The Lamar register., 1899-10-18
CAMPAIGN ISSUES.
Secretary Hay. Letter to Chairman Dick
of the Ohio Republican COMMITTEES.

SppSAtAbo luis year are IN fsn
unfortunate position. They have los..
Tor all practical purposes. their polit.-
cal stock In trade of recent years. Their
money hobby has collapsed under
them. Their orators still shout l6 to
from time 10 time from the force OF
habit. but they are like wisdom cry
Ing in the streets. In one respect q;
least. because mo man regardetl,
them. With our vaults full of gold,
with a sufficiency OF money to meet
the demands OF a volume of business.
unprecedentedly vast and proftabls
with labor generally employed at fair
wages, with our commerce oversprea5-
Ing the world, with every dollar th>
government issues as good as any
other dollar. with our finances as firm
as rock and our credit the best ever
known, It is no time for financial
mountebanks to cry :hair nostrums in
the market place, with AM chance OF
being heard.
1t Is equally hopeless to try t. resus-
eitAte the corpse of free trade The
Dingley tariff, the legitimate successor
OF the Mckinley bill-that narle of
good augury-has justified itself ay its
works. IL is not only true that orr do
nestle trade has reached a proposition
never before attained. but the Ar1eri-
can policy of protection-the poliry of
all our most illustrious statesmen. of
Washington and Hamilton. Linfoln,
Grant and McKinley-has been tri-
umphantly vindieated by the PROOF shat
II is as effieacious in extending Gus for
eign commerce as in fostering and
stimulating our home Industries.
Our exports OF domestic manv Iac-
lures reached in this fiscal year th- un-
exampled total OF 100000. .OoC an
cess Of cur exports ten years Ego.
These figures sing the knelI of those
speeious arguments which have been
the reliance of our opponents for so
many years. and which are only fruit
tul In times OF ieanness and disaster.
What Is left, then. in the way OF a
PLATFORM The reign OF trusts. which
the Republicans themselves manage.
having all the requisite experience
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 to. suit the
able to give In our time some novel
ideas TO the rest o. the world. anc
none more novel than this. that a
great party should complain that the
results OF 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. o, thoughtful invention and
experiment., by trained American in
teIligenee. We have gone far toward
solving the problem which has so long
yeHed the economists OF the world-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 river in the
soudan In less time than any European
nation. with a start OF four thousand
miles, can do the work. We sell iron
ware in Birmingham. carpets in Kid
dermInster. 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 it;
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 ard the Ameri-
gan genius for economy. Our working
people prosper because we are all work
ing people; our idle class is too meager
to count. All the energies of the ma
ton 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.