The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-17
DISCUSSEDBY ROOSEVELT
Campaign Issues Gene Over in His
Letter of Acceptance.
He Declares Mr.. McKinIcy's Re-elec-
for the Administration - Trust
Problem Serious 0ne-Repubii-
can Colonial Policy Defended.
oyster Bay. N, Y. Sept. Is, 1900.

President of the United States, rendered
me by the Republican National Conven-
tion, with a very deep sense of the honor
conferred upon me and with an infinitely
deeper sense of the vital Importance ia
the whole country of securing the re-
election of President Mckinley
The nations welfare is at stake. We
must continue the work which has been
so well begun during the present Admins
tration. We must show in fashion inca
pable of being misunderstood that the
American people, at the beginning of the
twentieth century, face their duties in
calm and serious spirit; that they have
no intention of permitting folly or law
1essness to mar the extraordinary mate
rial well-being which they have attained
at home, nor yet of permitting their flag
to be dishonored abroad.
feel that this contest is by no means
one merely between Republicans and
Democrats. We have right to appeal to
all good citizens who are far-sighted
enough to see what the honor and the
interest of the nation demand. To put
into practice the principles embodied in
the Kansas City platform would mean
grave disaster to the nation; for that
platform stands for reaction and disor-
der; for an upsetting of our financial
system which would mean not only great
suffering but the abandonment OF the ma
tons good faith; and for policy abroad
which would imply the dishonor of the
flag and an unworthy surrender of our
national rights. Its success would mean
unspeakable humiliation to men proud of
their country, jealous of their country's
good name. and DESTROYS of securing the
welfare of their fellow citizens There
fore we have right to appeal to all good
men. North and South East and West
whatever their politics may have been in
the past, to stand with us because we
stand for the prosperity of the country
snd for the renown of the American flag.
Praise for the Administration.
The most important of all problems is,
of course. that of securing good govern
ment and moral and material well-being
within our own borders. Great though the
need is that the nation should do its work
well abroad, even this comes second to
the thorough performance of duty at
heme. Under the Administration OF Presi-
dent Mckinley this country has been
blessed with a degree of prosperity abso-
luteiy unparalleled. even in its previous
C.
true that no legislation and no Admins
tration can bring success to those who are
not stout of heart cool of head, and ready
of hand. yet it is no less true that the
individual capacity of each man to get
good results for himself can be absolutely
destroyed by bad legislation or bad adj
ministraticn. while under the reverse con-
ditioRs the power Of the individual to do
good work is assured and stimulated.
&c -H.f haa ,f,a
Administration of President Mckinley
Thanks TO his actions and to the wise
legislation OF Congress on the tariff and
finance. the conditions of our Industrial
life have been rendered more favorable
than ever before. and they have been
taken advantage of to the full by Amer
lean thrift, industry. and enterprise. Order
has been observed. the courts upheld. and
the fullest liberty secured to all citizens.
The merchant and manufacturer but
above all the farmer and the wage-work-
er. have profted by this state of things.
Fundamentally and primarily, the pres
ent contest is contest for the contin-
uance of the conditions which have told
in favor of our material welfare and of
our civil and political integrity. If this
nation is to retain either its well-heing
or its self-respect. it cannot afford to
plunge into financial and economic chaos;
IL cannot afford to endorse governmental
theories which would unsettle the stand
ard of national honesty and destroy the
integrity of our system of justice.
Free Coinage of silver.
The policy OF the free coinage OF silver
at ratio of sixteen to one is a policy
fraught with destruction "a every home
in the land. 1t means untold misery to
the head of every household, and above
all, to the women and children of every
home When our opponents champion
free silver az sixteen to one. they are
either insiDcere or sincere in their atti-
tude II insineere in their championship,
they. of course. forfeit all right to belief
or support on any ground. If sincere,
then they are a menace 10 the welfare of
the country. Whether they shout their
sinister purpose. or merely whisper it,
makes but little difference, save as 1t re-
fleets their oWn honesty.
No issue c; 4 be paramount TO the issue
they thus make, for the paramoantcy OF
such an issue is to be determined not by
the dictgm of any man or body of men, but
by the fact that II vitality affects the we'll
being Of every home in the land The
financial question ig always Of such far
reaching and tremendous Importance to the
ed in good faith unless this tremendous
importance IS not merely conceded but in
sisted on. Men who are not willing to
make such an issue paramount have no
possible justification for raising it at all
for under such circumstances their act can
not under any conceivable circumstances
do aaght but grave harm.
The Trust Problem.
One of the serious problems with which
we are confronted under the conditions of
our modern industrial civilization is that
presented by the great business combina.
tons which are generally known under
the name of trusts
The problem is an exceedingly difficult
one and the difficulty IS immensely ag-
gravated both by honest but wrong headed
attacks on our whole industrial system 81
the effort to remove some OF the evils /
with ii. and by the mischieyous
advice OF men who either think erookedly /
or who advance remedies knowing them
TO be ineffective but deefnlng that they
may. by darkening counsel. achieve for
themselves a spurious reputation for wis
dom
The first thing TO do is TO find cut the |
facts; and for this purpose publicity as
20 capitalization, profits, and all else of |
Importance to the public, is the most
useful measure The mere fact of this !
publicity would in itself remedy certain |