Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-07-08

pie with order restored. and ample rev
enues, with education and public health
established. free from debt and connect
ed.
Largest Civil Liberty Has
Been Given to FiIpinos.
We have organized the government of
Porto Rico and its people now enjoy
peace, freedom, order and prosperity.
In the Philippines have suppressed
instruction, established order and given
To life and property a security never be-
fore known there We have organized
civil government. made it effective and
strong In administration. and have con-
ferred upon the people of those islands
the largest civil liberty they have ever
enjoyed.
BY our possession of the Philippines we
were enabled to take prompt and effec-
tive action in the relief of the legations
at Pekin. and a decisive part in prevent
ing the partition and preserving the in
tegrity of China
The possession Of route for an 18TH
milan canal. SO long the dream of Amer
lean craftsmanship. is now an accom-
plisned fact The great work Of con-
Meeting the Pacific and Atlantic by a
canal is at last begun, and It is due to
the Republican party
We have passed laws which will bring
the arid lands of the United States with
in the area of cultivation.
We have reorganized the army and
put 1t in the highest state of efficiency.
We have passed laws for the improve
ment and support of the militia.
We have pushed forward the building
of the navy, the defence and protection
of our honor and our interests.
our administration of the great de-
partments of the government has been
honest and efficient, and wherever wrong
doing has been discovered the Republican
administration has not hesitated to prove
the evil and bring offenders to Justice
without regard to party or political ties
Laws Against Vast Capital
Aggreeations Are Enforced
Laws enacted by the Republican party
which the Democratic party failed to
enforce and which were intended for the
protection of the public against the I'M
just discrimination or the illegal en-
croachment of vast aggregations of can
ital nave been fearlessy enforced by n
Republican President and new laws en-
surfing reasonable publicity as to the op-
erations of great corporations and pro-
Vldlng additional remedies for the pre-
vention of discrimination in freight rates
nave been passed by a Republican Con-
gress.
In this record of achievement during
the past eight years may be read the
pledges which the Republican party has
IulHlleu. we promise to continue these
policies, and we declare our constant ad-
herence TO the following principles:
Protection which guards and develops
our industries is a cardinal policy of the
Republican party. The measure of pro-
lection should always at least equal the
difference In the cost of production at
home and abroad
We insist upon the maintenance of the
principles of protection, and therefore
rates of duty should be readjusted only
when conditions have so changed that
the public interest demands their altera-
ton, but this work cannot safely be COM
mitted TO any other hands than those of
the Republican party, To intrust 1t to
the Democratic party is to invite disaster.
Whether, as in 1892, the Democratic
party declares the protective tariff I'M
constitutional, or whether II demands
tariff reform or tariff revision. its real
object is always the destruction of the
protective system However specious
the name, the purpose is ever the same.
Democratic Tariff Has
Always Meant Adversely.
A Democratic tariff mas always been
followed by business adversely; a Repub-
lican tariff by business prosperity. To a
Republican Congress and a Republican
President this great question can be safe
ly entrusted. When the only free trade
country among the great nations agitates
return to protection the chief protec-
tive country should not falter in main
tanning it.
We have extended widely our foreign
markets, and We believe in the adoption
of all practicable methods for their fur
Their extension, including commercial reel
procity wherever reciprocal arrange
ments can be effected consistent with the
principles of protection and without in
jury to American agriculture, American
labor or any otner American industry.
We believe 1t to be the duty of the
Republican party to uphold the gold
standard and the integrity and value of
our national currency. The maintenance