Arizona republican., 1900-10-02
Notes of the Campaign

'DEAR BOY LETTERS.-NIy Dear Boy: So old Skinner says that there will be in the Philippines for twenty years yet that will the time when will be conscrped in every township for service in China, and that bound to have financial crash next spring. and then the poor people will the hardest times they We'll guess the old is typi- cal democrat He certainly has all the symptoms. Per hap had better tell you what the symptoms There certain constitutional characteristics which distinguish the democratic party and opposite characteristics which distinguish the republican party. When tell you what they are, you will see why want you to be republican, l. The democrats pessimstc. They always look the dark side. They perpetualy expect evil ahead and nothing but the evil in the things that now You pick up average democratic platform and you find it full of phrases like the following We protest Eve denounce, 'we disapprove,' 'we view with alarm' One of the strongest reasons against the party Is that they always striving to make the people dcOntented with their lot and fill them with anxious forebodngs for the future Right in the middle of abundance and cheer and victory, they insist that all going ito the bow-wows. Now 1t Is the nature of republicans to be optimistic. The publican party the bright side. Thankful for the blessings of the past they look forward with confidence to the future They expect good things and the expectation helps bring good things pass They rejoice in the great and prosperity of highly favored and They look upon schools and churches farms and factories, army and navy. and their platforms contain phrases like these: "Thankful for the past rejoice" congratulate, Eve point with pride They bring to the people song of hope and cheer and content. Be publican, my boy, and keep sweet Don't let yourself get soured and pessimistc ?. The democratic party seems unable to learn from experience One why fit in easily into the republican party because learn
 
 read about free trade in book and convinced It was very nice book and the free trade theory presented in very nice way. still insist that free trade is nice thing in book so long as you keep it in the book but when you take of the book and apply 1t to wool and and pig ircn and things 1t doesn't work worth cent The experience of this country from 1893 to 1S9f made protectOnst But democratic friends have failed to learn the lesson In their platform this year they still denounce protective tariff law. If there anything positively settled by the experience of naon it is that the best standard for nations currency and for the worlds currency gold. For centuries the nations bunglcd along endeavoring to keep up stand ards silver and gold with the result that the comparative values of the two metals constantly changing and the cheaper driving the other of circulation making currency values unceran exchange troublesome and commerce difficult Through experience the nations after another learned that the honest and the best way to have standard and that standard the best money-gold-wh hundred cents worth of gold in the dollar. We have learned that since standard dollar is of value it should contain the value that rep resentS. All civilized people in the world have learned this except the popuistc-democratc party. They out in this year of Lord 1900 and propose roll back the wheels of progress and return to the financial of barbarism. Now the republican party does learn by perence It keeps up with the procession When thing has bcen tried and found wanting the republican party drops it. When thing has been proved to be good by experience, the republican party sticks to it. My boy the republican party is not perfect by long ways It has in it who not good. Any great party must have some such in world like this It may sometimes make mistakes. But the broad political principles of the party true and right and Is the party that learns from experience. You be republican and you will not be sorry. YOUR FATHER