Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-03-10

Featureiess figures of the Hoang-Ho.
Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt and
Flying the Old Worlds poverty and
These bringing with them unknown gods
and rites,
Those tiger passions, here to stretch their
claws.
In street and alley what strange tongues
are loud,
Accents of menace alien to our air.
Voices that once the Tower of Babel
knew!
o Liberty, white Goddess. is it we'll
To leave the gates unguarded? On thy
Fold Sorrows children. soothe the hurts
of fate,
Lift the down-trodden, but with hand of
steel
Stay those who to thy sacred portals
To waste the gifts of freedom. Have a
Lest from thy brow the clustered stars be
And trampled in the dust"
..-+ Tariff Issue.
Following closely the question Of for
of the tariff. favor non-partisan
tariff board, to investigate and report to
Congress information on which to base
a tariff which will truly distinguish be-
tween the cost Of labor abroad and at
home. No tariff board, however, can
legislate; that is left to Congress. A
tariff board can simply furnish informa-
ton upon which to legislate. I stand for
the principles Of protection to American
industry and American labor. 1 believe
that the United States can not exist and
prosper as a free trade nation; that the
expenses of our government, the proper
protection Of our people. the building up
of our industries and tho conservation
and development of our great resources
can only come from a protective tariff,
such as we have enjoyed under the Re-
publican Party.
Some beautiful free trade theories have
been overthrown and demolished during
the present administration. That free
trade would lower the high cost of living
has been shown to be fallacy and a
delusion; that free trade would destroy
trusts an empty vault. The Beef Trust
simply bought up the cattle on a thou
sand hills in South America and formed
a great trust outside the United States
not subject to the Sherman law, or to
any law except tariff regulation.
Free Trade in sugar would destroy the
cane industry Of the South and the sugar
beet industry of the West. Sugar under
hn
English and American capitalists have
bought up all the sugar plantations in
Cuba and in the Indies, and formed a
great Sugar Trust outside the United
states. which We cannot attack or de.
stroy by any law in America. The pres.
ent administration has recognized that
fact, for the President now recommends
that the present protective tariff shall
be retained on. sugar
"hen at the close Of our great
civil War, with our industries para
lyzed and destroyed, with a depreciat-
ed currency, with a great war tax
upon US, with poverty and reputation
starring US in the face. with crippled
soldiers, widows and orphans all over
the land, President Lincoln was asked
what can we do to save the nation.
restore prosperity. redeem the nations
pledges. redeem the greenbacks. take
care or the survivors Of the war, pen
sion the soldier or the widow and or
phan. and restore again the manufac-
turing Industries Of the country. give
LABOR employment, and make this a
great nation among the people of the
earth! Lincoln said, Il am for a
nigh protective tariff. This will re-
store to US prosperity. pay our indebt-
edness. build up again our DESTROYED
industries and make this a great ma
ton"
The Republican party adopted his
suggestion, and the world witnesses
the result. America, under protection,
mas become not only a great world
power, but the most prosperous nation
upon the earth; her laborers and work.
men have never wanted for bread, save
IN the dark hours when Free Trade as.
sailed their homes.
In 1882. thirty-four years ago. Bis
naarck, then the great military leader
and statesman Of Europe, before his
Congress. the German Reichstag. said.
ihc success Of the United States in
material development Is the most H.
lustrious Of modern times. The Ameri-
can nation has not only successfully
borne and suppressed the most eigan.
Tic ana expensive war Of all history.