New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-23
REPUBLICAN, RECORD.

To be serious for moment The Republican
party Is government through party and
through orgaHiZatiOn-Oh, you find people once
IN while who DO not want any parties. AZ
long as you have eighty millions OF people COM
retent for self-governnent they will organize
ana VIII call the organization party. The Re-
publican party. born OF the declaration that
slavery IS sectional and freedom national (aP-
plause), achieved it's first success I'M 1860. with
Abraham Lincoln. (Applause)
men recollect It we'll We have one of the sur
vivOrs here. 1 glad to see the convention
give him the courtesies of the convention. lie
helped to make it possible that could have
this convention. (Applause.D FOrty-four years
ago Just about now 1894 what a contrast \
divided country, q bankrupt Treasury, no credit.
The Republican party got power. and under its
great leadership wrote revenue legislation upon
the statute books and went back TO the princi-
pies OF Washington and Hamilton, and legisla-
ton that would produce revenue, while fixing
duties upon imports was so adjusted as to en-
courage every American citizen 20 take part
in the diversified industries and resources OF
the country.
VIII you bear with me for five minutes while
I speak OF the comparison it was then. upon
the one hand OF facts. and the conditions to-day?
IN 1850 we had been substantially dominated
for many years by the free trade party. insig-
nifcant In manufactures. great in agriculture.
Under our policy. which has been followed with
the exception OF four years from that time 10
this. the United States remains first I'm agri-
culture but by leaps and bounds. has diversi-
fed her industries, until to-day the
greatest manufacturing country Gods foot
stool. One-third Of all the worlds products tina:
come nom the factory are made In the United
States, by the operation and cooperation OF
American capital and American labor and skill.
HOME MARKET THE GREATEST
Let me make one other statement
our product every year IS greater than the
entire combined manufactured product OF Great
Britain OF Germany and of France. Where do
We get the market for IL? Niuety-seven per
cent Of this great product-one-t third the worlds
product-hnds u market among ourselves In the
united states And yet. OF this product. last
year sold TO foreign countries-I am speaking
now OF the manufactured pTOdUct-over $500
UOoOuO--9 per cent Of our total exports. and
our total exports made and make US the great
est exporting nation on earth (Applause)
>, Made? Made by labor? Yes. made by labor
Made ~ labor that. cOnservatively stated re-
ce!Hes ~ 80 as against the average OF the COM
petittve labor In the --~~'' OF ST. (Applause)
LABOR MAKES THE MARKETS.
Oh gentlemen. 1t is not a few rich men that
make markets; nay, nay. II is the rnultipIied
millions on tho farm. in the mine and An fac-
tory, that WORK to-day and consume fO-tDor-
row ana. with steady employment and good
"us-5. give us. With eighty millions Of people
a market equal 10 The hundred millions OF con
Stunning people anywhere else on earth The
farmer buys the artisans product The artisan.
ntiHB eHip-oyed. buys the farmers product.
The wheels Eo round. You cannot strike one
great branch OF labor ~ the Republic without
the bio" reacting on all producers.
Well. ara you satisfied with the comparison
rom the manufacturing standpoint? II not let
mo give you another Illustration that wiz per-
IN
Than the Illustration I have given.
Take the POstoh!ce Department. that reaches
all or the people and man IS compelled to
pay one penny. Il is voluntary taxation From
March, 1860. the year that Lincoln came into
power 10 March. lSGl. In the twelve months
the total revenue Of the Postofice Department.
In all the United States eight and half
million dollars. Keep that In your minds-eiSht
and half million dollars. How much do YOU
suppose IL cost 20 the department? Nine
teen millions. II took all the revenue and as
much more and one-quarter as much more
from the Treasury To- pay for that postal ser
vice Why. gentlemen. the city postofce OF
Chicago last year collected more revenues by
almost one million OF dollars than was collected
by the whole department In the United States
IN 1850. f(Applause)
How IL It How7 We have reduced postage
over One-half since 1860 the average. Last
year the postal revenues were Sl:4 900 900, as
against $S.uDOOOo IN 1850 Keep that in your
mind-S134 10000 And the whole service cost
only Sl3SOO0OoU. We had deficit OF 81 900 90
3 per cent-and We would not have had that
deficit had II not been that. under the lead OF
the Republican party. looking out for the well
fare OF all the people and conducting the gov
eminent from business standpoint. under the
lead OF Mckinley. followed by Roosevelt there
was established rural free delivery that cost
$lO.OOO,OO0. CApplausel
Great heavens, The Republican party from
1860 until this moment moves on-does what
good common sense dictates. and the country
grows,to it. Well. l will drop that depart
ment.
The Republican party Is 4 national party. and
believes I'm liberalization OF our Industries and
the protection OF American capital and Ameri-
can labor against the cheaper labor elsewhere
on earth. (ApplauseO