The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1904-07-29

way 10 turn the rascals out and TO
keep them out, and II has the merit
OF sincerity. Moreover the betrayals
OF trust in the last seven years have
been insignificant In numbers when
compared with the extent OF the pub
lie service. Never has the admins
tration OF the government been on a
cleaner and higher level; never has
the public work OF the nation been
done more honestly and efficiently.
The Gold standard.
"Assuredly II is unwise TO change
the policies which have worked so
well and which are now working so
well. Prosperity has come at home.
The national honor and interest have
been upheld abroad. We have placed
the finances OF the nation upon a
sound gold basis. We have done this
with the aid of many who were former
ly our opponents, but who would
neither openly support nor silently
acquiesce in the heresy OF unsound
finance: and we have done II against
the convinced and violent opposition
OF the mass OF our present opponents
who still refuse to recant the unsound
opinions which for the moment they
think II ineXpedient TO assert We
know what we mean when we speak
OF an honest and stable currency. We
mean the same thing from year TO
year. We do not have to avoid
definite and conclusive committal on
the most important issue which has
recently been before the people, and
which may at any time In the near
future be before them again. Upon
the principles which underlie this is
sue the convictions OF half OF our
number do not clash with those OF the
other half SO long as the Republican
party is in power the gold standard
is settled. not as matter OF temporary
political expediency. not because or
shifting conditions In the production
OF gold In certain mining centers. but
In accorda nee with what we regard
as the funda mental principles OF
national morality and wisdom. Under
the financial legislation which we have
enacted there Is now ample circula-
ton for every business need: and
every dollar OF this circulation is worth
a dollar In gold We have reduced the
interest bearing debt and I'm still larg-
er measure the interest on that debt.
All OF the war taxes imposed during
the Spanish war have been removed
with view TO relieve the people and
to prevent the accumulation OF an I'M
necessary surplus The result is that
hardly ever before have the expend-
itures and income OF the government
so closely COrreSpOndpd. In the fiscal
year that has just closed the excess
OF income over tho ordinary eXpend-
itures was nine millions Of dollars
This does not take account Of the fifty
millions expended out or the accu-
INFLATED surplus for the purchase OF
the ISthmian canal.
Farm Schedules
1--WE have enacted tariff law under
which during the past few years the
country has attained a height OF ma
terial well-being never before rea ched.
Wages are higher than ever before.
That whenever the need arises there
should be reimbursement OF the tariff
schedules is undoubted: but such
changes can with safety be made only
by those whose devotion to the princ
pie OF "A protective tariff is beyond
question: for otherwise the changes
would amount not to readjustment but
TO repeal The readjustment when
made must maintain and not destroy
the protective principle. To the
farmer. the merchant the manufact.
urcr this is vital; hut perhaps no other
man is so much interested as'the wage
worker In the maintenance OF our
present economic system, both as re-
CARDS the finances and the tariff The
standard of living OF our wagework-
ers Is higher than that OF any other
country. and il can not so remain un
less we have protective tariff which
shall always keep as minimum
rate OF duty sufficient to cover the
difference between the labor cost here
and abroad Those who. like our op-
ponentS, 'denOunce protection as
robbery thereby explicitly commit
themselves TO the proposition that il
they were 10 revise the tariff no heed
would be paid to the necessity OF
meeting this difference between the
standards OF living for wage-workers
here and In other countries; and there
fore on this point their antagonism 10
our position is fundamental. Here
again we ask that their promises and
ours he judged by what has been
done in the immediate past
Record on Reciprocity.
"We believe in reciprocity with
foreign nations on the terms outlined
In President McKinley's last speech.
which urged the extension Of our for
eign markets by reciprocal agreements
whenever they could be made without
injury TO American industry and la
labor 1t is a singular fact that the
only great reciprocity treaty recently
adopted-that with Cuba-was finally
opposed almost alone by the repre-
sentatiyes Of the very party which
now states that it favors reciprocity
And here again we ask that the worth
OF our words be Judged by comparing
their deeds with ours On this Cuban
reciprocity treaty there were ut the