Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-28
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Annual Convention Of the Leatue
Of Republican Clubs Held
at Lincoln.
Walter A. Lesse Elected to Pre-.
side..Governor Shaw Makes
an Address.
Reviews the Progress in Com.
merce and Industry in the
United States.

meeting OF the Nebraska League of Re-
publican Clubs was held at the Lincoln
Auditorium yesterday afternoon with an
attendance declared to be the largest in
its history. The address of the retiring
president, e. NJ Pollard, was a sum-
mary of the work of the league in the.
past campaign, which he declared was
n potent factor in Wrestling the state
from populist control.
Secretary Waring reported constant
growth in membership, the increase the
past year being especially large. Be
ginning with but thirty clubs, the league
now has $50 members. The report of the
committee on resolutions was brief, con-
graduating the party on its victories.
and commencing the national and state
administrations.
The following o.icers were elected:
President-Walter "A. Leese, Lincoln.
A vice president for each of the six
congressional districts.
Secretary-R. o. Fink, Omaha.
Treasurer-yictor Seymour, Lincoln.
Last night the league members We're
addressed by Governor Shaw. of Iowa,
Governor Shaw said in part:
1T has ever been the aim of the re-
publican party to find employment for
the American laborer, and at wages
commensurate with his needs: and to
find profitable market for the products
of labor. agricultural and mechanical.
In this field it has had no rival. Its
opponents have seldom claimed more
exalted aim than to secure for Ameri-
cans the cheapest products of foreign
labor. Republicans have proceeded upon
the theory that the American market
belongs primarily to the American tax
payer and that not only the cereals and
the meat with which he is fed. the cot
ton and the wool with which he is
clothed. the iron of which and the coal
by which his tools are made. should be
from the American farm and the Aneri-
can mine, but that the finished product
should bear the trade mark of American
artisans. Our opponents have contended
that it is of little moment where or by
whom the articles of American con-
sumption are produced. just so they are
cheap. They profess to think a nation
can become wealthy on imports.
BY the application of the republican
policies we have won mercantile inde-
pendence, and are we'll started towards
the conquest of the commercial world.
The same purpose must actuate repub-
licans in the future. American labor
must have employment, and to that end
American capital must find avenues of
profitable investment. But American
markets are no longer sufficient. The
time is upon US when we must secure
rev outlets
In fifty years our agricultural prod
pcts have multiplied by four; while our
manufactures have multiplied by elev-
en-. We are consuming an ever increas-
| ing proportion of the products of our
factories. The, demand for new mar
kets now is but whisper compared to
the cry of coming years. The best that
| can be done for our Industrial interests
| it to open the ways and broaden the
channels of trade. How can this be
done? / answer in many ways and in
ell ways. Reclaim the arid portions of
the states bordering on the Rocky
| mountains. and If no more feasible plan
1 be presented, charge the expense to the
lands benefited; encourage merchant
| marine; reorganize our consular serv.
| ice; construct an isthmian canal, and
| above all. secure convention rights
4 thruout Europe and an open door thru
/ out Asia.
/ Our opponents will insist that the
one thing needful is to surrender all tar
/ iff advantages in our own markets, and
presto, We will find inviting ports under
every other sky. They insist we can moi
keep what markets we have and at the
!. same time acquire others. They deny
the wisdom as well as the possibility OF
exchanging trade privileges to our owr
!. advantage. The republican platform
adopted at St. Louis. as well as the on,
approved at Philadelphia, declares IL
favor of reciprocity. The Dingley bill
makes its effectiveness possible Their,
is reason to believe. however. that loca
terests will oppose its application T.
particular instances. But the principle
must be put into operation or it vii
rever again require the declaration of ;
, party platform to convince the Ameri
can people that the whole theory of reel
procity, when 1t comes to actual prac
!, tice, is failure. The future of reel
!, procity may not depend upon the ratifi
cation of any particular treaty, bu
reciprocity as a policy, IL not already
q will soon be on trial and on trial for it
life. 1t must be either applied or aban
doned
But ii will be said that all this j
commercalism. Do not misunderstood
me. l do not say that commercialisn
and craftsmanship are synonymou
3 terms; but il legislating for the protec
!. ton of our own markets and the acqui
!. sition of others SO that capital may fin
8 profitable investment and thereby Sc
' cure to labor ready employment an
better wages, to the end that there ma
. be food on every table and the comfort
+ and culture OF American civilizatio
may bless every home-if this be com
= mercialism, then commercialism is b
!, TO means an unimportant element 4
American craftsmanship"
{ Found in the Woods.
Chicago, Aug. 2s.-Mrs. Dr. Nelll
i Poor and her two sons. Robert and Her
: ry, all of 6617 Kimbark avenue, Chica
, go, were found ragged, hungry an
s nearly exhausted yesterday afternoo
in the woods three miles south of Corn
ing. N. Y
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