The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-06-24

CuUHu pGOpIS Will OluCA ACSIOACus
with ample revenues, with education
and public health established. free
from debt and connected with the
United States by wise provisions for
our mutual interests.
We have organized the government
of Porto Rico and its people now en-
JOY peace, freedom, order and pros
perity.
CIVIL LIBERTY FOR PEOPLE
OF THE PHILIPPINES.
In the Philippines we have sup
pressed ~insurrec1ion, established order
and given to life and property a secur-
ity never known there before. We
have organized civil government, made
it effective and strong in administra-
ton and have conferred upon the peo-
pie of those islands the largest civil
liberty they have ever enjoyed.
BY our possession of the Philippines
we were enabled to take prompt and
effective action in the relief of the
legations at Picking and a decisive part
in preventing the partition and the
preserving OF the integrity of China.
The possession of a route for an
isthmian canal, so long the dream OF
American craftsmanship, is now an
accomplished fact. The great work Of
connecting the Pacific and Atlantic
oceans by a canal is at last begun and
it is due to the Republican party.
We have passed laws which will
bring the arid lands of the United
States within the area of cultivation.
We have r~eorganized the army and
put it in the highest state of efficiency.
We have passed laws for the i'm
provement and support of the militia.
We have pushed forward the build
ing of the navy, the defense and the
protection of our honor and our inter-
ests.
Our administration of the great de-
partments of the government has been
honest and efficient and wherever
wrongdoing has been discovered the
Republican administration has not
hesitated to probe the evil and bring
offenders to justice without regard to
party or political ties.
ANTITRUST LEGISLATION
AND PROTECTIVE TARIFF.
Laws enacted by the Republican
party, which the Democratic party
failed to enforce and which were in.
tended for the protection of the public
against the unjust discrimination OF
the illegal e~ncroachment of vast ag-
gregations of capital, have been fear
lessly enforced by a Republican presi-
dent and new laws ensurfng reason
able publicity as to the operations Of
great corporations and providing ad.
ditional remedies for the prevention
of discrimination in freight rates have
been passed by a Republican congress.
In this record of achievement dur
ing the past eight years may be read
the pledges which the Republican
party has fulfilled. We propose to con-
tinue these policies and we declare our
| constant adherence to the following
principles: !.
Protection, which guards and de-
velops our industries, is a cardinal
policy of the Republican party. The
measure of protection should always
at least equal the difference in the cost
of production at home and abroad. We
insist upon the maintenance of the
principles of protection and, there
fore, rates of duty should be readjust-
ed only when conditions have so
changed that the public interest de-
mands their alteration, but this work
cannot safely be committed to any
other hands than those of the Repub-
lican party. To entrust it to the Demo
cratic party Is to invite disaster.
Whether, as in 1892, the Democratic
party declares the protective tariff UNI
constitutional or whether it demands
tariff reform or tariff revision its real
object is always the destruction OF the
protective system. However spec1ous
the name the purpose is ever the same.
IA Democratic tariff has always been
followed by business adversely; a Re.
publican tariff by business prosperity.
To a Republican congress and a Re-
publican president this great question
can be safely entrusted. When the only
free trade country among the great ma
lions agitates a return to protection
the chief protective country should not
falter in maintaining it.
We have extended widely our for
eign markets and we believe in the
adoption of all practicable methods for
their further extension, including com
mercial reciprocity wherever reciprocal
arrangements can be effected consis-
tent with the principles of protection
end without injury to American agri-
culture, American labor or any Amer
lean industry.
REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL
UPHOLD GOLD STANDARD.
We believe it to be the duty of the
Republican party to uphold the gold
standard and the integrity and value
of our national currency. The main
tanning of the gold standard, estab'
lished by the Republican party, ear
not safely be committed to the Demo
cratic party, which resisted it's adop-
ton and has never given n proof