The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-23

committee was agreed TO with round
of applause, which swelled to q roar
as the veteran statesman advanced,
was introduced by Chairman Payne,
and proceeded to address the convcn-
ton.
HE STANDS FOR PROTECTION
Chairmaa's Speech II . Pies for the Party
to "stsnd Pat"
Chairman Cannon began with the
declaration that the Republican party
was national always in its policies,
and summarized its history from the
beginning Of the war for the Union to
prove his claim. He said that when
the party first came into power, find
ing a bankrupt treasury. 1t went back
to the policy of Washington-protec-
tion-and that policy had been the
shibboleth of the party since. This
policy, he said, had raised the country
from insigniicance in a manufacture
ing sense to more than the first i'm that
sense.
He eulogized the benefits of pro-
lection. giving figures to show the
enormous wealth which, he alleged.
was its result. He referred to the
value of our home market, which he
credited to protection. because, he said,
protection enabled tile people to buy,
as it made them prosperous. 1t was ab-
solutely necessary 10 uphold the pol.
\, Lo+
nate our own markets and continue the
present and growing wage to our own
people.
Our progress was illustrated by fig
ures showing the increase in wealth
per capita from 1907 in 1850 to 81 ,235
in 1900; by the increase in the total
wealth from $4,000, 100000 in 1860 to
500, OOO.OOOOOO, or more. at present.
and by statistics from the lostoffice
department. In fact, the chairman S
speech was devoted to eulogy of the
policy of protection.
Then he turned his attention to the
Democracy and it's views on the pro-
lection policy. For more than sixty
years, he said, that party had de-
nounced protection as robbery, and
though there were leaders of the De-
mocracy who expressed modified
views, the speaker who came out rad
ically in favor of free trade was the
one who obtained the widest Demo
cratic applause. He said the Demo
cratic demand that the Democracy be
given control of the government re-
minded him of Aesop's fable of the
wolves who asked the sheep to dis
charge the dogs who protected the
sheep and install i'm their places the
wolves.
Labor strikes, he said, were not the
result of deficits but of profits Re-
ferring to the trusts, he said they un-
doubtedly existed, but the Republican
party would see that 10 man or COM
binatiOn was above the lew, and would
not only enact the necessary legislation
to crush the harmful kind, but would
enforce that legislation. All have an
equal opportunity before the law, and
all must obey it. "Our civilization is
built upon obedience to the law" he
said
The people of the United States, he
said, have far greater wealth than any
other people on earth. All thesalleged
trust properties produced only 16 per
cent. of the products of the country in
1900, while independent producers
were responsible for the other 81 per
cent, and competition, after all, regu-
lates production and price.
He referred to anarcLism as an i'm
ported blight, and in this connection
paid a warm tribute to the late presi-
dent Mckinley; said that the present
president had pledged himself to con-
tinue the policies of his predecessor,
and had kept that promise nobIy.
Closing, he made a reference to Cuba
and the Philippines, declaring that
imperialism" was myth, and ended
thus:
/ 'Let us make our nominations in or
der. and appeal to the people of the
couItry for renewal of power to the
Republican party, standing by our pol
icies, ready to legislate where legisla-
ton would be productive of more good
than evil from the economic stand
point, but refusing to legislate and lose
the substance of success in vain eff
fort to secure the shadow that abid
eth not, and satisfieth not either the
intellectual nor material existence"
The reports of the committees on
vuzxIo nd
rn1ngs in order after Cannon's speech.