Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31
Why it Deserves Support.

than any other country on earth.
1t has kept its platform pledges, and
never attempted to gain power by false
pretenses.
1t never advocated policy that
would tarnish the good name of the
G untry.
1t has kept entire and inviolate the
honor of the flag.
1t has always stood for the protec-
tion of American industries.
It has always opposed free trade.
1t has always been debt-paying,
not debtcreating party.
1t benefits all classes. labor, farmer,
producer and transporter.
1t prefers to encourage the manu-
facture OF new products in the United
States rather than import them from
al road.
It looks upon the whole world as its
legitimate market.
1t recognizes no sectional lines, but
benefits all parts of the country, North
ST nth, East and West.
1T does not believe i'm a 50-cent dollar
1t does not believe in fomenting
class hatred.
| 1t does not want American working
men TO live on the low wages paid in
Europe.
it believes that free labor is not as
we'll paid as protected labor.
| 1t does not believe in war, but when
war must be fought it makes it short,
sharp and decisive.
1t believes in subordinating PARTISAN
ship to petriotism.
1t believes in the encouragement of
American commerce.
1t believes that international treaties
have the force of law.
1t is opposed to the alienation of any
part of the American territory.
1t believed i'm the annexation of
Hawaii in spite of Democratic opposi-
ton.
IT believes in discussing real issues
wi 'hout ere ating fictitious ones.
1t believes in expansion rather than
in the diminution of territory.
1t prefers prosperity to panic.
1t believes that the best money In
the world is none too good for America.
1t has passed every antitrust law
that has ever been enacted by federal
legislation.
1t honors the army which with
honor upholds the flag.
1t is the missionary, not the miser,
of liberty.
1t believes that the farm and
foundries of the country need the
boundless markets of the Orient.
1t prefers to lend money to other
nations rather than borrow from them.
1t does not shirk duty because timid
souls believe the task to be hard.
1t never declared that any war in
which the country was engaged was a
failure.
1t does not believe i'm furling the
flag in the presence of the enemy.
1t has placed the currency system of
the country upon stable basis.
1t has enacted and put in operation a
just and equitable tariff law, which en-
ables home manufacturers to control
the home markets, and to compete in
the markets of the world.
1t has restored prosperity, disbanded
the armies of the unemployed, abolish
ed the. soup house and set the wheels
of industry in motion as they never
were before.
1t has increased the home demand
for the products of the farm.
1t has enabled the prudent and the
provident to save more of their earn
ings.
1t has rescued nearly ten million
people from the rule of Spain.
1t has secured the control of the Pa
cific which will be the theatre of the
worlds greatest commercial activity in
the coming century.
1t has endeavored to extend the
foreign demand for the products of
American workshops, farms, forests
and mines.
1t is the only party that has definite
principles and beliefs.
1t is the party of progress, of hope
and of aspiration.
1t is the party of optimism, while
every plank of the Democratic plat
form is fastened in position with pes
simistic nails.
1t is the only party that has conf
dence in itself, trust in the people,
faith in the future.