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SHORT ROAD TO RUIN.
Earlier Revisions of Tariff Have Proven
Their III Elects

There is little for me TO add 70 this.
II is but ten years since the last at
tempt was made, by means Of lowering
the tariff, ito prevent some people from
prospecting too much. The attempt was
entirely successful The tariff law Of
that year was among the causes which
in that year and for some time after
ward eIectually prevented anybody
from prospecting too much, and labor
from prospecting at all.
Undoubtedly it would be possible 1T
the present time to prevent any Of the
trusts from remaining prosperous BY the
simple expedient Of making such A
sweeping change in the tariff as TO para
lyze the industries Of the country. The
trusts would cease 10 prosper, but their
smaller competitors would be ruined.
and the wdge-wOrkels would starve.
while il would not pay the farmer 10
haul his produce 20 market
The evils connected with the trusts
can be reached only BY "a tiOnal effort,
step by step. along the lines taken by
Congress and the Executive during the
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FIGHTING UNDER COVER.
Democrats Dare Not Criticise Coal Ne
diation Openly.

IN addition TO those acts Of the Ad-
ministration which they venture 10 as
sail only after incorporating then. there
are others which they dare not overly
or officially attack, and yet which tbev
covertly bring forward as reasons for
the overthrow of the party. In certain
great centers and with certain great in
lerests our opponents make every ef-
fort 10 show that the settlement of the
anthracite coal strike by the iudividuaI
act Of the President, and the sUccessf,1i
SUIT against the Northern Securities
Company-the merger suit Undertake.,
by the Department Of Justice were acts
because OF which the present Admins
tration should be thrown from nov,c+-
Yet they dare not openly condemn
either act. They care not IN any nU-
thoritative or formal manner saw that
In either case wrong was uOue or error
committed in the method Of action or
IN the choice of instruments for putting
that action into effect. But what theY
dare not manfully assert I'm omen da,
special agents
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TARIFF A PROVEN GOOD.
Relates to Trusts Only by Restricting
Them.

Finally We come to certain matters
upon which our opponents do in their
platform Of principles definitely take is
sue with US, and where. II they are sin
cere, their triumph would mean dis
aster TO the country. But exactlv as IT
IS impossible to call attention to the
present promises and past record Of our
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CAPITAL AND LABOR.
Both to Be Protected, But Trusts Must
Be Restrained.

As for what cur opponents say in ref
erence to capital and labor. individual
or corporate. here again all we need
by way OF answer is 10 point 10 what
we have actually done. and TO say that
II continued IN power we shall con-
tinue TO carry out the policy we have
been pursuing. and to execute the laws
as resolutely and fearlessly IN the fu-
ture as we have executed them I'm the
past In my speech of acceptance
said:
1--WE recognize the organization of
capital and the organization OF labor
as natural outCOmeS Of our Industrial
system. Each kind of organization is
10 be favored so long as q acts in a
spirit OF justice and Of regard for the
rights OF others. Each IS 20 be granted
the full protection of the law, and
each I'm turn Is 10 be held 20 a strict
obedience Of the law; FOR no man is
above II and no man below II. The
humblest individual is 10 have his rights
safeguarded as scrupulously as those OF
the strongest organization. for each Is
TO receive justice. no more and no less
The problems With which we have TO
deal in our modern industrial and social
lie are manifold but the spirit IN
which IL is necessary TO approach their
solution is simply the spirit Of honesty,
Of courage. and Of common sense"
Common Law Does Not Apply.
The action Of the Attorney General
in enforcing the antitrust and interstate
commerce laws. and the action Of the
last Congress in enlarging the scope
of the interstate commerce law. and in
creating the Department Of Commerce
and Labor. with Bureau Of Corpora
tions, have for the first time opened a
chance for the National Government TO
deal intelligently and adequately with
the questions affecting society. whether
for good or for evil. because OF the ac-
emulation Of capital In great corpora
lions, and because Of the new relations
caused thereby These laws arc now
being administered with entire efficiency.
and as in their working. need is shown
for amendment or addition To them
whether better TO secure the nroncr
publicity, or better 10 guarantee The
rights OF shippers, or In any other ii-
rection-this need will be met
1t IS now asserted that the common
law. as DEVELOPED, affords a c0nnIet,
legal remedy against monopolies Pnt
there IS no common law Of the T-niteJ
States. Its rules can be enforced onI,
by the State courts and officers NJ
Federal court or officer could take an,
action whatever under them. II wa.
this fact. coupled with the ina bilitv nj
the States to control trusts and rnonoD.
olies. which led to the passage ~ ~
Federal statutes known as the Sber.
man antitrust act ana the interestafe
commerce act; and II is only THROUGH
the exercise of the powers conferred IN
these acts. and by the statutes Of tbt
last Congress supplemcnting them tboi
the National Government acquires any
Jurisdiction over the subject TO san
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Mutually Destructive Criticism.

