The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-10-22
WHAT ARE THE ISSUES?

why they should stand by the repub"
lican party. He said i'll part:
II come to take counsel with the good
people Of this community touching thu
proper policies for the republic for the
coming four years. The Master said:
by their fruits yc shall know them.
Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs
of thistles?
81 know of no way to tell whether
l can trust man, policy or party ex-
cept by the character of the man, the
fruits of the policy and the records OF
the party. From that standpoint
shall talk to you, and if l mention the
past it is not to boast, but merely to
hold up the light to illuminate our
paths as we walk in the present.
IN this campaign, while there are
many issues that III friends, the enemy,
hint at, there is but one great issue be-
tween the parties, and that protection,
first obtained by a majority of the peo-
pie under Lincoln, and maintained prac.
tically for forty-four years.
we present Theodore Roosevelt up
on the record of the republican party as
IL candidate. Touching his candidacy
and his record we are at issue with
the democracy, who dcnounce him, his
policies and his record.
"The republican party stand for pro-
lection. Why? Because we believe that
God had SO distributed natural riches
upon this continent. and in our bounda-
rics, that we could, by diversifying our
industries, live substantially by exchang-
ing Our products amongst each other.
And we had another reason, wider,
deeper and stronger than that. VIZ had
a republic which the people were, and
are, competent to govern themselves.
Sovereignty rests in them. and any one
individual. however humble, is IS great
rs any other. however strong.
when we came into power under
Li'coln, we needed money. Our gov
crnment was threatened, half eur pco-
pic lad stepped out and taken every
thing with them. Our treasury was
empty, and under the power OF our
party ard its representatives. we wrote
upon the statute books a tax Law
called q tariff. We said that the pee
pie elsewhere in the world shall no.
come i'll and enjoy our markets and
draw the money away from our COM
,non#ea'lh with their products made
by cheap Labor without bearing, i'll a
or burdens, and without
. tax ior that privilege that
was equal to the difference between the
wage OF labor there and what ought to
be the wage of labor here. That law
went upon the statute book, and the
money we needed began to come iii.
The republican party tries to care
for cur home market, for Our people
first. in regard TO matters OF produc-
ton and compensation therefor, wages
and markets, because ii is necessary
i'll this great country to have greater
prosperity than in any other, for bur
dens in education and civilization are
greater. We have nailed the policy of
protection TO the flagstaff, and under the
lead OF Lincoln first, and for the last
forty years, we have marched under the
banner.
Before that time our nation was fifth
or sixth amongst those of the earth in
manufactures. though we were first ii,
agriculture. We then manufactured
eighteen hundred millions of dollars
worth of products, all told.
we are what i'll manufactures i'll
the world? First; and still first i'll
agriculture. Did the policy of Our
southern brethren prevail? No. Did
the policy of the republican party pre-
vail? Yes; and under it we have
reached this stage. The platform of
the democracy i'll 1860 said that pro-
lection was unconstitutional. In 1892
Mr.. Cleveland was elected upon such
a declaration. In 1896 and 1900 the
democratic platforms said the same;
and this year, i'll their platform just
adopted, they say that protection is rob-
berry, and undoubtedly that question will
be the only one really i'll this CAM
paign.
Il said that the manufactured prod
uct of this nation i'll the year 1860 was
eighteen hundred millions. In the year
1900 it was thirteen thousand millions.
You can hardly comprehend the enor-
nifty of that sum, but it is more than
seven times what it was i'll 1860 when
the tariff law was first enacted. Our in
dustries grew and grew and grew, until
the number of mouths to b fed who
were engaged i'll and directly connected
with our great industrial progress was
enormous. That is the great market.
Our industries are protected; our mar
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