The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-06-25


enues, with education and public health
established free from debt and connect
ed with the United States by wise pro-
visions for our mutual interests.
I'VE have organized the government
of Porto Rico and it's people now en-
JOY peace. freedom, order and prosper
ity;, ,
pressed instruction, established order
and given life and property a security
never known there before. We have or
ganized civil government, made it eff
fective and strong in administration,
and have conferred upon the people of
those islands the largest civil liberty
they have ever enjoyed. By our posses
to take prompt and effective action in
the relief of the legation at Picking, and
decisive part in preventing the par
ton and the preserving of the integrity
of China.
The possession of route for an
isthmian canal so long the dream of
American statesmanship is now an &C.
complished fact. The great work of
Oceans by a canal is at last begun. and
it is due to the Republican party.
I'VE have passed laws which will
bring the arid lands of the United
States within the area of cultivation.
I'VE have reorganized the army and
put it in the highest state of efficiency
Improvement Of Militia.
I'VE have passed laws for the improve
ment ana support or the militia.
I'VE have pushed forward the build
ing of the navy, the defense and the
protection of our honor and interests.
Our administration of the great de-
partmentS Of the government has been
honest and efficient and wherever wrong
has been discovered the Republican adj
miniStratiOn has not hesitated to probe
the evil, and bring the offenders to JUS
tice without regard to party or political
ties
Laws enacted by the Republican par
ty which the Democratic party failed to
enforce and which were intended for the
protection of the public against the I'M
just Discrimination of the illegal en-
croachment of vast aggregations of cap
ital have been fearlessly enforced by a
Republican President and new laws in
surfing responsibility, publicity as to the
operation of great corporations and pro-
Viding additional remedies for the pre-
vention of discrimination in freight
rates have been passed by a Republican
Congress.
In this record of achievements dur
ing the past eight years may be read
the pledges which the Republican party
has fulfilled. We propose to continue
this principle and we declare our con-
slant adherence to the following princi-
Pies
Protection which guards and devel-
ops our industries is a cardinal policy
Of the Republican party The measure
of protection should always at least
equal the difference in the cost of pro-
upon the maintenance of the principles
of protection and tariff rates of duty
should be readjusted only when condit-
ions have so changed that the public
interest demands their alteration.
Work for Republicans.
But this work cannot safely be com
mitted to any other hands than those
of the Republican party. To entrust it
TO the Democratic party is to invite dis
aster. Whether as in 1892 the Demo-
cratic nartV declared the nTOtppfiVa
tariff unconstitutional or whether it
demands tariff reform or tariff revision
its real object is always the destruction
of the protective system.
However SpeciouS the name. the pur-
pose is ever the same. A Democratic
tariff has always been followed by bust
ness adversely; a Republican tariff by
business prosperity. To 4 Republican
Congress and a Republican President
this great question can be safely in
trusted. When the only free trade coun-
try among the great nations agitated a
return to protection, the chief protec-
tive country should not falter in main
tanning it,
We have extended widely our foreign
markets and we believe in the adop-
ton 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
injury TO American agriculture, Ameri-
can labor or any American industry.
we believe it to be the duty of the
Republican party to uphold the gold
and the integrity and value of
our national currency. The mainten-
ance of the gold standard, established
by the Republican party, cannot safely
be committed to the Democratic party
which resisted its adoption and has
never given any proof since that time of
belief in 1t. or fidelity to it,
Plank on American Shipping.
While every other industry has pros
pered under the fostering aid of Repub-
llcan legislation, American shipping en-
gagged in foreign trade in competition
with the low cost of construction, low
wages and heavy subsidies of foreign
received from the government of the
nited States adequate encouragement
OF any kind. We, therefore. favor legis-
latlon that Will encourage and build up
tpe American merchant marine, and we
cordially approve the legislation of the
last congress which created the mer-
chant marine commission to investigate
and report upon this subject.
"A navy powerful enough to defend
the United States against any attack to
uphold the Monroe Doctrin and to
watch over our commerce is essential to
the safety and the welfare of the Amer
lean people.
To maintain such a navy is the fixed
policy of the Republican party.
we cordially approve the attitude of
PRESIDENT Roosevelt and congress in re-
gard to the exclusion of Chinese labor, |
ana promise a continuance of the Re-
publican policy in that direction.
me civil service law was placed on the |
statute books by the Republican party |
which has always sustained II and we
renew our former declarations that it |
snail be thoroughly and honestly en- |
forced.
We are always mindful of the coun- |
Try debt TO the soldiers and sailors of |
the United tSates, and we believe in |
making ample provision for them and |
0dFf afnfS
sion laws.
We favor the peaceful settlement of |
International difficulties by arbitration. |
Protection OF Citizens.
commend the vigorous efforts |
American citizens in FOREIGN lands and