Smyrna times., 1904-08-03
THE PRESIDENTS
ELOQUENT ADDRESS
In Accepting the Nomination Roosevelt Approved the Plat
form and Dwelt at Length on the Achievement
of the Republican Party.

tration. This is the efficient way to
turn the rascals out and to keep them
out, and it has the merit of sincerity.
Moreover the betrayals of trust in
the last seven years have been insig
nifcant in number when compared
with the extent of public service.
Never has the administration of the
government been on a cleaner and
higher level; never has the public
work of the nation been done more
honestly and efficiently.
AssuredIy Unwise to Change the Policies.
Assuredly it is unwise to change
the policies which have worked so
we'll ana which are now working so
we'll. Prosperity has come at home.
The national honor and interest have
been upheld abroad. We have placed
the finances of the nation upon sound
gold basis. We have done this with
the aid of many who we're formerly
our opponents, but who would neither
openly support nor silently acquiesce
in the heresy of unsound finance; and
we have done it against the convinced
and violent opposition of the mass of
our present opponents who still refuse
to recant the unsound opinions which
for the moment they think it mex
pedient to assert. We know what we
mean when we speak of an honest and
stable currency. We mean the same
thing from year to year. We do not
have to avoid definite and conclusive
committal on the most important issue
which has recently been before the
people, and which may at any time in
the near future be before them again.
Upon the principles which underlie
this issue the convictions of half of
our number do not clash with those of
the other half. So long as the Repub-
lican party is in power the gold stand
ard is settled, not as a matter of tenn
porary political expediency, not be-
cause of shifting conditions in the
production of gold in certain mining
centres, but in accordance with what
we regard as the fundamental princi-
Piles of national morality and wisdom.
Ample Circulation for Every Business Need.
Under the financial legislation which
we haYe enacted there is now ample
circulation for every business need;
every dollar of this circulation is
worth dollar in gold. We have re-
duced the interest bearing debt and in
still larger measure the interest on
that debt All of the war taxes i'm
posed during the Spanish war have
been removed with a view to relieve
the people and to prevent the accumu.
lation of an unnecessary surplus. The
result is that hardly before have the
expenditures and income of the gov.
ernment so closely corresponded. In
the fiscal year that has just closed the
3 excess of income over the ordinary
expenditures was $4,000, 900. This doet
3 not take account of the fifty millions
3 expended out of the accumulated
! surplus for the purchase of the 18th
mian Canal.
1t is an extraordinary proof of tn
. sound financial condition of the natiol
Z that instead of following the usua
course in such matters and THROWN,
u the burden upon posterity by an issu
q of bonds, we are able to make the pay
} ment outright and yet after it to hav
{ in the treasury surplus OF $161, 200,
u 900. Moreover, we were able to pa
n this $50, ,OOO,OOO out of hand withou
l. causing the slightest disturbance t
G. business conditions.
Enacted Tariff Law OF Splendid Attainment
= We have enacted a tariff law undt
- which during the past few years th
a country has attained height of mi
= terlal wellbeing never before reached
- Wages are higher than ever befor
= That whenever the need arises thel
=. should be readjustment of the tari
9 schedules is undoubted; but sue
%. changes can with safety be made on
no by those whose devotion to the prime
,ir pie of a protective tariff is beyon
Va question; for otherwise the chang
nt would amount not to readjustmel
nt but to repeal. The readjustme
cv when made must remain and not d
n. stroy the protective principle. To IL
nt farmer, the merchant, the manufa
nd turer, this is vital; but perhaps
,at other man is so interested as the wae
Of worker in the maintenance of o
present economic system, both as I
CARDS the finances and the tariff.
On' The standard of living of our wac
"a workers is higher than that of a
I'VE other country, and it cannot SO rems
en- unless we have a protective tar