The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-09-30
How Parker's Election Would Help.

How Parker's Election Would Help.
How could Parker's election help
the present situation? What admitted
results would follow the victory Of
the Opposition? First, a tariff agita-
Ion which could not result in legisla-
ton; for Mr.. Parker tells us that the
Republican Senate would prevent any
tariff revision which an Opposition
House would pass; but that the Oppo-
sition for Jour years would batter the
Senate's doors with tariff revision
bills. What would come of that? It's
certain result would be uncertainty.
Fearing that some compromise meas
revision wouId be, sure only that all
business would have to be readjusted
to it when it came, business would de-
cline to the lowest living point. Fac
tories would not advance supplies
against an uncertain future; mer-
chant would not stock up against an
uncertain future; banks would not
loan against an uncertain future; the
farmers market would shrink because
there were not so many people buying
his products as before, and those who
still bought were buying less than
they ever did before. And this would
NEAR hard times again; it would mean
1898 again-anOther era of bank fail
ures, farm mortgages, railroad fore
closures and upon the streets and over
the highways of the land the dread
and swelling army of the unemployed.
Republic Speaks for Itself.
Contrast Republican policies with
Opposition policies. 1t is order
against confusion; definite purpose
against vague proposals; sound rec
ord against a chronicle of folly; broad
policies uniform throughout the Ma
ton against haphazard policies differ.
ent in different States-protection in
West Virginia, free trade in Texas:
gold in New York, free silver in Ne
braska. All the world knows what
the Republican party has done and
what it means to do. The nation it.
self-prosperous, powerful. with grow
ing prestige and spreading influence
lis present and mighty proof of the
wisdom and the righteousness of Re-
publican craftsmanship. How for
tunate for a party which when ques-
toned about it's conduct of the Repub-
lie can produce as it's chief exhibit the
Republic itself.
We Republicans fear no militarism
we have too much faith in the
American people. We believe that as
the American people would drive any
foreign invader back to his ships be-
fore he could reach the shore, so the
American people would handcuff any
domestic dictator before his sword
was drawn. We Republicans believe
that the blood of Bunker Hill and Ap-
pomatox is the same blood that
poured through the veins of Ameri-
can soldiers in Cuba and Luzon. We
believe that the old Continentals of
re, the boys in blue of '61 and the
Republics khaki-clad soldiers of to-
day wear the same uniform. carry the
same flag, and believe in the same
principles of the same government of
the same splendid people and their di-
vine destiny. We Republicans believe
that the American army should be
small; out that it should be the best
body of men ever called to a nations
colors-the best organized. best
equipped, best trained. And we be-
lieve that ~sixty-Lve thousand Ameri-
can soldiers recruited from American
homes and scattered among Ameri-
cas- eighty millions OF people-their
fathers. mothers. brothers and sisters
lis a guarantee of liberty instead of
q menace.
What Roosevelt Represents.
Another thing: While Theodore
Roosevelt is President no breaker of
the Nations laws will go unwhipped
of justice. The election OF Theodore
Roosevelt mean that no power in
this Republic, however s>roae or rich.
no organization. n4rr~er numerous