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Mhai They Claim.

"blasphsmy IN politics" the Chicago
Chronicle comes very near perpetTating
that offense. Noting the fact that an
American firm is about 10 ship i.000 tons
Of steel rails TO New Zealand. the chron-
icle declares that Republican politicians
claim that this incident is due TO Messrs.
Mckinley and Roosevelt, whose portraits
they have posted on the train bearing the
cargo TO tidewater.'
What those politicians claim is not that
Mckinley and Roosevelt have brought
about the conditions which have made
that shipment possible, but that such
conditions are the result Of Repub-
lican policies. The Chronicle asserts that
the shipment Is due TO causes for which
the country has to thank the Creator,
who planted In our soil iron better than
now elsewhere In the world. coal cheaper
and more abundant. and who gave TO men
brains with which IN various parts OF the
globe 10 improve upon steel processes and
modes Of transportation. All this, the
Chronicle says, would have been had Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt not been born. And
having delivered those opinions, the
Chronicle completes its rebuke TO bias
phemy in politics" in these terms:
There is a little eatsehism which reads in the
sundsy-sohooIs;
90 Who made your
God
% Why did God make you?'
'' That / might know. love. and serve Him in
this world and be happy with Him forever in the
neat
Before the campaign is over. Ee may expect 10
ans this campaign document circulated by the Re-
publican National Committee among the young
Dental electors:
- Who made your
" William Mckinley
Who Is William MeKinIeyr
- Creator Of all things in the heavens above the
earth beneath. and the waters under the earth
q" Why did William Mckinley make your
&" That / nigh, know. love- and serve the Re-
publican party In this world and vote for Mckinley
and Roosevelt next November
Great as Is the Indebtedness of this ma
ton 10 the Creator for magnificent and
incompatible natural resources. there is
no doubt that our splendid progress in the
utilization of those gifts has been largely
due to those policies for which Mckinley
and Roosevelt. as tie candidates of the
Republican party. stand. Our exports of
stee! rails are but one incident Of pros
perity that has astonished the world. OF
course IL would have been impossible in
the absence OF natural resources. OF
course it would have been impossible,
even in full possession of natures bOun-
teous gifts, under a policy that would
have surrendered our home market 70
foreign enterprise and capital
The free traders and tariff reformers"
we're confident that under high protection
we could never get a footing in the
worlds markets. They regarded the Ding
ley tariff as the death-knell of the hope OF
exporting manufactures. One would sup
pose that the trade statistics of the past
three years would admonlsh those deluded
victims of exploded sophistrles that ST.
lence is polite for those who stand con-
demned. II is undeniable that protection
is abused. II is fact that such abuses
call for remedial action. But never since
time began has there been a more signal
vindieation OF any national policy than
events have given 10 the American doc
trine OF protection.
And there is another fact which ought 10
admonish the Chicago Chronicle of the
excellence OF silence under certain condi-
tons. That paper is supporting a Presi-
dental candidate whose arguments, pre-
dictions, exhortations, and appeals Of four
years ago have been utterly annihilated-
a candidate Who in spite OF such annihi-
lation. stands. and declares that his party
stands, Just where II stood in 1896. All the
prosperity that has come to this country
may not be due TO the Republican party,
but Il has ali come in face OF Mr.. Bryan's
contention that without free coinage,
Lothing but disaster could be expected