner intended 10
appear fair to those unable to per-
ceive his sophistry. He pretends 10
his hearers TO think Mr.. Peters stands
for the Payne Aldrich law. when the
= Republican platform upon which Mr.
8 Peters stands. answers all Mr.. Pat
stands for scientific adjustment of
tariffs by experts who are constantly
investigating and balancing trade and
industrial necessities.
Mr. Pattangall admits that he does
not deem the Wilson Underwood bill
perfect but declares that he stands
~ for it, And that in spite of the
national Democratic platform deela-
ration as follows:
We recognize that our system of Tariff
- taxation is intimately connected with the
business of the country, and that the
ultimate attainment of the PRINCIPLES We
advocate will be by legislation that will
not injure or destroy legitimate Industry
Mr.. Pattangall must know that the
Underwood bill for which he stands
and which he asks 100000 people of
Maine to give him power of attorney
to approve not only disturbs certain
industries. but will actually destroy
them. OF course the Republican
!. protests and appeals for the beef
sugar interests which are bringing
hundreds of millions of dollars e
EdSftuituTistS Noulu UOt DC hVei "
tx but listen to the indignant denuncia-
ton Of a Democrat, Senator Thorn
ton of Louisiana:
Il am not false to the principles oi
the Democratic party said Senator
Thornton. in vehement speech IN
the Senate, picturing the ruin that
free sugar would bring to his state
lin refusing TO follow it in the strange
and devious pathway it is now pur
suing with regard to the tariff on
sugar. ! am true to those principles
and it is the Democratic party Itself
that is seeking to depart from them
Il am no traitor to the Democratic
party. because loyalty to my state for
bids me TO vote for this bill in its
present FORM
And yet Mr.. Pattangal admits I,
the farmers and other voters of Maine
that he would vote, were he mern
Der Of the present Congress, to ruiz
the greatest agricultural asset of hi
State, potato raising. Read what h
says:
canadian potatoes can be the onl
real competitors In Maine and they ar
subject to the countervailng duty
These from other countries cannot com
pete. not only because of the extra cos
Of handling but because few of ther
can pass the requirements of the depart
inent OF agriculture because of disease O
other defects
Now how many potatoes do you SUP
pose New Brunswick raises? We rails
some 10000 here in Maine and $40. o.
in the United States and they raise go
600 in New Brunswick. II they pianie
the whole of New Brunswick TO potatoe
there wouldn't be enough to make
breakfast for us more than once in 81
months They can't raise them. becaus
they haven't the territory. Still the X.
publicans have been frightening the MAR
-.~--~ potato grower with those New Brunswic