The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-09-15

know that the voice of the United States
would now couat for nothing IN the faY
east If we had abandoned the PhiliD-
pines and refused 70 do what was done
In China? DO they object to the fact
that this government secured peace
| full settlement of the troubles in vene-
4 zuela two years ago? DO they object ia
/ the presnce OF the ship-of-war OF
Colon when the revolution broke out in
| Panama, and when only the presence OF
this ship saved the lives of American
| citizens. and prevented insult to the flag
4 Do they object to the fact that American
warships appeared promptly at the port
/ OF Beirut when an effort had been made
to assassinate an American official. and
1 in the port of Tangier when an American
citizen had been abducted? and that in
each case the wrong complained OF was
! righted and expiated? and that within
1 the last few days the visit OF an Amer
lean squadron to Smyrna was followed
by the long-delayed concession of their
| Just rights to those Americans con-
cerned in educational work in Turkey?
Do they object to the trade treaty with
China, so full Of advantage for the Amer
lean people in the future? DO they OBJ
iect to the fact that the ships carrying
the national flag now have higher
standard then ever before in marksman-
| ship and in seamanship, as individual
units and as component parts of squad
rons and fleets? If they object to any
or all of these things, we join issue with
| them.
Executive Entertainments"
When our opponents speak of Cen
| croachments" by the executive upon the
authority of congress or the judiciary
apparently the act they ordinarily have
in view is Pension Order No. 7S, issued
under the authority of existing law
This order directed that hereafter any
veteran of the civil war who had reached
the age of 62 should be presumptively
entitled to the pension of six dollars a
month, given under the dependent pen
sion law to those whose capacity to earn
their livelihood by manual labor has
been decreased so per cent, and that by
the time the age of 70 was reached the
presumption should be that the physical
disability was complete; the age being
treated as an evidential fact in each
case. This order was made in the per-
Torrance of duty imposed upon the
president by an act of congress, which
requires the executive to make regula-
lions to govern the subordinates of the
nAica in, xr-hn 70
entitled to pensions. President Cleve-
land had already exercised this power
by a regulation which declared that rs
should be set as the age at which total
disability should be conclusively pre-
sumed. Similarly President Mckinley
established G5 as the age at which half
disability should be conclusiyely pre-
sumed The regulation now in ques-
ton, in the exercise of the same power,
supplemented these regulations made
under Presidents Clevland and McKin-
ley.
"If our opponents come into power
they can revoke this order and announce
that they will treat the veterans of 62
to 20 as presumably in full bodily 9igor
and not entitled to pensions. Winthey
now authoritatiyely state that thew kp-
tend to do this2 If SO, we accept theis-
sue. If not, then we have the right to
ask why they raise an issue which, when
raised, they do not venture to meet"
Criticisms of the administrations set
Element of the coal strike ard the suit
against the Northern Securities COM
pany are cited, and the president says:
'Such mutually destructive criticisms
furnish an adequate measure CT the
chance for coherent action or construc-
tive legislation if our opponents should
be given power"
Democratic Policies.
Of the policies for which the demo-
cratic party profess to stand the presi-
dent says:
So much for what our opponets open
ly or covertly advance in the way of an
attack on the acts of the administration.
When we come to consider the policies
for which they profess to stand We are
met with the difficulty always arising
when statements of policy are so made
that they can be interpreted in different
ways. On some of the vital question
that have confronted the American peo-
Pile 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 lukewarm attitude
of partial acquiescence in what others
have accomplished entities them to be
made the custodians of the financial hon.
or and commercial interests which they
hive but recently sought to ruin"
He reviews the history of the repub-
lican party's efforts to establish staple
national currency, and says:
Until our opponents as party ex-
plicity adopt the views which we hold
and upon which we have acted and are
acting, in the matter of sound cur
rency, the only real way to keep the
question from becoming unsettled is
to keep the republican party in power"
"The record CT the last seven years
proves that the party now in power can
be trusted to take the additional action
necessary to improve and strengthen
our monetary system, and that our OPP
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