Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-09

head charges that always go on. / was
/ in one of these mills IN this city the
| other day and one OF the largest, and
! the manager showed me conffrmat ton
| slips on which the losses ranged from
| six-tenths of a cent a yard, down. HOW
! long at this rate will that mill keep
/ running? The Importation OF cotton
! into this country has doubled every
month since the Democratic tart. Even
| the South, where the coarsest goods
are made, and which, under this DEM
ocratic tariff, is least effected, Is
alarmed at the closing of many mills.
! And at a meeting OF the cotton man
ufacturers in April, in New ork, an
| official of the association from North
! Carolina asserted ito maintain the
market will test the nerve and ability
of every cotton manufacturer in the
! country" ga
Wooiens
I'VE left adequate protection to the
wooden manufacture ,s.sr@ tr~
-And where are the evidences that we
have destroyed the WOODEN industry of
| New England?" No, Senator, not yet de-
stroyed, but your party has made good
progress towards it in less than year
! during which the tariff has been in op
GRAFTON. Go to Worumbo, just below
here, the largest mill, If l am not mis-
taken, making the finest goods that are
made, particularly affected, it is true, by
the Democratic tariff which comes to
seek to penalize mills, cotton or wooden,
! in proportion as their products show the
highest skill in workmanship, and you
will find that 1t is running, since the
tariff law was passed. at only two-thirds
of its full force, and its payroll cut
from $4,000 annually to slso, ooe-$70. 900
! taken from labor that ought to be en-
ployed in that little community. and that
would be employed were it not for this
Democratic tariff. In three months this
tariff has increased importations from
Bradford, the chief wooden center of
4 England, $50 per cent, and from Leeds
I 236 per cent, and today this American
trade is what is sustaining the wooden
industry of England. And our own gov
eminent, shamed out OF its proposition
to buy bunting for our national flag in
England, is doing the next thing to 1t
| in buying cloth for the uniform ofaAmer-
lean officers from British mills.
Paper
I'VE made a slight reduction in the
duties upon paper costing above d cents
per pound" True, but that reduction has
been enough to strike at every paper
mill in this district making such paper;
| 1t has been enough to force the mills at
Rumford on five days schedule and they
are accommodating their products on that;
| it has been enough to cause an increase
of importatfons from Canada alone of
over $4,000 tons a month, or at the rate
of 100000 tons a. year. What must we
count on from Norway and Sweden. from
which importations are being made at
price OF two cents, and remember that
condition imposed upon the subsidized
marine of these countries is that paper
| be carried at the lowest possible rate.
Remember, also, that in Sweden the wo-
men work in the mills at an average of
but s4 cents day! Germany favors ex-
ports of paper by preferential rates on
her transportation companies The mex
haustible resources of Russia and Fin
| land have been barely touched, and what
labor receives in those countries l need
not point out to you. fs rF5r .VA
| Agriculture
Wa made large reduction in the
agricultural schedule. but what prod
| uct of the Maine farm sells for less
| than formerly?s
| Governor Fernald told different
| story at Bingham the other day, and
| our farmers can speak from expert
| ence. Their hope, as the senator says,
must rest in the population CT our
| cities. But cripple the industries on
| which that population depends for it's
| livelihood and the farmers are involv-
! ed in the general calamity which has
| already overtalSen so many fndustrlaf
| centers Of our land.
| The morning papers report that at
least so per cent less coal has been or
! dered for manufacturing plants in
| Maine this year than last, and that
! 200 trains of rs cars each used to de-
/ liver this coal to Maine points will not
| be needed this season. This speaks
| conclusively of the condition of our
| Maine industries.
And these industries are the indus
tries of this Second District: they are
at our very doors. Whatever is made
abroad and imported here which they
produce, curtails by just so much the
| field Of American enterprise and gen.
| ius, and gives employment to the
workingmen of Europe which should
come to our own. There is only one
way to meet this competition, and that
is the inexorable law of cheaper pro-
duction. which means wages and living
| lowered to the standard of Europe.
which so many of our people have
come here to escape
Our State, it Is true, as l have said,
is a small one in the sisterhood, but
we love her. Here are our homes, and
here our hearts. 80
Frequently throughout the speech
Mr.. Sewan was interrupted by ap
plause.
Governor Haines
Governor Haines was next intro
duced by Chairman Hodgdon. In OPEN
ing he said that he did not know as
he could make speech or not. He
had been up to Tim Callahan's for
dinner and his nervous system was
devoting its whole effort to that. He
IVA pleased to he present at the meet