The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-28

keep silent on any vital question; we
are divided on no vital question; our
| pollcy is continuous and is the same
Tor all sections and localities. There
| is nothing experimental about the
government we ask the people to con-
| llnue in power, for our performance
IN the past. our proved governmental
efficiency, is a guarantee as to our
promises for the future.
In dealing with the great organi-
cations known as trusts, we do not
| nave to explain why the laws were
| they actually have been enforced and
| that legislation has been enacted to
| increase the effectiveness of their en-
| torcement. We do not have to pro-
| pose to turn the rascals out for we
| have shown in every deed that when
ever by d1ligent investigation public
official can be found who has betray
| ed his trust he will be punished to
| the full extent of the law without re-
gard to whether he was appointed
under Republican or Democratic
| administration. Never has
the administration of the government
been on q cleaner and higher level;
never has the public work of the ma
ton been done more honestly and eff
fciently.
Under the financial legislation
which we have enacted there
| is now ample circulation for
every business need; and ev-
cry dollar of this circulation is
| worth a dollar in gold. We have re-
duced the Understanding debt and
| in still larger measure the interest on
| that debt. All OF the war taxes inn
posed during the Spanish war have
| been removed with a view to relieve
the people and to prevent the accu-
mutation of an unnecessary surplus.
/ h. Il lxF %
have the expenditures and income of
the government SO closely CORE
vponded!
The Tariff and Reciprocity
"We have enacted tariff law un-
Ter which during the past few years
he country has attained height of
material Wel-being never before
reached Wages are higher than ever
before. That whenever the need arises
there should be a reimbursement of
he tariff schedules is undoubted; but
such changes can with safety be
made only by those whose devotion TO
The principle of a protective tariff
S beyond question; for otherwise the
changes would amount not to read
iustment but to repeal
1--WE ask that sober and sensible
men compare the workings of the
present tariff law and the conditions
which OBTAIN uDueT IL, Will lilS WI II
Iings of the preceding tariff law OF
1894 and the conditions which that
tariff of 1894 helped TO bring about.
1--WE believe in reciprocity with for
eign nations on the terms outlined in
President Mc<inley's last speech,
which urged the extension of our Tor
eign markets by reciprocity agree
ments whenever they could be made
without injury to American industry
and labor. 1t is a singular fact that
the only great reciprocity treaty re-
GENTLY adopted-that with Cuba-was
finally opposed almost alone by the
representatives of the very party
which now states that 1T taVors re-
cfprocitv. s. !" On this Cuban
reciprocity treaty there were at the
outset grave differences of opinion
among ourselves; and the notable
thing in the negotiation and ratifca-
ton of the treaty, and in the legisla-
ton which carried it into effect. was
the highly practical manner in which
without sacrifice Of principle these
differences of opinion were recon
ciled.
Labor and Capital.
eve recognize the organization of
capital and the organization of labor
as natural outcomeS of our industrial
system. Each kind of organization is
to be favored so long as it acts in
spirit of justice and of regard for the
rights of others Each is to be grant
ed the full protection of the law, and
each in turn is to be held to strict
obedience to the law; for no man is
above it and no man below it.
"In inaugurating the great work of
irrigation in the West the 2dmlniStra-
ton has been enabled by Congress to
take one of the longest strides ever
taken under our Government toward
utilizing our vast national domain for
the settler, the actual home-maker.
THE Isthmian Canal is
now being built by the Government of
the United States. We conducted the
negotiation for it's construction with
the incest and most scruDulous honor
and in a spirit of the largest gener-
oSity toward those through whose ter
ritory it was to run. Every sinister
effort which could be devised by the
spiri of faction or the spirit of self
interest was made in order to defeat
the treaty with Panama and thereby
prevent the contamination of this
work The construction of the canal
is now an assured fact; but most GER
tainly it is unWise to entrust the car
rying out of so momentouS a policy
TO those who have endeavored to de-
feat the whole undertaking.
.Our foreign policy has been so
conducted that while not one of our
lust claims has been sacrificed, our
relations with all foreign nations are
now of the most peaceful kind; there
is not a cloud on the horizon.
"In the Caribbean sea we have
made good our promises of independ-
ence to Cuba, and have proved our
assertion that our mission in the island
was one OF justice and not of self
ACKNOWLEDGMENT; and thereby no less
than by our action Venezuela and Pan
Doctrine is a living reality, designed
for the hurt of no~nation. but for the
protection of civih ton on the west
ern continent, and for the peace of
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1--WE earnestly desire friendship
with all the nations of the New and
Old Worlds; and we endeavor to place
our relations with them upon basis
of reciprocal advantage instead of hos
tility.
The Philippine Policy.
american interests in the Pacific
have rapidly grown. American enter
prise has laid a cable across this, the