Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-07-02

or fS7S. hope was faint and confidence
was gone.
We met these unhappy conditions Wig
orously, effectively and at. once We re-
placed Democratic tariff law based on
tree trade principles and garnished with
sectional protection by a consistent pro-
tective tariff. and industry. freed from
oppression and stimulated by the en-
eouragSment Of wise laws. has expanded
TO a degree never before known has con-
quered new markets and has created a
volume of exports which has surpassed
fmagination- Under the Dingley tariff
labor has been fully employed. wages
have risen and all Industries have re-
vived and prospered
We firmly established the gold stand
ard which was then menaced with de-
struction. Confidence returned to BUSH
ness, and with confidence an unexamnIed
prosperity. For deficient revenues sun
plemented by improvident issue of bonds
we gave the country am income which
produced large surplus and which en-
abled US only four years after the Spanish
war had closed to remove over one hum
dred millions of annual war taxes. re-
duce the public debt and lower the inter-
est charges of the government
Public Credit Revived.
The public credit. which had been so
lowered that i'm time of peace a Demo-
cratic administration made large loans
at extravaganza rates of interest i'm order
20 pay current expenditures. rose under
Republican administration to it's highest
point and enabled us to borrow at 2 per
cent. even in time of war.
We refused TO palter longer with the
miseries of Cuba. We fought a quick
and victorious with Spain We set
Cuba free. governed the island for three
years and then gave il to the Cuban
people with order restored, with ample
revenues. with education and public
health established. free from debt and
connected with the United States by wise
provisions for our mutual interest. We
have organized the government of Porto
Rico: and its people now enjoy peace.
freedom. order and prosperity
In the Philippines we have sunnrassed
insurrection,. established order and given
to life and property a security never
known there before We have organized
civil government. made it effective and
strong in administration and have con-
ferred upon the people of those islands
the largest civil liberty they have ever
enjoyed.
Our Foreign Policies.
BY our possession of the Philippines we
We're enabled to take prompt and effective
action in the relief of the LEGATIONS az
Pekin and a decisive part in preventing
the partition and preserving the integ-
rity of China
The possession Of a route for an 18TH
milan canal. so long the dream of Ameri-
can craftsmanship, is now an accom-
plished fact. The great work of connect
ing the Pacific and Atlantic by a canal
is at last begun, and It is due to the Re
publican party.
We have passed laws which will bring
the arid lands Of the United States with.
In the area of ontivaton.
We have reorganized the army and nut
it in the highest state of efficiency.
We have passed laws for the improve
ment and support of the militia
We have pushed forward the building
of the navy. the defense and protection of
our honor and our interests.
Our administration Of the great depart
ments of the government have been hon
est and efficient. and wherever wrong
doing has been discovered the RepubIi
can administration has not hesitated 70
probe the evil and bring offenders to JUS
tice without regard to party or political
ties.
Laws enacted by the Republican nartv
which the Democratic party failed to en-
force and which were intended for the
protection OF the public against the un-
just discrimination the illegal en-
croachment of vast aggregations of can't
tai have been fearlessly enforced by a
Republican president and new laws in
surfing reasonable publicity as to the on
erations of great corporations and pro-
vidtng additional remedies for the pre-
vention OF discrimination i'm freight rates
have been passed by a Republican con-
gress.
The Principles Outlined.
In this record OF achievement during
the past eight years may be read the
pledges which tue Rspulhcsa party has
fulfilled. We promise "a continue these
policies and we declare our constant adj
herence to the following principles:
Protection which guards and develops
our industries is n 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 protection. and therefore
rates OF duty should be readiusted only
when conditions have so changed that the
public interest demands their alteration
but this work cannot safely be committed
TO any other hands than those OF the Re
publican party.
To entrust It to the Democratic party
Is TO invite disaster. Whether, as in 1892
the Democratic party declared the pro-
tective tariff unconstitutional. or whether
IL demands tariff reform or tariff revision
its real object is always the destruction
OF the protective system. However spe-
cious the name, the purpose is ever the
same.
Democratic tariff has always been
followed by business adversely: "A Repub-
lcan tariff by business prosperity To a
Republican congress and Republican
president this great question can be
safely entrusted. When the only free
trade country among the great nations
agitates return TO protection, the chief
protective country should not falter i'm
maintaining it.
We have extended widely our foreign
markets, and we believe i'm the adoption
OF all practicable methods for their
further extension, including commercial
reciprocity, wherever reciprocal arrange
ments can be effected consistent with the
principles Of protection and without in
jury 10 American agriculture. American
labor, or any American industry.
We believe IL to be the duty of the Re-
publican party to uphold the gold stand
ard and the integrity and value of our
national currency. The maintenance OF
the gold standard. established by the Re-
publican party, cannot safely be commit
ted TO the Democratic party, which re-
sisted its adoption. and has never given
any proof since that time of belief i'm IL
or fidelity to it,
While every other industry has pros
pered under the fostering aid OF Republi-
can legislation, American shipping en-
gagged in foreign trade in competition with
the low cost of construction, low wages
and heavy subsidies of foreign govern
ments has not for many years received
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