Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-09-13

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President Mckinley accepting the NUM-
nation of the Republican conVfIItfSh
for the office of president OF the 49,
States was made public last light. Inc
letter contains about $4,000 woras. IL
president expresses his hearty approval
of the platform and goes eXhaustlNeiS
into the issues of the campaign. foi-
loving are some of the points mace oy
Mr.. Mckinley:
For labor, a short day is better than
a short dollar.
Prosperity abounds
throughout the republic.
Our foreign trade shows a satisiac-
tory and increasing growth.
Empire has been expelled from Porto
Rico and the Philippines by American
freemen.
Freedom is the rock upon which the
Republican party was builded n now
rests.
A long step has been taken in the ful-
illment of the sacred guarantees to the
people of Cuba.
The ordinary receipts of the govern
ment for the fiscal year 1900 were 49,
527. 060 in excess of it's expenditures.
Instead Of diminishing, as was pre-
dicted four years ago., the volume Oh
our currency is greater per capita than
1t has ever been.
There has been no time since the de-
struction OF the enemy's. fleet when we
could or should have left the Philippine
archipelago.
The country has been fully advised of
the purposes Of the nited States in
China and they will be faithfully adj
hered to as already defined.
Any change in the present industrial
or financial policy of the government
would be disastrous TO their (the la
borers) highest interests.
Whichever party is successful 1t will
be bound in conscience to carry into
administration and legislation it's sew
eral declarations and doctrines.
We accept the issue and again invite
the sound none forces to join in win
ming another, and, we hope, a perma-
lent triumph for an honest financial
system.
Unless something unforeseen occurs
to reduce our or increase Jul
expenditures, the congress at its next
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materially.
In the first battle, that of 1896, the
friends of the gold standard and of
sound money currency were triumph
ant, and the country is enjoying the
fruits of that victory.
1t (the Republican PLATFORM upholds
the gold standard and Endorses the leg
islation of the present congress, by
which tina standard has been effective
ly strengthened.
1t is our purpose to establish in the
Philippines a government suitable to
the wants and conditions of the inhab-
itants and to prepare the mfor self
government when they are ready for it.
1t is to be observed that while the
South African republics made like re-
quest flor good offices for a cessation of
hostilities) of other powers, the United
States was the only one which COM
piled.
The rates of interest are lower than
they ever have been in this country.
while those things which are produced
on the farm and in the workshop, and
the labor producing them, have adj
yanced in value.
of capital which con.
troll the market in commodities neces-
sary to the general use of the people,
by suppressing natural and ordinary
competition, are obnoxious to the COM
mon law and the public welfare.
The power of the government has
been used for the liberty. the peace and
the prosperity of the Philippine people.
and force has been employed onIy
against force which stood in the way
of the realization of those ends.
1t is not possible that these parties
the Democratic and it's allies) would
treat the doctrine of 1s to 1. the imme-
date realization of which is con-
void an imperative in the event that
they should be clothed with power.
VIII the American people, through
indifference or fancied security, hazard
the overthrow of the wise financial leg
islation of the past year and revive he
danger of the silver standard. with al,
of the inevitable evils Of shattered con-
fidence and general disaster which lust
ly alarmed and aroused them in 1896?