The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-06-23
TUESDAY, JUNE %, 1914.
GOVERNOR WILSON'S ADMIRABLE. ADJ
DRESS AT WASHINGTON GROVE. N. J.

opposition to repeal the tolls ex
emption law upon three reasons,
either of which we believe to be
sufficient to unite the votes OF
the Union against repeal.
First. No foreign nation has
any right to interfere to any de.
cree with our coaStWise trade,
our domestic commesce, passing
from port to port of our own
\ country through any waterway
owned and controlled by the peo-
pie of the United State.
Second. The Democratic party
obtained power in 1912 by an ex-
plicit pledge in its platform that
our coastwise vessels should pass
through the Panama Canal free
from tolls. The Democratic can
didates promised they would carry
out the pledges of the platform
and good morals and safe and
honest administration required
that the pledge and the promise
be kept.
Third. The business interests
of every citizen of the United
States, save those interested in
foreign shipping combines or in
the profits of the transcontinental
railways of Mexico, Canada or
the United States, are all injured
by the repeal and the progress
and prosperity of the Union re-
tarded by it.
We doubt if any speaker in the
campaign of 1912 evidenced
clearer conception of the necessi-
ty of tolls exemption to the COM
merce of this country than did
the Democratic candidate for
President, Governor Wilson, in
his speech to the great meeting
of farmers at Washington Grove,
N. J., on August Is of that year.
Every farmer, every manufac-
turer, every miner, every working
man, every resident of the United
States, should read these reasons,
potent reasons, put forth by Gov
ernOr Wilson in advocacy and
support of the tolls exemption
plank of the Democratic platform.
He said:
Zone of the great objects in cutting
that great ditch across the Isthmus of Pan
ANA is to allow farmers who are near the
Atlantic to ship to the Pacific by way of
the Atlantic ports; to allow all the farmers
on what | may, standing here, call this
part of the continent to find an outlet at
ports of the gulf or the ports of the Allan
tic seaboard, and then have coastwise
steamers carry their products down around
through the canal and up the Pacific
Coast or down the coast of South America.
''Now, at present there are no ships to
do that, and one of the bills pending
passed. believe, yesterday by the Senate
as it had passed in the House provides fol
free tolls for American ships through thai
canal and prohibits any ship from passing
through which is owned, by any American
railroad company You see the object o
that, don't you (Applause.) We dom
want the railroads to compete with them
selves, because we understand that kind o
competition. We want water carriage +
compete with land carriage, so as to b
perfectly sure that you are going to sc
the continent.
"Our platform is not molasses to cate
flies. 1t means business. 1t means wf5
it says. 1t is the utterance of earnest an
honest men. Gentlemen who talk or
way and vote another are going to be r
tired to a very quiet and private retreat
Under the existing status {
the toll exemption issue we sill
cerely trust that every America
citizen, irrespective of part
utilization, will vigorously folio
out the suggestion of Governt
Wilson in the last paragraph ar
see to it that the men who tall
ed one way to voters on the tol
exemption and voted the 9th
way be retired to very qui
and private retreat.
Democratic success in the cou
ties, in the districts and the stat
may be advanced by beginnir
the retirements at the primarie
The party will then fare bett
at the elections in November
The foregoing editorial fro
the Cincinnati Enquirer of Jul
18th is a very able presentatit
of the situation. President w
son was nominated on the Del