New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-08
WHAT MR. BURROWS SAYS.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ENTITLED TO
THE GRATITUDE OF THE PEOPLE.

Senator Burrows, who is chairman of the Com
mittee on Revision of the Laws, and an infiuen-
tial member of the Committee Finance and
several other leading committees, writes fol-
lows:
Rarely if ever. has an administration. during
faithful to it's declaration of principles and pre-
sented to the people the result of so many
pledges redeemed a. the administration of Will
lam Mckinley
Although nine months of the Presidential
term still remain yet the party pledges made
in 1896 have been substantially all redeemed.
First and foremost among these promises was
that the policy of Protection to American in
dustrias and American workmen should be
promptly restored and that unemployed work
men should be called back to profitable en-
ployment; and no sooner had William Mckinley
been inaugurated than he summoned the two
houses Of Congress in extraordinary session
with a view of redeeming this promise and
called upon that Congress for such legislation
as would replenish the exhausted Treasury and
rehabilitate our dismantled industries. In less
than ninety days thereafter the last vestige Of
free trade legislation was wiped from the statute
books, the country placed upon sound pro-
tective basis, the result of which has been the
restoration of prosperity throughout the coun-
try and increased trade at home and abroad.
This policy has been steadily maintained. and
the fruits Of il are being gathered by the Amer
lean people.
ON A SOUND FINANCIAL BASIS.
Another promise of equal if not greater sig
nificance was to place the country upon sound
financial basis. For years we had been drifting
upon the uncertain of deprecated currency,
and the Republican party, with courage and
fidelity, has placed upon the statute books Of the
United States q law firmly establishing the gold
standard and insuring a parity OF all currency,
whether Of paper coin, with this established
standard. 1t is placed beyond the power of any
Secretary of the Treasury to overturn this
standard. and it be destroyed
cept by the concurrent action of the two houses
of Congress and the Executive. The redemption
of these two promises alone has restored pros
perity and public confidence. and is sufficient
to entitle the Republican party to the gratitude
of the American people.
GREAT PROBLEMS SOLVED.
The other minor promises of the party have
either been redeemed are in process of re-
demption. A bin for the construction of the
Nicaragua Canal has already passed the House.
and is awaiting the action of the Senate; a
measure for the restoration Of the merchant
marine has been favorably reported by COM
mittees of both houses, and ii is on the calendar
awaiting the reassembling of Congress; our
Navy has been augmented TO the requirements
of commerce and defence: the Monroe Doctrine
has been steadily maintained and. in a word
every promise made by the Republican party in
1896 has been redeemed or is in process of re
demption.
In addition to this a war Nth Spain was
conducted to speedy and successful conclu-
SIGN, the fruitage Of which the overthrow
OF Spanish dominion in the Western Hemisphere
and the establishment of our power In the
Orient, which in the future will greatly
advantage our trade in the Pacific. Hawaii has
become part Of the United States to which
we'll as Alaska and Porto Rico we have given
a form of civil government and laid the founda-
ton for peace order and prosperity in these out
lying possessions.
/ think it be truthfully said that no partv
III so short 4 time ever solved so many problems
or National concern, and brought to the people
a greater measure Of peace, prosperity and hap
piness, than the Republican party.