St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-11-01
G. 0. P. RALLY
Hon. William p. Dillingham; Spoke
On National Issues and Horace
F. Graham On State Politics.


P. Dillingham; and Horace f. Gra-
ham, republican candidate for gov
nor, addressed the voters.
AS the curtain arose the st. Johns
bury band, which occupied the back
ground of the stage, opened with a
patriotic selection. Senator Dilling
ham and Hon. Horace Graham, pre-
ceded by Perley F. Hazen, walked
to their seats on the stage and were
received with applause. The stage
was appropriately decorated with the
national colors and on either side of
the stage were pictures of Abrham
Lincoln and Charles Evans Hughes,
draped with American flags. In the
absence of Hon. Alaxender Dunnett
who was unable to be present, Per-
ley F. Hazen presided and introduced
the speakers.
He expressed regret at the inability
of Mr.. Dunnett to be present and in
introduction he said: ''The terrible
events of the past two years across
the water must have convinced the
people our government is the best
ever KNOWN" but he further said:
These same people of our country
are so Indifferent to the affairs of
SLdl6s Dub OuCG III LOuI years IL nap
pens that matters of Importance are
forced to our notice. He then in
troduced the Hon. Horace F. Gra-
ham as "Our next governor
Loud applause greeted Mr.. Graham
as he arose to speak, and in introduc-
ton he expressed his intention of
making his remarks brief and to the
point" His address dealt in part with
the past administrations of the state
and chiefly with the increased cost
of state government. He gave sta
tistics of state expenses gathered dur
ing his IA years as state auditor
which showed in that time an in
crease of over 100000 He also
gave a brief resume of the expenses
of each department of the state gov
ernment, and pointed out where pos
sible savings in operating expenses
could be made.
He endorsed the republican nation
al platform as it stood and made
plea to bring the young men Of the
state, voting for the first time in state
and national election, into the repub-
ican fold.
Senator Dillingham;
Senator Dillingham; in discussing
the relative rate of wages in the
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vigorously sustained the policy of the
republican party in preserving the
protective principle in tariff legisla-
ton. In doing so, he did not urge
the argument that the tariff increases
the rate of wages paid, but that it is
absolutely necessary, if we are to
maintain that superior rate of wages
paid, but that it is absolutely neces-
F1ra fO 4oi1
perior rate of wages which has pre-
vailed throughout the United States,
both in colonial times and since the
formation of our government.
In his argument, he developed the
historic fact that wages are high in
any country just in proportion as in
stitutions are free. He made the
broad assertion that even in colonial
days every European traveller who
visited the American colonies noted
the amount of pay received by labor,
whether common or skilled, and he
insisted that since the organization of
our government and the advance of
free institutions, every historian has
noted and recorded the existence of
the same fact.
In developing the fact that the
earning capacity of the American
working man is superior to that Of
the same class of workmen in foreign
countries, he attributed it to our re-
publican form of government in which
every man becomes a living factor
He called attention to the fact that
all wages are the bequest of serfdom
and that wages are lowest where de-
spotism is most arrogant and caste
most EXCLUSIVES; that the rate of
every government by era and by
country; that in the Orient where the
most grinding tyranny has been prac- |
ticed, wages have been infniteimal in
amount. Labor conditions in Egypt |
and Japan, with all their recent
progress, are even now a vivid re-
minder of the past.
In England, the development of the
English constitution can be traced by |
the advance in wages. With the |
adoption of each of the foreign re-
form bills under which suffrage has
been extended and the rights of the
individual have been recognized, the |
condition of the working man has |
advanced.
Hume tells us that as late as the
reign of Queen Elizabeth, the English |
artisan was thought to be well paid
when he received pence for a days
labor. Today wages are higher in
Great Britain than in any other Eu-
ropean country, because British in
stitutions are freer than those of sur
rounding nations
1t was the English historian Nc
Kenzie who said:
That the American people were
bold enough to form a govern
ment based upon principles dia-
metrically opposed to those upon
which all previous governments
had been based. and the present
high rate of wages in this coun-
try can be directly traced to the
fact that such principles recognize
the equality of man and give un-
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