Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1900-09-13

Washington. Sept. 1.-THE letter OF
President Mckinley accepting the nom
ination of the Republican convention
for the office of president Of the United
States was made public last night. The
letter contains about 1900 words. The
president expresses his hearty approval
of the platform and goes exhaustively
into the issues OF the campaign. Fol-
lowing are some of the points made by
Mr.. Mckinley: A
For labor, a short day Is better than
a short dollar. s @st'a
Prosperity abounds everywhere
throughout the republic.
Our foreign trade shows a satisfac-
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 s
A long step has been taken In the full
fillment of the sacred guarantees TO the
people of Cuba.
The ordinary receipts OF the govern
ment for the fiscal year 1900 were $7e,-
527. .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
II has ever been.
There has been no time since the de-
struction of the enemy's 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 adj
hered to as already defined.
Any change in the present Industrial
or financial policy of the government
would be disastrous to their (the la
borersl highest interests
Whichever party is successful It will
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 win-
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 next
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 trfumph-
ant. and the country Is enjoying the
fruits of that victory.
1t (the Republican PLATFORM upholds
the gold standard and indorses the leg
islation Of the present congress. by
which that standard has been effective
~ strengthened.
1t is our purpose to establish In the
Philippines a government suitable to
the wants and conditions of the inhab-
itants and to prepare the mfor self
government when they are ready forfit.s
\ II 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. 4 49, @ y6
The rates Of interest are lower than
they ever have been In this country. \
while those things which are produced
on the farm and In the workshop. and
the labor producing them, have ad-
vanced In value.
Combinations Of capital which coma
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.
1t is not possible that these parties
(tke Democratic and it's allies) would
treat the doctrine OF 16 TO 1. 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
tsiation of the past year and revive the
danger OF the silver standard. with all
of the inevitabls evils of shattered con-
fidence and general disaster which just
ly alarmed and aroused them In 1896?