Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-10-28
issues Of the Campaign Presented in Forcible
and UnanswerabIe Manner
CARNEGIE HALL IN new YORK
FILLED TO )VERFL LOWING
Grand Ovation rendered Distinguished Statesman
By Citizen of the Empire State.

tries into confusion and bring many
to ruin. Stability, unity OF purpose,
is absolutely necessary to the compli-
Gated and delicate machinery OF mod
ern business, where the change in the
price OF a single by-product may VI
tally affect the prosperity Of a great
industry and may make all the dill
ference between comfort and want
to thousands of workingmen and
their families. Nobody denies that
the tariff must from to time be re,
vised. But 1t is too evident for argu-
ment that the revision must be in
trusted to friendly hands--to those
who believe, as matter of business
and of public morals, in the policy OF
cherishing American manufactures
and of caring for the well-being OF
millions of American workmen. 1t is
not matter to be handed over to
those who insist at the start that
American industries have no right to
protection at all, and that such pro-
lection is "the robbery of the many
for the benefit of the few" 1t was
an old maxim of English law that
said. "A child should not be given
in charge to nurse that loves ii
not"
Neither can the country afford to
intrust its vast domestic interests to
those who denounce as extravagant
and unconstitutional all money spent
for the general welfare" to promote
which was one of the special objecrs
for which the Constitution was
brought into being. Do we want to
give our gallant little Army to the
care of those who think it ought to be
disbanded, or our Navy--which un
der this administration has carried
our flag into SO many distant seas
never on a wanton errand of hostili,
ty, but always as the friend of Ameri
can commerce and the protector OF
our citizens--do we want it handed
over to the men who say it ought to
be thrown to the scrap heap? Do
we want the Philippines abandoned
to be the victims of misrule at the
hands of their own agitators, or the
prey of any covetons power that may
wish to enslave them for its own prof,
it? Do we want to sneak out of the
Isthmus of Panama, acknowledge we
have 10 right there, and basely sur.
render the hope and the dream OF
centuries? And do we want to for.
sake and repudiate The foreign policy
of Mckinley and Roosevelt, which
was also the policy of Lincoln and
Monroe, which had its august origin
in the heart and brain of George
Washington, OF treating all contries
as friends, doing business with all
the peoples of goodwill, meeting
courtesy and wrong with firmness,
being just to all nations and partial
to none?
These are not idle questions. Every
one of them is directly involved in
the result of this election. On every
one OF them there is not man here
tonight but knows how the republi.
can party stands. In our platform,
in our record. in the words OF our
candidates, our views and our In.
tentions are made known to the
world. Our path is marked out for
us SO plainly that even If We wanted
TO we could not deviate from 1t. II
the people want continuation on
the policies of the last eight years,
they know they will get II from the re-
publican party. But what man IN
this audience, what man in this uni
verse, can tell what Judge Parker
would do If he were elected next
month? Perhaps-a.ld this is the
theory of the most optimistic Of his
supporters-he might do just what
Mr. Roosevelt is doing; and perhaps
he would take the opposite view OF
all public questions. There comes
no light on this vital inquiry from
the democratic platform II dodges
some questions and straddles others;
it makes charges without a basis OF
truth or probability. II pahers In q