Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-29

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tebance OF lae principles Of protec-
tion, and, therefore, rates Off duty
should be readjusted only whet con.
ditions have so changed that the
public interest demands their alter
alton, but this work cannot safely be
committed to any other hands than
those of the Republican party. To
entrust it to the Democratic party il
ITO invite disaster. Whether, as in
1892, the Democratic party declared
the protective tariff unconstitutional
or whether it demands tariff reform
or tariff revision, its real object il
always the destruction of the pro.
tective system. However speoious
the name, the purpose is ever the
same. Democratic tariff has always
been followed by business adversely ;
a Republican tariff by business pros,
perity. To a Republican Congress
and Republican President this
great question can be safely entrusted
When the only free trade country
among the great nations agitates o
return to protection the chief pro.
tective country should not falter in
maintaining it.
We have extended widely our for
eign markets, and we believe in the
adoption of ali practicable methods
Tor their further extension, including
commercial reciprocity, wherever
reciprocal arrangements can be
effected consistent with the princi.
Piles of protection and without injury
to American agriculture, American
labor or any American industry.
We believe it to be the duty oi
the Republican party to uphold the
gold standard and the integrity and
value of our national currency. The
maintenance of the gold standard
established by the Republican party
cannot be safely committed to tn,
Democratic party, which resisted its
adoption and has never given any
proof since that time of belief i'm it
or fidelity TO it.
While every other industry has
prospered under the fostering aid OF
Republican legislation, American
shipping, engaged in foreign trade,
in competitor with the low cost OF
construction, low wages and heavy
subsidies of foreign governments, has
not for many years received from the
government of the United States
adequate encouragement of any kind.
We therefore favor Legislation
which will encourage and build up
the American merchant marine and
we cordially approve the legislation
of the last Congress which created
the merchant marine commission to
investigate and report upon this sub
ject.
A navy powerful enough to defend
the United States against any attack,
to uphold the Monroe doctrine and
watch over our commerce, is essen
tial to the safety and the welfare of
the American people. To maintain
such a navy is the fixed policy OF the
Republican party.
We cordially approve the attitude
of President Roosevelt and Congress
in regard to the exclusion of Chinese
labor and promise a continuance of
the Republican policy in that direc-
tion.
The civil service law was placed on
the statute books by the Republican
party, which has always sustained it,
and we renew our former declara-
tions that it shall be thoroughly and
honestly enforced.
We are always mindful of the
country's debt to the soldiers and
sailors of the United States, and we
believe in making ample provision
for them and in the liberal admins
tration of the pension laws.
We favor the peaceful settlement
of international differences by arbi-
tration.
We commend the vigorous efforts
made by the administration to pro-
tect American citizens in foreign
lands and pledge ourselves to in
sist upon the just and equal protec-
tion of all our citizens abroad. 1t is
the unquestioned duty of the govern
ment to procure for all our citizens,
without distinction, the rights of
travel and sojourn in friendly coun-
tries, and we declare ourselves in
favor of all proper efforts tending to
that end.
Our great interests and our grow
ing commerce in the Orient render
the condition of China of high i'm
portance to the United States. We
cordially commend the policy pur-
sued in that direction by the Con-
gress and President Roosevelt.
We favor such Congressional
action as shall determine whether by
special determinations the elective
franchise in any State has been un-
constitutionally limited, and, if such
is the case, we demand that repre-
sentation in Congress and in the
electoral college shall be proportion
ately reduced, as directed by the
Constitution of the United States.
Combinations of capital and labor
are the results of the economic
movement of the age, but neither
must be permitted to infringe upon
the rights and interests Of the peo-
pie. Such combinations, when law
fully formed, for lawful purposes, are
alike entitled to the protection of
the laws, but both arc subject to the
laws and neither can be permitted to
break them.
The great statesman and patriotic
American, William Mckinley, who
was re. elected by the Republican
party to the Presidency four years
ago, was assassinated just at the
threshold of his second term. The
entire nation mourned his untimely
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