The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-09-23
Contrast the Results

we are to 60 forward or turn back.
President Garfield asked the young
men whether they wanted to walk
in the light of hope and confidence
or prowl about in a graveyard.
Both are pertinent questions for
young men in this campaign. The
Republican party has record for
doing things. The principal COM
plant of the opposition is because
this party has done things, even
though they were things which men
of all parties, even Democrats, have
been saying ought to be done.
They now admit that the gold
standard has been irrevocably fixed
by law, that they can not change
the tariff however much they might
desire to do so, that the Panama
Canal must be built, that the trusts
have been curbed, and that we
have the Philippines and must keep
them for time.
With the exception of four years
from 1898 to 1897, the Republican
party has directed the policy of the
government and under that policy
there have been progress and pros
perity here. more abundant than
anywhere else in the world. From
1861 to 1898, Notwithstanding the
greatest civil war of the worlds
history, our prosperity was phenom-
email. Our wealth increased from
SIC, 900, 900, 900 in 1860 to H.
900, 900, 900 in 1890; our manufac-
tured products from 81, 300, 900, 900
to So. 900, 900, 900. The prosperity
and progress of the United States
attracted millions of people from
other countries, who came to join
in the benefits of this new and bet
ter life. Slave labor was abolished
free labor received the highest
wages ever paid, and in money
which was at premium in every
other country. We marched for
ward in confidence and hope for the
future.
But in 1892 the people at the
polls committed the government to
the care of the Democratic party,
Notwithstanding the pledge of that
party to undo the things that had
been done and by SO undoing, give
us the markets of the world. That
party kept the first part of its
pledge. 1t undid prosperity and
industrial enterprise, but it did not
give us either the markets of the
world or allow us to retain our own
markets. Its theories were old and
out of date. 1t had dug in the
graveyard of its buried past and
brought forth theories that had
been discarded as impracticable
and worthless. But it tried again
the old theory of free trade and the
American people became idle while
the people of Europe prospered at
our expense.
We had four years of paralysis
due to the turning backward by that
party, and when the next opportun-
ity came for the people to order a
change they elected William Nc
Kinley, the prophet of protection
and prosperity for their Chief Mag
istrate. The Republican party re-
stored the policies that had made
the country great, and from the day
of that election confidence returned,
and business resumed. There was
work and wages for all, and wages
increased until in 1908 they were
higher than ever before, and earn
ings higher by so per cent than in
1894.
In eight years we have wiped out
all but the memory of the Democra-
tic disasters. Shall we continue to
move forward in the sunlight of
hope and prosperity or again prowl
about in the graveyard of buried
issues trying to. revive them and see
if after resurrection they will not
prove more serviceablef
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