The Indianapolis journal., 1904-04-27

shouted imperialism. militar1sm, the
ton" carrying terror and dismay 10 the
hearts of the timid, the weak, the faith
less? All. 1t this same grand old
Republican party.
Record of the Past.
Such is our record such the shining
pathway along which we have marched
for fifty of the grandest years in all the
history of man. Wherever freedom was
to be bestowed, wherever the sphere of
liberty was to be enlarged, wherever our
national honor was TO be upheld, wherev-
national integrity was to be pre-
| served-there the banner of the Repuo-
lican party shown aloft, with her sons
ready to do and to die, if need were, for
the eternal right. Her birth was marked
| by blood, and her entrance into this CEN
| tury was sanguinary, but she mas never
/ faltered and has never feared. And along
/ the highway she has marched every foot
| print, whether blood-stained or not, points
/ to the front-toward duty, toward responsi-
/ bility, toward honor; not one can be found
| that turns toward the rear, not one tnat
/ turns toward recreancy, toward coWardlce,
toward retreat.
And, fellow-citizens, let us this day re-
| call the fact that it pays TO do right; that'
even from a commercial standpoint, even
| on an industrial basis, ii pays TO do right
| God favors the nation that meets Its high
calling and measures UP 10 the full stand
|
was destroyed, and labor enfranchised,
| this Nation entered upon an era or prog
ress she had not known before. After
| Cuba had been emancipated, Porto RICO
| liberated and the Philippines freed, our
! prosperity broke all records and made us
| at once the wonder and admiration OF the
world.
And look at the accumulated results of
forty years OF free government by this
| party of ours results vast, so varied
! that the imagination fails utterly to grasp
| them.
When this party assumed control of the
| government its wealth was $4,000, 900 900.
| Eight generations of men had como and
gone from the settlement at jamestown;
eight generations had struggled and
wrought, and s16,000,00O.00O was the sum
total OF their accumulations for 25o years.
| Behold what changes the miracle of free
and protected labor has wrought! The
| party of Lincoln changed our policy so as
| to encourage home production and stimu-
! late home enterprise. and to-day, after but
| a single generation has marched across
| the stage, our wealth has scaled the lad
der until 1t stands at Sl00, ,OOO, ,UO,OO0 We have
| accumulated a third more wealth in forty
years. under favorable policies, than Eng
land has done in the whole thousand years
of her history.
| Our Democratic friends used to charge
that we did not supply them with sufficient
money to transact the business of this
country. What is the truth on that pro-
portion? In 1860 the gold circulation was
S22S.OO0.Ooo; now it is s6S1 100000. Then there
| was practically no silver in circulation;
now S170,OOO,000 Then there was not a
single gold certificate; to-day there are
tificates; now there are S446,OOOOOO Then
the total circulation was 10000; to-
day the circulation is s25l6'ooO, GOO and ana
belted globe. Then the per capita circula-
tion was S13.S5 now IL is S30-S1.
| Then we had national banks in the
country; now we have 1883. Then, OF
course. there was no national bank capital
now we have $743,00O00O of that capital
Then there were no loans and discounts
now they amount to $4,315, 100000. Then
the total bank clearings were s., ,231 oOo, 600
| now they are s11i. .000. 900 600. Then there
were no national bank deposits; now $500
100000. Then the deposits in savings banks
Then the total deposits in banks OF all
kinds amounted to but sl50.OO.OO0 while
of $500 100000, placing us pre-eminently
first among all the nations of the world
as to present financial condition and
Then the total receipts of the govern
ment for all purposes, were sl09 100000; now
1O97. 100000 Then the total imports were
$353 900, OO0 now 81 025, 100000, an increase III
imports of $736 100000, notwithstanding the
so-called tariff WALL the nightmare Of
Democracy. The total exports then Were
1894 600, 900; last year they amounted tt
| ST. 40 600 0O0 or an increase of $l,OSI ,O50,OO
| i'm what we sell Then the excess of i'm
| ports over exports was s2oOoo.OO noW tn tht
| excess of exports over imports is 1896, ,OO0,
How about manufacturing? Then the
number of establishments was 14O 400; nov
$1,000 Then the number of hands employed
. | was 1,311 900; now 5. 600, giving remuner
ative employment to more people thar
|, inhabited the Republic in the days o
: Washington. Then their product amounted
output oo '''iS' last year T was sls.soo 100000,
sum greater than the aiesr combined aRa nadan man
! on the earth Then the wages and salarie:
, paid amounted to s37s.000,000, and now t.
81. 7S5. .OO0. 600, And l call the attention O
the opposition to the significant fact, that
, while the average wages paid in 1860 wer'
but s2SS, last year, after forty years of Re
| publican rule. that average had risen t.
$3.50, or one-half greater than the average
: We stand to-day the shining summit
| of success, in the midst of the very turmoil
| and turbulence of prosperity. We boast o
| a foreign trade beyond the dream of ou
fathers.> We enjoy domestic commerce
: whose value, volume and variety maxi
] | these States, If need be. self-supporting
| We possess one-half of all the railroad
| telegraph and telephone lines of the world
. while we do one-third of its mining, one
| fourth of its manufacturing, one-hfth o
. | its agriculture and own one-sixth of al
' | it's wealth. This is the very coronation o
| four decades of the wise administration o
Q beneficent laws. These are the ripe fruit
: | willing to be known.
I | Is il any wonder that we are glad Z
4 | stand upon our record? Is it any wonde
| | that, with such a past, we face the futur
: | with hope and confidence unabated? Ar
q not these unsurpassed deeds sufficient JUST
e | fication for an appeal to the people for
| renewal of power? Will they not be suffi
n cient warrant for the future support of thi
J. | Nation?
i. What this party has done in the past
O ii can do in the future. What ii has ac
g ! complished for the sons of this Republi
Il that have been and are, 1t can accomplis
i for the sons of this Republic that are We
e to be- Do you fear the result, you VIII
II drew your inspiration from the life O
n Oliver p Morton? Do you shrink fror
s the responsibility. you who received you
II instruction from the lips of Benjamin HaI
Il rison? Do you dread the approaching cor
i flict you who are still guided by the death
IS Our party united. inspired by the cor
n seriousness of the highest patriotism, wit
nothing to regret and naught to make U
y ashamed; with a record clean and spotles
n and filled with the most illustrious triumph
, of history with our country everywher
prosperous and our people everywhere haI
% | py-our party hopefully faces the dawr
s confident that the ticket ii shall nominal
% will receive the support OF the people an
,. that the platform il shall adopt will voic
~ the aspirations OF a great majority of on
- | fellow-nen.
D The Democratic Record.
y And in the meantime what has the DEN
r ocratic party been doing? What triumph