Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-28
MILLIKEN AND
SHELTON AT THE
L|VERM0RE RALLY
Two Convincing Speakers That
Are Making Many Friends by
Calm, Kindly Arguments and
Fair Presentation of Facts

Livermore Falls, Me, Aug. 2T.-(Spe-
ciaD.-Hon. Carl E. Milliken of Island
Falls president of the Maine Senate
and Hon. William B. Shelton OF Lew
iston, were the speakers here this eve
ming at the Republican rally. Both adj
drsses wer fair, free from personali-
ties and bitterness, and confined to
issues of the State and nation and
their bearing upon the people. Each
man was logical and convincing and
brought forth many favorable COM
ments. Mr.. Skeletons address, was OBJ
tanned in part as follows:
We ought to be able to discuss the
issues of this campaign without In
dulging in personal abuse. If there is
merit in our position we cannot Of
ford to cloud it in epithets If we put
our chief reliance in calling these who
oppose us by ugly names, we must ex-
pect people to be suspicious of our
cause. / have no patience with that
form of argument which calls people
tories and reactionaries on the one
hand, or soreheads and cranks on the
other.
Tho Calamity Squad
There are real issues involved in the
campaign on which we disagree, They
are questions of business and of adj
ministrative government. One cannot
approach their discussion without ex-
pecting to be abused, If he reads the
papers and listens to some of the
speakers. Touch the question of tar
if and it's effect as reflected in BUSH
ness conditions, and we are met by two
classes of reply. Those who believe in
free trade challenge our contentious.
as they hav from the beginning. This
Is fair argument. Some who profess to
believe in protection, and therefore do
not differ with us in theory, call us q,
calamity squad" They say that they
are opposed to the Underwood bill,
presumably because it is not in the in
terest of good business. They say that
we are preaching calamity IL we
criticise it for the same reason. I NAV
be wrong, but am very strongly of
the opinion that the real trouble with
such persons is that for some reason
try should continue under a system
that they don't like, rather than see
the Republican party successful in in
augurating a system that they do like.
They would rather perpetuate a wrong
than see right triumph through any
agency save their own. They claim a
copyright on all virtue. They are like
the wife who calls the policeman TO
protect her from her husband and
beats him if he touches the brute.
We need not fear that business is
going to stop in this country. or that
the nation is going to become bank
rupt. Our natural resources are too
great and our people too enterprising.
We will ultimately adjust ourselves to
any conditions, and improve them as
we can. We are not down and out.
Wee know that history will repeat it
self and that the people will not be
slow to correct the evils Of Demoo
cratic legislation. as they have always
done in the past.
But 1t is no secret that there has
been a Stacking down all over the
country, halted by Europe's greater
misfortune, which we neither expect
nor hope to continue indefinitely. The
national administration sounded the
first note Of lack Of confidence when
1t threatened to punish business men
if they curtailed to discredit it's legis-
lation. They don't curtail for that pur-
pose. They do not try to discredit benz
fetal legislation. That Is the kind they
want. and when business Is best, when
the mills are running full and thare Is
competition for help instead of COM
petition for Jobs wages are best.
The Stacking UP is no myth. During
the year just past we exported $780,
100000 less Of our goods than during
the preceding year. We imported $780,
O0O, 900 more. One hundred millions
less sold. Eighty millions more bought
One hundred and eighty millions
against us. That is progress in the
wrong direction.
Only the other day we were told
as an evidence Of our prosperity that