Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1910 — DEMOCRATS WILL GET CHANCE HOW [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATS WILL GET CHANCE HOW

Governor Marshall Says Maine Election Shows People Have at Last Awakened. REBUKE TO EXTRAVAGANCE __—. Voters Are Convinced That Protective System, as a System, is Altogether Wrong. (By Guernsey Van Riper.) Indianapolis Governor Marshall arid John W. Kern, Democratic nominee for United States Senator, are among those who rejoice in the Maine < victory, which has given Democrats control of the State for the first tims in twenty-nine years. “The Democratic victory in Maine means that the confidence of the people in a protective system, as a system, has been shaken,” said Governor Marshall. “It means that the people have awakened to the fact that this system is the source of the vast aggregations ' of capital and private fortunes in this country.

“The insurgent vote discloses that the voter is going to put on the Republican ticket, if he can, a man who will help to reduce the amount of protection. It means also that large numbers of these voters will vote the Democratic ticket. It means that they are going to take a little relief if they have to, but they are going to take all the relief they can get. It means that they are going to give the Democrats a chance on the tariff for revenue. If it is a failure, it can be easily changed. “The average wage-earner and man of salary is now so near starvation, owing to the high price of living, contributed to by the protective tariff, that so-called ‘starvation’ doesn’t scare him any more. He eats beans three times a week now and he is willing to run the risk of being compelled to eat them six days a week, if thereby be can stop the rich from growing richer and the poor from growing poorer.

“The result in Maine is a rebuke also to extravagance in public affaiys. Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Taft said they could cut expenses $300,000,000 each year and not impair any department of the public service, but they failed to do it. The average man does not realize that every two years the general government spends more money than the entire tax duplicates, both real and personal, of the State of Indiana. He fails to remember that if all the corn raised in America were dumped each ▼ear into the United States treasury the revenue from it at 50 cents per bushel would not run the government each year. It would pay for about nine months only. He is tired of a system which gives back to the manufacturer all the duties paid on raw material when manufactured and sent out of the country (except 1 per cent), while he himself pays the manufacturer the full tariff on all goods so manufactured and sold In this country. The government authorities tell the people what they have collected, but they do not tell what they have paid back.” Mr. Kern sees also a return to economy and an earnest desire for tariff reform in the Maine election. “The Democratic victory in Maine after twenty-nine years of defeat is highly gratifying to the Democrats throughout the country,” said Mr. Kern. “It is especially gratifying because the victory seems so complete and, overwhelming. This election, taken in connection with the election in Vermont and the special congressional elections In Massachusetts and New York, indicates a desire on the part of the people to return to economical government and to the principle that the burden of taxation shall not be greater than the necessities of the government. The battle In Maine was between the Democrat and the Republican parties, and the battle in i Indiana is 'between the same parties. The question in both instances is this: Are the people satisfied with Republican administration?”