Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-11-03
els:r.ne. Of nearly al a.re.r. Of legi,lation

clearance Of nearly all arrears Of legislation
BY industry almost Hne1smplsd.
There was work to do. and It was done.
There was no Sinking no waste Of the
we'll ordered legislation. Among tho in
portant laws enacted were the customs ad-
ministrative, the tariff and internal revenue.
the ocean mail, the dependent pension,
the coinage, the anti-lottsry, the anti
trust, tho worlds fair, the meat inepec-
ton, the intermediate court of appeals,
the land forfeiture, the private land claims
court the eight hour. the refund ng of the
direct tau, the reapportionment, the adj
mission OF Idaho and Wyoming, the inter-
national copyright and many other acts.
II was an exhibition of working power long
to be zsmsmb ered in American history.
Such industry as this is Characteristic OF
the party which during the last thirty years
had been the one great political working
publican party has to do wh at needs to be
done. Tho Democratic party hangs back,
obstructs legislation, and threatens to re-
peal it. In minor policies under the press
ure Of public opinion it may be reluctantly
reoonciled to what 10 done. In great poll
cies Affecting the prosperity Of home indus
tries and American workmen, or the stabil-
ity of financial order; it is never reconciled
to the conditions of Republican progress.
In its Indictment Of protection as unconsti-
tutional it takes up the old notification
doctrine of John &. Calhoun. In its de-
mands that the minis shall be opened to
the free coinage Of silver. and that
repealed, it seeks to undo all that the Re-
publican party has done for sound cur
rency, honest finance and the national
banking system. Consciously or uncon-
sciously it aiming to drive gold out of
the country, to bring in silver monometa!
lism, and TO open the foodga.e s for ire
deemable bank issues,
Republicanism is the survival of what is
conservative and progressive In American
public life, Decade alter decade it has to
fight the battle ofindustrial independence,
the battle ofthe prosperous working classes
against the degradation of cheap labor, the
battle of honest finance againsttiat money,
lightweight coin and wildcat banking;
and it has always to struggle increasingly
against those abhorrent forces by which
suffrage and citizenship are dehauched,
electors intimidated and deerauded and
majority rights usurped by minority con-
spiracy. Republicansm with its inherent
conservatism holds fast that which is good
and goes forward in spirit Of enlight-
ened progressiveness. Tot 1.-The country owes
the symmetrical development Of industrial
interests, the increasing efficiency OF the civil
service and all administrative processes and
the essential originality of the work Of
American civilization. Republican policies
are comprehensive and national, yet always
conservative and safe, and never lacking in
creative energy and constructive power:
Their 1ertilizing influences are distributed
through the length and breadth of the land,
They yield q hundred old, like the Western
prairies. They stand Tor what is me st use.
Jul and necessary in material progress. and
or what is most ennobling and inspiring