Arizona republican., 1904-07-28

 entrusted with power as public ser wants during the past seven years of administration and legislation now come before the people contented to be judged by our record of achieve ment.
 In all of this we are more fortunate than our opponents, who now appeal for confidence on the ground, which some express and some seek to have confdentially understood, that if triumphant they may be trusted to prove false every principle which in the last eight years they have laid down as vital, and to leave un6'sturb- ed those very acts of the admiinstra ton because of which they ask that the administration itself be driven from power. Seemingly their present atti- tude as to their past record is that some of them were mistaken and others insincere.
 We make an appeal in a wholly diff ferent spirit. We are not constrained to keep silent on any vital question. We are divided on no vital question: our policy is continuous and the same for all sections and localities. There is nothing experimental about the got- ernment we ask the people to continue in power, for our performance in the past, our proved governmental efficien- cy, is a guarantee as to our promises for the future.
 In dealing with tte great organiZa- tions known as trusts. we do not have to explain why the laws were not en- forced. but to point out that they ac- tually have been enforced and that les islation has beer enacted to increase the effectiveness of their enforcement. We do not have to propose to turn the rascals out - for we have shown in very deed that whenever by dili- gent investigation a public official can be found who has betrayed his trust he will be punished to the full extent of the law without regard to whether he was appointed under a republican or a democratic administration. By financial legislation which we have enacted there Is now ample circulation | for every business needed and every dollar of this circulation is worth a dollar in gold. We have reduced the l interest bearing debt and in still larger measure the interest on that debt. All of the war taxes imposed during the | Spanish war have been removed with a view to relieve the people and to pre- vent the accumulation of an unneces- sary surplus.
 We have enacted a tariff law under which during the past few years the country has attained a height of ma terial we'll being never before reached Wages are higher than ever before | That whenever need arises there should be be a readjustment of the tariff schedules is undoubtedly true
 but such changes can be made only by those whose devotion to the prin- ciple of u protective tariff Is beyond question. for otherwise changes would amount not to readjustment but to re- peal. Readjustment when made must
 maintain and not destroy the protec- uve principle.
 The standard of living of our wagC
 workers Is higher than that of any
 other country, and it cannot so re-
 main unless we have a protective tar
 fir which shall always keep as mini
 mum a rate of duty sufficient to CO.,
 yer the difference between the labO,
 cost here and abroad. These who
 like our opponents. "denounce protec-
 ton as robbery thereby explicitly
 commit themselves to the proposition
 y V
 heed would be paid to the necessity O
 meeting this difference nerxeen stand.
 ards of living for wage workers her,
 and in other countries.
 ! We recognize the organization O
 capital and the organization of labol
 as natural outcomes of our industria
 system. Each is to be granted tn,
 full protection of the law, and each 1T
 turn is to be held to strict obedience
 to the law, for no man is above it an,
 no man is below it.
 In inaugurating the great work O
 irrigation in the west, the administra
 ton has been enabled by congress t
 take one of the longest strides eve
 taken under any government towarC
 utilizing our vast national domain fo the settler, the actual home seeker. Ever since this continent was dis covered the need of en isthmian cana
 to connect the Pacific and the Atlanti has been recognized and ever sine the birth of our nation such a cana has been planned. At last the dreau has become a reality. The isthmial canal is now being built by the gov eTnment of the United States.
 Our foreign policy has been so con
 duoted that, while not one of our jus : claims has Seen sacrificed, our rela tions with all foreign nations are nov
 of the most peaceful kind; there i
 not a cloud on the horizon. The las , cause of irritation be tween us and an
 other nation was removed by the set I tlement of the Alaskan boundary.
 In the Caribbean sea, we have mad good our promises of independence t , Cuba, and have proved our assertio F that our mission in the island was on ! of justice and not of self aggrandize s ment, and thereby no less than by ou 9 action in Venezuela and Panama W 2 have shown that the Munroe doctrin is living reality.
 5 American interests in the Pacif1
 have rapidly grown. American en
 terprise has laid a cable across thi e the greatest of oceans. We hay ' proved in effective fashion that w ] l wish the Chinese empire well and de sire it's integrity and indep andelce. Our foothold in the Philippine e greatly strengthens our position i a cOrODptitiOp for fro .Ia ;D Tho aas, h.,