Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-10-06

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combinations Of capital and labor as the
outgrowth of our economic development
and as entitled to equal protection and
subject to like restrictions of the law.
ROOSEVELT AND THE TRUSTS,
The administration has enforced tho
Sherman antitrust act. which was of Re-
publican origin, in cases where combina-
tions have been formed in violation of its
provisions.
The Democratic party has done moth
ing toward safeguarding legitimate inter-
ests and restraining combinations effect
ed for extortion or other improper pur-
poses. 1t proposes as principal remedy
for unjust combinations to remove the
tariff from trust-made goods, thereby in
viting the foreign producer to occupy our
home market in an attempt to regulate
our own industries. 1t has assumed that
the so-called trusts are either created or
fostered by the tariff. The assumption
is fallacious. Trusts are found in free
trade countries and they control COM
modities in this country which are upon
the free list.
The Republican party is more direct
and rational. 1t does not strike down
good and bad alike. 1t invokes the au-
thority of congress and the power of the
courts to deal with specific, well-defined
combinations in restrain of the rights and
interests of the people. 1t is as insistent
upon the protection Of capital employed
in wholesome enterprises as in prevent
ing its use in contravention OF the pub
lie interests.
The convention very properly declared
1t Ito be the duty of the Republican
There is no more important duty than
to maintain the stability and the charac-
ter Of the money of the people.
The money question has seemed to be
settled at various times, but the contest
has been revived by the enemies OF sound
money whenever they have thought that
they might be successful.
We not only established the gold
standard, but we provided such safe
guards as will maintain our silver and
paper currency at parity with 1t. But
all of this may be changed at any time
by hostile congress, or endangered by
an unfriendly secretary of the treasury.
Our past experience warns us that ii is
only question of time when those who
are always opposed to a sound monetary
policy will again seek to overthrow it.
The Republican convention did well not
only to pledge anew our fidelity to the
gold standard, but to declare It's purpose
to uphold 1.-The integrity and value Of
our national currency"
The presidents course in Panama mer-
its the most generous approval. He dealt
with a delicate and difficult situation,
clearly within our national rights in such
way as to make possible the early COM
pletion of an isthmian canal which has
long been demanded in the interest Of
our commerce and the national defense.
He concluded the negotiations with Great
Britain for the abrogatiQn of the Clayton
Bulwer treaty. He negotiated a treaty
with the Republic of Colombia for the
requisite rights and franchises for the
construction and operation of canal.
Its ratification was contemptuously re-
Thereupon the people of Panama re-
nounced their allegiance to the parent
government and declared their indepen-
dence. Inc president, acting within the
Limits of his executive authority, and in
conformity with well established prece-
dent, promptly recognized their indepen-
dence. He negotiated treaty with Pan
anna, whereby the United States obtained
the necessary rights and franchises for
building and operating the canal
When the Instruction occurred upon
the isthmus, the president safeguarded
American interests. He acted promptly
but deliberately; prudently, not rashly;
firmly, not unlawfully. He usurped no
authority. He only exercised that execu-
tive power which is clearly vested in him
by the constitution, and which his prede-
cessors had employed under similar cir
cumstances. If he had failed to appre-
ciate our rights, or to act firmly and
promptly, blood would have been shed
and the rights Of American citizens would
have been sacrificed, and the construc-
tion of the canal would have been indefi-
nitely delayed.
Inc president in due time appointed
commission composed of eminent engl-
neers and men of practical experience to
undertake the work of constructing the
canal as speedily as practicable. There
Is no longer any doubt or uncertainty
as to the enterprise. Its completion Is
now an assured fact and it will stand
as one of the memorable achievements
of the new century. The completion Of
this great work should be left to the adj
ministration which has done so much to
carry 1t forward against formidable OBJ
stacles abroad and vexatious opposition
at home.
Ae administration in the Philippines
has been dictated by a broad sense OF
duty. 1t has not been subversive of our
national ideals, but has been in conform
ity with the best traditions of the re-
public. The archipelago came to the
United States as the result of war, and
1t became the duty of the administration
to enforce the laws there as elsewhere,
to maintain the national sovereignty, and
to inaugurate civil government: Before
the instruction had ceased, President
Mckinley admirably expressed our pur-
pose when he said:
mo effort will be spared to build up
the waste places desolated by war and
by long years of misgovernment. We
shall continue as we have begun, to open
the schools and the churches, to set the
courts in operation, to foster industry and
trade and commerce, and In every way
in our power to make those people whom
Providence has brought within our juris-
diction feel that 1t is their liberty and
not our power, their welfare and not our
gain, we are seeking to enhance"
HE FAVORS IRRIGATION.
The application of the proceeds Of pub
lie land sales to the reclamation of irriga-
BILE portions of our arid and semi-arid
public domain, meets my cordial APPROX
al. Through the enlightened policy thus
established under the present adminlstra-
ton. the long-deferred hopes Of the
struggling settlers Of the great arid and
semi-arid West will be realized in the
upbuilding of substantial communities In
places hitherto waste or comparatively
unproductive. At the same time vast
area Of the public domain will be opened
upon which the Industrious homeseekers'
now residing in over-crowded Eastern
centers, NAV find homes. The sum or
over $lJ,0000O0. now available In the
reclamation fund, TO which additions are
constantly being made, guarantees, un-
der the wise administration, great prog
ress in the work Of irrigation, and the
settlement Of the arid region within a
few years.
The development OF trade with the Orr
emit promises to absorb the increased pro-
duction of cereals in the Far West, so as
TO leave the market conditions on the At
lantic seaboard undisturbed. The settle
ment OF the present unproductive regions
will open a new market for the manufac-
turers OF the East.
Republican policies are as broad as our
country's needs. They are neither sec
tional nor racial In their generous de-
sign.
and that Is, under divine guidance. to
proff5ote peace and good order. virtue and
knowledge Justice, patriotism and pros
perity among our countrymen and to In
crease to the utmost the strength and