Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-07-10
Campaign Notes.

President Mckinley has given tne
keynotes for the Republican campaign.
The occasion was his official notifca-
ton of denomination. 1t is understood
that the President is not going to make
speeches as he did four years ago. The
burden of government is too heavy TO
permit him to receive several delega-
tions q day and talk to them Four
years ago he was candidate without
official responsibility, now he is at the
head Of great Nation with very grave
matters demanding attention. He can
not neglect his duties to make address
es. His speech, therefore to the Mott
fcation Committee may be accepted as
his main deliyerance.
1t was not long speech, but it was
right to the point. The President gave
a history of the work accomplished
since the fourth day of March, 1897.
He told of the prosperity that had come
TO us as q Nation, how the mills had
been opened and how the country had
settled down to a monetary standard.
Then he spoke of our duties to the is
lands that had come under our control.
He wasted no words and every sentence
was one of patriotism.
Let us take from that speech some of
the striking sentences, for each one is
terse and each one goes to the very VI
tails Of the campaign issues. Here are
some of these pointed paragraphs;
The American people hold the fnan-
ciaf honor of our government as sacred
as our flag
Our industrial supremacy, our produc-
tive capacity, our business and CONNER
cial prosperity, our labor and its
rewards, our national credit and cur
rency, our proud financial honor, and
our splendid free citizenship, the birth
right of every American, are all involv-
ed in the pending compaign.
The national credit, which has thus
far fortu nately resisted every assault
upon it, must and will be upheld and
strengthened.
The gold standard has been reaflrm-
ed and strengthened. The endless
chain has been broken, and the drain
upon our gold reserve no longer frets
u.s.
The credit of the country has been
-aa7Hnced TO the highest place among all
nations
We have lower interest and higher
wages, more money and fewer mort
cages.
The worlds markets have been
opened to American products.
We have passed from bond-issuing
to q bond-paying nation, from nation
of borrowers to a nation of lenders.
The public faith has been upheld;
public order has been maintained. We
have prosperity at home and prestige
abroad
The menace of 16 to still hangs over
us with all its dire consequences to
credit and confidence to business and
industry.
The people must once more unite and
overcome the advocates of reputation,
and must not relax their energy until
the battle for public honor and honest
money shall again triumph.
Shall we go back to tariff which
brings deficiency in our revenues and
destruction to our industrial enterprises?
A just war has been waged for
humanity and with it have come new
problems and responsibilities.
The Philippines are ours and Ameri-
can authority must be supreme through
out the archipelago. There will be
amnesty, broad and liberal, but no
abatement of our rights, no abandon
ment of our duty
We will fulfill in the Philippines the
obligations imposed by the triumphs of
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international law. by the Nations sense
rights, interests and conditions OF the
Philippine people themselves.
The obstructionists are here, not
elsewhere They may postpone, but
they cannot defeat the realization of the
high purpose of the Nation to restore
order to the islands and to establish
just and generous government, in which
the inhabitants shall have the largest
participation of which they are capable
We reassert the early principle of the
Republican party, sustained by
unbroken judicial precedents, that the
representatives of the people in Congress
assembled have full legislative power
over territory belonging to the Uuited
States, subject to the fundamental
safeguards ofliberty, justice and person
al rights.
My best efforts shall be given to the
immediate purpose of protecting the
lives of our citizens who are in peril,
with the ultimate object of the peace
and welfare Of ChinaSthe safeguarding
of all our treaty rights, and the main
tenance of those principles Of impartial
intercourse to which the civilized world
in uladped