II Is perhaps natural that an attack
so conducted should be made sometimes
on the ground that too much. some
times on the ground that too little. has
been done. Some Of our opponents com
plain because under the antitrust and
Interstate commerce laws suits were IN
dertaken which have been successful.
others. because suits were not under
taken which would have been uns,Ic-
cessful
The Democratic State convention I'm
New York dealt with the anthraci
coal strike by demanding IN deliberate
and formal fashion that the National
Government should take possession OF
the coal fields. yet champions Of that
conventions cause now condemn tho
fact that there was any action by the
President at although they must know
that Il was only this action by the
President which prevented the move
ment for national ownership Of the coal
fields from gaining what might well
have been an Irresistible impetus Such
mutually destructive criticisms furnish
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PENSION ORDER NO. 70.
Sustained by Law and National Craft
tude to Veterans.

When our opponents speak Of EN-
croachments" by the Executive upon
the authority of Congress or the Ju-
dietary. apparently the act they ordi-
narily have in view Is Pension order
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that action against trusts and monop-
olles should be limited to the applica-
ton Of the common law Is equivalent
TO saying that the National Govern
ment should take 10 action whatever
TO regulate them.
Republicans Have Fought Trusts
Undoubtedly the multiplication Of
trusts and their increase in power has
been largely due to the failure Of Off
cials charged with the duty Of enforcing
the law 10 take, the necessary proceed
ure. Such structure upon the failure
OF the officials OF the National Govern
ment 10 do their duty in this matter
Is certainly not wholly undeserved as
FAR as the Administration preceding
President Mckinley's is concerned; but
II has no application at all to Repub-
hcan Administration
1t Is also undoubtedly true that what
is most needed IS Officials having both
the disposition and the courage to en-
force existing law" This is precisely
the need that has been met by the con-
sistent and steadily continued action
OF the Department Of Justice under the
present Administration.
50 far as the rights OF the individual
Tage-worker and the Individual capital
Isl are concerned. both as regards one
another as regards the public and rs re-
CARDS organized capital and labor the
position Of the Administration has been
50 clear that there is no excuse for mis-
representing IL, and no ground for
opposing IL unless misreprese nted
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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS RINGING LETTEROF ACCEPTING

an adequate measure Of the chance for
coherent action or constructive legisla-
ton II our opponents should Ice given
power.
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ALL MEN CREATED EQUAL.
Administration Active for All Ameri-
can Citizens.

Within the limits defined by the
national Constitution the national Ad-
ministration has sought TO secure to
each man the fun enjoyment Of his
right TO live his life and dispose Of his
property and his labor as he deems best.
so long as h wrongs no one else. It has
shown i'm effective fashion that In en-
deavoring to make good this guarantee.
il treats all men. rich or poor. whatever
their creed. their color. or their birth
place as standing alike before the law
Under our form OF government the
sphere IN which the nation as dis
narrowly circumscribed but within tEat
sphere an that could be done has been
done All thinking men are aware Of
the restrictions upon the power of ac
ton OF the national Government in such
matters Being ourselves mindful OF
them. we have been sCrupulously
careful on the one hand 20 be mode rate
in our promises, and on the other hand
% keep these promises in letter and in
spirit our opponents have been ham
pered by no such considerations They
nave promised, and many Of them row
promise. action which they could by
no possibility take In the exercise OF
constitutional power. and which II at
tempted. would bring business TO a
standstill. they have used and often
now use. language Of wild invective and
appeal 20 all the baser passions which
tend TO excite one set of Americans
whenever they have had power they
have fttingly supplemented this ex-
travagance or promise by absolute null
lily In performance
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A General Rule.

