Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-17
What the Country Needs.

What the Country Needs.
The Administration announces that
It intends to lay before Congress IAN
adequate programme" Of national de-
fence. This will cost money. The
treasury deficit at the end Of the fiscal
year-June 30-was around $40.000.000.
The deficit for the single month Of July
in the current fiscal year is close to
half that sum. On the first of May.
1916. sugar goes upon the free list
which will entail loss Of revenue
amounting to more than 100000 900.
On the thirty-first Of December, 1915,
the so-called war taxes" will expire
by limitation, entailing a decrease Of
many more millions in revenue.
Therefore it is plainly to be seen that.
whether we provide for national de-
fence or not. increased revenue must
be had
Democratic leaders are considering
this question. They plan to put a
tax on tea, on coffee, on bananas. and
on several other articles Of common
consumption. In other words they
intend to tax every mans table.
When the Democrats took over the
Government they found full treasury
and ample revenues. They found, too,
a steady programme Of naval con-
struction and other items Of national
defence. In two short years they have
emptied the treasury. have diminished
the revenues, have crippled the navy
and the army; until now. when the
question Of defence looms up they
can deal with it only after they have
dealt with deficit.
The only way for the people to deal
with this grave question-this question
which is becoming more serious each
day-is to send Republican ad-
ministration to Washington. Two
years display Of inefficiency has proven
that conditions will never be i'm
proved until that is done.
: What the country needs is a con.
structive administration. The people
are tired Of ''watchful waiting" and
ChautauQua platitudes. They have
had genteel sufficiency Of "pitiless
publicity" and car stand very little
more Of the marvellous reduction OF
the high cost of living" They are
longing for real business and real de-
cisive government action on the coun.
try's problems
It is cheaper to buy goods abroad.
in these wonderful Democratic DAYS Of
psychic phenomena, and pay the
freight on them than it is to buy at
home. But what about your neighbor
who makes or raises the things you
would buy at home? Will he be able
to buy ANYWHERE the things he
cannot make or raise? And if he can
not. what will soon become of Your
gain?
Buy at home and increase your own
prosperity by making business lively
and keeping money moving where YOU
live. is no better logic for commune
ties than it is for nation. II YOU
buy your neighbours wares he will buy
yours and both will keep the money
in the community: but if both send to
Roers. Seebuck & Co. for your goods,
you will have the goods and some
other state will have the money.
The tariff reform movement is COM
ing into its own in England. as a re-
suit Of the war. Some Of Great
Britain's ablest men are seeing the
light that Chamberlain saw. David
Lloyd George recently said:
"if the profits Of our manufacturer.
are too high in some cases, that can
be reetified. but at the worst il il not
80 grave an evil as the sending Of or.
dsrs to neutral countries when by 20
doing we send money out Of our own
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Profits which English manufacturer
and workers make will be spent anon.
Enslishmen. while profits Americana
make arc altogether lost to this eeun.
Try
Americans would do we'll to take this
British common sense to heart. The
new freedom is costly. And the re-
lief We get from the blood Of Europe
is not everywhere relished.
Premier Asquith is another who has
Unexpectedly dealt heavy blows at
cherished theories Of Cobdenism. On
July IS he told the House Of Commons
that it was part Of Britains' duty ITO
finance the whole conduct Of the war,
and added. we cannot do that II we
continue 70 import and to increase our
Indebtedness to other countries, and
unless We maintain our great manu-
featuring industries"
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