The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-28
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Ohio Republicans Issue a
Ringing Declaration Of
Principles.
ThunderS Of Applause Jar the
House for Grosvenor
and Hanna.

1S@~eS
ing. After prayer by Rev. M. o. Simons,
pastor of the Unity church in this city,
Governor Nash, as the temporary chair
man, called for reports.
The reports of the committee on cre1
dentials, rules and order of business were
submitted and adopted
The report making General Charles n.
Grosvener permanent chairman and con-
tinuing the rest of the temporary or
ganization was then adopted.
When Governor Nash presented Gem
eral Grosvenor, the latter received quite
an ovation and spoke as follows:
Ohio will not forget the strong declaration
that Roosevelt made at Buffalo, and it will
not forget that in the hours which followed
he brought around him the faithful men who
had composed McKinley's bodyguard of faith
ful advisors, and that he has carried the
flag Of true republicanism high advanced in
the contests that have followed.
Two great empowering and all absorbing
issues-protective tariff and sound finance
grew up into acute form and were fought out
and determined during the active leadership
OF William Mckinley, and upon both these
great questions the republican party to-day
stands united and determined
The Philippine Issue.
By the terms of the surrender of Spain ~
acquired title to vast territory in the eastern
hemisphere and out of that fact and the
ratification Of the treaty, which was made in
part by democratic votes, we became charge
able with the duty of governing the Philip.
pines and Porto Rico Porto Rico exhibits
in the fullest degree the splendid results Of
American civilization when not interfered
with by partizan opposition at home There
is peace in that island and prosperity I'M
dreamed of heretofore. They have schools.
churches, bridges, roads, health, peace, good
order and financial prosperity. In the Philip
pines we have had blood, war and treachery,
and to-day the policy of the democratic party
seems to be to disgrace the United States
In the estimation of the civilized nations OF
the world by continual unceasing battlecry Of
denunciation Of our soldiers, our army, our
officers and our administration. No more I'M
patriotic attitude was ever assumed by
party than has been assumed by the demo-
cratic party through it's orators, its statesmen
and its press; Every circumstance trivial or
otherwise, that could be dragged to light and
exaggerated by elequence and bitterness, has
been forced upon the notice OF the world ap-
parently for the sole purpose of disparaging
our army and furnishing the name Of
America ~
4 The Philippines are ours. They are ours
by the conquest of Dewey and the army; they
are ours by the terms Of the treaty with
Spain; they are ours by every principle Of
law, national and International and the
American people will never consent to the
Introduction into political power of a party
that would play the old piratical game of
"scuttle" and run away: from responsibility
even as great as It is
In the fear of God and in the name of
American civilization, we will control and
govern and benefit those Islands, and we will
repeat in the Philippines, on larger scale,
what we have accomplished so brilliantly in
the island of Porto Rico. The American flag
has never been pulled down from any terri
tory that 1t ever claimed jurisdiction OF; it
never will be pulled down while the repub-
lican president, is in the White House. Let
political dastards howl. The American .peo-.
pie will hold the honor of our flag and our
army and navy sacred and inviolate.
The Tariff Issue.
The republican party stands to-day irrevoc-
ably committed to the doctrines of a protect.
i've tariff. The doctrine of the party. as we
understand it. is simply this It will maintain
its position of establishing and maintaining
such duties upon foregn imports which come
in direct competition with the products of our
own labor las will protect our own products
from the competition ofsthe cheaper labor In
aims to make good by tariff taxes and tariff
American industry. 1t does not aim to build
UP monopolies in the United States, either in
the production Of manufactured goods or in
the production of the fruits Of the soil. But 1t
aims to make god by tariff taxes and tariff
schedules the difference in cost between the
foreign article and the home manufacture.
and, having accomplished that, the purpose
of a protective tariff has been accomplished.
In this connection it is fair to state that the
republican party has never favored the main
tenance of such rates of duty as would enable
the producers of this country to extort extray-
agant prices for the necessaries Of life, and as
from time to time this suggestion forces itself
upon the Judgment of mankind that there are
schedules of the tariff, or, items in the sched-
ules of the tariff, that have by. the evolution
of business become the bulwark of unjust
discrimination and extravagant and extorton-7
ate prices, it would be the duty Of statesman
ship to modify and revise such schedule and
modify such rate of DUTY in the interest of the
consumer as well as to maintain adequate
protection to the producer. In other words,
the republican party does not worship the
schedules of the tariff like fetch that is
above consideration and criticism, and which
must not be interfered with under any condf-a
tions whatever. The conditions of trade and
production necessarily change, and tarih
schedule which to-day is adequate for the
future time and an item in a schedule that
was proper at the time Of it's enactment may
become oppressive or at least unnecessary as
evolution goes forward.
If there is to be tariff revision in the future.
1t would seem that the lessons of history
ought to induce the people of the country to
see to it that the friends of protection, not
Its enemies, should handle the machinery OF
revision.
The vital question for the republicans at
this particular time is the question OF when
and how and by whom any revisions OF the
tariff which is deemed important shall be
made. What is there in the portents OF the
times that indicates necessity for any re-
vision OF the tariff schedules of the Dingley
act. We have unbounded prosperity. Is that
the time to commenced tariff agitation that
shall unsettle values and disturb the peace
of business and precipitate into commouons
the busienss interests OF the United States9
That is the Important question, and qres-
tton which, in my opinion, can only be an
swered In this way. Until injurious results
to business and prosperity are known to have
been produced by the existence OF tarin
schedules, the time has not come to enter
upon a revision of that document Needless
agitation uncalled, for interference would
check the onward progress of prosperity ana
bring about such cessation OF business deyei-
orn,anf al would Justify our opponents In