Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-29

l35 per cent of their value. Isn't it
about time the United States fisher
men were paid a bounty from a reve.
nue. received from a high protective
tariff on Holsters SHIPPED from Cam
ada into the United States?
after four years of protection,
brother fishermen, do not let any
thing induce you to change your mind,
for if YOU do your industry will he
lost and you will be the losers. If We
still stick to protection and work for
high protective tariff on Holsters
We will surely reap a harvest and
where VIC are carnin:, a few dollars
today we will be earning many IN the
near future, because each year the
State is purchasing thousands of dol
lars worth of egg Holsters and lihor-
ating them to mature naturally and
they must a surely as the sun rises
and sets increase the Holsters on the
coast of Maine. After the State has
gone to the trouble and expense Of
purchasing and liberating the mother
Holsters ladened with eggs that YOU
may reap the reward in the future.
i isn't it up to YOU to do your utmost
to protect them until they become Of
legal size? If YOU will only practice
strict observance of the laws there
will be no question about the future
of the lobster industry.
approximate ly nineteen twenticths
OF the lobster fishermen on the coast
| of Maine obey the laws to the letter
and work with the commission for
; the protection of the Holsters. but
there is still another twentieth that
| is spreading all the propaganda they
can against the commission and they
are trying to induce the honest, law
| abiding citizen to change his mind.
None of the members of the commits
sion are engaged in the lobster bust
ness nor do they receive any revenue
whatever from it, still the riolators
claim they are trimming the COM
mission, when in reality they are in
! juring themselves every time they sell
an illegal lobster. because they are
sold at reduced price and therefore
weigh about half as much as they
would if allowed to grow TO legal
size, so the fishermen are really los
, ing about 200 percent on every Illegal
lobster they sell. Do not let the few
i remaining violators induce You under
! any conditions to abandon your good
resolutions to protect your valuable
| industry.
1T is now the beginning OF new
season, shall we make it a wear Of
protection, prosperity and happiness?
| Let's unite and bring to bear all the
mental and physical power we possess
to secure high protective tariff on
Holsters in order that we may receive
price commensurate with the high
grade Maine product which deserves
inc strctest protection prscticod by
/ all. Let us stand up manfully before
Almighty God and say truthfully to
! the world the American Greed:
I believe in the United States Of
America as a government of the
people, by the people. for the people,
whose just powers are derived from
tie consent of the governed: a de-
mocracy in a republic; a sovereign
Nation of many sovereign States. a
perfect Union, one and inseparable,
established upon those principles Of
freedom. equality. justice and human
lty for which American patriots sac
rlf1ced their lives and fortunes.
/, therefore, believe it is my duty
to my country to love il: to support
It's Constitution; to ooey it's laws: 10
respect its flag: and to defend It
against all enemies
| when we do this and practice II
we are American Citizens, indeed. and
worthy Of the protection the United
states is giving us, but when we vio-
late the laws of the State or nation
we become traitors to our country and
are not then true sons of the United
States of America"