The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-09-13

Washington, Sept. 1.-THE letter OF
President Mckinley accepting the nom
nation Of the Republican convention
for the office of president OF the unlteo
States was made public last night. Inc
letter contains about l3,0O0 WORDS. ms
president expresses his hearty approYal
of the platform and goes exhaustlveiy
into the issues Of the campaign. Fol
lowing are some Of the points made py
Mr.. Mckinley:
For labor, a short day is better than
short dollar.
Prosperity abounds everywhere
throughout the republic.
Our foreign trade shows a satlstac-E
tory and increasing growth.
Empire has been expelled from Porto
Rico and the Philippines by American
freemen.
Freedom is the rock upon which the
Republican party was builded and now
rests.
A long step has been taken in the fuI-
filIment of the sacred guarantees to the
people of Cuba. ,,.s
The ordinary receipts Of the govern
ment for the fiscal year 1900 were s79,-
sci, 06o In excess of it's expenditures.
Instead Of diminishing, as was pre-
dicted four years ago, the volume of
our currency is greater per capita than
it has ever been.
There has been no time since the de-
struction of the enemys fleet when we
could or should have left the Philippine
archipelago.
The country has been fully advised of
the purposes Of the nited States IN
China and they will be faithfully ad-
hered to as already defined.
Amy change in the present tndustr1af
or financial. policy Of the governments
would be disastrous to their 1.-THE Ia
borers) highest interests.
Whichever party is successful It VIII
be bound in conscience to carry into
administration and legislation its sew
eral declarations and doctrines.
We accept the issue and again invite
the sound money forces to join in vim
ming another, and, we hope, a perma-
nent triumph for an honest financial
system.
Unless something unforeseen occurs
to reduce our revenues or increase our
expenditures, the congress at its neXe
session should reduce taxation very
materially.
In the first battle, that of 1896, the
friends of the gold standard and of
sound money currency were triumph
ant, and the country is enjoying the
fruits of that victory. v t.5s5
1t (the Republican PLATFORM upholds
the gold standard and indorses the leg
islation Of the present congress. by
tkl--,l \ <,x,1 hos
ly strengthened.
1t is our purpose to establish In the
Philippines a government suitable to
the wants and conditions Of the inna p.
itants and to prepare the mfor self
government when they are ready for it.
1t is to be observed that While the
South African republics made like re-
quest (for good Offices for cessation OF
hostilities) of other powers. the United
States was the only one which com
piled.
The rates Of interest are lower than
they ever have been in this country,
while those things which are producer
on the farm and in the workshop, and
! the labor producing them, have i'd
vanced in value. .*.#
Combinations of capital which conA
| troll the market in commodities neces-
| sary to the general use of the people,
| by suppressing natural and ordinary
| competition, are obnoxious to the COM
mon law and the public welfare.
| The power of the government has
been used for the liberty, the peace and
the prosperity of the Philippine people.
and force has been employed only
against force which stood in the way
of the realization of those ends.
It is not possible that these parties
| (the Democratic and it's allies would
treat the doctrine Of 16 to /, the imme-
date. realization Of which is con-
void an imperative. in the event that
| they should be clothed with power.
| Will the American people, through
Indifference or fancied security, hazard
the overthrow of the wise financial leg
islation of the past year and revive the
danger of the silver standard, with all
| of the inevitable evils of shattered con-
| fidence and general disaster which just
| ly alarmed and aroused them in 1896?