Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-11-03
Contrast the Results.

in the light of hope and confidence
or prowl about in a graveyard.
Both are pertinent questions for
young men in this campaign. The
Republican party has a record for
doing things, The principal com
plaint of the opposition is because
this party has done things, even
though they were things which men
of all parties, even Democrats, have
been saying ought to be done. They
now admit that the gold standard
has been irrevocably fixed by law,
that they cannot change the tariff
however much they might desire
to do SO, that the Panama Canal
must be built, that the trusts have
been curbed, and that we have the
Philippines and must keep them
for a time.
With the exception of four years,
from 1893 to 1897, the Republican
party has directed the policy of the
Government and under that policy
there has been progress and pros
perity, here more abundant than
anywhere else in the world. From
1861 to 1893, Notwithstanding the
greatest civil war of the worlds
history, our prosperity was phe-
nomenal. Our wealth increased
from SIG, ZOO, 900 in 1860 to
ST., 900, 600, 900 in 1890; our man
ufactured products from 81 $780,
10000 to 50, 300, 900, 600. The
prosperity Of the United Suites at
tracted millions of people from
other countries, who came to join
in the benefits of this new and bet
ter life. Slave labor was abolished.
free labor received the highest
wages ever paid, and in money
which was at a premium in every
other country. We marched for
ward in confidence and hope for
the future.
But in 1892 the people at the
polls committed the government to
the care Of the Democratic party.
Notwithstanding the pledge Of that
party to undo the things that had
been done and by 50 undoing, give
us the markets OF the world. That
party kept the first part Of its
pledge. 1t undid prosperity and
industrial enterprise, but it did not
give us the markets of the world or
allow us to retain our own market.
Its theories were old and out of
date. 1t had dug in the graveyard
of its buried pastand brought forth
theories that had been discarded as
impracticable and worthless. But
it tried again the old theory of free
trade and the American people be-
came idle while the people of Eu-
rope prospered at our expense.
We had four years of paralysis
due to the turning backward by
that party, and when the next op-
portunity came for the people to
order a change they elected Will
lam Mckinley, the prophet of pro-
lection and prosperity for their
Chief Magistrate. The Republican
party restored the policies that had
made the country great, and from
the day of that election confidence
returned, and business resumed.
There was work and wages for all,
and wages again increased until in
1908 they were higher than ever
before, and earnings higher by so
per cent. than in 1894.
In eight years we have wiped out
all but the memory of the Demo-
cratic disasters. Shall we continue
to move forward in the sunlight of
hope and prosperity or again prowl
about in the graveyard of buried
issues trying to revive them and
see if after resurrection they will
not prove more serviceable?
4 Continual Strain.
Many men and women are constantly
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