The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-10-29
WHAT THE PARTY DESERVES
The Republicans Have Won Good
Claim Upon the People for
Their Support.

Little more than a 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. II.
added to that perennial tendency to-
ward reaction, there should he 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
power If the methods employed for
the restoration Of general prosperity
should prove mistaken or insufficient.
1t was earnestly urged by the advo-
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
notes. without limit or with more or
less freedom. The republican party be-
lieved the one thing necessary was 10
restore protection of home industries
and an adequate revenue. and with Il
full sense of its responsibility acted on
that conviction.
The state of business and OF indus
- IL l. l. Ia 4 1 IL.
has been justified. 1t is not necessary
here to recapitulate wcll-known facts.
Since June, 1907. the month before tho
nsw tariff was enacted, the volume Of
business throughout the country has
increased more than $1,0O0,000,0 900 in n
month, and has come to exceed by from
| ten to fifteen per cent. the largest bust
ness ever done at the same season in
the most prosperous of past years. The
number of hands employed in the va
rious industries has increased greatly
in the iron industry about quarter,
in some others more and in Others less,
but on the whole so largely that earn
ings and expenditures of the working
people have everywhere expanded more
than was expected by the most saI-
guine. Meanwhile heavy crops have
also added to the prosperity of the mil
lions of farmers and those dependent
| on them.
The republican party would not be
discharging its duties to the country
if il did not earnestly appeal to the peo-
pie to uphold national policy which
has so completely surprised its adver-
saries and even surpassed the hopes of
most of its adherents. 1t is not in or
der to maintain that nothing else re-
mains to be done, that the public pros
perity cannot be further promoted by
reforms in the currency or elsewhere.
But it is the duty of the party to show
that the course it selected as the one
necessary above all others has been
abundantly justified by events, and it
may with abundant reason claim that
the party which has thus wisely dis
charged it's duty in the past shall be
trusted to deal with other problems
that may concern the general welfare.
| The right of the party to public con-
yfdence and support has been greatly in
creased by the honorable negotiations
| which preceded war and enlisted for
the country the admiration of civilized
nations by the great foresight and en-
ergy of preparations for war which
made it the shortest and cheapest
struggle of modern history in proper
ton to its vast results; by the wise and
resolute leadership which brought ii TO
victorious close, with the least eX-
| penditure of lives and resources, and
with such honor to American arms that
the nation has taken new place in the
world. All this accomplished, in I'M
wavering accordance with the pledges
given in the platform upon which Pres
idcnt Mckinley was elected, deserves
from the country hearty support for
the president in completing the work
| and securing its results for the nation.
| Errors there have been, and no nation
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 the
main result so quickly and so cheaply
for the country may with reason be
expected to apply without hesitation
or needless delay those reforms which
experience has shown to be necessary.
The government, which has far SUR
passed all expectations, both In do
mestic and foreign emergencies, is not
one which the people can with wisdom
or fairness fail to uphold.-N. Y. Trib-
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