The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-10-29
What Repubilcanism Has Done.

Il amendments to the ConSti
J tuition, in substantially al
the Federal statutes now in force, ant
in the most remarkable period OF pro
sress the country has ever known.
The Republican party is today. as i
has been for more than fifty years, th'
party of sturdy American principles
progressive and conservative, accom-
plishing what it advocates and advo
eating only what best represents the
ideals of the most progressive people oi
the twentieth century.
The Republican party has justified its
principles and itself, by freeing Cuba
Porto Rico. and the Philippines from
the shackles of Spanish slavery and en-
forced ignorance.
The Republican party opened $500
school houses in Cuba and presented
them to the Cuban republic as free
dom's. Offering from a free people to a
freed people.
| The Republican party opened, and
still keeps open, 100 school houses in
Cuba and presented them to the Cuban
republic as freedoms Offering from a
free people to freed people
| The Republican party opened and
still keeps open, 1900 school houses
in Porto Rico with $4,000 scholars; 1000
| school houses in the Philippines with
| 10000 scholars, and is adding to the
number right along.
The Republican party has lifted all
| labor to prosperity and independence,
and increased the wages of the wage
| Garner by protecting the product of his
labor from foreign cheap labor compe-
tition.
The Republican party has kept the
American dollar free from degradation
| and worth its face the wide world over
The Republican party within three
years after the first election of that
great American, William Mckinley, in
employees by 191 ,O3@. and added sos, S,4i0,-
80 to their yearly wages.
The Republican party has built up
ten great states in that section of the
country which was, when it succeeded
to power, regarded as a wild and profit
less region given over to the Indian and
the buffalo.
The Republican party has built trans
continental railroads from the Missis-
sippi to the Pacific. and improved the
rivers and harbors of the whole coun-
try. in the interests of commerce.
The Republican party has so wisely
directed the economic policies of the
nation that Uncle Sam has been able
to pay every bill at maturity, and mill
ions Of dollars before maturity, and
still have s6OO,OOO,OOO of actual gold in
his safety deposit vault-the largest
amount of gold ever before held by any
nation in the history of the world.
The Republican party enabled the
country to export two thousand seven
hundred millions more than it imported,
in the five years since that day OF re-
ioicing when the present tariff became
law, and thus added to the national
wealth sum seven times as great as
the total three hundred and eighty
three millions of excess exports in the
entire one hundred and eight preceding
years
The Republican party has increased
the national wealth from s5l4 for each
individual in 1860, to sl,2S6 for each Of
the more than doubled population of
1900, or, in total, from sixteen thousand
10 ninety-four thousand million dollars
good gold dollars, not the proposed
Kansas City platform abortions.
The Republican party increased the
number of manufacturing wage-earners
from 4,25l ,6l3 in 1890 to 5,231 ,6S7 in 1900,
and their yearly wages from less than
nineteen hundred to more than twenty
three hundred million dollars.
The Republican party, in spite of
Democratic predictions to the contrary,
and under its high duties tariff. has in
creased the customs revenues from a
yearly average under Democratic low
tariff of 1872 millions to 2l5 millions.
The Republican party has never had
5000 900 wase-earners idle at one time,
rs was the case under the last Cleye.
land administration.
The Republican party has put Uncle
Sam in The proud position of being the
only one on earth who can borrow
money at per cent, with lenders pay
Ing premium for the privilege OF
loaning to him at that nominal rate.
The Republican party has not sought
to blacken the fair fame of the Ameri-
can soldier while serving his country
amidst great difficulties and under
blazing tropical suns
The Republican party has not sought
to make political capital out of the anx-
iety Of the coal strike, now so favor
ably and happily averted.
The Republican party has not sought
to belittle the wise and successful ef-
forts towards practically esta blishing
the principle OF arbitration, put forth |
during days Of physical pain, by our
great and fearless president Theodore
Roosevelt
The Republican party stands today, |
as II has always stood since Abraham |
Lincoln was first elected, for sound |
money, honest elections. expansion,
broad Americanism, equal rights 10 all, |
and equal protection to American capi-
tai and American labor.
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