Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
M'KINLEY AND HIS RECORD.

Inc president mas happy faculty OF
stating a case with moderation, but
with convincing force. His review Of
the last three and half years was a
model in this direction. 1t showed how
the pledges of 1896 have been redeem
ed how the gold standard was safe
guarded, how the promised tariff re-
vision was made, as the people ex-
pected when they returned the Repub-
licans to power, how prosperity has
been restored and the credit of the
country established at the highest
point in it's history, where it is able
to fund the debt at lower Interest
rate than any other country. In in
ternal affairs the administration has
discharged it's duties. 1t has main
tanned the honor of the country abroad,
and in the difficult crisis which grew
unforeseen out of the Spanish war has
faithfully guarded American interests.
AS Is always the case where events
force new policies, differences of opinion
arise, and opponents of any new step
at once foresee the downfall of the re-
public. But if prosperity, redeemed
pledges, bright prospects at home and
abroad, have any weight with voters,
there can be no question of Republican
success and the reelection of President
Mckinley to carry out the policy he so
ably expounds.
While the president was responding
to the committee from the national
convention at Canton, O., Governor
Roosevelt was receiving formal infor-
nation of his selection for the second
place on the ticket at Oyster Bay, N.
Y. His reply was brief, and in becom-
ing taste he left his chief to make the
significant utterance of the day. What
he did say, however, was timely and
true. This is more than party con-
test. 1t Is a contest against cheap
money and reputation, free riot and
anarchy, the packing of the supreme
court in the interest of wild Populist
schemes of government, just as it was
in 1896. 1t is also a contest against
entrusting the foreign affairs of this
nation to irresponsible fanatics who
complain because we have performed
our obligations of neutrality in South
Africa, who would play at diplomacy
as recklessly as with the currency, who
would shirk our obligations toward
other countries in our own possessions
and disgrace us before the world Gov
ernor Roosevelt has right to appeal
to all citizens ito stand shoulder to
shoulder, striving to perpetuate the
conditions under which we have reach
ed at home degree of prosperity
never before attained in the nations
history, and under which abroad it
1t has never before in the history of
the country been placed"
BRYAN STILL AT IT.
Meanwhile Bryan continues to talk
away to the Democrats, free silverites
and Populists who gather at Lincoln,
Neb. His speeches have fallen very
fiat.
Bryan says the country is not pros
porous except in spots. Here are some
facts which he can explain, perhaps.
The total gross earnings of railroads
were s23S.000,000 larger in the past
their money out of the industries of the
mass Of the people. Consequently the
people had $23S,000,000 more to spend
in the third Mckinley year than in the
third year of Cleveland
In the third year of the Cleveland
administration bank deposits stood at
1852, ,S5S. At the end of Mckinley S
irI
065. The people had s41S, ,161, ,207 more
to their credit after three years of Nc
Kinley than they had at the end of the
Cleveland administration. The increase
of bank deposits during President
Cleveland's term was only $4,000, 900.
The Wilson tariff was in force So
months, and the total deficit was $10S,-
100000. In 32 months the Dingley tar
iff produced a surplus of $4,000, ,000
At the same our foreign export trade
has mounted up by leaps and bounds,
the increase of the past year alone be-
ing $300,000,000 above the total for
the previous year.
SOME HOME FIGURES.
A Nebraska corn-fed steer is worth
S12 to SIG more than in 1896, and hogs
bring $3.50 head more. Sheep are
worth nearly double the 1896 price
and Wyoming wool has increased SO
per cent
Meanwhile American credit at home
and abroad stands higher than the
credit Of any other nation-a condi-
ton not SO happily true in 1896.
OF course the millennium is not here
and there Is still poverty and hardship
in the world. The Republican party
does not make the sun shine nor cause
the rains to fall. But times have grown
better, the people are better employed
and the products of toll bring better
prices.
If these good things do not indicate
prosperity-a prosperity that shames
the troublous Cleveland times-wil
Mr.. Bryan please tell us in what shape
we might hope the benefits of sound
principles and polices of government