The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-09-07
STATE CONVENTION
[Continued from First Page.l

B. Parker, the prototype of Stephen,
Grover Cleveland.
The Republican Party.
At this time it may not be inap-
propriate to remember that in fifty
years the national republican party
has accomplished prodigious results.
1t struck the menacles from four
million slaves.
1t restored the Union at a cost of a
millions lives and six thousand mil
lion of dollars in money.
It reduced a four thousand mil
lion dollar debt to a nominal sum.
1t established a credit that reduced
public interest from eight per cent to
two per cen per annum.
It substituted a sound monetary sys-
tenn for a democratic wildcat" cur
rency.
It found the money Of Buchanan Of
no account outside of the state, county
or town in which it was issued and
frequently worthless at the home of its
origin.
1t placed in it's stead a currency on
a par with gold in every habitable part
of the globe.
1t enacted the homestead law add
ing five million farms to the husban-
dry of the country.
1t inaugurated the protective system
whereby this nation became the
greatest producer and exporter in the
world.
1t incorporated with that system
the policy of reciprocity in tariffs with
countries whose products do not come
into competition with those of our
own people, from which system has
sprung a treaty defining the relations
of traffic exemplifed, to the amaze
ment of the world, by our reciprocity
with Cuba.
It has assisted it's farmers to pay
their mortgages.
1t has trebled the wages of the tot
Ter.
It has given, and is giving, a rural
free delivery of it's mails to every in
dividual countryside of the United
States.
It has improved and perfected the
school system.
1t has encouraged the worship of
God after the dictates of the con-
scie of the individual.
1t has more than any other agency
elevated the people to a high moral
plane.
1t has civilized the native Indians,
educated them and made of them
thrifty and deserving citizens.
1t has expanded u domain on the
I.continent at least n third.
1t has carried the American flag to
the antipodes and planted it's protect
ing folds over the oppressed Orien-
tails. tN.
1t has fought a war forced upon
its government and compelled the de-
generating Spanish autocracy to with
draw it's blighting influences from its
last resting place on the western
hemisphere and from it's ~misgovern-
ment in the Orient.
1t has by peaceful diplomacy opened
the door of the far east to the com
merce of the world.
It has through the acquisition Of
Alaska and the chain of Aleutian Is.
lands on the north reaching to the
Japanese and Siberian coast, and
through Hawaii and Guam to the Phil
ippine archipelago on the south, made
the northern Pacific ocean an Ameri-
can sea the possession of which none
dare dispute.
1t is wedding the Atlantic to the
Pacific by the greatest maratime
highway of which the world ever
dreamed.
1t is daining and purifying the fever
breeding isthmus Of Darien and the
deadly Chagras river so that the terri
tories thereof will be as pure and
healthful as the north temperate zone.
It has through its economic policy
transferred the financial center of the
earth from London to New York.
It has through it's foreign policy
made the dictum OF the American Sec
rotary of state a law regulating all
disputes wherein American interests
are involved until today the great
powers of the world are, hoping that
| marian mill annoan n q n. a.h;4-aAa.