The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-08-17

sent complexion of the government
1t is true that the times then were
good, but it is no less a fact, while
there has been no change in the party
power. many of the evils prouhesied
have come under Republican rule
Four years ago factories, mills mines
and furnaces were in active opera
ton, unable to supply the demand
but now many are closed and these
that are open are being opearted with
reduced forces on short hours. Then
and there was work for ALL Now
work is scarce. many wage earners
unemployed and wages reduced. The
apprehension which now prevails in
business circles and the present unsat
isfactory industrial conditions of the
country seem to demand a political
change.
In the language of our platform,
the rights of labor are certainly no
less inalienable than the rights of
capital" ''The time is opportune to
emphasize the truth of this utterance
The most sacred property right is the
right to possess and own ones own
self and the labor of ones own hands
Capital being itself stored up labor
For years / worked in the ranks as
wage Garner, and l know what it is
to earn my living by the sweat of my
conviction came from the hard school
of experience that measured by the
character of the work he does and
the sort. man is entitled to a full com
pensation for his services. My exper-
ience was as a wage Garner and my
ASSOCIATION with labor has alike
taught the value of democratic prin-
ciples, for in them, the humblest has
the strongest and highest stimulus tc
that independence of spirit and love
of self help. which produces the fin
est private characters and form the
base of the best possible government.
The receipts of the government for
the year ending June go 1902, the
first fiscal year of the present admin
istration, showed a surplus over eX-
penditures of $91 900. 900, but for the
fiscal year ending June 80. 1904, in
stead of a surplus there was a defic-
il of $41.OOO.OOO. From the First of
July 1904 to August 10. or for about
a month and third of the present
fiscal year, the expenditures of the
government have exceeded the re
ceipts by $21. 900. There could
be no stronger evidence of the extrava
gance into which the Republican party
has fallen and no more potent argu-
ment in behalf of a change to the
party whose tenents have always en-
braced prudence and economy in ad
the peoples affairs.
Our Republican friends are prone
to refer to the great commercial
growth of the country under their
rule, and yet the census reports show
that from 1850 to 1860. under Demo
cratic rule the Walker tariff the per-
centage of increase was greater in po-
pulation, wealth, manufactures and
railroad mileage, the factors which
affect most largely the prosperity
of the country than in any decade
since.
The cost of government has great
ly increased under Republican rule.
The expenditure per capita for the
last years respectively of the admin
istration given, taken from the reports
Of the secretary of the treasury. were
as follows:
In 1860, under Buchanan, $2.01; in
1893, under Harrison, $5.77; in 1897,
lnder Cleveland, $50; in 1901 un-
der Mckinley, 1856; in 1904, under
Roosevelt, $40.
The Republicans now claim great
in their attitude upon the
currency question. and the president
in his recent speech OF acceptance
said that they know what they mean
when they speak of a stable currency
'fthe same thing from year to year,
and yet in the platform of their party
in 1884 and 1888 and 1892 they favor
ed then double standard of value. In
the platform of 1888 they said THE
Republican party is in favor of the
use OF both gold and silver as money.
and condemns the policy of the Demo
cratic administration in its efforts to
iemonetize silver"
I congratulate your committee and
The constituency it represents in the
selection by the delegates to the nation
Il convention of the nominee for the
He Is man OF courage,
ret prudent: OF high ideals, yet
without Dretense: OF the wholesome
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