Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-09-07
DEFINES LOYALTY


Democrats and their policies are aimed at
New England and are hostile to all our
interests. When we send from New
England Democratic senators and con-
gressmen they cease to stand for New
England interests and follow blindly and
obediently the dictates of the Southern
majority in the caucus which binds them.
Having deliberately cut down the tarifr.
not only to carry out their free trade
principles but with the purpose of sub
stituting direct taxes, they then framed
their direct taxes in such a way as to
take nearly all the money from the
North and East. The total amount
raised by direct taxation, by emergency,
corporation income and individual income
taxes. for the past year was $209, 215, 554.75
Four states of the North, Massachusetts,
New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois, of
these taxes paid $119.001 .090.S7; that is,
these four northern states, Que of the
IS states. paid more than half Of
these direct taxes. Sixteen northern
states, Massachusetts,, Connecticut, New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Della
ware, Maryland. Michigan. Minnesota.
Missouri, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Wisconsin and California of the 2os mil
lions paid 17s millions; that Is, IS per
cent. of the entire tax. Ten Southern
states. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and
Virginia, paid ss.6020O; that is, about
four per cent. of the entire tax. The to-
tai wealth of the state of Massachusetts
is 81, 1902, 100000. Massachusetts pays an
emergency tax of $3.e10.0oO, a corporation
income tax of $2.6Ss.0Co, a personal in
come tax of $4,1e3,0oo, or a total Of s1o-
All 900. That is, a tax of 81 on every s625
of wealth. The state of Alabama has a
total wealth of s2,127. 1000, one one-third
Of the wealth of Massachusetts. Alaba-
ma pays an emergency tax of $4,000, a
corporation tax of s2ol, 900, personal in
come tax of $109OO0, or a total tax for
these three purposes of s576 ,000, which
amounts to 81 OF tax on every 5000 of
wealth. These illustrations will show you
sufficiently how the money has been TAX
en- from New England and a few other
Northern states.
Who're is the Money Spent7
Where Is that money spent? In the
South and southwest. If you will ex-
anime the bills for expenditures, which
might perfectly we'll be postponed, you
will see that the money raised from our
part of the country is spent very largely
in the South. There is their nitrate plant
to cost $40 1000 That is to go on some
Southern river to improve the water
power. Analyze the road expenditures
and you will find that whereas the south
ern states contribute two per cent. of the
SIS, 600 ,000 % per cent. is to be spent in the
South. Consider the river and harbor
bill and you will find large portion of
the utterly needless and wasteful appro-
priations carried in that bill goes to
southern creeks and bayous. but we fur
nish the money. 1t is the same with the
great bill for what is called food con-
troll. Forty millions will go to the South
ern Mississippi 100000 to the sacra-
mento. That is about the portion OBJ
served between southern and northern
expenditures.
Now when you elect Democratic
senators and representatives they vote
to raise the money in this way from
their constituents and to spend it on the
constituents of the South and southwest.
l think that we ought to elect senators
and congressman from New England who
will see that New England is justly
treated
AT the end of last July we had 100000
of the National Guard on the Mexican
border. From the southern states came
1000 men from Virginia and 500 from
Louisiana. Texas had 5000. The rest of
the southern states had not single man
on the border. while Massac husetts. New
York, Illinois and Pennsylvania had 49,
coo men, AZ per cent. of all the troops then
present. This is another illustration of
the manner in which the southern rulers
of the Democratic party conduct the pub
lie business and spend the public money,
which they take chiefly from us. Is 1t
not time that the state Of Blaine and
Reed, and Hale and Frye and Dngley,
sent men to Washington who would not
United States but would see to 1t that
their own state and their own New Eng
land were not Disseminated against in
every form of taxation and expenditure?
The Republican party, now thoroughly
united, offers you as candidates men of
character and ability, entirely fit to rep
resent Maine as she always has been rep
resented when the Republican party was
in power. 1t is your first duty not only
as Republicans but as citizens, to return
these men by decisive majorities to the
Senate and House, and 1t Is especially i'm
portant to elect both your senator's, for
the control of the Senate is the control
of the vital point in c system Of gov.
eminent: and it is the point most diff
cult to win In this election. for Of the
President and the House have no doubt.
The Wasted Three Years.
Pass now from our local and economic
interests to the broader questions. The
present administration has wasted three
years without making any attempt until
the present moment to give us proper
national defence. Even when the war in
Europe broke upon US the President, in
December, 1914, sneered at the demand
for preparation and whole year went
by without anything being done. Our
navy, which occupied second place among
the navies of the world when the Repub-