Arizona republican., 1904-08-18

rights of labor are certainly no less | vested, no less sacred and no less in | alienable than the rights of capital" | The time is opportune to emphasize the | truth of this utterance. The most sa- | cred right of property is the right to | possess and own ones self and the la | bor of ones own, hands, capital itself | being but stored up labor. For years | I worked in the ranks as a wage earn CT and I know what it is to earn my living by the sweat of my brow. | have always believed this, and my con- victions come from the hard school | of eXperience, that measured by the | character of work he does and the l cost of living man is entitled to full | compensation for his services. My ex- perience as a wage earner and my as- sociation with labor have alike taught | me the value of democratic principles, | for in them the humblest has the strongest security for individual right and the highest stimulus to that in dependence of spirit and love of self help, which produces the finest private characters and forms the base of the best possible government
 The receipts of the government for the year ending June 30, 1902. the first fiscal year of the present administra- tion, showed a surplus over eXpendi- | lures of $91, COG. GOO, but for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, instead of a surplus there was a deficit of $41, ,OO0,- GOO. From the 1st of July, 1904, to August 10, or for about a month and a third, of the present fiscal year, the expenditures of the government have exceeded the receipts by S21,715, COG. | There could be no stronger evidence of the extravaganza into which the repub- | lican party has fallen and no more po- l tent argument in behalf of a change | to the party whose tenets have always embraced prudence and economy in ad- ministering the peoples affairs.
 FIFTY YEARS AGO.
 Our republican friends are prone to refer to the great commercial growth or the country under their rule and yet | the census reports show that from 1850 to 1860, under democratic rule and the Walker tariff the percentage of in- crease was greater in population. wealth and manufactures and railroad mileage, the factors which effect most ! largely the prosperity of the country, than in any decade since.
 The cost of the government has largely increased under republican
 
 the last years respectively of the ad- ministrations given, taken from the re- ports of the secretary of the treasury. were as follows: In 1860. under Buch- anan, $2.O1; in 1S93 under Harrison. $5.77; in 1897, under Cleveland, s5.10; in 1901. under Mckinley, s5.65; in 1904, under Roosevelt, $710.
 The republicans now claim great consistency in their attitude upon the currency question and the president in his recent speech of acceptance said that they know what they mean when l they speak of a stable currency ''the same thing from year to year and yet in the platform of their party in 1884, 1888 and 1892 they favored the double standard of value. In the platform of 1888 they said "the re- publican party Is in favor of the use of both gold and silver as money, and condemns the policy of the demo- cratic administration in it's efforts to demonetize silver"
 PLEASED WITH PARKER.
 I congratulate your committee and the constituency it represents, in the selection by the delegates to the na- tionaI convention of the nominee for the presidency. He is a man of courage, yet prudent of high ideals, yet without pretense; of the most wholesome respect for the constitution and the majesty of the laws under it and a sacred regard for their limi- tations: of the keenest sense of jus ice which would rebel against com pounding a wrong to an individual or to a nation; positive in conviction, yet of few words, strong in mental and moral attributes and yet withal mod
 est, possessed of a sturdy constitution and magnificent manhood, and yet temperate in his actions and dignified in his demeanor. It is not the ora tor or the man of letters but the man of reserve force, of sound judgment, of conservative method and steadineSs of purpose whom the people have called to the office of the presidency. Notably in the contests between Jef- ferson and Burr, Jackson and Clay Lincoln and Douglas, Grant and Gree ley. Cleveland and Blaine.
 Dire predictions were made by our opponents of what would happen at the St. Louis convention. but they mis- judged the temper of the party and the people. While there had been differences in preceding campaigns, yet at St. Louis they were all harmO- nized and a common ground was found upon which all could stand and do battle for democratic principles A platform was adopted by unani- nous vote embracing the issues of the day and presenting to the people a declaration of principles which in the language of the times is sane, safe and sound.
 .l With a candidate whose personality appeals to the good sense and sound judgment of the American people, a platform whose principles are for the greatest good to the greatest number. and a reunited party, earnest for the restoration of pgood and economical government, we should succeed and the principles of democracy again triumph. l beg my cOuntrymen, as they value their liberty, to guard the sacred right of local self govern ment and to watch with a jealous eye the tendency of the times to centraliZe power in the hands of the few.