Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-27
BY JOHN HAY.
One of the Most Notable
Speeches Of Campaign.
Full Text Of His Ringing Ad-
dress in New York.
A Splendid Presentation Of the Issues
Of the Campaign.

New York, Oct. 26.-At a great Re-
publican mass meeting at Carnegie. to-
night the leading speaker was Hon.
: John Hay. secretary of State. His
speech which is one of the stronges,
and most notable of this campaign is
given below in full. He said:
This campaign will be memora bic in
our annals as one of the quietest ever
known. Rarely in our recollection has
there been 50 little excitement, so
slight disturbance of the orderly course
of affairs. Why is it that these great
assizes where eighty millions of people
are to decide in whose hands they are
to place their interests for the next
four years should be approached with
so little Eoise. with such unusual calm?
Why is it that the American people are
possessing their souls in such repose?
There is, l venture to say, no expla-
nation of this state of feeling. except
that the people of this country have
made up their minds that there is to be
for the present no change in the prn-
ciples and policies that have proved so
successful iii the last eight years. They
had resolved definitely and clearly i'm
from the policy which as long ago as
the time of Henry Clay was called the
American system had not resulted ia
vorably. They intrusted William Nc
kinley with the task of bringing the
country back to it's old bearings. of re-
storing the we'll tried ways of the ma
ton&l housekeeping. He showed him.
self worthy of their confidence. In
progress along its regular old-fash-
Toned lines Of healthy development.
ana in 1900 when nc gave an account OF
i. his stewardship the people approved it
and renewed his term of office. An un-
spealable crime sratched him away
from his glorious task and our loving
! confidence. In the classic myth when
the golden bough was torn away an
other Immediately appeared in it's place.
Theodore Roosevelt took up the burden,
our beloved Chief laid down and with
1ncompaI able courage and strength has
carried it on. With the work of both
these faithful servants the American
people are satisfied. Believing and in
tending that the work shall go on in the
hands and under the guidance when
has been found so efficient. th1y are
not wasting so much time as us,,aI
from their private affairs to show an
interest which is 900 univei sal TO nee,
much advertising.
None If 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 national
welfare. 1t is not campaign rhetoric
IL is merely the simple fact. to saw
mat nothing but disaster could follow
the reversal of the policies to which W.
are indebted for the prosperity of the
past few years. The country can not
Afford to give up the gold standard and
to drift on the shifting currents OF
financial experiment and uuackery II
can not afford to give up the principle
and practice OF protection to American
Industries. Any radical meddling with
the tariff would throw thousand in |
dustries into confusion and bring many |
to ruin. Stability, unity of purpose, is !
absolutely necessary to the complicated |
and delicate machinery of modern BUSH |
ness. where the change in the price or |
single by-product may vitality affect |
the prosperity Of a great industry and |
may make ali the difference between
Noti'h'it anu NdUl 10 tnpuSa ildS OF /
workingmen and their families. No. ,
DoIy denies that the tariff must from
tlllle 10 time be revised. But II is too
eVident tor argument that the revision,
must be intrusted to friendly hands
10 those who believe. a matter OF
business and Of public morals. in the
policy of cherishing American manu-
IactureS and of caring for the we'll
being Of millions of American work.
men. 1t is not matter to be handed
over to those who insist at the star, J
that American industries have no right
TO protection ut 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 it not"
Neither can the country afford to in
trust its vast domestic interests to
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