Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-12

party which has so woefully misman-
aged them This is indeed a supreme
opportunity and that you will rise
equal to it no one can doubt who
has been over the State as l have
and caught the spirit of determination
which animates Republicans in every
neighborhood.
Republicans of Maine are filled
with the old time militant spirit and
that means victory: victory for the
State and local tickets. not only but a
victory for congressional tickets also.
1.-The Democratic party succeeded to
power a year and a half ago. The coun-
try was then prosperous. 1t is not so
today, and 1t has not been so for many
months. Why? a vast army of consum-
ers is in idleness in the great Industrial
centers they have been denied an oppor-
tunity for work and wages because the
Democratic party in power in Washing
ton overthrow the Republican protective
policy. Its tariff law is sectional and ut
terly un-American; it carefully protects
the Southern farmer while it abandons
the interests of the Northern farmer. 1t
brings the farmers and lumbermen of
Maine into unfair competition with Ca
madam products; and will, sooner or lat
err. be more sharply felt by them than
now. Canada and other countries have
long sought the American market without
cost and our Democratic friends have
generously and practically given It to
them. The Democratic party has laid its
paralyzing hand upon your textile and
other manufactures, and they are as a
rule curtailing their output and reducing
the pay roll.
ITO restore prosperity to America we
must return the Republican party to
power. The country has confidence in
the virtue of it's policies and in its well
tested capacity to successfully conduct
the great business OF the government,
Common prudence suggests that we put
our faith in the greatest constructive
party since the government began
1--WE cannot see far into the future.
and it would seem wisdom would de-
mand that we entrdst the mighty affairs
of our government with a prosperity
making and not a panic-making party:
party which stands with firmness for the
preservation of republican government in
all Of it's virtue and vigor. Your cause is
just and you must win. You have
splendid party organization. The chair
man of your State committee is doing
yeoman service with a well-directed en-
thusiasm and untiring zeal which chal-
lenge admiration and he is supported
by able and faithful co-workers every
where. Many OF our Progressive friends
are coming back to the party of their
fathers, realizing that they can secure
the triumph of their essential policies
only through the success of the Republi-
can party. They are welcomed with
opened arms. We are at heart one.
1.-The President is asking Congress to
increase taxes to raise S1o0, 000, 600 per an
mum in addition to our present revenue,
upon the assumption that the European
war has made it necessary. 1t will not
do to put the responsibility for all of
the vast sum upon the war. That is not
the reason; it is only the excuse. The
fact is, if our friends had not thrown
away millions and millions of dollars by
removing duties in whole or in part from
competitive products such as sugar. wool
hay, butter, eggs, lumber and so on, we
would have money for the needs of the
treasury paid by foreigners at our GUS
tom houses instead of being obliged now
to pay this vast sum out of our own
pockets.