The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-06-30
ROOSEVELT AND FAIRBANKS.

week. The chief feature of the first days
as temporary chairman. Mr.. Root wisely
based the claims OF the Republican party
not on any mere promises or professions,
but upon the record of what it has done,
and by the character of the party, establish
ed by its consistent loyalty to high ideals
during thirty-Six years of responsibility in
the national administration. Here is his
succnct eptome of the achievements of the
present administration, a record which will
appeal to every patriotic citizen:
"The present administration has reduced
taxation, reduced the public debt, reduced
the annual interest charge, made effective
progress in the regulation of trusts, fostered
business, promoted agriculture, built up the
navy, reorganized the army, reSurrected the
militia system, inaugurated a new policy for
the preservation and reclamation of public
lands, given civil government to the Philip
pines, established the republic of Cuba,
bound it to us by ties of gratitude, of com
mercial interest and of common defense,
swung open the closed gateway of the 18th
mus, strengthened the Monroe doctrine,
ended the Alaskan boundary dispute, pro-
tected the integrity of China, opened wider
its doors of trade, advanced the principle of
al ullIdllUu anu pIOlllUteu peace among tn6
nations
The second day Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, chairman of the committee on reso-
lutions, had the centre of the stage. When
Mr.. Lodge appeared before the convention
to read his report he was received with
tumultous applause, which continued until
he raised his hands for silence His reading
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convention scene. He was in good voice,
and his words were heard by those perched
on the highest rafters in the most distant
corners. The emphasis of the reader made
prominent the important planks, and the
approval of the convention came in cheers
and the waving of flags. Following are
salient points in the platform:
Protection which guards and develops our
industries is a cardinal policy of the Repub-
llcan party.
The measure of protection should always
at least equal the difference in the cost of
protection at home and abroad.
We insist upon the maintenance of the
principles of protection, and, therefore, rates
of duty should be readjuSted only when con-
ditions have so changed that the public in
terest demands their alteration, but this
work cannot safely be committed to any
other hands than those of the Republican
party.
To intrust it to the Democratic party is to
invite disaster.
Whether, as in 1892, the Democratic party
declared the protective tariff unconstitu-
tional, or whether it demands tariff reform
or tariff revision, its real object is always
destruction of the protective system. How
ever speciouS the name, the purpose is ever
the same.
Democratic tariff has always been fol
lowed by business adversely; a Republican
tariff by business prosperity. To Repub-
lican Congress and a Republican President
this great question can be safely instrusted.
When the only free trade country among
the great nations agitates return to pro-
lection the chief protective country should
not falter i'll maintaining it.
We have extended widely our foreign
markets, and we believe in the adoption of
all practicable methods for their further eX-
tension, including commercial reciprocity
wherever reciprocal arrangements can be
effected consistent with the principles of
protection and without injury to American
agriculture, American labor or American
industry.
The second feature in the doings of the
day was the speech of the permanent chair
man, Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of the
House of Representatives. Mr.. Cannon has
reputation as a story teller and an enter
tanning talker, and in Illinois he is regarded
as Il second edition of Abraham Lincoln
On this occasion he came fully up to his
reputation and his remarks were freely
punctuated with laughter and applause. He
confessed at the outset that the set speech
of $500 words he was to have delivered he
could not memoriZe, and so after consider
ing various alternatives concluded to ''go on
and ramble.' The Democratic press has
declared that there was no enthusiasm in
the convention, and as to that Mr.. Cannon
said:
Gentlemen, the great river that has its 80
feet of water. rising in the mountains, and
growing in depth and breadth down to the
ocean, bears upon its bosom the commerce
of that section of land that it drains, and
pours it out to the world. 1t is silent river,
and yet the brawling river that is like to the
river Platte out in Nebraska, that is IA miles
wide and four inches deep, makes more
noise than the bigger river. (Applause.)
We would like to give Mr.. Cannon's speech
in full, but as that is impossible we must be
content with few brief extracts. Of the
advance of the country under Republican,
ism since 1860, he said:
In 1860 we had been substantially domi-
mated for many years by the free trade
party, insignificant in manufactures, great
in agriculture. Under our policy, which
has been followed, with the exception of
four years, from that time to this, the Unit
ed States remains first in agriculture, but
by leaps and bounds has diversified her in
dustries, until today we are the greatest
manufacturing country on Gods fOOt-StoOl.
One-third of all the worlds products that
come from the factory are made in the
United States by the operation and cooper
alton of American capital and Ameri can
labor and skill.
Let me make one other statement. Our
product every year is greater than the entire
combined manufactured product of Great
Britain, of Germany and of France. Where
do we get the market for it? Ninety-seven
per cent. of this great product-one-t third
the worlds prOduct-fndS a market among
ourselves in the United States. And yet, of
| this product last year, we sold to foreign
countries-I am speaking now of the manu-
factured product-over S400, ZOO, ,OO0-29 per
cent. of our total exports, and our total
exports made and make US the greatest eX-
porting nation on earth. (Applausel.
labor that works less hours than any labor
on earth. Made by labor that, conservative
ly stated, received $1.75 as against the aver
age of the competitive labor in the world of
81 (applause) Oh, gentlemen, it is not few
rich men that make markets-nay, nay.
1t is the multiplied millions on the farms,
| in the mine and factory, that work together
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