The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-01
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MANY AND VARIED.
Republican Services to the Country
in Forty-One Years.


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During the administration of Abraham
Lincoln the Republican party passed the
homestead law. measure that has done
more for the settlement of the West than
all others combined.
The Republican party abolished slavery.
The Republican party gave the privileges
of civil rights. citizenship and suffrage to
the colored race.
The Republican party established the sys-
tenn of internal revenue taxation, by which
about one-half of the total expenses of the
government paid by the traffic in
liquors. tobacco and cigars.
The Republican party passed the legal
tender laws and provided for a safe and
reliable form of money.
The Republican party pensioned all de-
serving Old soldiers and veterans.
The Republican party enacted liberal laws
relating to the mineral lands of the United
States and thus built up the great mining
industries of the West employing thou
sands of men and adding enormously to the
wealth and prosperity of the whole coun-
try.
The Republican party resumed specie
payments and placed the country on safe
financial basis.
all mail matter esta blished the money or
der system, the railway mail service, free
mail delivery and made the Postoffice De-
partment OF the greatest usefulness to all
the people.
The Republican party provided for the
endowment of agricultural colleges and
public schools by the grants of public lands
The Republican party provided for the
distribution of seeds to the people of the
country and otherwise aided in the promo
ton of agricultural pursuits.
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tablishment of fish hatcheries throughout
the United States and for the artificial
propagation and distribution of Ash
The Republican party established the life
saving service.
The Republican party enacted the copy
right law, thus protecting the rights of
labors.
The Republican party established the
United States Circuit Courts of Appeal,
to relieve the Supreme Court and pre-
vent a delay of years In the decision Of
important cases.
The Republican party established the
principle of reciprocity, by which large
ly increased market is provided for Ameri-
can products.
The Republican party enacted the ad-
miniStrative customs act. which assures
justice and equality In the collection Of
duties.
The Republican party admitted as States
in the Union the territories of Kansas.
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Idaho and Wyoming.
The Republican party enacted the anti
trust law.
The Republican party enacted the nation
al bankruptcy laws of 1867 and 1898, which
relieved thousands of honest men from the
burdens of debt, and restored them to use
fulness in the business world.
The Republican party, for a period of
more than forty years. has provided for the
protection of American labor from COM
petition with the pauper labor of Europe,
Asia and other countries.
The Republican party passed the patton
al irrigation law, the effect of which will
be to reclaim millions of acres of the arid
lands of the West
The Republican party passed the great
isthmian canal law, providing for the con-
struction of a ship canal connecting the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which will be
an inestimable benefit to the Western
States.
The Republican party has built up the
industries and commerce of the country
to such an extent that our exports are
largely in excess of our imports, and is now
providing as a market for our excess
products the great Asiatic seaports which
make tributary 600000.0O0 of the Inhabitants
of Asia.
The Republican party has brought the
ruptcy in which IL was left by the Demo-
cratic party into the greatest era of pros
perity ever known in American history.
These are a few OF the beneficial acts
of the Republican party for the people OF
the United States.
Compare this record with the record of
the Democratic party, and then ask your
selves what the Democratic party has ever
done for the people of this country.