Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-03-25

less and unnecessary laws. done more
useless and unnecessary things. than
any administration which the Demo-
| cratic party have been responsible for
| IN upwards of seventy-five years.
Business Dcmoralized.
When we were assembled together
| for the first time to receive the message
| of the President of the United States.
he said to US in formal session that he
! would pass no laws which would in
any manner injure a single American
7 industry Yet within the period of a
Very few weeks thereafter he signed
the law which brought chaos and dis
order and destruction upon the indus
trial conditions of our country; and he
signed that law at night time: on the
advice Of his attorney general he
waited until nine o'clock and five min
Ctes in the evening, until all places of
business from the Atlantic to the
Pacific ocean were closed, in order that
it might not harmfully affect the
country suddenly. ,Laughter) When
President Mckinley signed the Ding
ley law he signed it i'll the morning, IS
American people in order that they
might take cheer for the day and that
those who were discouraged might
find new hope. President Mckinley
signed it in the morning While the
birds were singing and the air was full
of hope and promise and encourage
ment: President Wilson preferred to
perpetrate this outrage upon the
American people at night time, when
most outrages are committed. Laush-
ter and applause) He demorallzed the
American industries to an extent rare
~ known in the history of our coun-
try He discouraged capital. he
1iattered labor with the idea that the!
would rejoice with the cheapness OF
American products He brought more
disuuiet and disorganiZation to our
industrial system by that single &C.
tlan he could remedy in dozen years
if he were to be in power to correct
them Within six months after he
signed that law more than million
men were out of employment. Mayor
Mitchell in New York appointed
committee to ascertain the number OF
idlemen in the city of New York. and
they put it up that there was over fFn
hundred thousand unemployed. ana
Castle Garden, once the throne room
of American citizenship. where the
stranger first sees our institutions. ana
takes his first sip Of the nectar OF
American institutions, Castle Garden
became a soup house. a public soup
house In Chicago men were out OF
VT
furnished them with a red and blue
ticket, the blue ticket indicating
whether man was from outside OF
Chicago, and the red ticket whether
he was from inside of Chicago anG
should be given preference in public
ork in the city. You know as well as
I do that he. broke the promise of his
first announcement. know 1t. II
was a blow to labor. and the laborlnS
man above all others in the world is
concerned in the principle of protec-
ton to American labor and industry.
(Applause)
Laboring Mans Stock.
The American laboring man has
nothing in the world to sell but
his time. He can only bend the
of. his strong right arm, and
if he doesn't sell them upon the in
slant he can never sell them at all.
The manufacturer who is dissatisfied
with the price of his wares may store
them for another month or year. The
who is dissatisfied with the
price Of goods may store them upon his
shelves. But the laborer cannot store
his wares. His muscles are his capt.
tai. The old theory that the mill will
never grind with the water that is
past must be dropped from the list of
2phorisms, for the wonderful pro-
gress of electrical science has enabled
us to stand by the side of the cataract,
gather the power Of the falling water,
store that power in the cells of the
dynamo, send it across the ocean, and
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