These orders to our agents abroad
have been repeated again and again,
and are treated as the fundamental rule
Of conduct laid down for them. pro-
ceeding upon the theory that all uatur-
allied citizens of the United States
while I'm 70, sign countries. are entitled
10 and shall receive from this Govern
ment the same protection Of persons
and property which is accorded to ma
tive-bOrn citizens
In issuing passports the State Dc
Dartmcnt never disCriminates, or nlludes
to any mans religion; and in granting
10 every American citizen, native or
naturalized. Christian or jew. the same
passport, so far as it has power II IN
sists that all foreign governments shan
accent the passport as prlma iacle proof
that the person therein described is a
citizen Of the United States ana entitled
10 protection as such. II Is standing
order to every American diplomatic and
consular officer to protect every Ameri-
cau citizen. Of whatever faith from un-
lust molestation; and our ofiiceTs abroad
have been stringently required 10 COM
nly with this order
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what Would Opposition Do?

II there is doubt upon this point let
the doueter examine the employees doing
manual labor in any great mandatory
or on any great railroad. and find out
now large is the proportion OF men be-
tween the ages Of sixty-two and seventy
ano whether these men are stiI eupiov-
ed az the highly paid tasks which .bev
did IN their prime. AS a matter Of fact.
MANY railroads pension their employees
when they have reached these ages ana
in nations where old age pensions pre-
van they always begin somewhere he
tween the two limits thus set. IT Is easy
70 test our opponents sincerity in this
matter.
The order in question Is reyocable
az the pleasure of the Executive II our
opponents come into power they can re-
woke this order, and announce that they
VIII treat the veterans Of sixty-two to
seventy as presumably In full bodily
Vigpr and not entitled TO pensions viii
they now authoritatively state that they
intend 10 do this2 II so. we accent the
issue II not. then we have the right
10 ask why they raise an issue which.
when raised. they do not venture Ia
meet
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No Change of Policy Needed.

Under such circumstances, the demand
of our opponents that negotiations be
bee1ln TO secure equal treatment of all
Americans from those governments
which do not now accord Il, show either
ignorance of the facts or insincerity.
No change of policy I'm the method or
manner Of negotiation would add ef4
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Republican ,EspOusal Of Ideals.


When the contest OF 1886 was decided
the question OF the war with Spain was
not an issue When the contest Of 1900
was decided. the shape which the 18TH
milan canal question ultimately took
could not have been foreseen. But the
same qualities which enabled those re-
sponsible for making and administering
the laws at Washington 70 deal SUGGEST
fully with the tariff and the currency
enabled them also 10 deal with the Span
ish war; and the same qualities which
enabled them to act wisely in the Phil
ippines. and In Cuba. also enabled them
to do their duty as regards the prob
lens connected with the trusts. and TO
secure the building of the isthmian
canal.
We are content to rest our case be
fore the American people upon the fact
that to adherence TO lofty ideal we
have added proved governmental ef-
ficency. Therefore. our promises may
surely be trusted as regards any issue
that Is now before the people. and we
may equally be trusted 70 deal with
any problem which may hereafter arise.
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THE SOUND MONEY PARTY.
What Has Been Done for the Gold
Standard.


