The Delta independent., 1899-10-20
CAMPAIGN ISSUES.
Secretary Hsy's Letter to ChAir.ss nssb
Of the Ohio Rspablican ConaitteaI

Secretary Hays Letter to Chair0ss usA6
Of the Ohio Rspablic.n Coaaisse&
Our opponents this year are in aA
unfortunate position. They have lost.
for all practical purposes, their politi-
cal stock in trade of recent years. Their
money hobby has collapsed under
them. Their orators still shout 16 to I
from time 20 time from the force OF
habit but they are like wisdom cry
ing in the streets, in one respect at
least. because mo man regardeth
them" With our vaults full OF gold.
with a sufiiciency OF money to meet
the demands OF a volume Of business
unprecedentedly vast and profitable.
with labor generally employed at fair
wages, with our commerce overspread-
ing the world, with every dollar the
government issues as good as any
other dollar. with our finances as hrm
as a rock and our credit the best ever
known, IL is no time for financial
mountebanks to cry their nostrums in
the market place, with any chance OF
being heard.
II is equally hopeless to try 10 resus-
citate the corpse of free trade. The
Dingley tariff. the legitimate successor
OF the Mckinley bill-that name OF
good augury-has justified itself by its
works. II is not only true that our do
mestic trade has reached a proportion
never before attained. but the Amert-
can policy OF protection-the policy OF
all our most illustrious statesmen. OF
Washington and Hamilton. Lincoln.
Grant and Mckinley-has been tn
umphantly vindicated by the proof that
II is as efficacious in extending our for
eign commerce as in fostering and
stimulating our home industries.
Our exports of domestic manufac-
lures reached in this fiscal year the un-
e1ampled total of $3.50. .o00. 900. an
amount more than Seo0. .000. 900 in ex-
cess OF our exports ten years ago.
These figures sing the knell of those
specious arguments which have been
the reliance of our opponents for so
many years. and which are only fruit
ful in times OF leanness and disaster.
What is left. then. in the way OF .
PLATFORM The reign of trusts, which
the Republicans themselves manage.
having all the requisite experiences
both OF legislation and business: and
finally. the war. which. 1t seems. was
too efficiently carried on. and has been
too beneficial to the nation 10 suit the
Democratic leaders. We have been
able to give in our time some novel
ideas TO the rest Of the world. ane
none more novel than this. that .
great party should complain that the
results o. a war were too advantage
Gus.
Our trade is taking that vast devel-
opment for which we have been pre-
pairing through many years Of wise
American policy. OF sturdy American
industry. OF thoughtful invention and
experiment, by trained American in
telligence. We have gone far toward
solving the problem which has SO long
vexed the economists OF the ~orld-of
raising wages and at the same time
lowering the cost of production-some-
thing which no other people have ever
accomplished in an equal degree. We
pay the highest wages which are paid
in the world; we sell our goods TO such
advantage that we are beginning to
furnish them to every quarter OF the
globe.
We are building locomotives for rail-
ways in Europe. Asia. and Africa: our
bridges can be built in America. ferried
across the Atlantic. transported up the
Nile and flung across n river in the
Soudan in less time than any European
nation. with start OF four thousand
miles. can do the work. We sell iron
ware in Birmingham. carpets in Kid
dermlns;er. We pipe the sewers OF
Scotch cities. our bicycles distance all
competitors on the continent: Ohio
sends watch cases to Geneva.
All this is to the advantage OF all
parties: there is no sentiment In Il:
they buy our wares because We make
them better and at lower cost than
other people. We are enabled TO do
this through wise laws and the Ameri-
gan genius for economy. Our working
people prosper because We are all work
ing people: our idle class is too mcager
to count All the energies OF the na-
tion are devoted to this mighty task
to insure to labor its adequate reward
and so to cheaper production as TO
bring the product within the reach
OF the greatest number for least
money