Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-03
Minnesota Republicans Go
on Record.
ADOPT STATE PLATFORM
Senator knute Nelson Outlines the
Position of Republicans and Ar.
raisns the Opposition for Its Atti.
tude on Public Question.

st. Paul, July 1.-The republican
state convention in session in this
city today declared for modification
of the tariff system Of the country ito
extend our trade among the nations"
"to remove any burdens from our PEG
pie as changed conditions demand"
Convention Opens.
st. Paul, July Former State
Senator Masterman. chairman of the
state central committee, called the re-
publican state convention to order at
noon. After the invocation Chairman
Masterman presented the name of Sen
ator Knute Nelson for temporary
chairman. The selection was APPROX
ed by hearty burst of applause, at
the conclusion of which the senator
addressed the convention as follows:
Temporary chairman's Address.
The Hon. Knute Nelson. temporary
chairman, said in part:
Time and more than five years of
republican rule have but served to
emphasize the great advantages and
the great blessings that have come to
the country as the result of the victo.
ry of 1896. But the republican party
has not only stayed the hand of the de.
stroyer. it has also, to large extent
and in material degree by judicious
legislation and administration, foster
ed and promoted the industrial and
economic life and development of the
country.
Europe Frightened.
'The rapid and immense growth of
our foreign trade especially the great
balance in our favor, has alarmed and
frightened many countries of Europe.
They fear and see in it, and we'll they
may, loss of their industrial and
commercial supremacy, and its depart
ure to and vesture in the great repub-
lie of the west American products
of the farm and factory, under the mo-
mentum of enlarged production result
ing from good home market, are in
vading with irresistible force all coun.
tries Of the civilized world And this
is merely the overflow of our produc.
tion over the home demand.
Become Creditor Nation.
sSince the Cleveland administra.
ton, under republican auspices ana
republican policy, we have become a
creditor nation, the large balance of
trade has turned the tide of gold to
our shores in great abundance, and
we have become the financial center
of the world. Money is plentier and
interest lower here than in any other
country, and today our country domi-
mates the financial and Industrial
world. Under the leadership Of Wash
ington We gained our political indie
pendence, and under the leadership of
Mckinley and Roosevelt we have gain.
ed our industrial and financial indie.
pendence.
Tendency Is Toward Combinations.
THE tendency of the age is comb.
nation and concentration, and where
the chief object of this is to lessen
the cost of production so as to cheap
en- the cost to the consumer and not
to obtain a monopoly, suppress COM
petition, or check the reduction OF
price to the consumer, the public will
for complaint. The republican party
has not been unmindful of it's duty to
protect the American people from the
dangerous consequence of monopolies
so far as the same can be done by
Legislation. A monopoly, national in
its scope and consequences, should for
the protection of the entire people be
subject to national control. Whoever
seeks to enjoy national protection and
national advantages should also SUBJ
NIT to national inspection and regula-
ton. Protection in such cases should
be mutual.
Railroad Consolidation.
Referring to railroad consolidation,
he said: Complete consolidation,
whatever its purpose may be, be-
comes nevertheless in its essence a
monopoly, and complete monopoly
necessarily involves absolutism, and
this is repulsive to the great body of
the people and Is dreaded by them, in
the realm of traffic no less than in the
political world.
The Philippines.
1--WE owed it to ourselves, to the
people of the Philippine islands and
to the entire civilized world, to do
just what We did do. To have done
otherwise would have rendered our
nation a moral imbecile among the
nations Of the world.
No scuttIe Policy.
What the American people have,
in behalf of humanity and Justice, by
their valor, their treasure and their
blood, acquired and held, they will
never permit to be wrecked. scuttled
OF abandoned. The task which under
a high sense of justice and duty they
assumed in 1898, they will faithfully
carry out for the good of the people
of the Philippine islands, for the good
of our entire country,and for the good
of helpless and down-trodden human.
| ity the world over.
Roosevelt Safe Anchor.
"The glory, the honor, and the pros.
perity of our country at home and
abroad. under the leadership of Presi.
dent Roosevelt, are safe in the keep.
ing and charge of the republican par
ty. We shall meet and successfully
solve the Philippine problem as we
have met and successfully solved eve.
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