! So much for what our opponents
openly or covertly advance in the way
| Of an attack on the acts of the Ad-
miniSIration. When we come to con-
slider the policies for which they pro-
fess to stand we are met with the diff
i Guilty always arising when statements
of policy are so made that they can be
interpreted in different ways.
On some Of, the vital questions that
have confronted the American people
in the last decade our opponents take
the position that silence is the best pos.
sible way to convey their views. They
contend that their lulewarm attitude OF
partial acquiescence in what others
have accomplished entities them to be
made the Custodians Of the financial
honor ard commercial interests which
they have but recently sought to ruin.
Being Unable to agree among them
selves as 10 whether the gold standard
whether we ought or ought not TO have
free and unlimited coinage of silver,
they have apparently thought 1t eN-
pedient to avoid any committai on these
subjects, and individually each 10 FOL
low his particular bent
Find Silence Profitable.
Their nearest approach to a majority
! judgment seems to be that it is now
inexpedient to assert their convictions
/ adjustment of the gold standard by
the Republican party should not be dis
turbed unless there is an alteration in
the relative quantity of production Of
silver and gold.
I Men who hold sincere convictions on
vital questions can respect equally sin
! cere men with whose views they radi-
cally differ. and men ma confess q
! change OF faith without compromising
their honor or their self-respect. But it
/ is diticult to respect an attitude of mind
/ such as has been fairly described above;
and where there is no respect there can
/ be no trust. A policy with so slender a
/ basis OF principle would not stand the
strain Of a single year OF business ad-
/ versity.
Gold Standard Established
/ We. on the contrary. believe in the
/ gold standard as fixed by the usage and
verdict OF the business world, and in a
sound monetary system as matters Of
principle: as matters not Of momentary
political expediency. but Of permanent
organic policy In 1895 and again in 1900
| far-sighted men. without regard TO their
party fealty in the past, joined IN the
/ work against what they regarded as a
/ debased monetary system.
! The politics which they championed
| have been steadfastly adhered 20 Dy the
/ Administration. and by the act Of March
LA 1900 Congress established the single
! gold standard as the measure or our
/ monetary value. This act received the
/ support OF every Republican In the
1 House. and OF every Republican except
/ one in the Senate. OF our opponents,
eleven supported it in the House and
the House and twenty-eight In the Sen
I a
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Ready to Join Issue.

TT they object 10 any or an OF these
things, we join issue with them. our
foreign policy has been not or!v highly
advantageous 70 the United States. but
hardly less advantageous TO the world
as a whole. Peace and good viii have
fOlloWt~s IL its footsteps The Govern
ment has SHOWN itself no less anxious
10 respect the rights OF others than
insistent that the rights Of Americans
be respected in return. As for the navy.
Il has been and is now the most potent
guarantee Of peace; and IL is such
chiefly because IL IS formidable. and
ready for use.
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Protecting NaturaIized Citizens.

This Government is based upon the
fundamental idea that each man, no
matter what his occupation. his race.
or his religious belief. is entitled to be
treated on his worth as a man. and
neither favored nor Disseminated
against because Of any accident in his
position. Even here at home there IS
painful difficulty In the effort to realize
this ideal; and the attempt to secure
from other nations acknowledgment OF
IL sometimes encounters obstacles that
are well nigh insuperable; for there are
many nations which I'm the slow process
sion of the ages have not vet reached
that point where the principles which
Americans regard as automatic obtain
any recognition whatever.
One of the chief difficulties arises in
connection with certain American Citi-
aens OF foreign birth. or OF particular
creed, who desire 20 travel abroad.
Russia, for instance, refuses 20 admit
and protect Jews. Turkey refuses to
admit and protect certain sects of Chris
tians
manded equal protection abroad for all
American citizens. whether native or
naturaliZed. ON March p. 1899. Sec
rotary Hay sent "a letter Of instructions
TO all the diplomatic and consular Of
ficers of the United States. In which he
said: This department does not dis
Criminate between ngtive-bOrn and nat
uraliZed citizens in according them pro-
lection while they arc abroad, equality
Of treatment being required by the laws
of the United States
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Country Grateful to Veterans.

