Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-06-27
ROOSEVELT AND FAIRBANKS.
Republican National Convention
Makes Nominations and
Adjourns.

Of 1898 hope was faint and Confidence
was gone
Effective and Alone.
We met these UNHAPPY conditions
vigorously. effectively and alone. We
replaced a democratic tariff law based
on free trade principles and garnished
tariff and industry. freed from
oppression and stimulated by the en-
couragement of wise laws has expanded
to a degree never before known. has
conquered new markets and has created
a volume of exports which has sur
passed imagination. Under the Dingley
tariff labor being fully employed
Wages have risen and all industries
have revived and prospered.
We firmly established the gold stan
dard which was then menaced with de-
struction. Confidence returned to bust
ness, and with confidence an unexampled
prosperity.
For deficient revenues. supplemented
the country an income which produced
a large surplus and which enabled us
only four years after the Spanish war
had closed to remove over s100,O00,0 900
of annual war taxes. reduce the public
debt and lower the interest charges Of
the government.
The public credit, which had been
at eXtravagant rates of interest in or
der to pay current expenditures, rose
under Republican administration to its
highest point and enabled us to borrow
at per cent even in time of war,
MiSer1es Of Cuba.
We refused to paiser Longer with the
m ns sor of cvna we s9nsh' quick
Cuba free. governed the island for three
years and then gave 1t to the Cuban peo-
pie with order restored. with ample rev
established free from debt and connect
ed with the United States by wise pro-
visions for our mutual interests.
We have organized the government
of Porto Rico and it's people now en-
10y peace. freedom, order and prosper
In the Philippines we have sup
pressed 'insurrection. established order
and given life and property security
never known there before. We have or
ganized civil government made it ef-
and have conferred upon the people of
those islands the largest civil liberty
they have ever enjoyed. BY our posses
sion of the Philippines We were enabled
to take prompt and effective action in
the relief Of the legation at Picking and
a decisive part in preventing the par
li?n and the preserving Of the integrity
'''rhe possession Of a route for an
isthmian canal so long the dream of
American statesmanship, is now an &C:
connecting the Pacific and the ATLANTIC
Oceans by canal is at last begun. and
it IS due to the Republican party,
nriN 1--WE have passed aa, laws which VII
States within the area of cultivation.
we have reorGanized the army and
put IL in the highest state of efficiency.
Improvement Of Militia.
we have passed laws for the improve
men 1, and support Of the militia.
we 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 ad-
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 10
enforce and which were intended for the
protection of the public against the un-
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-
Vlding additional remedies for the pre-
vention OF discrimination in freight
rates have been passed by 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
tnlS pr1nclple ana 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-
duction at home and abroad We insist
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