The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-09-30
and determined. is too great for the

ever POOR or humble. no interests how
ever small or weak. is toe ~nsigniacan+
for the laws protection. And inst
this IS the lsrgest -le OF this cam.
paign-that ccsnEca equality before
the law which Theodore Rooseyelf's
personality represents.
Justice. the laws protection and
the laws Punishment to all alike as
justice shall 6e2rae-thls is the motto
OF b Republican party. this is the
prime PIE that reigns in the mind and
heart OF Theodore Roosevelt. Ii
abuses develop. not covered by exist
Ing law we VIII devise new legislation
to meet them. The Republican party
does not believe in Parker's theory
that the common law covers the in
dustrial and commercial develop
ments of the twentieth century. The
world moves; therefore the Republi-
can position is that as our fathers
wrote new and needful laws for their
day, we also will write new and need
full laws lor ours. Law, law, law,
Enforcement, enforcement, enforce,
ment! Equality, equality, equality,
The equal enforcement Of lawsuits
is the beginning and the end of the
Republican party's judicial creed
this the Republican conception OF
liberty.
Frankness with the people in discus
sion, honesty with the voters before
they vote-this is our campaign pol.
icy. Does any voter ask what we will
fn with tho tariTo Nnr orru-ar &c
plain and everywhere the same. We
will maintain the principle of protec-
ton. We will modify tariff schedules
only When the welfare of American
business demands it. And when we
do revise 1t, it will be on the theory
of protection instead of on the theory
of free-trade. Men talk of tariff re-
vision as though it were a simple
thing, an easy task. In the world of
practical craftsmanship there is no
problem harder or more intricate.
What is the Tariff.
What is the tariff? It is not an
artificial structure to be taken apart
and put together like the trick-bo of
a juggler. 1t is the development of a
theory of craftsmanship. 1t is a
growth and not a creation. Those
who prepared the soil of this Nation
planted in that soil the seeds of that
American industrial independence
which men call protection. Hamilton
and Washington planted that seed;
Henry Clay attended and defended
the growing plant, Abraham Lincoln
and those great constructive states
men of our heroic period found in that
tree the shelter where stricken liberty
might revive and come forth again to
battle and to victory. William Nc
Kinley was its last great defender
from the spoilers; and Theodore
Roosevelt, who swore to continue Nc
Kinley's policies, will keep his plight
ed faith. If here and there a branch
needs pruning, those who planted the
tree and have guarded it's growth
should do it, not those who resisted it's
planting in the first place and who
for a hundred years have sought to
lay the axe to it's roots.
1896 and 1861.
The yea 1896 was no more a time
for silence and hiding than 1861 was
a time for cowardice and evasion. 1t
was not only a political struggle, but
on both sides it was a moral struggle.
Was Grover Cleveland silent then?
Did he by his vote condone what he
declared with his voice would be a
crime? Was Senator Teller and the
band Of lifelong Republicans who
marched out of the Republican con-
vention silent then? Did they con-
done by their votes what their tongues
proclaimed would be a crime? Was
John M. Palmer and General Buckner
and the host of gold Democrats silent
then? Thousands of lifelong Repub-
licans left their party; thousands of
lifelong Democrats left their party.
On both sides even men VINO for years
had trimmed and compromised threw
aside the politicians tricks of expe-
diency and spoke and acted on clear.
unmistakaGle principle. Among So
600. 000 of people there was a new
alignment. hundreds of thousands
chaaeing sides. and all because of a
principle which they believed would
determine the future Of the Republic.
Yet ct that moment, when men were
destroying tneir political future for
principles sake; when brother turned
against brother rather than forsake
a patriotic belief, and even families
were divided-at this high moral point
in the history of the American people,
surpassed in its feryor and purity
only BY that other moral awakening
that ranged brother against brother
on battlefield forty years ago; in the
hour. made heroic by devotion to be
liefs on both sides-Alton B.. Parker
was silent-he voted for free sill