The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-06-23
SOLID SHOT FROM
CHAIRMAN CANNON
GREAT SPEECH BEFORE NATION
Al CONVENTION.
PROFITS PRODUCE STRIKES.
QuarreIs Were Few When Democracy
Ruled, Because at That Tine Ev-
erybody Was Glad to Get
job of Any Kind.


seph Cannon of Illinois was given Q
rousing ovation. His address was
typical Of the name of the man, and
struck like a thunderbolt against the
battlements of democracy, In his
fearless way he said:
The republican party was born
with the declaration that slavery was
sectional or local, and that freedom
was national. It has ever been ma
tional party, its policies benefting
every section and every man in the
republic. 1t made It's first successful
contest for power in 1860 with Abra.
ham Lincoln as its standard bearer.
Secession followed The war for the
maintenance Of the union was waged
for four years, and such contest of
arms the world had never seen be-
fore. and perhaps never will see
again. In the end, slavery was abol-
ished and freedom became universal
within the borders Of the republic.
With bankrupt treasury and a bank
rupt credit, the party, under the lead
Of Lincoln, went back to the policy Of
Washington and wrote upon the stat
ute books the revenue laws imposing
duties on imports that would produce
revenue and at the same time protect
every citizen of the United States in
diversifying the industries of the re-
public, It was a contest for free
men and for free labor everywhere
within our borders. The policy of
protection has been the shiboleth OF
the republican party from that day
to this Under this policy, from an
Insignificant manufacturing country
in 1860, by leaps and bounds, while
we still remained first in agriculture
among the nations of the earth, we
have become more than first in manu-
features. More than one-third of all
the manufactured products of the
whole earth is produced by American
capital, by American labor, which
works shorter hours than any people
on earth, and has more steady en-
ployment than any people on earth,
and on the average receives, conserv.
atiVely stated, one and three.fourths
dollars compensation where similar
labor elsewhere receives but one dol.
lar. Our manufactured product year.
~ is greater than the manufactured
product of the people of Great Brit.
ain. Germany and France combined
and this product is substantially con.
sumed by our own people, finding a
market within the borders of the re.
public. Although our exports of man.
fractured products is rapidly grow.
ing, last year they We're over s4OO.
9O0,OOO-29 per cent-of our total ex
lorts. 1t is not a few men of great
wealth that make good markets, but
II Is the multiplied millions that work
today and consume tomorrow, with
interchange of their respective pro.
ducts amongst one another; and the
prosperity of the farmer on one hand
and OF the operative upon the other
depend on the prosperity of each az
producers of their respective products
and as consumers of the products ot
others.
Home Market the Greatest in the
World.
We are one harmonious whole. and
II one or more of the great Industries
Is inJuriously affected those engaged
IN that line of production cease to be
valuable customers for all the other
producers in the country. If we did
not sell one particle of our immense
products outside of our own borders
we would still have the best market
OF any people on earth. II has beer
said, and truly said, that our marker
amongst ourselves is of greater
amount and value than the interna.
tional markets of all the world
amongst all the peoples of the world
ana while our people are seeing to r.
tnat our foreign markets grow-and
we are now the greatest exporting ma.
tion on earth-yet, it is absolutely
necessary that we should see IN n
tnat we continue that policy which en-.
aDles us to dominate our own MAJ.
kets and to continue the present anc
growing wage to our own people.
1 can perhaps best present to Won
the progress Of the country by STATING
mat the wealth per capita of the TJnit.
ed States in 1850 was 1907. while IN
1900 1t was s1,235, and by stating fur.
tner that the total wealth If tbe
United States in 1860 was sic 600 ooo
COG, and in 1900 was ss4 900 900 o0o
tninety-four biIlions), and now over
one hundred billions. ~
Progress Measured by Postoffie.
But can give a better illustration
q the progress Of the country under
the leadership Of the republican na,.
y by referring to the postoeice da.
partment-that great service thar
gathers no penny Of money excebt NV
the voluntary contributions Of tba
people OF the republic. Since 1sso
the rates of postage have been pract,.
cally reduced more than one-half IN
1850, the year that the republican mar.
~ first came into power. the reye-
nues OF the postofHce department