The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-06-28

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kets and has created volume of ex|
ports which has surpassed imagination.
Under the Dingley tariff labor hassbeen
fully employed, wages have risen and all
industries have revived and prospered.
We firmly established the gold standard,
which was then menaced with destruc-
ton.
Confidence returned to business and
with confidence an unexampled prosper
ity.
For deficient revenues supplemented by
improvident issues of bonds we gave the
country an income which produced
large surplus and which enabled us only
four years after the Spanish war had
closed to remove over one hundred mill
lions of annual war taxes, reduce the pub
lie debt and lower the interest charges
of the government.
The public credit, which had been 80
lowered that in time of peace a Demo-
cratic administration made large loans at
extravagant rates of interest in order to
pay current expenditures, rose under Re-
publican administrations to its highest
point and enabled us to borrow at per
cent even in time of war.
We refused to palter longer with the
miseries of Cuba. We fought a quick
and victorious war with Spain. We set
Cuba free, governed the island for three
years and then gave 1t to the Cuban peo-
pie with order restored, with ample rev.
enues. with education and public health
established, free from debt and connected
with the United States by wise provisions
for our mutual interests. We have or
ganized the government of Porto Rico,
and its people now enjoy peace freedom,
order and prosperity.
In the Philippines we have suppressed
insurrection, established order and given
to life and property security never
known there before. We have organized
civil government, made 1t effective and
strong in administration and have con-
ferred upon the people of those islands
the largest civil liberty they have ever en-
joyed.
By our possession of the Philippines we
were enabled to take prompt and effective
action in the relief of the legations at
Picking and a decisive part in preventing
the partition and preserving the integrity
of China.
Isthmian Canal Secured.
The possession of route for an 18TH
milan canal, so long the dream of Amer
lean craftsmanship, is now an accom-
plished fact. The great work of connect
ing the Pacific and Atlantic by canal is
at last begun, and 1t is due to the Repub-
lican party.
We have passed laws which will bring
the arid lands of the United States within
the area of cultivation We have reor-
ganized the army and put 1t in the high
est state of efficiency We have passed
laws for the Improvement and support of
the militia.
We have pushed forward the building Of
the navy the defense and protection Of
our honor an1 our interests.
Our administration of the great DEPART
ments of the government has been hon
est and efficient, and wherever wrongdo-
ing 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
Laws enacted by the Republican party
which the Democratic party failed to en-
force and which were intended for the
protection of the public against the un-
just discrimination or the illegal en-
croachment of vast aggregations of cap
ital have been fearlessly enforced by a
Republican president. and new laws in
suring reasonable publicity as to the
operations of great corporations and pro-
viding additional remedies for the pre-
vention of discrimination in freight rates
have been passed by a Republican con-
gress.
In this record of achievement during
the last eight years may be read the
pledges which the Republican party has
fulfilled. We promise to continue these
policies. and we declare our constant ad-
herence to the following principles:
Protection Cardinal Policy.
Protection, which guards and develops
our industries, is cardinal policy of the
Republican party. The measure of pro-
lection 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 protec-
ton, and therefore rates of duty should
be readjusted only when conditions have
50 changed that the public interest de-
mands their alteration, but this work can
not safely be committed to any other
hands than those of the Republican party
TO intrust it to the Democratic party is
to invite disaster
Whether as In 1892 the Democratic par
ty declared the protective tariff unconsti-
tutional or whether It demands tariff re-
rorrn or tariff revision its real obfest Il
always the destruction of the protective
system. However specious the name The
purpose Is ever the same. A Democrats
tariff has always been followed by btisis
ness adversely; Republican tariff IN
business prosperity
To Republican congress and Repub-
iican president this great question can be
safely intrusted When the only free
trade country among the great nations
agitates return to protection the chief
protective country should not falter in
maintaining It.
We have extended widely our foreign
markets, and we believe IN the adoption
Of all practicable methods for their fur
Their extension. including commercial rec
iprocify wherever reciprocal arrangement
can be elected. consistent with the nrin.
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