The men who fought for union and
for liberty in the years from 1851 to 1865
not only saved this nation from ruin.
but rendered an inestimab bic service 70
all mankind. We Of the United States
owe the fact that today we have a coun-
try 10 what they did; and the nation
mas decreed by Law that no one Of them
If disabled from earning his own living
shall lack the pension to which he is en-
titled. not only as matter Of gratitude.
but as matter Of justice. II is the
policy Of the Republican party. steadily
continued through many years. to treat
the Feterans Of the civil war in a spirit
of broad liberality ~
Inc order In question carried out this
pOlcy' and Is justified not merely on
legal grounds. but also on grounds Of
PUBLIC morality. 1t Is a matter of com
mon knowledge that when the average
man who depends for his wages upon
poqhy labor has reached the age 81
siNIy-two his earning ability is lin an
probability less by half than il was
When he was in his prime. and that bv
tae time he has reached the age OF sew
ability
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No 7S. issued under the authority OF
existing law. This order directed that
hereafter any veteran OF the civil war
who bad reached the age of sfxtv-two
should be presumptively entitled TO the
pension OF Sc a month. given under the
dependent pension law to those whose
capacity TO earn their livelihood by man
dal labor has been decreased 80 per cent
ana that by the time the age OF seventy
was reached the presumption should be
tnat the physical disability was COM
pete the age being treated as an evil
uenual Iact IN each case
rms order was made in the perform
ance Of duty imposed upon the Presi-
dent by an act OF Congress. which re-
quires the Executive TO make regilla-
ions TO govern the subordinates OF the
PenSlon ONCE in determining who are
entitled 10 pensions President Clevc-
land had 3lready exercised this uov-er
oy a regulation which declared that
seVenty-hve should be set as the age at
which total disability should be con-
ciuSlNely presumed. Similarly President
Mckinley established sixty I'VE As. the
age at which half disability Should be
concluslveiN presumed. The regulation
now IN question. in the exercise Of the
same power. supplemented these reguIa-
ions made under Presidents Cleveland
and Nick fnIeV
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-16
.POUL.T TRY
WASHED
!. AWAY
Mill Greek Takes a Jump and
Does Her Washing

Saturday and Sunday this vicinity
was given a first-class sample of what
she can do when she really wants to
spread herself, in the matter of rain.
1t came down in showers, dashes,
sprinkles, sheets and streams until
every particle of level ground seemed
to have standing water on it. Mill
creek, this side of the state dikes,
came up like a flash, and all day Mon.
day stood about as high as that pro
sale stream ever gets. All the way
from the penitentlary to the William.
cite river the frugal housewives and
their families were kept busy baling
out their Easements, rescuing their
poultry from watery grave and an.
choring their woodpiles. But, serious
as everything looked yesterday, the
waters have subsidized, the sun shines
again and everything is lovely along
Mill creek.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-16
AMERICAN ROADS.
the Improvement of Our Highways
by National Aid.

Che Improvement of Our Highways
by National Aid.
There is no questioning the fact that
the subject Of roadbuilding is engag-
ing the attention Of the people of the
United States to greater extent than
ever before In the history of the coun-
try. Not only is the subject discussed
in every county, township and civil
district, but the legislatures of the sew
eral states are beginning to listen to
the coming storm of public applause or
public indignation by devislng methods
TO improve the roads. But by far the
most important, because the most COM
prehensive, movement inaugurated is
that Of the bill presented to congress
by the Hon. w. T.. Brownlow OF Ten
nessee. In its scope this bill provides
for national aid I'm road Improvement
to every political division or subdivision
OF the country.
The rapid extension OF the rural FREQ
delivery system, now covering 100000
square miles and destined in the near
future to be extended to the 40,OOOOOO
people living I'm the rural districts,
makes good roads necessity. Why
should the United States, that has at
tained supremacy over all other nations
In wealth and I'm n worldwide influence
in commerce and diplomacy, hesitate TO
enter upon a work that will bind its
citizens to Il with a loyalty exceeding
the loyalty OF the people of any other
nation whatever7 Why hesitate to do
that which every person desires TO be
done In some way? Why hesitate when
good roads are the most important fac
tors I'm carrying out the wise provisions
for increasing the intelligence Of its
citizenship through rural free delivery
No other highly civilized nation on
earth has so many bad roads as the
United States. England, France, Ger
many, Spain Italy, all have good roads.
Say what we please about the intiu-
ence Of public schools, the press, the
pulpit, the platform and other instltu-
tons that mark the civilized progress
OF mankind, yet all these are more or
less dependent upon the facilities of In
tercourse between the people. In fact,
it is an undeniable truth that civiliza-
ton means labol in some form, and la
Dor is the ability to move things from
place TO place, and its efficiency de-
pends upon the ease with which they
are moved. No nation has ever yet
achieved permanent renown without
good roads or ever built them and re-
GREETED 1t afterward. No community
in possession of good roads would be
willing TO surrender them upon the re-
payment Of thei- cost and mainte-
nance. j. b. KILLEBREW.