The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-07-30

A Republican vote is vote for your
lob; Democratic vote elects Euro
pean workman in your place.
A Democrat may owe it to false pride
to vote with the Democrats. but you owe
it to YOUR wife and child to vote with the
Republicans.
Canada is we'll pleased with our new
yarif, law. She has reason to be. She
mas increased the monthly amount OF her
products sent to this country from $685.
900. 200 to $4,000, 900, and during the
same period of time reduced the amount
paid to the United States for American
goods sent there from 1913, 600, 600 to $25,
300, 600.
The appropriations of the present
Democratic Congress will exceed a bill
lion dollars. This does not accord with
the eternal declaration of the Democracy
that it is the party of economy. Further
more, the self-stvled party of economy IS
running short on revenue about $500, 0o0
day. The most eXtravagant Congress
IN the country's history and it is running
short of revenue half a million dollars a
day! We are led to believe that the De
mocracy is not truly the party of econo-
my; the belief that it is such is merely
psychological.
One of the local lumbermen il Somer-
set county reports that practically his
entire cut of lumber is on the sticks.
That the people with whom he contracted
are unwilling to take it. One concern IN
Massachusetts for whom he sawed under
contract large quantity of hard wood
are unwilling 70 take any of it. He re-
ports that is not his intention to cut
foot of Timber this winter, or in fact.
until business conditions charge. He
adds that woodsmen who received S35 to
$40 last year can be hired for 500 to S25
nov, and that large New Hampshire
operator is obtaining men at this price
for this years operations. This is one
of the ways which the Democratic free
trade helps Maine lumber operators and
laborers.
Oakley Curtis of Portland says be
Savors high license because we need the
enoney for our schools: he says he wants
that the school monay may be more easily
obtained. His plan is to equa)ize taxa
ton in this way, for he believes it unfair
that any part of the taxes of the cities
should be appropriated for use in rural
schools. He is apparently disgruntled
because it is asked of Portland to spend
a few pennies in the smaller towns.
What a statesman like PLAN In this way,
you see, by collecting taxes from the
rumsellers, it would be possible to found
the education of your children upon rum.
The local barkeeper's tax would pay the
teachers salary. Splendid! Vote for
Curtis and have rum placed under the
children's eyes, placed where youth may
obtain it, and then tell them tina: their
education depends upon rum, too.
Through the carrying out of President
Wilson's order to prevent Huerta from
getting ammunition sent to him in Ger
man vessel, 10 lives were lost in our navy
at once, more lives have been sacrificed
since from wounds and other causes, and
the retention of the troops and ships at
Vera Cruz is costing about Sl,000,0OO
day. Yet the Germans were allowed to
land arms at Puerto Mexico. 1t is claim
ed and not denied that during the period
of embargo on arms on our border, the
Department of State through one official
and another, together with John Lind,
Wilson's personal representative in Mex
leo, gave the Villa faction excellent ad-
vice on how to get arms through the en-
barge. Do you call such movements as
these acts of craftsmanship?
President Wilson says he is going
ahead with the antitrust legislation, no
matter what business men say against it,
no matter what it's effect upon business
as likely to be, no matter how much Con-
gress may refuse to be driven before his
whip. The legislation proposed is neces-
sary and proper from his standpoint and
he does not think it consistent with the
dignity of Woodrow Wilson to consider
the protests Of the entire country, Con-
xress included. This is an excellent illus
psratien of the ''new freedom" of which
Wilson speaks so proudly. If your neigh
Dor took such an attitude towards the
minds of his community as President
Wilson takes toward the minds of his
countrymen, including the flower of the
country in Congress, what would you be
Alike to call your neighbor?
There is q .deadly parallel" between