The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-01

honesty and honor, vgilant and fearless.
While he is president, readjustment of
tariff schedules will be made only in har-
mony with the principle of protection.
Americans have memories
While he is president peace with every
nation will be preserved at any cost, eX-
cepting only the sacrifice of American
rights: and the vigor with which he main
tans these will be itself Il guarantee of
peace.
The American people will elect him be-
cause in a word. they know that he does
things the people want done: does things
o only JT dstHsns hem5ut '" DOES
things, and does only those things the
people would have him do. This is char
cttrisucaliy American; for wherever he
is. the American is lie who achieves.
Know Where He Stands.
On every question all men know where
NE stands Americans. frank themselves.
demand franlSncss In their servants, Tn
certainty is the death of business The
people can always get along if they know
where they are and whittier they are
gong.
u"e of his administration was so wise
that, enthusiastically sustained by his own
| party, it won votes even from the oppo-
Sitiou.
DO YOU name Cuban reciprocity? The
opposition resisted and then opposition
votes helped to ratify it
/ DO YOU name corporate legislation" The
OPPOSITION resisted and then opposition votes
helped to enact it.
30 You name tho cana! that largest
1 work OF centuries the eternal wedding OF
oceans. shrinking the circumferenc@ of
4 the globe, making distant peoples neigh
! bors. advancing forever civilization all
around the world? This historic under
! taking in the interest OF all the race,
/ planned by American craftsmanship. to
/ be wrought by American hands, to stand
4 through the ages protected by the Amer
/ lraa nag. TINS vast achievement which
VIII endure when our ,iav shall have be
( come ancient, and which alone is enough
/ H. make the nam" Of Theodore Roosevelt
/ i!lustrious through all timc-this fulfill
m"nt of the rerublic's dream accom-
| plishcd by republican effort. finally r.
Geiyed votes even from an opposition that
/ had tried to thrwart it.
| or what measure Of Theodore Roosc-
relts administration does the opposition
dare ever: to propose III" repeal? And
! when has the record OF any president won
greater approval?
Loved as Man.
| And so the people trust him as states
| man. Better than that. they love him as
man. He wins admiration in vain who
wins not affection also. In the American
home--that temple of happiness and Wiz
tue whore dwell the wives and mothers
OF the republic cherishing the beautiful
| in life and guarding III" morality Of thr
nation-in the American home the name Of
! Thcordorc Roosevelt IS not only honorcd
hn, beloved Owe; And that is = greater TT
greater credit than successful statesman
ship. greater honor than the presidency
itself would be without it. Life holds no
loy" of the American people
Tho American people, Tho mighticst
fore" for good the ages have evolved.
They began as children OF liberty They
believed in God and HIS providence. They
took truth and Justice and tolerance
their eternal ideals and marched fearless
" forward. Widernesscs stretched be-
fore them-thcy subducd them Noun
| tatns rose they crossed them. Deserts
obstructcd-they passed them Their
! faith failed them not and continent was
| th"Irs From ocean to ocean cities rose,
| fields bossomed. railroads ran: but every
wnst" Tnurch and school were permanent
were the life OF their maturty.
| American Character.
American methods changed. but Amcri
can character remained the same. They
oMtlired the stage coach, hut not the bible,
| They advanced but forgot not their ia
| theirs. They aelved in earth, but remcm-
! bcrel the higher things. They made
highways OF tn" oceans, but distance and
! climate altered not Their Amcricanism.
They hogan as children of liberty. and
! children of liberty they remain. They be-
! gan as servants Of the Father of Lights.
| ana ItlS servants they remain Ana so
into their hands is daily given more Of
power and opportunity that they may
work even larger righteousness in the
world and scatter over ever widening
| fields the blessed seeds of human happi-
| ness.
| Wonderful beyond prophccy's forecast
| their progress; noble beyond the vision Of
desire thcir.rut,Irc. In 1901 Jefferson said.
the United States Uhcn had room
| enough for descendants to the thou
/ sandth and thousandth generations" three
] "a he on NJ
dari"s, Washington never dreamed Of
I railways. Today electricity and steam
/ make Maine and California household
neiehbors, This advance, which no seer
| could have fOrctold. we made because we
I. are NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. a free pcopl" with
4 unfettercd minds and inquest ioning be
I lief ioyfully faced tho universe of human
\ possibilities. These possibilities are not
exhausted: we have hardly passed their
b"nndaries The american people are not
strength Gods work for us in the world
is not finished: His future missions for
the American people will be grander than
any II" has given us nobler than We now
comprehend.
Tasks Will Be Performed.
And these tasks as they come we VIII
accept and accomplish our fathers ac-
ton shall have passed and our children
shall catch from our aging hands the
standard we have borne, it will still be
the old flag of York town and Appoma ttox
and Manila bay; the music to which they
in their turn will then move onward Will
still be the strains that chcercd the. dying
Warren on Bunker Hill and inspired the
men who answered Lincoln's call; and the
Ideals that will be in them triumphant as
they are in us, will still be the old ideals
tha. have made the American people great
and honored among the nations OF the
earth.
This is the republican idea of the Amcri-
can people: this the thought we have
when we nominate today our candida to
for the nations chief: this the quality OF
Americanism a republican standard bear.
er must have. And this is just the Ameri-
canism of Theodore Roosevelt. Full OF
the old time faith n the republic and its
destiny: charged with the energy Of the
republics full manhood chcrishing the or.
dinanccs Of the republics fathers and
having in his heart the fear OF God; in.
spircd by the sure knowledge that the re-
: public's splendid day is only II It's dawn
Theodore Roosevelt will lead the Ameri
can people N paths of safety to still
greater welfare for themselves, still
broader bctt"rmont of the race and to tn,
added honor of the American name
Therefore. Indiana seconds tn" noninl
ton of Theodore Roosevelt