The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-22

can nomination Tor the vice presidency,
was made public to-day
In formally announcing his accent
ance of the nomination, Senator Fair
banks says that it affords him the OPP
portunity of submitting some further
views with respect to the issues before
the people. After expressing his con-
fidence in the success of the Repub-
lican party, the Senator takes up a
few of the issues. AS to the admin
istration's foreign policy he says:
Time and events have given us a
larger place in international affairs.
While we have enlarged our foreign
commerce, We have increased our pres
tige abroad, not with the sword, but
through the peaceful agency of en-.
lightened diplomacy. Thirty treaties
have been concluded and proclaimed
and stand to the credit of the admin
istration. Some of these are of far
reaching importance. Events in the
Far East suggest the wisdom and
necessity of a continuance of the pres
ent foreign policy. We have main
tanned exact neutrality between Rus
STA and Japan. At the beginning of
the war between them, they assented
to the suggestion made by the adj
ministrdtion, limiting the zone of hos
tilities. This tends to- preserve the open
door in the Orient so important and
so much desired in the expansion of
our commerce. We favor the adjust
ment of international disagreements by
an appeal to reason, rather than to
arms. A great majority of the ques-
tions which arise between nations, may,
without compromising the national
honor, be submitted to arbitration. The
administration of President Mckinley
did we'll to aid in the creation of The
Hague Tribunal, and President Roose-
welt is entitled to great credit for be-
ing the first to invoke it's jurisdiction
in the settlement of the Pious Fund
case. Our relations with the world
were never better. We have avoided
all entangling alliances and, in the
language of the eminent Secretary of
State, We are without an ally and
without an enemy
AS to Protection.
AS to the protection policy Senator
Fairbanks says: 1.-The convention wise
ly declared in favor of protection
which guards and develops our indus
tries and that the measure of pro-
lection should always "a least equal
the difference in the cost of produc-
ton at home and abroad The Demo-
cratic convention denounced protec-
ton as a robbery of the many to en-
rich the few and favored a revision
and gradual reduction of the tariff
The issue is thus distinctly made. 1t
is by no means a new one, for while
the Republican party has uniformly
adhered to the policy of protection, the
Democratic party has been consistent
in its opposition. The difference be-
tween the parties is radical and
fundamental. 1t involves the principle
of protection and not simply the meas
ure of the duties to be laid. re-
vision of duties should be made only
when conditions have SO changed that
the public interest demands their al
teration, and they should be so revised
as to preserve and not destroy the
protective principle
History abundantly shows that the
greatest industrial development of the
country has occurred during the period
when the protective tariff has been
maintained and that during this time
labor has received it's largest rewards
and capital has been most profitably
engaged. The development of the
country during the last forty-four
years is a complete vindication of the
virtue and efficacy of d protective
system. It's benefits have been dffused
through all sections of the country and
among all our people. 1t has enlarged
our home market until it has become
the greatest in the world This we
should not unnecessarily surrender.
We have believed it to be a wise ma
tional policy to preserve the American
market for American producers and to
secure to our workngmen an in
creased wage scale
Commercial reciprocity with foreign
countries consistent with the princi-
pies of protection has long been one
of the we'll recognized policies of the
Republican party. The present adj
ministration, in the face of serious
Democratic opposition, secured treaty
of reciprocity with Cuba. which prom
ises to give us control of a large share
of the commerce of that island.
1.-THE platform appropriately recog-
nizes combinations of capital and labor
as the outgrowth of our economic de-
velopment and as entitled to the equal
protection and subject to the like re-
strictions of the law.
The Trusts.
AS to the trusts Senator Fairbanks
EaEs:
1.-The administration has enforced the
Sherman antitrust act. which was of
Republican origin, in cases where COM
binations have been formed in violation
of its provisions. The law, which was
regarded as ineffective by a Democratic
administration has been invoked by the
President against combinations in re-
straint of wholesale commerce, and it
has been upheld by the courts.
Congress last year enacted a law to
expedite the nearing ana determination
of suits arising under the antitrust
and interstate commerce acts, so that
the ends of justice might not be de-
feated by delay. II created the De-
partment of Commerce and labor, with
authority to obtain necessary infor-
ma ton with respect to the creation
and operation Of corporations engaged
in interstate commerce. 1t also amend
ed the Interstate commerce law so as eff
fectually to abolish the pernicious sys-
tenn OF rebates under which large ship
pers could crush their smaller COM
petitors. These are important. practi-
cal steps taken by a Republican Presi-
dent and a Republican Congress for
the protection Of the people against
the encroachments of combined capt.
tal''
The Money Question.
''The money question has seemed to
be settled at various times, but the
contest has been revived by the enc
mics Of sound money whenever they
have thought that they might be sue
cessful. We should not relax our vigil
lance I'm upholding the integrity OF our
currency so long as a considerable ele-
ment Of our country are At war with
IL. When Democratic candidates cam
not hope 10 win preferment In a ma
tlOnal convention without industrious
~ concealing their monetary Views,
and when Democratic national and
state conventions dare not declare