The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06


same flag, and believe In the same
principles of the same government of
the same splendid people and their d.
vine destiny. We Republicans believe
that the American army should be
small; but that 1t should be the best
body of men ever called to a nations
colors-the best organized, best
equipped, best trained. And we be-
lieve that sixty-nve thousand Ameri-
can soldiers recruited from American
homes and scattered among Ameri-
cas- eighty millions of people-their
fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters
lis a guarantee of liberty instead of
a menace.
What Roosevelt Represents.
Another thing: While Theodore
Roosevelt is President no breaker of
the Nations laws will go unwhipped
of justice. The election Of Theodore
Roosevelt means that no power in
this Republic. however strong or rich,
no organization. however numerous
and determined. is too great for the
sovereignty of law; no citizen how
ever poor or humble, no interests how
ever small or weak, is too Insignificant
for the laws protection. And Just
this is the largest issue Of this cam
paign-that common equality before
the law which Theodore Roosevelt's
personality represents.
Justice, the laws protection and
the laws punishment to all alike as
justice shall decree-this is the motto
of the Republican party. this is the
principle that reigns in the mind and
heart of Theodore Roosevelt. II
abuses develop, not covered by exist
ing law we will devise new legislation
to meet them. The Republican party
does not believe in Parker's theory
that the common law covers the in.
dustrial and commercial develop
ments of the twentieth century. The
world moves; therefore the Republi
can position is that as our fathers
wrote new and needful laws for their
day, we also will write new and need
full laws Ior ours. Law, law, law!
Enforcement, enforcement. enforce
ment! Equality, equality, equality!
The equal enforcement of lawsuits
is the beginning and the end of the
Republican party's judicial creed
this the Republican conception OF
liberty.
Frankness with the people in discus
,f@ l.
they vote-this is our campaign pol
icy. Does any voter ask what we will
do with the tariff? Our answer is
plain and everywhere the same. We
will maintain the principle OF protec
ton. We will modify tariff schedules
only when the welfare of American
business demands it, And when we
do revise 1t, it will be on the theory
of protection instead of on the theory
of free-trade. Men talk of tariff re-
vision as though it were a simple
thing, an easy task. In the world Of
practical craftsmanship there Is no
problem harder or more intricate.
Where We Stand.
Republican success and certain
ty; the Opposition and uncertainty in
every policy, foreign and domestic
that Is the issue. You know where we
stand, we Republicans. On the issue
of trusts we stand against violent as
saults on property, on the one hand,
and for law and its enforcement, on
the other hand. On the financial issue
we stand by the gold standard. On
the tariff issue we stand by protec-
ton. On the Philippine issue we
stand by the Flag.
Does the Opposition object to the
Philippines on the theory of consent
Of the governed?" AS soon as the
Filipinos learned our purposes toward
them, they welcomed us; and today
there is more content in the Philip
pines than ever in their history. Even
il the Filipinos had not consented,
that phrase would be no argument
civilization there. Thomas Jefferson
held slaves when he wrote the phrase
consent of the governed"-which
does not justify slavery. but which
proves that Jefferson's phrase had
limitations even in his own mind. We
governed the Indians for a century
without their consent although they
owned this country. We govern the
Indians without their consent to-
day. And we govern the Es-
quimos of Alaska without their
consent. We even governed the
inhabitants of the Louisiana Pur-
chase without their consent We
fought the bloody Civil War to force
our southern brothers back into Ma
tional Government without their con-
sent-denied their right to set up
their own government and blew their
government to pieces at the cannon's
mouth-all without their consent and
over their desperate resistance. And
the man who forced the Nations
government upon great, brave, In
telligent people who were capable of
governing themselves and actually
we're governing themselves-the man
who did that was Abraham Lincoln,
and he did Gods work when he did
it. And today our Southern brothers
bless the name Of Lincoln and glory
in the government they were COM
PEELED to accept at the point Of the
bayonet
Consent Of the Governed"
Consent of the governed" We do
not ourselves permit. the best part of
our population-the millions Of Amer
ican women-to take part in our gov