Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-06-28

But there We're still other questions in
1896. We had already thwarted the eff
throw the Hawaiian islands back to their
dethroned queen and to give England a
foothold for her cables ,t1 IN the their group up we
waiian question We have done SO. The
traditional American policy has been car
ried out. The flag of the Union floats to-
We promised to deal with the Cuban
question Again comes the reply, We
island is over. Cuba is free. But this
great work brought with it events and is
sues which no man had foreseen, for
which no party creed had provided
policy.
Was ever a war more justly entered up
on, more quickly fought, more fully won,
more thorough In it's results? Cuba is
free. Spain has been driven from the
western hemisphere. Fresh glory has
1t was the work of the American people,
but the republican party was their in
strument.
of Alexander 1t cuts the knots. 1t is a
great solvent and brings many results not
to be foreseen. The world forces un-
chained in war perform in hours the
work of years of quiet.
So much for the past. We are proud of
It, The living present is ours, the pres
ent of prosperity and activity in busi-
ness, of good wages and quick payments,
of labor employed and capital invested, of
sunshine in the market place and the
AN''i''b
and on the farm. 1t is with this that we
have replaced the depression, the doubts,
the dull business, Inc low wages, the idle
labor, the frightened capital, the dark
clouds which overhung industry and ag-
riculture in 1896, This is what we would
preserve, so far as sound governmer
and wise legislation do it. This is
what we brought to the country four
years ago. This is what we offer now.
Again we promise that the protective
system shall be maintained and that our
great industrial interests shall go on their
way unshaken by the dire fear of tariff
agitation and of changing duties. Again
we declare that we will guard the ma
tional credit, uphold a sound currency
based on gold and keep the wages of the
workingman and the enterprise of the
man of business free from that most
deadly of all evils, a fiuctuatng standard
of value. The deficit which made this
great country in a time of profound
peace a borrower of money to meet the
current expenditures has been replaced
by abundant revenue, bringing surplus,
due alike to prosperity and to wise legis-
lation, so ample that can now safely
promise a large reduction of taxation
without imperiling our credit or risking
a resort to loans.
We are prepared to take steps to re-
vive and build up our merchant marine
and thus put into American pockets the
money paid for carrying American
freights. Out of the abundant resources
which financial legislation has
brought us we will build the isthmian
canal and lay the cables which will help
to turn the current of eastern trade to the
| all nations and mean to remain so, while
we promise to insure our peace and safn-
ty by maintaining the Monroe doctrine
by ample coast defenses, and by building
up a navy which no one challenge
with impunity.
The new problems brought by the war
we face with confidence in ourselves. and
a still deeper confidence in the American
people, who will deal justly and rightly
with the islands which have come into
| their charge. The outcry against our
new possessions is as empty the cant
about ''militarism'' and ''imperiasm' is
a moment those who are loudest In
shrieking that the American people are
about to enter upon a career of oppres-
sion and that the republic is in danger.
Have they been in the past the guardians
of freedom? Is safety for liberty now to
be found most surely in the party which
was the defender of domestic slavery? Is
true freedom to be secured by the as
cendancy of the party which beneath our
very eyes seeks to establish through in
famous laws the despotic rule of small
and INSCRIPTIONS band of uSurperS in
Kentucky, who trample there not upon
the rights of the black men only, but of
the whites, and which seeks to extend
the same system to North Carolina and
Missouri? Has it come suddenly to pass
that the democratic party which to-day
aims whenever 1t acquires power to con-
| tinue in office by crushing out honest cleo
tionS and popular ruie-has it, indeed,
come to pass, | say, that that party is the
chosen protector of liberty? If fl We're
so the outlook would be black indeed
No! The party of Lincoln may best be
trusted now, as in the past to be true.