Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-10
The New Democratic Cry.

any idleness of laborers or depression
of business is replaced by the song of
! worldwide Calamity" Democratic
organs no longer shout Calamity
| Howler' to everyone who mentions
| facts concerning conditions, but they
try to drown everything else with
their frenzied uproar about financial
and industrial panics in the old
world 1t is expected to help our
| feelings amazingly when we reflect on
/ how badly someone else is feeling.
/ The Democratic press is responding
nobly to the publicity calls of the
committees who are strenuously fend-
ing off disaster, Every last publica-
ton is now saving away on that hard
times-abroad string.
In a measure this may be true Gas
Americans have learned to under
stand prosperity because upon that
basis depression always prevails in
those low wage countries. But, If
Industrial conditions in Europe are
bad now, what would they have been
like if the United States were not Civ
ing many millions extra market for
their goods and sending gold to pay
for the things American laborers
ought to be making?
If we are undergoing depression
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pressed because it can't help it, in
spite of the mighty lift which a Demo-
cratic Congress has given. If we were
making the things we have been max
ing and are now buying, there would
be no depression in this country. And
the present depression would lift rap
idly if the business of the country
were not afraid of perpetual Con-
gress," and of a persistently blunder-
ing administration.
An Aroostook farmer said to the
Journal last week: In the last
Cleveland administration Aroostook
stood at the door of bankruptcy.
Farms and stock were mortgaged
everywhere. Nothing we could raise
would sell. The starch factories
opened up in the spring to save our
faces after we had awaited all winter
market for our potatoes. We sold
them for 20 cents a barrel. Two years
more of it would have sent the whole
pot and bilin' of US to the waste heap.
But Republican administration came
in and conditions changed. We paid
our mortgages and have prospered
since.
I'VE feared reciprocity and fought it
tooth and nail-we shall always re-
member the splendid manner in which
the Kennebec Journal led us-and then
we went and did far worse than
reciprocity, we fought among ourselves
and let minority party capture the
government and fix upon us some
thing twice as bad as reciprocity.
We'll, the thing is working along
just as it did under Cleveland and l,
for one, fear the next two years. I
have heard this everlasting. America
is strong enough to compete with the
world That idiocy makes me sick
and I'd like to kick the fool who utters
it, OF course we could compete with
the world if we wanted to live the
same, but we don't!
And that is just what I am fussing
about object to being placed on a
par with the always depressed and
struggling, poverty-st stricken labor of
the old world. I say we are strong
enough to compete with ourselves
and live like Americans"
We sometimes wonder how many
Maine voters have seen the light since
last election. The probabilities were
as plain then as they are today. Thou
sands see, yet blindly hope that the
pretensions of their selfish leaders
via be fulfilled, and that the tail may
wag the dog, according to promise.
These men know that every Progress
sive vote is pushing Democracy one
vote nearer to approval of the present
administration. They know that the
revenge which their leaders hope for
will cost them dearly. They know
that every Republican defeat this year
means mutual distress to pay for it.
They can see coming on, slowly but
surely, the very troubles that we
pointed out two years ago. Nothing
can prevent it, for results are sure and
exactly the same scenes have been en-
acted before within the memory of
middle-aged voters. The new gen
Grafton ought to realize, by this time,
the certain tendency.
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