The Republican journal., 1914-07-23

Gan you tell why Peoueo'
southern States, are protected by the
Democratic tariff, while potatoes are ad-
mitted free? If you can tell, you Will
find large audience of listeners; Maine
farmers are curious to learn the cause OF
this rank discrimination.
The Democratic tariff reduces the tar
1ff on hay from 100 to S2.OO. Ihls re-
ductiop results in loss of $l32, 600 IN
Waldo county alone, where the annual
hay crop amounts to &c, 200 tons. Think
what the total loss in the sixteen counties
must be. is conservative to estimate
that Maine farmers will lose million
and half dollars annually through this
Democratic tariff reduction of 500 per
ton on hay.
The Democrats told US the low tariff
would decrease living expenses. 1t is well
known that it has not done so. One m
teresting example of actual increase IN
price in an article of food is illustrated in
the fact that Norway mackerel, from
which the duty of $500 per barrel was
removed, are several dollars barrel
higher than when the duty was collected.
Can the Democrats win your vote with
this sort of reduction in living expenses?
The Baldwin Locomotive Works has
laid off 5000 men on account Of the lack
of work for them; IL beet sugar factories
have closed their doors and their opera
tives are without work, the combined
slieing capacity of the factories being 740o
tons per day; the Logan Iron Works, an
industry occupying several acres at
Greenpoint, N. Y. for fifty years. has
shut its doors and it's operatives are I'M
successfully seeking new employment.
When the whole story OF curtaled busl-
ness and discontinued business is told, the
unemployed total millions. Democratic
tariff lost them their jobs.
The proposed Wilson, Bryan treaty with
Columbia provides for payment OF S25,-
900, 900 blackmail, and offers an apology
for the action of former administration,
that of Theodore Roosevelt. No greater
insult was ever offered an ex-president
than this Wisonian insult to Roosevelt.
But this is not all, THE treaty further
proposes to grant the Colombians exemp-
ton from Panama tolls forever and ever.
We in America were refused exemption.
If the treaty is ratified, Colombia will
shortly have the largest merchant marine
in the world. Does this favoritism to
foreign nations please you?
Great fiocks of sheep were raised In
Maine previous to 1894; the sheep raising
industry in Maine is now hardly worthy
of mention. The Democratic tariff of
1893 caused Maine wool growers to kill
off their focks and the industry has never
returned to Maine with any measure OF
its former Importance. This Maine story
of 1894 is being repeated now IN Oregon
where sheep men are selling off their
focks rapidly. In Crook County alone
four great sheep raising concerns are
about to dispose of the last OF their
focks. These four are the Baldwin Sheep
Co., the Prineville Land and Livestock
Co., the Morrow and keenan, Co., and the
Malone Estate. Free Trade is not only
driving wool growing industries out OF
the country, but it is placing the entire
control of wool into foreign hands. so that
soon we will be paying double price for
wool--just as soon as our own fiocks are
all gone Mutton is going to be very
high in this country.
Importations of potatoes into this
country in July, August and September
amounted to %, 827 bushels. Then the
Underwood tariff act knocked off the
tariff on potatoes and in October there
we're imported 472, O52 bushels, in No
vember, 764, e29 bushels. The modern
cry Of "Back to the farm" is likely tc
change to "Abandon the farm" under
the destructive action Of the Democratic
tariff.
President Wilson has charged that GER
tain business interests are against him
in his legislative program. The Phlla-
delphia Ledger agrees with him. Says
the Ledger: 1.-THE President is right.
There are certain interests opposing the
administration legislative program.
They are thesolid business interests of the
country, the half-starved mills, the
smokeless factories, the miners out OF
work, the mechanics without income,
the jobbers who cannot sell, the rail-
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