The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-10-01
WE SHOULD STAND FIRM
Pennsylvania's Bury To-day AS Outlined
By Hon. Charles Emory Smith.


BY Hon. Charles Emory Smith.
The following is the speech, in part
Of Hon. Charles Emory Smith deliv-
cred at Centre Hall, Centre county;
Looking to the broader field Of ma
tional affairs at stake are Of such tre-
mendous consequence that no Republi-
can and indeed no patriotic citizen of
any party ought to feel any doubt
about his duty. Shall Pennsylvania
uphold the national administration or
shall we cripple and paralyze it? Shall
we sustain the policies which have Civ
en- us such national greatness and glory
or shall we condemn and undertake TO
overthrow them? Shall we vote to con-
tinue the unparalleled prosperity
which Nils the country with content
and happiness and growth. or shall We
vote to overshadow it with doubt and
to create distrust which will bring ca
lamity? Who wants to go pack to the
business conditions which prevailed
from 1898 to 1897?
PAINFUL OBJECT LESSONS.
IN deciding what path we ought TO
follow we don't have to guess We
know. We know in the light of ex-
perience which it would be madness to
disregard. The object lessons Of the
past ten years blaze tie way for every
man who is not blind to the truth. In
1892 we were in the full tide of the
greatest prosperity the country had
ever enjoyed up to that period. | need
not stop to picture the conditions. You
all recall them. You all remember
the business life and the industrial ac-
tivity which tsen prevailed. Yet in a
moment of madness and passion with
out realizing what they were doing,
the people elected a Democratic con-
gress and president and instantly the
whole business sky was covered with
clouds. The mere election Of Demo-
cratic congress and president created
uncertainty, halted enterprise, i'm
paired credit. checked the wheels of in
dustry and spread distrust everywhere.
If this was the effect simply of the cleo
ton and the fears it created, the results
were aggravated when the fruits were
fully realized.
DEMOCRATIC HARD TINES.
when the Democratic party came
/ INTO power it overthrow the Republi-
mn policies which had given national
security, confidence and progress, and
| paralyzed business like the blight of
an autumn frost For four years the
country suffered a stagnation and de-
| preston which caused wide spread dis
tress. Hundreds of mills were stopped
or ran on half time. Three millions
of workingmen were ont Of employ
ment. You could not altogether stop
production in this great country but
it was so checked as to cause a period
| of hard times. If you have forgotten
those conditions which existed only six
years ago you may make the mistake
Of voting to return to them. But no
man who remembers them in contrast
with the magnificent prosperity of the
last six years can vote to run any risk
Of changing back to the situation from
1898 to 1897 without displaying a reck-
lessness which is incomprehensible."
PROSPERITY AND REPUBLI-
CANISM.
an 1896 the people voted to get out
Of the slough Of dependency by elect
ing VIM. Mckinley president As the
election Of 1892 had been the turning
point from prosperity to disaster, so
the election of 1896 was the turning
point from gloom and depression to a
new era of prosperity and advancement
beyond anything the world has ever
seen.
Never before has this country stood
on such heights Of prosperity and
greatness and every step in this mag
ni1cent progress has been taken win
the opposition OF the criticism Of the
! Democratic party. In the light OF this
experience shall Pennsylvania falter
in her Republicanism OF pronounce d
verdict which would weaken the ma
tional administration in carrying for
ward the great work to which it is de-
voted?"
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