The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-22
~ Don't Feel Good
That is what 3 lot Of people tell us.
Usually their bowelsonly need cleansing.
aexaQQ 4tdetQiea
will do the trick and make you feel fine.
We know this positively. Take one
tonight. Sold only by us, 10 cents.
City DRUG Store.

have the Pure Food Law, under which q
vast range of production is subjected to
inspection aud regulation in the most
minute detail. Everywhere, in every di-
rectlUn, superV sion of business is the
characteristic OF the day.
And with the exercise of power over
business under the Constitution as it is,
comes the desire for enlargement of
power, SO we have proposals Tor amend
ments to the Constitution which will give
to the national government opportunity
to extend and Increase it's control over
the conduct of fairs in every State and
in every localit.5. That finds its outlet
first in matters hat have much popular
ity. The propos al to amend the Consti-
tuition by putting in prohibition amend
ment, is the firit step toward national
control of sumptuary laws directing
what shall and snail not be done in every
community; amt ndments to the Consti-
tuition in respect of the franchise, to di-
rect who in every State shall or shall
not have the rig Mt to the elective fran
chlse. In genel al, the great industrial
communities of he North and East are
more and more being subjected to gov
eminent control and regulation by the
| people of the parts of the country that
try.
| say the sceptre has passed. The con-
troll has changed and it is impossible to
resist the conclusion that there lies the
reason for the stagnation, the hesitation,
the timidity, the unwillingnesS of Amer
lean enterprise today. You cannot say
it was the tariff alone, You cannot say
it is the restrictions upon the trusts, the
suits against the trusts or the great cor
porations which are called the trusts,
alone. You cannot say it is the Clay on
law or the Trade Commission law alone.
But the men who are controlling the
government of our country today are
men who have been fighting the tariff
so many years, have been fighting the
trusts, or what they thought were the
trusts-the great corpOrations-so long;
have been fighting the railroad compa-
MES, the express companies and the tel
| egraph companies so long; have been
| fighting the banks and the bankers so
long, that when they come to administer
the government of the United States
they can't rid themselves of an I'M
derlying hostility to American enter
prise. [Great applause. Many of them
are good and sensible men, and patriotic
American citizens-friends OF mine and
friends of all OF US. have talked with
them personally and they don't believe
it, but it is true. Underlying all their
actions is an uneradicated but not I'M
eradicable hostility to the men who they
think have profited unduly by the tariff,
to the men who they think have unduly
profited by the trusts, to the men who
they think have profited unduly by the
control of the banking funds of the
country, and to the men who they think
have made undue profits or dividends
out of the railroads and the enterprises
that surround the proper administration
of a railroad. And the reason why bus
mess does not start is because way
down in the heart Of Americans there is
a doubt as to What is going to happen at
| the hands of a hostile government. APP
plause.]
Now, what is going to be done about
it? 1t is not something to be disposed of
| by conquest. 1t is not something which
we ought to be satisfied with disposjng
publican President in 1916 ought not to
be enough. The country can't live and
prosper with such misunderstanding. The
peoplewho are doing these things are hon
est and good Americans, but they mis-
understand a great part of the country.
They don't realize that you do your busi-
ness in the City of Philadelphia on the
same principles that they use when they
drive load of wheat to the elevator or
a load of potatoes to the nearest town
upon no other principles just as honestly
and fairly. All the glamor of occasional
wealth and the magnitude of operations
have blinded them to the essential iden-
tity of the way in which they do their
business and the way in which you do
yours. say that this ought not to be
permitted to continue; this misunder
standing ought to be cleared away. 1t
is question, it is a serious question, it
| is question again of preserving the
Union, for we cannot live with that kind
of misunderstanding between the people
of one section and the people of other
sections. Applause
Now the first thing which is plain is
that the business men of America, the
honest, reliable, good, fair citizens who
are doing the great business of our coun-
try, should become vocal and take pains
to see to it that they are no longer mis-
represented or misunderstood. APP
plause. What does an honest and fair
man do when he finds that somebody
VIII use good opinion he respects. misun-
derstands him? He does not try to shoot
the other fellow or injure him; he tries
to remove the Misunderstanding, and
that is what we ought to do. The bust
ness men of America should wake up
get out of the condition of mind which
they have been in for some time past, in
which they have taken all sorts of mis-
representations and aspersions, lying
down. They should assert themselves;
they should put upon foot campaign of
education and instruction tor clearing
of the air, SO that all over our broad land
every American may come to respect
every other American in whatever bust
ness he may be engaged, so that Ameri-
can citizenship shall be forever for the
American citizen a little of respect and
regard and brotherly affection. APP
plause. We ought to put an end to the
condition in which a number of the peo-
Pile In our country feel no regret at the
disasters of the people of other parts of
the country. 1t is not an easy task, for
this is tremendous country. But if the
men who elected Mckinley will arise to
the same standard of courage and de-
termination that prevailed in 1896 and
1900, the task can be accomplished. APP
pIause.
We have had missionaries of reform,
missionaries of new theories, mission
aries of every kind and character, ex-
cept missionaries of good understanding.