The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-30
FOUR GOOD REASONS.

| Here are four good reasons why you
should vote for Roosevelt and Fair
banks:
| First. If you are democrat and do
not believe in the republican policy of
protection, but favor tariff for rev.
nue. only" it is well for you to contem-
plate the fact that no democratic tar
/ if ever did produce enough revenue, but
that the same tinkering which eliminat-
ed protection also created increasing de-
felt in the treasury, endangered the
gold reserve and with it the parity of
our silver and paper money, and ne
cessitated large bond issues, out of
which Wall street syndicates could get
people must pay the interest and ulti-
mately the principal.
The expenses of the government are
now running close to the revenue, and
these expenses are for such purposes as
pensioning the old soldiers, paying for
the Panama canal, irrigating the arid
lands and rendering useful service to
agriculture, to commerce and labor
through departments specially institut-
ed for such services. There is no pa
triotic democrat who can desire eXpendi-
lures for such objects cut down so as
to cripple the prestige and efficiency Of
lie democrat, however ardently he may
believe in free trade, should vote for a
policy which would cut down the reve-
nues and pile up disastrous deficit as
during the last democratic administra-
| ton. Since the war taxes were taken
off, several years ago, there has been no
safe room for further reduction in the
government revenues. Anything that
might be taken off from the protective,
indirect taxes, would have to be put on
somewhere else where it would be di-
rect burden to tax payers, or else money
would have to be borrowed to make up
for the deficiencies in revenue.
Second. If you are not only demo-
crat, but democrat of the Jefferson
ian" type, you should vote the repub-
lican ticket, if only because Jefferson
himself stood for expansion as the re-
publican party now stands. The cir
cumstance for which Jefferson was most
severely criticised in his lifetime, but
which furnished the leading reason why
posterity honors his memory, was his
purchase of the Louisiana Territory,
which purchase is now being appro-
priately commemorated by the great ex-
made the deal with France for the
Louisiana Territory, he would have es-
capped much bitter criticism from the
narrow minded element of his own par
ty while he lived, but he would also
have lost for the United States the
greatest opportunity of history.
Third. If you are democrat, but
nevertheless want to know ''where you
are at" you will vote for Roosevelt and
Fairbanks, because they stand for def
mite principles, have the moral courage
to carry them out, and have behind them
the strong support of unified party.
And what the republican party says it
will do, it always does. The present
leaders of the democratic party seldom
express themselves strongly on any
particular line of policy, but, if they do,
they usually also take the precaution to
state that the senate will continue re-
publican during the next four years, so
that it would be impossible to change
existing policies, anyhow.
Fourth. If you are democrat, you
owe duty to yourself, your neighbors,
your families, and especially to ''the lit
tie ones at home" and to your fellow
countrymen not to vote for candidates
of your own party, when it is obvious
as it is now that their election would
certainly cause apprehension in bust
ness circles, tend to make the rich poor
and the poor poorer, and increase the
difficulties of making a good living.
When business depression visits the
country, it is no respector of persons.
The poor will suffer quite as much as
the rich, and democrats will suffer quite
as much as republicans.
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