Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-10-29
Hon. JOHN HAY CONFIDENT
OF REPUBLICAN SUCCESS

country made great progress along its
regular old fashioned lines of healthy
development and in 1900 when he gave
en- account of his stewardship
the people approved 1t and renewed
his term Of Office An unspeakable
crime snatched him away from his
glorious task and our loving confid.
ence In the classic myth when the
golden bough was torn away another
Immediately appeared in it's place.
Theodore Roosevelt took up the bur.
den our beloved chief laid down. and
with Incompatible courage and
strength has carried it on. With the
work of both these faithful servants
the American people are satisfied. Be-
lieving and intending that the work
shall go on in the hands and under the
guidance which has been found SO ef-
| fcient, they are not wasting so much
time as usual from their private af-
fairs to show an interest which is too
universal to need much advertising.
Contest Not Unimportant.
"None of us will make the mistake of
thinking the contest Of this year unim-
portant On the contrary, it goes down
to the very foundations of our ma
tional welfare. 1t is not campaign
rhetoric, it is merely the simple fact,
to say that nothing but disaster could
follow the reversal of the policies to
which we are indebted for the pros
perity for the past few years. The
country cannot afford to give up the
gold standard and to drift on the shift.
ing currents of financial experiment
and quackery 1t cannot afford to give
UP the principle and practice of pro-
lection to American industries.
The Tariff.
ANY radical meddling with the tariff
would throw thousand industries into
confusion, and bring many to ruin, Sta
bility, unity of purpose, is absolutely
necessary to the complicated and deli
cate machinery Of modern business,
where the change in tthe price of sin
gle by-product may vitality affect the
prosperity of great industry and may
make all the difference beween COM
fort and want to thousands of work
ingmen and their families. Nobody
denies that the tariff must from time
to time be revised. But 1t is toS evi
dent for argument that the revision
must be intrusted to friendly hands
to those who believe, as matter of
business and of public morals in the
policy Of cherishing American manu-
factures and Of caring for the we'll
being Of millions Of American work
men. 1t is not a matter to be handed
over to those who insist at the start
that American Industries have no right
to protection at all, and that such pro
lection is the robbery Of the many
for the benefit of the few 1t was an
old maxim Of English law that said:
A child should not be given in charge
to nurse that loves 1t not
| Neither can the country afford tc
intrust its vast domestic interests tc
those who denounce as extravaganI
and unconstitutional all money spent
for the general welfare, to promote
which was one Of the specific objects
for which the constitution was
brought into being. Do we want tt
give our gallant little army to the
care of those who think it ought tt
be disbanded, or our navy-which un
der this administration has carried ou
| flag into SO many distant seas, neve
on wanton errand of hostility, but al
ways as the friend of American com.
merce and the protector of our citizen!
do we want it handed over to tn,
men who say it ought to be thrown
to the scrap heap?
The Philippines and Panama.
"Do we want the Philippines aban
doned to be the victims of misrule a
the hands of their own agitators. or tn,
prey of any covetous power that ma.
wish to enslave them for its own profit
Do We want to sneak out of the 18th
mus of Panama, acknowledge we have
no right there, and basely surrender thu
hope and the dream of centuries? Ant
do we want to forsake and repudiat
the foreign policy of Lincoln and Mon
roe, which had its august origin in tn
heart and brain of George Washington
of treating all countries as friends, dc
ing business with all the peoples O
goodwill. meeting courtesy with coul
tesy and wrong with firmness. bein
| just to all nations and partial t
none?
Not Idle Questions.
"These are idle questions. Ever
one of them is directly involved in th
result of this election. On every on
of them there is not a man here t.
night but knows how the republica
party stands. In our platform, in ou
record. in the words of our candidate
our views and our intentions are mad
known to the world Our path /
marked out for us SO plainly that eve
Il we wanted to we could not deviat
from it. If people want continuatio
of the policies Of the last eight year
they know they will get it from th
republican party. But what man j
this audience what man in this un
verse. can tell what Judge Parke
would do if he were elected ne,
month? Perhaps-and this is the tn,
ory of the most optimistic of his SUI
, porters-he might do just what M
Roosevelt is doing; and perhaps III
would take the opposite view of a
public questions.