Bisbee daily review., 1904-07-08

adherence to the policy of protection i've have given to our industries a de lyelopment which the fathers of the
 Republic never dreamed of; which, be
 sides supplying our home market, has lcarried our manufacturers to the ut ltermost ends O the earth.
 History affords no parallel to the
 vast and increasing prosperity which
 ,his country has enjoyed lnder Re. lpublican rule. I hasten to say We
 do not claim to have invented seed ltime and harvest. and industry and
 thrift. We are great people and
 success is our right: God is good to those who behave themselves. But
 We may justly claim that the Republl-
 can party has been in power during lthese years of marvellous growth, and
 We can at least bring proot that we lnave not prevented it-and this is no Islight honor for a party to claim.
 l will not at this moment speak of the
 important acquisitions of territory we nave made which render us in many
 ways the predominant power in the Pacific. But out of the territory we already possessed, fourteen new States lhave entered the Union. The census Iof 1850 gave us 23,000,000 of popula- Ition-the last one 7e,000,000 The
 humber of our farms-the total Of Jour cultivated acreage-has increased lfourfold. Our corn crop is five times what it was; our wheat crop six times. The capital invested in man Iufacturing has grown from five hun dred millions to ten billions; where lit employed less than a million ar ltisans, it now employs more than five millions; and while the number Of
 workingmen has increased five times ltheir wages has i increased tenfold. The value of manufactured property lis thirteen times what it was when the Republicans of Michigan met under lthe oaks. The real and personal IwealtE of the country has grown in lthis amazing half century from seven thousand miliians to ninety-four thous- land millions Our railroads have
 grown from a mileage of 16,010 lto one of 200,0 900. Our imports and eX- ports have grown up by leaps and bounds to the same monstrous pro lportions. And finally, let us hasten Ito say, as the other side will say 1t for us, instead of the s47 0oo 900 which supplied our modest needs in
 1850 we now collect and spend some is700, ,000.0 900 annually. l can only la6d what Speaker Reed replied 70 Q Democratic statesman who complain led of a billion-doliar Congress: Well, lthis is a billion-dollar country"
 Of course our opponents, who have igot far enough from the men and lthe events of the great war period Ito admit they were not without
 merit-fc iey must say somthing- that We ee fallen away from that high level Now, I am grieved 70 confess that l am old enough 10 have
 seen something of the beginning, as well as of the present. of Republican administrations, and venture 10 say that no eight years of government in our history have been purer from
 blame or have conferred breater bene- fits upon the country than the eIshr years of Mckinley and Roosevelt which claim your approval today. l lneed not hesitate to refer 10 it. al though I have been associated with both administrations; so little of their merit is mine that I may speak of them without false modesty. Our
 national finances have never in our history been so wisely and successful fly administered; our credit. neV CT stood on a basis so broad and so strong. Our two-percents command a premium n all markets-no other icountry on earth can say as much We paid abroad the other day fifty millions in gold in a single transac- Ition without producing a ripple in exchange. The vast expenditure made necessary by our enormous in- crease in every element of national lease and expended with perfect hon Iesty. Our protective system, loyally and intelligently carried out and inl- proved in the last seven years, not on- Fly fills our Treasury with the means lof national expenditure, but has car Tried our industries and our commerce Ito a height Of prosperity which is the wonder and envy of our neighbors, who are trying to emulate our pro lgress. In the relations between labor land capital, always subject of deep
 concern in democratic governments, We ihave improved both in the letter and lin the spirit. How could it be other wise when labor knows that Mckinley land Roosevelt have watched over it's Iintesests as brother might, and capi- Ital knows that its rights will be sa- lcredly guarded so long as it is true to Tits duties? As to our place in the world, it has simply followed and naturally complmented the steady i'm lprovemenr in our domestic conditions IA country growing so fast must have Ielbow room-must have its share of lsunshine. In the last seven years, without aggression, without undue lself-aggrssion, we have taken the Iplace that belonged to us. Adher- ling with religious care to the precepts lof Washington and the traditions of a { lcentury, and avoiding ali entangling IaIliances. protesting friendship to all
 nations and particularly to none, Nc IKinley and Roosevelt have gone stead lily forward protecting and extending
 American interests everywhere and Igaining. by deserving it. the good will lof all the world Their advice has
 been constantly sought and sparingl,