Mower County transcript., 1904-06-29

Joy peace, freedom. order and pros:
perity. @ggaia # s..s.. ..s I 5. aS
CIVIL LIBERTY FOR PEOPLE
/ OF THE PHILIPPINES.
In the Philippines we have sup.
pressed insurrecrion, established order
and given to life and property secur
5lty never known there before. We
have organized civil government, made
It enectlve and strong in administra-
ton and have conferred upon the peo.
pie OF those islands the largest civil
liberty they have ever enjoyed.
By our possession of the Philippines
we were enabled to take prompt and
effective action in the relief of the
legations at Peking and a decisive part
In preventing the partition and the
preserving OF the integrity of China.
The possession of a route for an
1sthmian canal, so long the dream of
American craftsmanship, is now an
accomplished fact. The great work of
connecting the Pacific and Atlantic
oceans by q canal is at last begun and
it Is due TO the Republican party.
We have passed laws which will
bring the arid lands of the United
States within the area OF cultivation.
We have reorganized the army and
put it in the highest state of efficiency.
We have passed laws for the i'm
provement and support of the militia.
We have pushed forward the build
Ing of the navy, the defense and the
protection of our honor and our inter
ests.
Our administration of the great de-
honest and efficient and wherever
wrongdoing has been discovered the
Republican administration has not
hesitated to probe the evil and bring
offenders to justice without regard to
party or political ties.
ANTITRUST LEGISLATION
AND PROTECTIVE TARIFF.
Laws enacted by the Republican
party, which the Democratic party
failed to enforce and which were in
tended for the protection of the public
against the unjust discrimination of
the illegal encroachment of vast ag-
gregations of capital, have been fear
lessly enforced by Republican presi-
dent and new laws ensuring reason
able publicity as to the operations of
great corporations and providing ad-
ditional remedies for the prevention
of discrimination in freight rates have
been passed by Republican congress.
In this record of achievement dur
ing the past eight years may be read
the pledges which the Republican
party has fulfilled. We propose to con-
tinue these policies and we declare our
constant adherence to the following
principles:
Protection, which guards and de-
velops our industries, is a cardinal
policy of the Republican party. The
| measure of protection should always
at least equal the difference in the cost
| OF production at home and abroad. We
insist upon the maintenance of the
principles of protection and there
fore, rates of duty should be readjust-
ed only when conditions have so
changed that the public interest de-
mands their alteration, but this work
cannot safely be committed to any
| other hands than those of the Repub-
lican party. To entrust it to the Demo
| cratic party is to invite disaster
Whether, as in 1892, the Democratic
! party declares the protective tariff un-
! constitutional or whether it demands
| tariff reform or tariff revision it's real
! object is always the destruction of the
! protective system. However specious
| the name the purpose is ever the same.
| A Democratic tariff has always been
| followed by business adversely; Re.
! publican tariff by business prosperity
TO Republican congress and Re
| publican president this great question
| can be safely entrusted. When the only
| free trade country among the great ma
! tions agitates return to protection
| the chief protective country should not
falter in maintaining it.
We have extended widely Our for
| eign markets and we believe in the
! adoption Of all practicable methods for
| their further extension, including com
! mercial reciprocity wherever reciprocal
arrangements can be effected eOnsis-
tent with the principles OF protection
| and without injury to American agri-
culture, American labor or any Amer
! fcnn industry.
REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL
UPHOLD GOLD STANDARD.
We believe it to be tho duty of tho
Republican party to uphold tho god
standard and the integrity and value
Of our national currency. The main.
tanning Of the. gold standard, estab-
lished by the Republican party, can
not safely be committed to the Demo
cratic party, which resisted its adop-
/ tion and has never given any proof
since that time of belief in it or f1del-
ity to it.
While every other industry has pros
! pered under the fostering aid of Re-
publican legislation American ship.
ping, engaged in foreign trade in com
petition with the low cost of construc-
ton, low wages and heavy subsidies of