Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-13

mining centers. but IN accordance WITH
what We regard as the fundamental prin-
Under the financial legislation which
we have enacted fa there Is now ample cir
every dollar of this circulation is worth
interest-bearing debt and in still larger
measure the interest on that debt All
Spanish war have been removed With a
view to relieve the people and to pre-
surplus The result is that hardly ever
before have the expenditures and income
ed
Sound Financial Condition.
In the fiscal year that has just closed
the excess Of income over the ordinary
expenditures was 100000 This does
not take account of the s50.ooo.ooo ex-
pended out of the acum ulated surplus for
is an extraordinary PROOF of the sound
financial condition of the nation that in
such matters and throwing the burden
upon posterity by an issue of bonds. we
and yet after it to have In The the treasury
surplus of s161.o00.0oo. Moreover we
hand without causing the slightest dis
tuTE ba to business cond litt IS
whieh during ndn the past few years the
teriai weli1being never befo gnt reacbed
Wages are higher than ever before. That
% WI the need arises f there SHOULD
ules is undoubted; but such changes can
to t the pTneips oy
tar tariff is beyond question. for otherwise
Inent when made must maintain and not
destroy the protective principle TO the
this 81 IS vital; but perhap ,s no other man
is so much interested as the wage
finances and the tariff.
Wage Workers Are Well Off.
The standard of living of our wage
workers is higher than that of any other
country, and 1T can not SO remain unless
we have E protective tariff which shall
duty Sufficient to cover the difference
Phose w fas i Ike GSr hspP as
nounce protection as robbery thereby
proposition that if they We're to revise
the tariff no heed would be paid to the
tween the standards of living for wage
workers here and in other countries; and
to our position is undamental.
Here again we ask that their prom
been done in the Immediate PAST. We ask
that sober and sensible men compare the
the conditi tic e which obtain under i:
with the workings of the preceding tariff
We believe in reciprocity with foreign
dent McKinley's last speech. which
urged the extension Of our foreign mar
they could be made without injury to
american INDUSTRY t and labor; It Is
procity treaty recently adopted.that
alone by the Representatives. Of the very
party which now states that 1t favors
reciprocity.
of our words be Judged by comparing
thoir deeds with ours. On this Cuban
reciprocity treaty there were at the out
set grave differences of opinion among
tha In, he
negotiation and ratification of the treaty
and in the legislation which carried it
into effect was me highly practical man
ner in which, without sacrifice of prin-
reconciled. There was no rupture of
great party. but an excellent practical
dents and two successive congresses
ing capacity. which entities to the
confidence of the people not only in our ar
achieve those purposes Judging by the
hs Very ~ ena IS thsrs
for believing that under similar circum-
ences of an opinion MON sun opponents Would
have achieved any practical result?
that our policy is to do fair and equal
JUSTICE to all men. paying no heed to
| heed to his race, his creed. or his birth
place
We recognize the organization of
| capital and the organization of labor
natural outcomes of our industrial sys-
tenn Each kind of organization is to be
| favored long as it acts in a spirit of
j4stiee and of regard for the rights 20, Of
| protection of the law, and each in turn
| is to be held to a strict obedience to the
| law; for man is above it and man
below it. The humblest individual Is to
have his rights safeguarded scrupu-
alton. for each is to receive justice. no
more and no less. The problems with
| which we have to deal in our modern in
| dustrial and social life are manifold
approach their solution is simply the
/ spirit of honesty. of courage, and of
| common sense.
| Irrigation in the West.
In inaugurating the great work of fr-
rigation in the west the administration
has been enabled by congress to take one
| of the longest strides ever taken under
| our government toward utilizing our
| vast national domain for the settler, the
| actual home-maker.
| Ever since this continent was discov-
| cred the need Of an Isthmian canal to
connect the Pacific and the Atlantic has
| been recognized; and ever since the birth
| of our nation such a canal has been
| planned At last the dream has become
a reality The Isthmian canal Is now be-
Ing built by the government OF the
| United States. We conducted the ne
| gotiation for its construction with incest
| and most scrupulous honor. and in a
| those through whose territory it was to
| run Every sinister effort which could
be devised by the spirit of faction or
order to defeat the treaty with Panama
and thereby prevent the consummatfon
| of this work The construction of the
certainly 1T is unwise to entrust the car
| ryfng out Of SO momentous a policy to
those who have endeavored to defeat the
Our foreIrn noIicx has been so com