Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-06-27
The West In Politics.

Congressman Jonathan p. Dolliver of
Iowa clearly defines the position of the
west toward the Republican party. He
first demonstrates that the west is not
a provincial term, thai the interests of
the west are identical with those of the
rest of the country, and that it has no
sectional advantages to seek other than
the general prosperity of the nation.
He points out hat the chronic poverty
of the west has become a matter of the
past. Thirty years ago the state Of Iowa
was without money and without indus
trial. enterprises of it's own, and oonse-
quently was a borrower of eastern cap
ital to such an extent that the people
We're impoverished by paying interest
and for goods that are now manufac-
tured in the state. Other western states
went through the same experience. He
continues that the growth of industry
and the accumulation of loanable capt.
tai have made the Mississippi valley
firm in it's conviction on two questions:
The protection of American labor and
the maintenance without bubble or
ambiguity of the gold dollar as the
standard of the republic. On this prop
sippi valley is as solid as a rock. The
people are opposed to tearing up the in
dustries of the United States by the
roots, the ceremony which has followed
pyppv nanonnrn ITO y-iofnry nf tLs, oa,,nr
alton, and they feel with substantial
unanimity that the time has come to
put a stop to the vain and wicked agi-
tations which seek to sap the founda-
tions of the national systems of finance
and to make a raid upon the
cial integrity of the country.
O other questions the Mississippi
valley has convictions equally distinct.
The people welcome the opportunity
which has come to make the flag of the
republic the sign of hope and heir to the
races that. without any pur-
pose of ours, have come within it's pro-
They fear neither the growth
Of territory nor the increase of national
responsibilities.
-Four years ago people were stricken
by %idleness, poverty, misery and want;
were being fed in the soup houses
Of the cities, and were destitute in the
alleys and lanes of the rural districts.
TO correct that situation and to restore
American prosperity the Republican
party was selected by the free choice
vote of the country. Their proposed
was universally known. They |
to restore the rate of wages
nd to give back their lost OCCUPATIONS |
o the industrial millions of the United
At the same time they under
ook to secure the permanence of indus
rial and commercial wealth by defin-
ng the standard of value and provid-
ng a mechanism for the maintenance
t that standard both in the dealings of
he government and of the people them
elves. The extra session of the fifty
ixth congress fulfilled the Republican
romises to restore that reasonable pro-
ection without which the industries of
he American people have always Ian
uished and tended toward bankruptcy.
he tariff law Of 1897 will be recognized
y historians as the most f~ar-reaching
nd benignant act of legislation appli-
able to an Industrial situation almost
hope which this generation has
zen. While it stands the national rev.
nues will be ample, and no American
landing idly upon the street corner will
e able to complain that his job has
cen taken from him by the competition
f aliens and strangers in other parts of
he world.
THE act of 1900, defining the standard
f value and making all the Gu .rency
nd coinage of the United States and all
of the government of the peo-
lie conformable to the standard of
'hich the gold dollar is the unit, Is even
lore important to the permanence of
lie national prosperity. For, without a {
.andard free from doubt and ambigui- |
: there can be no real and permanent c
rosperity. c
THE Republicans of the west, for
lese reasons, propose to stand exactly f
here they are, and make this fight for c
le solvency of their business and the a
.rmanence of their prosperity. They a
e doing zoe well under existing cir C
to submit to any radical b
anges in the principles of the nation r.
government"