The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-05-27
Senator Burrows Address at the State
Convention.

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Convention.
''The individual character of the mem
bership of this convention insures the
wisdom of your deliberations, and a re
suit which will reflect the will and re
ceive the approval of the constituency
you have the honor to represent / SET
before me men who for half century
have borne the heat and burden of the
day growing gray in the service of the
party and of the country, and young
men, worthy descendants of patriotic
sires, coming together in common
faith and with a common purpose, to
promote unity and harmony of the
party and insure its triumph in the state
and nation. With this purpose in view
! you enter confidently upon the work
!. of this convention.
! by the authority of the sovereign
people, you are here empowered to
select and commission delegates to the
great national republican convention,
soon to be assembled in Chicago, there to
frame and promulgate declaration of
party principles, and nominate candi-
date to be supported by the electorate
for the high, Office of president of the
United States. The labors of that con-
yention, important as they may be, will
not be onerous nor Iprotracted. So far
Fas the platform of the republican party
is concerned, it is already written, not
by any man or set of men, however
eminent, but it is found in the history
of the republican party, and imbedded
in the constitution and laws of the
United States. AS to our candidate,
the sovereign people have already nomin-
ated Theodore Roosevelt, and it only
remains for the national convention to
ratify and confirm that choice.
DEMOCRACY HoPELEsSLY DIVIDED.
Our antagonists are not so fortunate
Divided in council and bankrupt in
principle, their warning factions can
find no common ground, either for as
sault or defense. No man in their Or
ganization is wise enough to forecast
their platform, and their leading and
most prominent candidate for the presi-
dency dare not speak. On the contrary,
the principles and policies of our party
are known and read of all men. The
republican party stands for a financial
policy which has maintained the credit
of the nation at home and abroad, es-
tablished it upon firm and enduring
basis commanding the confidence of the
world, and giving to our people an in
creased monetary circulation from 1885,
100000 in 1860 to SO, 532, 645, 1876 today,
the largest volume of currency ever
known in the history of the country,
every dollar of which is worth its face
in coin on the counter of every banking
house in christendom, backed as it is by
an accumulation of gold unsurpassed by
ANY nation in ancient or modern times.
ut stands for fiscal policy, which,
while supplying adequate revenues for
the support of the government, at the |
same time it is so adjusted as to develop
and protect American industries, open
new revenues for the employment of |
American labor, preserving the home |
market for the home producer. A policy, |
which, since the ascendancy of the re-
publican party in 1860, has swollen the |
volume of the annual output of Ameri |
can manufacturers from less than 3d.
600, 600, 900 to more than S13, 900, 900, 900,
increased the deposits in savings banks,
chiefly by the earnings of workmen, to |
So, 900, 100000, and augmented the |
national wealth from $40, 600, 900, 600 to
$94, 900, 600, 900, an increase in 46 years |
of $7S. 600, 000,0 900, or five times greater |
than the aggregate accumulation of the |
previous 70 years of our national life.
RECIPROCITY WITH FOREIGN NATIONS.
''It stands for reciprocity in trade |
with foreign nations upon such terms |
and conditions as will not cripple or
destroy American industries, drive |
American workmen from the field of |
profitable employment to expose our |
own market to foreign aggression and
control The preservation of the home
market is of the first and highest con-
sideration. Upon the authority of the |
chief of the bureau of statistics, our
domestic market has an absorbent capa-
city of $22, 600, 900, 600 annually, equal to
the value of the entire international COM
MERGE of the whole world, and no
foreign market however capacious and
alluring, can possibly compensate us for
the loss or impairment of our own. The
republican party stands for the recipro-
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