Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-18
HEARS HIS COUNTRY'S CALL.
President Mckinley Omcially Notified Of
His Nomination.

alton by the Republican party for the
highest office in the gift of the republic.
He responded as follows:
Have those to whom was conflded the
direction of the government kept their
pledgesY The record is made up. The
people are not unfamiliar with what has
been accomplished. The gold standard
has been reaffirmed and strengthened,
The endless chain has been broken and
the drain upon our gold reserve no longer
frets US. The credit of the country has
been advanced to the highest place among
A tariff which protects American labor
and industry and provides ample reve-
nues has been written in public law. The
worlds markets have been opened to
American products, which go now where
have prosperity at home and prestige
abroad.
Threat of 1890 Renewed.
Unfortunately, the threat Of 1895 has
just been renewed by the allied parties
without abatement or modification. The
gold bill has been denounced and its re-
peal demanded. The menace of 16 to l,
therefore, still hangs over us with all its
dire consequences to credit and conf
dence, to business and industry. The
enemies Of sound currency are rallying
their scattered forces. The people must
once more unite and overcome the advo-
Gates of population and must not relax
their energy until the battle for public
honor and honest money shall again tri-
umph.f
Not satisfied with assaulting the cur
rency and credit If the government, our
political adversaries condemn the tariff
law enacted at the extra session of con-
gress in 1897, known as the Dingley act,
passed in obedience to the will of the peo-
pie at the election of the previous Novem-
Der; law which at once stimulated our
industries, opened the idle factories and
mines and gave to the laborer and to the
farmer fair returns for their toll and in
vestment. Shall we 60 back to q tariff
which brings deficiency in our revenues
and destruction to our industrial enter
prisess
Things Not on tho Bill.
Some things have happened which were
not promised, nor even foreseen, and our
purposes in relation to them must not be
left in doubt. A just war has bcen waged
for humanity and with it have come new
problems and responsibilities. Spain has
been elected from the western hemisphere
and our flag floats over its former terri
tory. Cuba has been liberated and our
guarantees to it's people WIN be sacredly
executed. A benefcent government has
been provided for Porto Rico. The Philip
pines are ours and American authority
must be supreme throughout the arohi-
pelago. There will he amnesty broad and
liberal, but no abatement of our rights,
no abandonment Of our duty.
There must be no scuttle policy. We
will fulfill in the Philippines the obliga-
tions imposed by the triumphs Of our
arms and by the treaty of peace, by inter
national law, by the nations sense Of
honor, and, more than ALL by the rights,
interests and conditions of the Philippine
peoples themselves. No outside interfer-
ence blocks the way to peace and stable
government. The obstructionists are
here, not elsewhere. They may postpone,
but they cannot defeat the realization of
the high purpose of this nation to restore
order to the islands and to establish just
and generous government, in which the
inhabitants shall have the largest partiei-
patton for which they are capable. The
organized forces which have been misled
into rebellion have been dispersed by our
faithful soldier and sailors, and the peo-
pie of the islands, delivered from anarchy,
pillage and OPP pression recognize Ameri-
can sovereignty as the symbol and the
pledge of peace, justice, religious freedom,
education, purity of life and property and
the welfare and prosperity Of their several
communities.
We reassert the early principle Of the
Republican party, sustained by I'M
broken judicial precedents, that the rep
resentatives of the people in congress as
sembled have full legislative power over
territory belonging to the United States,
subject to the fundamental safeguards Of
liberty, justice and personal rights, and
are vested with ample authority to act
"for the highest interests of our nation
and the people Entrusted to its care" This
doctrine, first proclaimed in the cause of
freedom, will never be used as q weapon
for oppression.
situation In China.
/ am glad to be assured by you that
what we have done in the far east has the
approval of the country. The sudden and
terrible crisis In China calls for the grav-
est consideration and you will not expect
from me now any further expression than
to say that my best efforts shall be given
to the immediate purpose of protecting
the lives o. our citizens who are in peril,
with the ultimate object of the peace and
welfare of China, the safeguarding Of all
our treaty rights and the maintenance Of
those principles of impartial intercourse
to which the civilized world Is pledged.
1 cannot conclude without congratulate
ing my countrymen upon the strong ma
tional sentiment which finds expression
In every part of our common country and
the increased respect with which the
American name Is greeted throughout the
world. We have been moving In untried
paths, but our steps have been guided by
honor and duty. There will be no turn
ing aside, no wavering, no retreat. No
blow has been struck except for liberty
and humanity and none will be. We will
perform without fear every national and
international obligation. The Repub-
lican party was dedicated to freedom A
wears ago. 1t has been the party Of lib
erty and emancipation from that hour
not Of profession, but Of performance. 1t
broke the shackles Of 100000 slaves and
made them free, and to the party Of Lin
coin has come another supreme oppor-
tunity, which 1t has bravely met, In the
liberation of 10, O0O, 900 Of the human fam
lily from the yoke Of Imperialism. In It's
solution Of great problems, in Its perform
ance Of high duties, II has had the coop