The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-24
Republican Pension Record.

flag. Listen to the record of Republi-
can care for the soldiers of the repub-
lies greatest war. Fourteen importan.
pension measures have been enacted
by congress; every one was Republi-
can. On these, All Democrats voted
AYE" GAS Democrats voted mo-; OF
LOGS Republicans who voted on these
bills, not a single man cast vote
against them. No Republican presi-
dent ever vetoed any bill to relieve
a Union soldier. A Democratic admin
istration dropped S.694 soldiers from
sions of 23,702 more. Most of these
were restored by succeeding Republi-
can administration. Under the Repub-
lican pension law of 1890 alone, the
government has paid Union soldiers
and their widows more than $500 ,000,-
600. In 1900 a Republican congress
passed the Grand Army Bill" under
which 10000 widows of Union soldiers
will receive that assistance from the
government, which Abraham Lincoln
declared it was the governments high.
est duty to give. Under Republican
measures those who saved the govern
ment are receiving nearly 100000
every year. In Democratic admins
tration pensions were reduced, the ma
tion's debt increased, the nations in
dustry paralyzed; under Republican
administration, increased pensions.
diminished debt, business restored.
Let no man be alarmed at the nations
bounty to the American soldier. From
this day on pension payments must
decline; short ten years will we'll
nigh end it all. Be patient-the old
pensioner will not tarry long at the
nations fireside. But while that old
hero does remain, the Republican par
ty means that he shall have all the
comforts grateful nation can bestow.
Mckinley: Roosevelt.
The Republican party understands
the American soldier Since Lincoln
every Republican president elected by
the people has worn the uniform. And
what presidents they have been.-
mounting in greatness until in William
Mckinley the Republican party gave
the nation and the world a name that
ranks with Washington and Lincoln
Mckinley, the master mariner, who
started the republic on its world ca
reer from which disbelievers in our
destiny would turn us back He was
great as Events, steady as Time, Sc
rene as the heavens on still and cloud
less nights. He was a man of faith
and prayer. He counselled with the
Eternal Mind. He obeyed the voice
of God as that voice spoke to him. He
was the last president of the 10Th
century-last of the first series which
Washington began. Washington, Lin
coin, Mckinley-the Father has not
given such a company of leaders to
any other people in so short a space.
Our presidents in the past have been
great only by being equal to the times.
There is no other method of greatness
possible to our presidents in the frl-
ture. And now the 20th century opens
with the first of a second series of
leaders of people who have grown
to be the chief of all the nations of
the world; and he is the spirit of the
times incarnate. He is vital as the
American people are vital. He is just
as the American people are just. He
is courageous as the American people
are courageous. He is conservative
as. American character, steady as
American purpose. His belief in our
destiny is measured by our duty and
our power both broad as the oceans;
so is the faith of the American people.
Think Of the man who in all the re-
public today, is most conspicuously
American and I will voice your thought
when 1 name Theodore Roosevelt,
president of the United States.
Fellow Republicans, it is the goth
century in which we live-the greatest
period since time began. We cannot
cling to the methods of the past. The
Republic has marched ever forward
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them plans and policies which civiliza-
tion had outgrown, and adopted new
ones as their new day demanded them.
We, their children, must do the same.
Their war-cry was Onward" Our
war-cry must be Onward" too. The
Repblican party is the organized spirit
Of American progress. We dare not
stoop to demagogues' devices; that is
the rule Of the opposition to the Gov
ernment. We dare not trick up ficti-
tious issues to catch temporary ap-
plause. We dare not be insincere
to capture this or that coterie of vo.
ters. We dare not counsel with fear
or compromise with reaction. Our
success-our very life-is in harmony
with the progress of the American
people toward their natural suprem-
acy. The power Of $1,000, 900 of people,
which in century will be zoo, 600, 900
with brains unfettered and activities
unclaimed, is beyond the comprehen-
sion of finite mind. Yesterday the
telegraph and telephone were mira
cles; to-day they are commonplace
what will tomorrow be? What will
be the condition of the American
people and the world when the men Of
this convention have lived their lives?
You cannot over-capitalize the energy
Of the American people. You connot
overestimate their might. You can
not measure their majesty among man.
kind. The most brilliant prophecy
of their future will read like timid
expression of feeble faith when that
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