Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-09-05
EYERIHNI!koF| IT?
Il We Buy 240 Millions
Abroad Under New Tariff
Then We Must Produce 24O
Millions Less In This Country.
Who viii Suffer Most by This Re.
duotlon Of Business7 :.
[By Uncle Ike.1

Dan Mac and Patt and the rest are
asking the voters of the Third district
to vote for Patt and thus endorse the
Wilson administration
Now there are some things tha !!
Woodrow Wilson said and did while
he was a professor at Princeton that
/ think ought to be endorsed. Such
for instance as his reputation of Mr.
Bryan as candidate for the presi-
dency in 1896 and 1900 and again in
1908. 1t was in the later year you
remember. that President Wilson
wrote his famous letter to his rail-
road friend in Kansas saying that he
hoped "Mr. Bryan would be knocked
into a cooked hat" OF course the
President didn't have to hope again,
for he and other Democrats like him.
sharpened their hatchets and pro-
ceeded to knock Mr.. Bryan into a
cock hat, politically. Now the point
u: Do the heavenly twins" Dan and
fatt, want us to endorse this knock
ing of Mr.. Bryan into cooked hato
And how are we going to do that?
Then again, Professor Wilson said
that any man who believed in free
silver or greenbackism was a subject
for examination by DIR. Jelly, or words
to that effect and to vote to endorse
this lis in effect direct slap in the
face to about two-thirds Of the
Democracy in this good State OF
Maine
During all the time of Presiden:
Wilson'S services at the New Jersey
college he was safe and sane con-
servatiee citizen in every respect but
one and that was the only consistent
position the President has main
tanned, namely, he has always been a
tariff .reformer. in other words he
has always been an American free
trader. He was opposed to the
initiative, the referendum and the re-
call, now he is red hot for them: for
merly he was defender of the bust
ness interests of the country, now he
and his socialistic secretary of COM
merce Mr.. Redfield want to spend
one million dollars of our cash to
make criminals of the business men
Of this country, just because they are
going to be unable to compete with
the pauper labor of Europe and Asia
But how about his administration?
He denounced the exception clause"
of the sundry civil bill as destructive
of human liberty and class legislation,
yet. he signed the bill Does any
body want to endorse that kind of ac-
ton? If the bill was wrong. and he
said it was, he should have vetoed it,
as he was appealed to do by nearly
every Democratic paper in this coun
try. including such papers as the n.
= Y. Times. The Louisville Courier.
! journal, The Hartford Times. The
Philadelphia Record and the entire
Independent press of the country as
well. yet, he signed the bill. Was he
afraid of organized labor on the one
hand and of the great Independent
and Democratic papers on the other?
q; Dan and Patt say the issue is an
endorsement of the President and if
that is the issue can any Maine Yam
kee endorse such a program as this?
Mr.. Underwood who is justly con-
ssidered the leader of his party in Con
gress and therefore, part of the
Democratic administration, tells us
that under the Democratic tariff now
being enacted, this country will in
screase . its imports of manufactured
goods by $240,000,000 annually. This
of course means that American work.
ers will produce $24000000o less than
last year. 1t means idleness TO-.
hundreds of thousands of factory
hands and this is the thing that the
Heavenly twins" are asking us to en-
dorse.
~ "A vote to endorse this Democratic
administration is the same kind of a
vote that a Maine Yankee would have
rsgivensto endorse the last DemocratiI ;
administration with its soup house
reign.
IA vote for Patt is vote to en-
!. .dorse the socialisuc policy of the Will
son administration exemplified by
= SECRETARY ,Redheld.
A vote FOR Patt' is vote to endorse
the importation of s240,000.00O in
4 crease finf ,ifnpertations of manufac
Stured goods and at the Same time, IS
"a vote for idleness. less work, less
- wages and more poverty and more
misery.
6 Patt stands for all these things and
:, his election will mean that lot OF
SO you Yankees stand for the same thing
Think these things over after you e.
, - to- bed tonight. Patt means to ethel
rule or ruin the Democracy of tbs
= Third Maine district, and / guess he'll
u do both.