The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-05-25

under that name who remember what was
the one great issue on which the party made
Its record for many years-free trade-or
indeed any democrat, to whom anything
republican is necessarily bad, will consent
to see In the American protective policy
any part of the great cause OF this mighty
movement. But more than that Is true.
So great has been the advance, so unprec-
edented In all history, that hundreds and
thousands Of republicans themselves have
no proper appreciation of the part the
American protective laws have had In 1t.
The republican nation building policies
have been so uniformly the cause of
this couutry's prosperity that 1t has come to
country should be prosperous anyway and
even republicans sometimes almost doubt
their own reason and wonder II the asser
tiOns of the democrats do not after all con-
tain some truth, and that they are unde-
serving of the credit they have received for
the progress of the country. The expert
ences of eight and nine and evenfour years
ago taught them and the people at large to
respect republican policies more than ever
before. That respect has not died out and
never will while the memory Of the Ameri-
can worker is long enough to remember the
days of the Cleveland soup houses. In
spite of the vividpess of this memory, how
ever, 1t will be q good plan to consider
briefly what Is assigned by foreigners, who
are hard hit and at the same time almost
amazed at our progress. as the reason for
the advanceIpf our foreign trade and grow
ing prosperity.
The opinion of German merchants comes
In quite to the point at the present time,
their deductions being set forth In report
just published by the bureau of foreign
commerce, of the state department the
work of Consul-General Mason, of Berlin.
Mr.. Mason puts the whole thing In nut
shell when he says that Germany has been
paralyzed at the enormous upward bound
of foreign trade of the United States and
that German merchants have come to the
conclusion that this prosperity is bue
entirely to the United States tariff laws.
To prove conclusively that this belief is
genuine one they 90 further and not only
announce their belief that the same laws
would do the same for Germany in building
up her foreign commerce, but insist on
general and heavy increase of duties along
lines sim liar to those which the United
States has followed. They are thus not
only unanimous in their affirmation that 1t |
Is to the republican policy of protection
alone that the enormous growth of our for |
eign trade is due, but they make their |
dOubly emphatic by insisting
hat the same course shall be adopted by |
heir own reichstag for their own good
Let the republicans remember therefore
hat they do not have to depend on what
heir own senses or what their party papers |
alone tell them, and If any doubts are set
up in their minds by the false assertions of
democratic takers, they need only to recall |
he spectacle of the profound thinking, seri- |
)us, and deliberate acting German nation |
asserting Its belief that It is the republican |
protective policy alone that has been the |
cause OF the enormous growth In the for |
sign trade in the United States, and demand
ng that it be assisted by similar laws. The
sight should convince the most modest re- |
publican that he has abundant reason for |
feeling proud of the work which his party |
has done, and should encourage him to
boldly assert what is openly admitted by |
foreigners, that 1t is the policy |
)f his party which has caused the wonder |
'ul prosperity which we are now enjoying |
f. G. Valentine will move his barber |
shop to the basement of the opera house |
next Monday.
Judge Daboll, of st. Johns, who was
recently appointed special agent in the
,ural free delivery service, has been as
signed to work in Indiana for the present |
Ralph 5. Langley CT Saginaw, has
passed the final examination and been ad- |
nitted as cadet at the U. s. naval |
academy at Annapolis. He was originally |
named as alternate at the competitive ex-
held last year.
Congressman Fordney has introduced a
bill in the House to reimburse Capt. w. E. !
Cummins, of CornDna, to the extent of
81 $50 with interest since 1858, the amount |
which he expended under orders of the war |
department in purchasing equipment for
company which he had enlisted for the |
q my in the civil war.
The Ann ArbOr Ry. will put on its Sun |
lay train out of Toledo next Sunday but |
instead of running 1t to Hamburg, is plan
hing 10 run it thru to Owosso 1t will ar
i've about II a. m. and leave on its return |
1t $50 p. m. 1t should prove to be pop
I ar train and will accommodate a large num- |
Der of patrons along the line who might |
not be able otherwise to spend day at |
nome.
The fourth number of State Affairs has
reached the Owosso TIMES and to say
hat the future numbers are awaited with |
no small degree of expectancy is putting |
t mildly. The paper is published by
number of DetrOlts brightest newspaper |