The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-08-06

people and to prevent the accumulation
| of an unnecessary surplus. The result 10
| that hardly ever before have the expendi-
lures and income OF the government 90
| closely corresponded. In the fiscal year
| that has Just closed the excess Of income
over the ordinary expenditures was $780,
/ 000 This does not take account OF the
| $50. 900 expended out Of the accumulated
| surplus for the purchase OF the tsthmian
| canal. II II an extraordinary proof of
| the sound financial condition of the ma
| ton that instead OF following the usual
course In such matters and throwing the
| burden upon posterity by an issue OF
| bonds, we we're able to make the pay
ment outright and yet after 1t to have In
the treasury surplus Of $61. 100000. More
over. we were able to pay this 100000 900
| out OF hand without causing the slight
est disturbance to business conditions.
We have enacted tariff law under which
| during the past few years the country
| has attained q height Of material we'll
being never before reached. Wages are
higher than ever before. That whenever
| the need arises there should be a readjust-
| ment OF the tariff schedules Is undoubted:
but such changes can with safety be made
| only by those whose devotion to the prin-
| ciple of protective tariff is beyond ques-
| ton; for otherwise the changes would
amount not to rea6Justment. but to re-
peal. The readJustment when made must
| maintain and not destroy the protective
| principle. To the farmer, the merchant.
| the manufacturer this Is vital; but per-
| haps no other man is SO much interested
| as the wage-worker in the maintenance
of our present economic system, both as
regards the finances and the tariff. The
| standard Of living Of our wage-workers is
higher than that of any other country.
and II cannot so remain unless we have
a protective tariff which shall always keep
as a minimum a rate OF duty sufficient
to cover the difference between the labor
cost here and abroad. Those who, like
our opponents, "denounce protection as
robbery" thereby explicitly commit
themselves to the proposition that II they
were to revise the tariff no heed would be
paid to the necessity of meeting this
difference between the standards of liv-
ing for wage-workers here and in other
countries; and therefore on this point their
antagonism to our position is funda-
mental. Here. again. we ask that their
promises and ours be judged by what has
! been done in the immediate past. We ask
that sober and sensible men compare the
workings of the present tariff law, and
the conditions which obtain under 1t. with
the workings of the preceding tariff law
of 1894 and the conditions which that tariff
of 1894 helped to bring about.
We believe In reciprocity with foreign
| nations on the terms outlined in Presi-
| dent McKinley's last speech. which urged
| the extension Of our foreign markets by
| reciprocal agreements whenever they could
| be made without injury to American Indus
| try and labor 1t is a singular fact that
| the only great reciprocity treaty recently
| adopted-that with Cuba-was finally OPP
| posed almost alone by the representatives
| OF the very party which now states that
| II favors reciprocity. And here-again we
ask that the worth OF our words be Judged
by comparing their deeds with ours. On
! this Cuban reciprocity treaty there were
| at the outset grave differences of opin-
| ion among ourselves: and the notable
| thing In the negotiation and ratification
| OF the treaty. and In the legislation which
| carried II into effect, was the highly prac-
| tical manner In which without sacrifice
| of principle these differences OF opinion
| were reconciled. There was no rupture OF
| a great party, but an excellent practical
| outcome, the result Of the harmonious CO.
operation of two successive presidents and
| two successive congresses. This Is an IL
Illustration of the governing capacity which
entities us to the confidence of the people
not only in our purposes but in our prac-
tical ability to achieve those purposes.
Judging by the history Of the last IL
years, down to this very month, is there
Justification for believing that under sim
liar circumstances and with similar initial
differences of opinion. our opponents would
have achieved any practical result?
We have already shown In actual fact
that our policy is to do fair and equal
Justice to all men, paying no heed to wheth-
er man is rich or poor; paying no heed
to his race his creed, or his birthplace.
We recognize the organization of cap
ital and the organization OF labor as nat
ural outcomes Of our Industrial system.
Each kind of organization Is to be favored
so long as II acts in a spirit of justice and
OF regard for the rights of others. Each
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| law, and each In turn Is to be held to a
strict obedience to the law; for no man
is above II and no man below 1t. The
humblest individual Is to have his rights
safeguarded as scrupulously as those Of
the strongest organization for each Is to
receive Justice, no more and no less. The
problems with which we have to deal In
our modern Industrial and social life are
manifold; but the spirit In which 1t Is
necessary to approach their solution Ia
simply the spirit OF honesty, of courage
and of'common sense.
In inaugurating the great work OF irri-
cation In the west the administration has
been enabled by congress to take one OF
the longest strides ever taken under oui
government toward utilizing our vast ma.
, tional domain for the settler, the actua
| home maker
, Ever since this continent was discovered
, the need of an isthmian canal to connect
. the Pacific and the Atlantic has beer
: recognized; and ever since the birth OF oul
, nation such a canal has been planned. A
, last the dream has become a reality. TIL,
isthmian canal is now being built by tn,
} government OF the United States. W.
: conducted the negotiations for Its construc
ton with the incest and most scrupuloui
honor. and In a spirit OF the largest gen
, crosby toward those through whose ter
ritory II was to run. Every sinister ef
fort which could be devised by the spiri
OF faction or the spirit of self-interest wal
made in order to defeat the treaty with
} Panama, and thereby prevent the consum
nation Of this work. The construction Of
the canal Is now an assured fact; but mos,
certainly II Is unwise to entrust the carry
ing out of 30 momentous policy to those
} who have endeavored to defeat the whole
: undertaking.
Our foreign policy hasbeen so conducted