The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-08-04
SPEAKER CANNON.
How he Notified Roosevelt. Some
Wholesome Truths.

Outside of the parts of his speech of
notification which were merely formal
| and perfunctory, Hon. Joseph G. Can
non, chairman of the notifying body,
worked in some of the substantial
facts of the political situation. Here
are some of these, and in them there
is feast for wholesome reflection on
the part of the citizens whose votes
decide the issue of the pending can
vass for the presidency.
Liberal compensation for labor
makes liberal customers for our prod
ucts. Under this policy of protection,
our home market affords all our peo-
pie better market than has any other
people on earth, and this, too, even if
we did not sell any of our products
abroad. In addition to this, we have
come to be the greatest exporting ma
tion in the world. For the year end
ing the Both of June, 1904, our exports
to foreign countries were valued at
81, AGO, 900, COO, of which $3.50, 900, 600
were products Of the factory. The
world fell in our debt last year $47O, :
600, 900, an increase of $50, 900, 900,
over the preceding year.
"This policy of protection has al
ways been opposed by the opponents
of the Republican party and is op-
posed by them today. In their last
national platform, adopted at st.
Louis, they denounce protection as
robbery. They never have been given
power but they proceeded by word
and act to destroy the policy Of pro-
lection. Their platform is as silent
as the grave touching the gold stand
ard and our currency system. Their
chosen leader, after his nomination,
having been as silent as the sphynx up
to that time, sent his telegram, say
ing in substance that the gold stand
ard is established, and that he will
govern himself accordingly if he
should be elected.
~ congratulate him. 1t is better to
be right late than never. 1t is better
to be right in one thing than wrong
in all things. i wonder if it ever &C.
Cured to him that if his vote and
support for his Party's candidate in
1896 and 1900 had been decisive we
would now have the silver standard
l wonder what made him send that
telegram after he was nominated, and
why he did not send it before. When
did he have change of heart and
Judgment? And does he at heart be-
lieve in the gold standard and our
currency system, or does he now try
to reap where he has not sown? If
perchance he should be elected by
forcing together discordant elements,
| submit that, with a Democratic
House of Representatives or House
| and Senate, there would be no har-
monious action in legislation or ad-
ministration that would benefit the
people. but that doubt and discomfort
would everywhere distress production
and labor. Consumption would be
curtailed. In short. we would have
an experience similar to that from
1898 to 1897. If this chosen leader
and his friends are converts to Repub'
lican policies, should not they "bring
forth fruits meet for repentance"
before they ask to be placed in the
highest positions to affect the we'll
being of all? Or if they profess al
things to all men, then they are not
worthy the confidence of any man,
If clothed with power, will they fol
low in the paths of legislation accord
ing TO their loves and votes as mani
tested by their action always hereto
fore, or will they stand by, protect
and defend the gold standard and GU
currency system that have been ore
ated under the lead of the Republican
party?
Correct revenue laws, protection
or free trade, the gold standard ant
our currency system, all depend upol
the sentiment of the majority of on
people as voiced at the ballot.b box.
majority may change our revenu
laws; a majority may change our cur
rency laws; q majority may destro
the gold standard and establish tn
silver standard, or, in lieu of either @