The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-06-03
pathfinder of our opening career Of
commercial expansion.

of our opening areer Of
commercial expansion.
Ellis measures restored prosperity,
diffused confidence and security, pro-
NOTED fraternal concord. pointed the
to reciprocal advantages in COM
mercial exigencies, enlarged the re
public, advanced its prestige and in
fiuence among the nations, carried lib
erty to oppressed peoples, and placed
our country In the q Of the force for
civilization and humanity. While he
lived his moral power and wisdom and
patriotism were the pillar Of public
safety and after his death his fixed
and we'll defined policies continued to
be the hope and strength of the ma
ton
Cuba is congratulated upon the
fruition of the hopes of her people, the
work of the American army Is Indoors
ed and the satisfactory progress Of
suppressing the insurrection in the
Philippines mentioned and the policy
Of our government unqualifiedly in
dorsed.
Trusts are denounced and all the
great cardinal principles Of republi-
canism reaflrmed.
Roosevelt Endorsed.
I'VE cordially sustain President
Roosevelt in his pledge to carry for
ward the great work which came to
him as a sacred legacy. We recog-
nize his earnest and conscientious de-
voticn to the welfare Of the people and
approve the high aims and character
of his administration.
"He faithfully maintains the plited
faith Of the nation, upholds the best
standard Of the public service and
stands by the policies which assure
stability and confidence. He repre-
sents a civic patriotism of the highest
type and the destinies of the county
are safe in his hands. In his frank,
able and courageous efforts to protect
the public interests he is entitled to
full and u~nreserved support"
The resolutions indorse the admin
istration of Governor George K. Nash
and the state officials, commend the
seventy-ffth general assembly for its
reduction of taxation upon real and
personal property, warmly commend
Senators Foraker and Hanna. indorses
the record Of republican congressman
especially those since the Inaugural
ton of William Mckinley. call atten'
ton to the general prosperity which
followed his first election to the pres
idency, and continues:
DingIey Tariff Law.
$50 great is the country's prosper
ity and so ample the revenues undel
the Dingley tariff law, that the presen
republican congress has been able u
redeem party pledges by repeating
war revenues, aggregating n nun
dred and ten million dollars annually
thus reducing taxation to a.peace bas
is. while the army is still on a wa
footing.
Democratic success would threaten
the restriction of the protective sys
TEN under which our splendid prosper
ity has come, and the mere shade
Of impending free trade would dc
stroy confidence, unsettle business
alarm Industrial interests and imme
diately check the demand for labor
r Capital and Labor.
, mo question now pressing for a.
l tention can be of greater importanc
!, than that which concerns the interest
of capital and labor, and we pledg
ourselves to the protection of thes
two servants Of civilization. Labo
is the superior Of capital and deserve
much more consideration. To secur
3 for labor the consideration it desere
n to uphold the dignity of toll, to Great
q healthy opinion on the subject \
labor and the justice of it's receivln
s a full share of the value 1t create
e to bring labor and capital together Q
n common ground in the adjustment
such questions as may concern thes
two great factors in production, 1t
:, necessary that labor should be
telligently organized. We believe
" fewer hours and larger rewards +
labor, and favor such laws as will ha
n monte the interests of labor al
capital and tend to tighten the burdf
Of toll"
p The resolutions commend congre
o for re-enacting the Chinese exclusi'
Ie laws, favor a continuation of the II
u eral pension policy inaugurated by Il