Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-09


Amreica is not going to permit any body
these great matters.
Let me instance single thing:
want to ask the business men here pres
ent if this is not the first January in
their recollection that did not bring a
money stringency for the time being: be-
cause Of the necessity OF paying out
great sums Of money by way of divi-
dents and the other settlements which
come al the first Of the year?
i have asked the bankers II that hap
pened this year, and they say No, il did
not happen; II could not happen under
the federal reserve act We have eman-
cipated the credits Of this country. And
is there anybody here who will doubt
that the other policies that have given
guarantee to this country that there
will be free competition. are policies
which the country will never allow to be
reversed?
But the Democratic party is not to
suppose that Il Is done with the business:
The Democratic party is still on trial.
Team Work
This country is not going to use any
party that cannot do continuous and con-
sistent team work. II any group OF men
should dare to break the solidarity OF
the Democratic team for any purpose or
from any motive. theirs will be a most
unenviable notoriety and a responsibility
which will bring deep bitterness TO them.
The only party that is serviceable to q
nation is a party that can hold abso-
iuetly together and march with the dis
c.pline and with the zest Of conquering
host.
L 2n not saying these things be-
5 cause / doubt that the Democratic par
~ VIII be able to do these things, but
because l believe that, as leader for
the time being OF that party l can
/ promise the country that it will do
these things. / know my colleagues at
! Washington, I know their spirit and
their purpose, and l know that they
/ have the same emotion, the same high
+ emotion Of public service, that I hope
I l have. The country is not going to
trouble itself to lie awake nights and
wonder what men are going to do.
( Team work all the time is what they
! are going 10 demand Of US, and that
! is our individual as we'll as our COL
lective responsibility. That is what
jackson stands for. If man will not
! play in the team. then he does not
! belong to the team. You see, have
spent large part Of ms life in COL
! leEe and ! know what q team means
! when l see it; and I know what the
. captain Of a team must have il he is
going to win.
+ Remarkable Record"
Now, what is their duty? You say
Hasn't this Congress carried out a
i-rea; proc1am? Yes. II has carried out
q great program. II has had the most
remarkable record that any Congress
since the Civil War has had; and I
say since the Civil War, because /
J have not had time to think about those
! before the Civil War. But we are liv-
! ing at an extraordinary moment. The
! world has never been in the condition
! that il is in now. my friends. Half the
world is on fire. Only America among
/ the great powers Of the world is free
I to govern her own life; and all the
/ world is looking to America TO serve
IT'S economic need, and while this is
happening what is going on?
DO you know. gentlemen, that the
ocean freight rates have come up in
some instances TO ten times their or
| binary figures? And that the farmers
of the United States. those who raise
grain and those who raise cotton,
these things that are absolutely ne
cessary 10 the world as we'll as to our
selves-cannot get any profit out of
the great prices that they are willing
tha other
side Of the sea, because the whole
profit is eaten up by the extortionate
charges for ocean carriage? In the
midst Of this. the Democrats propose
temporary measure Of relief in
shipping bill.
The merchants and the farmers Of
this country must have ships to car
~ their goods. and just at the pres
ent moment there is no other way of
getting them than through the instru
mentality that is suggested in the
shipping bill: and I hear 1t said in
Washington on all hands that the Re
publicans in the United States Sen
ate mean TO talk enough TO make the
passage Of that bill impossible.
Friends Of Business"
j ucsS seal ~SbSACo ASCIlQS VA pQcls
ness. these men who say the Demo
cratic party does not know what to do
for business are saying that the Dem
ocrats shall do nothing for business
challenge them to show their right
stand in the way of the release OF
American products TO the rest of the
world. Who commissioned them. a
minority a Iessening minority? For
they will be in a greater minority in
thte next Senate than in this.
These gentlemen are now seeking
TO defy the nation and prevent the re-
lease Of American products to the suf-
fering world. which needs them more
than il ever needed them before.
Republicans Ignorant"
II ! were speaking from a selfish.
partisan point Of view, / could wish
nothing better than that they could
show their true coloros as partisans
and succeed But I am not quite SO
malevolent as that. Some Of them are
misguided; some of them are blind;
most of them are ignorant. ! would
rather pray for them than abuse them.
But the great voice Of America ought
to make them understand that they
are said to be attempting now. have