Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-11

!. there, will be no question where Maine
VITA stand In national affairs. That thu
farmers Of Maine know where they
stand on the tariff question was einphat-
ically shown by the recent election in
the 3rd Maine Congressional District
aud the fact that the first steamer 1t
leave the provinces for New England
after the Democratic tarit had taken
effect, was so completely filled with for
eign farm products that she was unable
to make her regular call at Calais. and
American goods, ready for this same
New England market, were left behind
there, shows the correctness of their
judgment
Other Problems.
But aside from the tariff there are
other important problems of pressing
national Importance to be solved; and
since the Democratic party has chosen
to advocate Il solution by methods which
experience has proven to be wrong, II
remains for the Republican party once
moro 10 supply the country with a con-
str9clive policy that achieves results.
Every student of present economic
conditions knows that independent of
effects produced by the great law of
supply and demand, Il vast burden is
making itself felt in the daily life of
our citizens through the lack of linz
proved methods of distribution. When
the finest peaches rot i'll the orchards
of Connecticut, where they are offered
at 50 cents per bushel. while consumers
but so miles away are being charged
twice that amount for single peck;
when thousands of apples in Minnesota
are left on the trees or uugathercd on
the ground because the farmer cannot
sell them for enough to repay the cost
oil collecting them. while people in cit
les are paying high prices for limited
amounts of such fruit; when the Arocs-
took potato yields the producer but 81
a barrel and sells in the capital OF this
country at sl.25 per bushei. there is
something so radically wrong with our
system of distribution that the highest
tariff duty becomes negligibie-and Civ
ing cur metropolitan markets to the for-
eigner is not the right way to attempt
Il solution of that problem.
Modern Problems, Modern Mcthods.
Here is where the work Of the
Republican party differs from that of
its old opponent-it realizes that
modern problems require modern
methods of solution. Instead of TO-
menting class hatred; instead of
holding UP Industrious capital as 81
popular enemy to be kept under po-
lice SUPERVISION while its NOISY assafl-
ants are granted mob license; insted
Of indtilging the dream that national
happiness is 70 be found in letting
poorly paid foreigners share in this,
the best market in the world, while
eur displaced manufacturers and pro-
ducers seek elusive profits among
those slit-eyed OrientaIs to whom
from their wretched condition, q sill
yer dollar looms up with all the eff
fusence of a full moon, it is the pol
icy of the Republican party to keep.
for our employers and employees the
priceless opportunities for employ
ment which we have created at home.
and to eliminate, by sane business.
methods SO we'll illustrated by our
Interstate Commerce Commission, that
vast unnecessary and unremunerative
expenditure which now overloads
products on their way from the point
of production to the home of the con-
sumner. For that government has "a
legitimate association with business
always has been recognized: but the
difference between statutory law,
Which applies TO all alike and can
he enforced by the courts. and an in
diVidual empowered by legislation to
interfere with business as his arbi-
fJse will tpfe rn hf
overlooked.
II is not unnecessary at this time
to DISCUSS the tariff bill now in OPP
Grafton. 1t was promised that it
would reduce the cost of living, bring
increased prosperity, and enlarge our
foreign markets which Were developed
under recent Republican administra-
tons as never before. We have but
to wait The fact that these promises
cannot be fulfilled will be apparent to
al before another election. though
the farmers of Maine will not receive
the full force of the blow aimed at
them until the foreign crops of next
fall strike our markets. Therefore
the Republican party should begin at
once formulating the legislation
which it must offer when it takes
control of the next National House.
Other Distinguishing Marks.
Eut aside from the tariff legislati ton
of the present administration, it is
instructive to note some of the other
acts which distinguish the perform
ances of the Democratic party from
its promises. Economy of expendi
lures was a loud watchword of that
party during the last presidential
campaign. The Republicans were call
spendthrifts. Yet note the ease with
which this Democratic party of econ
omy has made appropriations large
" in excess of those appropriations
made by the Republican party.
LudicroiIs are many of the things
to be found in those hearings ON the
Democratic deficiency bill Having
made general appropriations as large
as I, they thought the public AtMould
stand, they supplement it.vith h de-
ficiency bill which gives large addi-
ftional appropriations. Tos consider