Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-09-12
LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.

1ne lOnR-lOOkeu-iOl leteci VI ACceP-
lance from Mr.. Roosevelt has at last
appeared, and it may be truly said that
the Fountain has labored and brought
for mouse. 1t consists chiefly of as
suruptions and attempted depreciation of
democratic principles. 1t is elongated,
making 81 pages in pamphlet form.
Comparatively few will have either the
time or patience to peruse it in its en-
tarety. The following is substantially
what the writer desires the people OF the
United States TO swallow:
No other administration (then thepres-
emit one) in our history, no other govern
mant in the world, has more consistently
stood for the broadcast spirit of brother
hood in our common humanity, or mas
held a more resolute attitude OF pro-
test against every wrong that outraged
the civilization of the age, at home or
abroad.
Pension Order No. rs directing that
any veteran of the civil war who has
reached the age of 81 years should be
presumptively entitled to peusion OF
Sc a mOnth) is justified, not merely on
legal grounds, but also on grounds Of
public morality.
The record of the last seven years
proves that the party now i'll power can
be trusted to take the additional action
necessary to improve and strengthen
our monetory system and that our OPP
ponents cannot be so trusted.
The action of the Attorney-General in
enforcing the antitrust and interstate
commerce laws, and the action of the last
Congress have for the first time opened
a chance for the national government to
deal intelligently and adequately with
the questions affecting society because OF
the accumulation Of capital in great cor
porations.
When they (the democrats) speak OF
protection as robbery, they of course
must mean that it is immoral to enact a
tariff designed to secure to the American
wageworker the benefit of the high stand
ard of living which we desire to see kept
up in this country. To speak OF the
tariff in this sense as robbery is on its
face false.
From time to time schedules must un-
doubtedly be rearranged and readjusted
to meet the shifting needs of the country.
but this can with safety be done only by
those who are committed to the cause OF
the protective system.
At no time in the history of this or
any country has there been an era 80 pro-
ductive of material benefit alike to work
ingmen and employer as during the seven
years that have just passed.
The army as it is now is as small as 1t
can possibly be and serve its purpose as
an effective nucleus.
The expenditures of the nation have
been managed in spirit of economy, as
far removed from waste as from niggard-
illness.
The public work of the United States
has never been conducted with higher
degree of honesty and efficiency than at
the present time. We have known no
party in dealing with offenders.
Any abandonment of the policy which
we have steadily pursued in the Philip
pine islands would be fraugbt with dis
honor and disaster.
Our government has been true to the
spirit of the fourteenth amendment In
the Philippines.
There is not policy, foreign or do
nestle, which we are now carrying out,
which it would not be disastrous to re-
verse or abandon.
We hold ever before us as the all-im-
portant end of policy and administration
the reign of peace at home and through
out the world.
The purchasing power OF the average
wage received by the wageworker has
grown faster than the cost of living, and
this in spite ofthe continual shortening of
working hours.
There has been an enormous increase
in the annual agricultural output and in
the value of farm property.
The diminution in the amount OF the
surplus is due to expenditures on ac-
count of such highly desirable improve.
m ents as rural free delivery, irrigation,
pensions to veterans and the purchase
Of the Panama canal. There has been
rigid economy in the administration of
public business and all offenders have
been held to strict accountability, no
mercy being shown to wrongdoers, who
have been hunted out and prosecuted
with the utmost vigilance.
The republican party's achievements
in the past afford prophecy for the