Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-09-13
M'KTNLEYS LETTER.
He Accepts the Nomination for
President of the United States.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM APPROVED.
ReOpenIng of the Financial Question Re-
gretted-PhiIippine Question Reviewed
Purposes of the United states ia
China to he Carried Out


letter accepting the nomination OF
the republican national convention for
president of the United States. 1t is
addressed to Henry Cabot Lodge,
chairman of the notification commit
| tee. He says in part:
The nomination of the republican ma
tional convention of June IS, 1900, for
| the Office of president of the United
| States which the official representa-
tive of the convention you have conveyed
| to me, is accepted. have carefully ex-
| amined the platform adopted and give to
it my hearty approval. It upholds the
gold standard and indorses the leg1sla-
ton of the present congress by which
that standard has peen effectively
strengthened. The stability of our ma
tional currency is therefore secure as
long as those who adhere to this plat
form are kept in control of the govern
ment. In the first battle, that of 1885,
the friends of the gold standard and OF
sound currency were triumphant and the
country is enjoying the fruits of that
victory. Our antagonists, however, are
not satisfied. They compel us to sec
ond battle upon the same lines on which
the first was fought and won. While
regretting the reopening of this question,
which can only disturb the present salts
factory financial condition of the govern
ment and visit uncertainty upon our
great business enterprises, we accept the
forces to join in winning another and we
hope permanent triumph for honest
financial system which will continue in
vio1able the public faith.
The republican party remains faithful
to it's principle of a tariff which sup
plies sufficient revenues for the govern
ment and adequate protection to our en-
terprises and producers; and of reciproc
ity which opens foreign markets to the
fruits of American labor, and furnishes
new channels through which to market
the surplus of American farms. The
time-honored principles of protection and
reciprocity were the first pledges of
republican victory to be written into
public law.
The present congress has given to Alas
ka a territorial government for which it
had waited more than a quarter of a
century; has established a representa-
tive government in Hawaii; has enacted
bills for the most liberal treatment of
the pensioners and their widows; has re-
vived the free homestead policy. In it's
great financial law it provided for the
eSta Enlistment of banks of issue with a
capital of $4,000 for the benefit of viii
lagos and rural communities, and bring
| ing the opportunity for profitable bust
ness in banking within the reach of mod
crate capital. Many are already avail
ing themselves of this privilege.
Instead of diminishing, was pre-
dicted four years ago, the volume of our
currency is greater per capita than it
has ever been. 1t was $21.10 in 1885, 1t
| had increased to $3.50 on July l. 1900
and s26.S5 on September 1. 1900. Our total
| money on July 1, 1896, was 81, SOC, 434, 966 !;
on July l, 1900, it 50, O62, 425 400; and
81, 096, 6S3,042 on September 1, 1900
Our industrial and agricultural condi-
tions are more promising than they have
been for many years; probably more so
| than they have ever been. Prosperity
| abounds everywhere throughout the re-
| public. I rejoice that the southern as
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| a full share of these improved national
| conditions and that all are contributing
so largely to our industrial development.
| Our foreign trade shows a satisfactory
| and increasing growth. The amount of
our exports for the year 1900 over those
| of the exceptionally prosperous year of
| 1899 was about half a million dollars for
| every day of the year, and these sums
have gone into the homes and enterprises
| of the people. There has been an in
| crease of over $50 100000 in the exports of
| manufactures and in the products of the
| mines of over $4,000, 600.
In the unfortunate contest between
| Great Britain and the Boer states of
South Africa, the United States has
maintained an attitude of neutrality in
accordance with it's well known tradi-
tional policy. 1t did not hesitate, how
ever when requested by the South Afri-
can republics to exercise its good offices
for a cessation of hostilities. 1t is
to be observed that while the South At
rican republics made like request of other
powers, the United States is the only one
which complied The British government
declined to accept the Intervention of any
power.
A subject of immediate Importance to
our country is the completion of a great
Atlantic and Pacific. The construction OF
a maritime canal is now more than ever
indispensable to that intimate and ready
communication between our eastern and
western seaports demanded by the an
neXation of the Hawaiian islands and the
expansion of our influence and trade in
the Pacific Our national policy more
tmperatiVely than ever calls for its COM
pletion and control by this government
Id 1t is believed that the next session
of congress, after receiving the full re
port of the commission appointed under
the act approved March 5, 1899, will make
provisions for the sure accomplishment
of this great work.
Combinations of capital which contro
the market in commodities necessary tt
the general use of the people, by sup
pressing natural and ordinary competi
ton. thus enhancing prices, to the gen
eral consumer are obnoxious to the com
mon law and the public welfare. They
are dangerous conspiracies against the
public good and should be made the sub
ject of prohibitory or penal legislation
Publicity will be a helpful influence Il
check this evil. Uniformity of legisla
ton in the several states should be Sc
cured. Discrimination between what i.
Injurious and what is useful and neces
sary in business operations is essential tt
the wise and effective treatment of thi:
subject.
The American people are profoundly
grateful to the soldiers, sailors and
marines who have in every time of con
fict fought their country's battles anC
defended its honor. The survivors ant
the widows and orphans of those wht
have fallen are justly entitled to re
ceive the generous and considerate care
of the nation. Few are now left of those
who fought in the Mexican war, and
while many of the veterans of the civi
war are still spared to US, their mum
hers are "a mildly diminishing and 40.