The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-10-26
WHAT THE PARTY DESERVES
The Republicans Have Won Good
Claim Upon the People for
Their Support.

Little more than year ago the re-
&publican administration and congress
staked everything on the soundness
of their conviction regarding the true
remedy for business prostration. The
second year of an administration al
ways brings political low tide. If,
added to that perennial tendency to-
ward reaction, there should be failure
to perform the promises of the party,
failure to discharge the chief duty
for which it was intrusted with pow
er, the public disappointment might
be expected to produce reverses. To
republican leaders the duty was then
plain, and also the fact that respon-
,sibility would fall upon the party in
apov + if the methods employed for
the restoration Of general prosperity
should prove mistaken or insufficient.
1t was earnestly urged by the advo-
y Gates Of various monetary theories
that nothing could bring prosperity
unless their theories were adopted.
Some said that nothing would serve
but free coinage of silver; others moth
ing would answer but retirement of
greenbacks and substitution of bank
Anotes, withoutl limit or with more or
less freedom. The republican party be-
Viewed the one thing necessary was to
restore protection of home industries
sand an adequate revenue, and with a
full sense of its responsibility acted on
that conviction.
The state of business and Of indus
tries to-day shows how far this course
has been justified. 1t is not necessary
\ here to recapitulate well-known facts.
Since June, 1897, the month before the
snsw tariff was enacted, the volume of
tbusiness throughout the country has
Increased more than $1,000,0O0, 900 in a
month, and has come to exceed by from
ten to fifteen per cent. the largest busi-
mess ever done at the same season in
tine most prosperous of past years. The
number of hands employed in the va
irious industries has increased greatly
fin the iron industry about quarter,
In some others more and in others less,
but on the whole so largely that earn
Angs and expenditures of the working
people have everywhere expanded more
sthan was expected by the most san
guine. Meanwhile heavy crops have
8also added to the prosperity of the mil.
8lions of farmers and those dependent
on them.
4 The republican party would not be
discharging its duties to the country
If it did not earnestly appeal to the peo-
4 pie to uphold national policy which
has so completely surprised its adver.
saries and even surpassed the hopes oi
most of it's adherents. 1t is not in or
gder to maintain that nothing else re
mains to be done, that the public pros
Sperity cannot be further promoted by
reforms in the currency or elsewhere
kBut it is the duty of the party to show
that the course it selected as the one
necessary above all others has beer
Abundantly justified by events, and i
may with abundant reason claim tha
the party which has thus wisely dis
charged its duty in the past shall bt
trusted to deal with other problems
that may concern the general welfare
The right of the party to public con
n fidence and support has been greatly in
creased by the honorable negotiations
which preceded war and enlisted fol
the country the admiration of civilized
nations by the great foresight and en-
ergy of preparations for war whicl
made 1t the shortest and cheapes
struggle of modern history in proper
tion to its vast results; By the wise ant
resolute leadership which brought it II
q victorious close, with the least ex
penditure of lives and resources, ant
with such honor to American arms tina
the nation has taken new place in tn,
world. All this accomplished, in un
wavering accordance with the pledge
given in the platform upon which Pres
ident Mckinley was elected, deserve
! from the country hearty support TO
Y the president in completing the worl
and securing it's results for the nation
\ Errors there have been, and no natiol
long without experience in war ever en-
tered upon an important struggle with
out many mistakes; but the same fidel
ity and wisdom which have brought tn
main result so quickly and so cheapl,
for the country may with reason b
expected to apply without hesitation
or needless delay those reforms whicl
experience has shown to be necessary
The government, which has far sur
passed all expectations, both in do
mestic and foreign emergencies, is no
one which the people can with wisdom
or fairness fail to uphold.-N. Y. Trib
sune.
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