Smyrna times., 1904-08-03


ises and ours be judged by what has
been done in the immediate past. We
ask that sober and sensible men COM
pare the workings of the present tariff
law. and the conditions which obtain
under it, with the workings of the pre-
ceding tariff law in 1894 and the condl-
tions which that tariff of 1894 helped
to bring out.
Reciprocity with Foreign Nations is Helped.
We believe in reciprocity with for
eign 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
Dor. It is u singular fact that the only
great reciprocity treaty recently adopt
ed-that with Cuba-was finally OPP
posed almost alone by the representa-
tives of the very party which now
states that it fayors 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 at the
outset grave differences of opinion
among ourselves; and the notable
thing in the negotiation and ratifca
ton in the treaty, and in the legisla-
ton which carried 1t into effect, was
the highly practical manner in which
without sacrifice of principle these diff
ferences of opinion we're recOnciled.
There was no rupture of a great
party, but an excellent practical out
come, the result of the harmonious
cooperation of two successive Presi
dents and two successive Congresses.
This is an illustration of the govern
ing capacity which entities us to the
confidence of the people not only in
our purposes but in our practical abil-
ity to achieve those purposes. Judg-
ing by the history of the last twelve
years, down to this very month, is
their justification for believing that
under similar circumstances and with
similar initial differences of opinion,
our opponents would have achieved
any practical result?
We have already shown in actual
fact that our policy is to do fair and
equal Justice to all men, paying no
heed to whether a man is rich or poor
paying no heed to his race, his creed,
or his birthplace.
Capital and Labor Organizations Natural.
We recognize the organization Of
capital and the organization of labor
as natural outcomes of our industrial
system. Each kind of organization is
to be favored so long as it acts in a
! spirit of justice and of regard for the
e rights of others. Each is to be grant
; ed the full protection of the law, anG
each in turn is to be held to a strict
+ obedience to the law; tor no man is
q above it and no man below it. The
q humblest individual is to have hii
: rights safsguarded as scrupulOusly al
e those of the strongest organization
g for each is to receive justice, no mor'
: and no less The problems with which
g we have to deal in our modern indus
g trial and social life are manifold; but
= the spirit in which it is necessary t.
n approach their solution is simply tn,
e spirit of honesty, of courage, and o
Y common sense.
IS In insugurating the great work of ir
IS rigation in the West the Administra
d ton has been enabled by Congress t
l. take one of the longest strides eve
taken under our Government towaI
le utilizing our vast national domain TO
N the settler. the actual home-maker.
The Isthmian Canal and Its Needs.
,e Ever since this continent was dis
v covered the need of an Isthmian Ct
We nal to connect the Pacific and the Al
H. lantic has been recognized; and eve
" since the birth of our nation such
ut canal has been planned. At last til
to dream has become reality. The Istl
mian Canal is now being built by th
Government of the United States. "
IT'S conducted the negotiation for it's col
er struction with the incest and mo,
be scrupulous honor, and in a spirit of IL
ia largest generosity toward tho
ID. through whose territory it was to ru
,e. Every sinister effort which could
re devised by the spirit of faction or II
iff spirit of self-interest was made in O
ch der to defeat the treaty with Panan
lly and thereby prevent the consummatiC
ci- of this work. The construction of Il
nd canal is now an assured fact; but nae
res certainly it is unwise to entrust t
mt carrying out of so momentous a poll
mt to those who have endeavored to q