Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-08-04
REPUBLICAN ACTS
VERSUS
DEMOCRATIC PROMISES
President Roosevelt, in His Notification Speech Re-
views the Work Of Republican Administra-
tions and Compares It With the
Promises of the Democrats.

! ment Of the law we do not have to de.
psno upon promises. but merely to ask
| tnat our record be taken as an earnest
OF what We shall continue to do.
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Z 60 explain why the laws were not
4 enforced. but to point out that they 4
actually have been enforced, and
Z increase the effectiveness Of their 4
enforcement: We do not have to !
= propose to turn the rascals out"
= Tor we have shown in very deed that 4
Z whenever by diligent investigation u .
Z pubic omcial can be found who has 4
I BETRAYED his trust he win be pun !
= ished to the full extent of the law !
= without regard to whether he was .
= appointed under a Republican or a :
. Democratic administration. This is !
= the ehicient way to turn the rascals q
. out and to keep them out, and it =
= has the merit of sincerity. :
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Moreover, the betrayals OF trust in the
in when wth tns
tent OF the public service. Never has
the administration Of the government been
on cleaner and higher level; never las
the public work of the nation been done
more honestly and efficiently.
Aiss:urediy It IS unwise to change the
which are now working SO we'll. Pros
perity has come at home. The national
honor and interest have been upheld
s nation we apo navs paesd r tSs Ss WI
have done this with the aid Of many
who were formerly our opponents, but
wno would neither openly support nor
sound finance: and we have done it
against the convinced and violent opposi-
ton OF the mass Of our present opponents
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opinions which for the moment they think
1t inexpedient to assert.
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Z We know what we mean when we +
Z speak of an honest and stable eur 8
from year to gsar W. d som mot f haHs
to avoid a definite and CONCLUSIVE .
Z committal on the most important is =
= the people. and which may at any :
= time in the near future be before 1
Z them again; Upon the principles
= tons Of half Of our number do not (
4 clash with those of the other half. q
. So long as the Republican party Is .
tied: not as a matter Of temporary :
: political expediency. not because OF !
z shifting conditions in the production :
but k1 n accorG sraa.n i mnr sa centers
. gard ea the fundamental principles :
! Of national morality and wisdom. =
under the nnancial legislation which =
: and every dollar Of this Circulation Hsi !
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We have reduced the interest bearing
debt and in still larger measure the in
terest on that debt. All of the war taxes
imposed during the Spanish war have
people and to prevent the accumulation
OF an unnecessary surplus. The result is
that hardly ever before have the expen-
closely correspondent In the fiscal year
that has just closed the excess of income
over the ordinary expenditures was nine
account of the fifty millions expended out
OF the accumulated surplus for the pur-
chase Of the isthmian canal. 1t is an ex-
condition OF the nation that Instead of
following the usual course in such mat
ters and throwing the burden upon pos.
to make the payment outright and vet
after II TO have in the treasury surplus
OF $l61 900 600; Moreover, we were able
to pay this fifty millions of dollars out
Of hand without causing the slightest dis
turbance to business conditions.
. We have enacted a tariff law un-
Z der which during the. past few years :
ywe eas s1asne never he6 gsto1 Ds
= reached: Wages are higher than :
= ever before. That whenever the need I,
. arises there should be a readtust- !
! ment of the tariff schedules is I'M !
I! doubted: but such changes can with :
= safety be made only by those whose Z
Z! devotion to the principle Of protec- !
= tive tariff is beyond question; for !
= otherwise the changes would amount :
Z not to readjustment but to repeal =
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The readjustment when made must
maintain and not destroy the protective
principle. To the farmer, the merchant.
the manufacturer this Is vital; but per
haps no other man Is so much Interested
as the wage-worker In the maintenance
or our present economic system, both
as regards the finances and the tariff.
The standard of living Of our wage
workers is higher than that of any other
country, and 1t cannot SO remain unless
we nave protective tariff which shall
Always keep as a minimum n rate of
DUTY sufficient to cover the difference
between the labor cost here and abroad.
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= Those who. like our Opponents Z
denounce protection as robbery I
Z thereby explicitly commit themselves I
Z 10 the proposition that II they were to I
= revise the tariff no heed would be Z
Z paid to the necessity Of meeting this !
: uinerence between the standards of Z
: living for wage-workers here and in :
other countries: and therefore on !