, 1898-10-19


issued by the preceding democratic ad-
m~inistration in the piping times OF
peace. Our national treasury was
bankrupt, and on every hand could be
heard the murmurs of discomfort.
Farmers we're suffering from falling
prices and were placing mortgages on
their farms; grain was wasting in the
fields and fruit decaying in the orch
ards, for want Of buyers; dust covered
mills and factories. silent looms and
shuttles prevailed everywhere; the fires
had gone on. Of the American furnaces
under the Wilson tariff law to illum-
mate those across the sea. Upon every
hand was idleness and w~retchedness,
fearful strikes occurred in all parts of
the country, while Coxey armies .plod-
ded along many a dusty road on their
way to the national capital to pray for
relief from the hardships Of a demo-
cratic administration.
AS 1T is NOW.
Amid scenes and conditions like
these, our present republican admins
tration began its career, and behold the
glorious result. In one year and a
half a tariff law in the interest OF
America and American institutions,
industries and citizens had been placed
,,rpn ~, etot,,ta hDNGe onI ,oc n w
suit our national credit has already
been restored and our national dignity
upheld. Untold millions of gold that
had left our country through fear, have
been returned and brought other gold
with 1t to add to the general prosperity.
Farmers are all prosperous and hap
py, getting good prices for their pro-
ducts and paying off their mortgages.
All people who want work a get it
at paying wages, and suffering and
sorrow on account of idleness has dis
appeared.
The public schools are crowded to
overflowing, for now the little boys and
girls can go to school, as they can get
clothing sufficient to cover their naked
ness, because, under this administra-
ton, their fathers are getting work.
The mercantile establishments,
wholesale and retail, are now busy;
while all the railroads that were ON
the verge of ruin are taxed to their ut
most in carrying the products of the
farms to market and in carrying the
people to and from the busy marts of
trade. The mills and factories are run
ming full blast, while the murmur Of
the loom and the shuttle, the roar Of the
hot breath Of the furnaces, the hum
and whir Of the wheels and spindles,
the music Of the ringing anvils and
the joyous songs Of the hardy sons
OF toll, as they gather in the grain from
the fields, or go down into the earth
to bring unto light its hidden treas
ures, fill the land with the music OF
free industry.
REPUBLICAN HISTORY.
Tho doctrines of the nub,ic marty
teach the Young men cu,raee-courage
to guard the flag with the young arm
and the young hearts blood-courage
OF convictions, and courage to dare and
to do right and refuse to do wrong.
During the four decades Of its history
II has disnlayed remarkable wisdom
in framing laws. and in administering
tba government wisely n has al
WAYS kent orr neutrality digniaed and
inst. thus involving ,,s in no entang-
ling alliances Its Victories of peace
have heen no ,esss renowned than those
of war and these have brought about
that s,uerior and true grandeur as a
nation that bas urtad tbia renub,ic tn
tba. dazzling eminence towards which
tba eves ~ al, those who sit ,non
thrones among the great nowers Of the
world are turned "a tbav rea,,za that
II has ta ken Ito Mace among than and
berearter must he cons,dared and con-
smiled in tbe,r c~onnci,s
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