The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-12
ROOSEVELT BRANDS
DEMOCRATS UNSAFE.
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Do they object to the part we played
voice Of the, United States would now:
count for nothing in the far east if we
had abandoned the Philippines and re-
fused to do. what was done in China3
Do: they object to the fact that this
of the s' treaes sstti
two years ago7 Do they object
war off coion When the sne revolution sdIiRSa
broke out in Panama, and when only
the presence Of this ship saved the lives
of American citizens, and prevented in
fact that American warships appeared
promptly at the port of Beirut when
an effort had been made to assassinate
an American official, and in the port
of Tangier when an American citizen
had been abducted? and that in each
case the wrong complained of was
rrighted and expiated7 and that within
can squadron to Smyrna was followed
by the long-delayed concession of their
just rights to those Americans con-
cerned in educational work in Turkey2
20 they object to the trade treaty with
China, so full of advantage for the
they object to the fact that the ships
carrying the national flag now have
higher standard than ever before in
craftsmanship and in seamanship, as in
dividual units and as component parts
of squadrons and fleets? If they OBJ
ject to any or, all of these things, we
join issue with them. Our foreign policy
has been not only highly advantageous
to the United States, but hardly less
advantageous to the world as whole.
Peace and good will have followed in it's
footsteps. The government has shown
itself no less anxious to respect the
rights of others than insistent that the
rights of Americans be respected in re-
turn. AS for the navy, it has been and
peace; and it is such chiefly because it
is formidable and ready for use.
old-Age Pension Order.
When our opponents speak Of Cen
croachments' by the executive upon
the authority Of congress or the judi
ciary, apparently the act they ordina-
79, issued under the authority of ex-
listing law. This order directed that
hereafter any veteran of the civil war
who had reached the age of 81 should
be presumptively entitled to the pen
sion of Sc a month given under the
dependent pension law to those whose
capacity to earn their livelihood BY
per cent, and that by the time the age
of 70 was reached, the presumption
should be that the physical disability
was complete; the age being treated
| as an evidential fact in each case. This
order was made in the performance of
duty imposed upon the president by
an act OF congress, which requires the
executive to make regulations to gov
ern the subordinates of the pension Of
flee in determining who are entitled to
pensions. President Cleveland had al
| ready exercised this power by a regula-
. tion which declared that rs should be
set as the age at which total disability
ilarly President Mckinley established
65 as the age at which half disability
should be conclusively presumed. The
regulation now in question, in the ex-
erclse of the same power, supplemented
these regulations made under Presi-
dents Cleveland and Mckinley.
- 8. - .sayed Nation from Ruin. .
1,e The: men'Swho~ fought for union. and
for liberty, in .thesyears from 1861 TO
1865 not. only saved this nation from
ruin, but rendered an inestimable ser
vice to all mankind. We of the United
States owe the fact that today we have
a country to what they did; and the
nation has decreed by law that no one
own living, shall lack the pension to
which he is entitled, not only as mat
ter of gratitude, but as matter OF
justice.
1t is the policy of the republican party,
steadily continued thru many years, to
treat the veterans of the civil war in a
spirit of broad llberaIity. The order In
iaI Ntt% jc nd 10
Justified not merely on legal grounds, but
also on grounds of public morality.
It is matter of common knowledge
that when the average man who depends
for his wages upon bodily labor has
reached the" age of 81 his earning
ability is in all probability less by half
than it was when he was in his prime !;
age Of seventy he has probably lost all
earning ability. If there is doubt upon
this point let the doubter exami ne the
employees doing manual labor in any
great mandatory or on any great
railroad and find out how large is the
g. and TO-. and whether these
men are, still employed, at :. the
highly paid tasks which they did in
their primes. AS a matter Of fact,
| many railroads pension their employees
when they have reached these ages, and
Ill ndJlOuS WutlS Olo aye pCIlSiOio "
vail, they always begin somewhere be-
= tween the two limits thus set: 1t is
easy to test our opponents sincerity
in this matter. The order in question
is revocable at the pleasure of the ex-
ecutive.
If our opponents come Into power they
. can revoke this order and announce that
they will treat the veterans OF e:
q to 70 as presumably. in full bodily
: vigor and not entitled to pensions. vii
! they now authoritativeiy state that they
intend to do this? IT SO, we accept the Is
sue. If not, then we have the right to ask
;. why they raise an Issue which,, Wter
raised, they do not venture to meet
q In addition to those acts of the adj
. ministration which they venture to as
d sail only after misrepresenting them
d there are others which they dare mo-
!, overtly or officially attack, and yet
J, which they covertly bring forward a.
\ reasons for the overthrow of the party
In certain great centers and with Ger
: tain great interests our opponents MAKE
: every effort to show that the settlement
0 of the anthracite coal strike by the lndl
n vidual act of the president and the sue
: Icessful suit against the Northern SecuIl
e ties company-the merger suit-under
taken by the department of Justice
were acts because of which the presen
administration should be thrown from
lpower. Yet they dare not openly con
denim either act. They dare not In an,
authoritative or formal manner say tina