The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-07-02

republican legislation has been sus-
tanned, and the laws are being en-
forced. All are equal before the law,
both the high and the mighty, the
meek and the lowly, the capitalist and
the laborer, whose capital is his muscle
intelligently directed, the rich and the
poor-all, all have equality Of opportu-
nifty before the law, and all, all must
abide by and obey the law Our civil
lization is built upon obedience to the
law. by this sign we conquer"
We enter the coming campaign with
the record of the republican party, I'M
der the leadership of Theodore Roose-
welt, feeling that we have made prog
ress and marked progress along the
line of law and order, contemporary
with the development of our material
interests.
The trIst buster who Is always
busting" the trusts by word, but new
er by action, would lead the people to
believe that all the production of the
country is under the direction Of I'M
lawful combinations. Behold how plain
a tale shall put that down. The sta
tistics carefully and honestly gathered
by the government show that COMPETE
ton is after all the great force that
regulates production and the price. If
you take all the alleged trust proper
ties engaged in production in the year
1900 they produced IA per cent, while
independent the factories produced SO
per cent. of the factory product of the
country 1t Is impossible to perma-
nently corner capital, and muscle and
the raw material which nature has
produced in such abundance.
But why multiply words? The his
tory of the country from 1898 to 1897,
for the four years under Cleveland and
democracy, as compared with what We
have to-day, tells the whole story.
That of Cleveland was marked with
dissention and disaster, not only to his
party, bit to the people, and that Of
Mckinley and Roosevelt with harmony
and prosperity unparalleled.
The history of civilized government
is record of peaceful administration
under established policies, not Of new
laws or new Interpretation. In the
old world new law or a new policy,
affecting the general welfare of the
people, is an event of generation. In
this country new laws come more fire.
quently, but those of a general
character rarely oftener than once in
an administration. The Mckinley ad-
ministration was marked by a new
tariff law which restored prosperity;
gold standard act, which gave stabil-
ity to our currency; the annexation Of
Hawaii; a short and triumphant war
with Spain, which brought freedom to
Cuba and placed Porto Rico and the
Philippines under our flag. The admin
istration of Roosevelt has brought an
end to the cry of Imperialism" with
growing civil government in the Phil
ippines, and free and independent
government in Cuba; the pur-
chase and authorization of the
Panama canal; the arbitration Of
the coal strike and the decision that
trusts are amenable to the authority Of
the law. These are some of the acts
of the republican party under the adj
ministration of President Roosevelt;
and there is not a responsible Ameri-
can citizen who dares deny that they
have, one and ALL been for the general
good of the whole people; and that
they are, one and all, endorsed by the
people.