The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-08-06
PRESIDENT told Of NOMINATION


I'VE have enacted tariff law under
which during the last few years the
country has attained a height Of ma
terial well-being never before reached.
That whenever the need arises there
should be a REIMBURSEMENT OF the tar
in schedules Is undoubted: but sl
changes can with safety be made orly
by those whose devotion to the prin-
chile of a protective tariff Is beyond
question; for otherwise the changes
would amount not to REIMBURSEMENT
but to repeal. The readjustment
when made must maintain and not
destroy the protective principle. To
the farmer. the merchant. tho manu-
facturer this Is vital; but perhaps no
other man is so much interested as
the wage-worker in the maintenance
of our present economic system. both
as regards the finances and the tarin.
The standard of living OF our wage
workers is higher than that q. any
other country. and it cannot SORE
main unless we have a protective tar
In which shall always keep as mini
mum a rate of duty sufficient to cover
the difference between the labor cost
here and abroad.
1--WE believe in reciprocity with for
cign nations on the terms outlined in
President McKin1ey's last speech,
which urged the extension OF our for
eign markets by reciprocal agreements
whenever they could be made with
out injury to American Industry and
labor.
eve recognize the organization or
capital and the organization OF labor
as natural outcomes Of our industrial
system. Each kind of organization
is TO be favored so long as 1t acts
in a spirit OF justice and OF regard
for the rights of others. Each Is
to be granted the full protection OK
the law, and each in turn Is to be
held to strict obedience to the law;
for no man is above 1t and no man
telow It,
.Ir inaugurating the great work or
irrigation In the west the administra-
ton has been enabled by congress
to take one of the longest strides ever
taken under our government toward
utilizing our vast national domain Tor
the settler, the actual homemaker.
Ever since this continent was dis
covered the need OF an isthmian
canal 20 connect the Pacific and the
Atlantic has been recognized; and
ever since the birth OF our nation such
a canal has been planned. The 18TH
milan canal is now being built by the
government of the United States. We
conducted the negotiation for It's con-
struction with the incest and a
scrupulous honor, and in spirit OF
the largest generosity toward those
through whose territory 1t was to run.
"Our foreign policy has been SO
conducted that. while not one OF our
Just claims has been sacrificed. our
relations with all foreign nations are
now of the most peaceful kind; there
lie not a cloud on the horizon. The
last cause OF irritation between MS
and any other nation was removed by
the settlement OF the Alaskan bound
AIRY.
I'm the Caribbean sea we have
made good our promises Of independ-
.ence to Cuba and have proved our as
sertion that our mission In the Island
was one OF justice and not OF self
fggrandizement; and thereby no less
than by our action in Venezuela and
Panama we have shown that the Mon
roo doctrine is a living reality, design
ed for the hurt OF no nation, but for
the protection OF civilization on the
western continent and for the peace
OF the world. Our steady growth in
power has gone hand in hand with q
strengthening disposition to use this
power with strict regard for the rights
of others and for the cause of inter-
rational justice and good will.
"Our foothold in the Philippines
greatly strengthens our position in
the competition for the trade OF the
east; but we are governing the Philip
pines In the interest of the Philippine
people themselves. We have already
given them a large share In their
government, and our purpose Is to In
crease this share as rapidly as they
give evidence Of increasing fitness for
the task. To have gone faster than
we have already gone in giving tho
islanders constantly increasing
measure OF self-government would
have been disastrous. We have estab-
l.shed in the islands a government by
Americans assisted by Filipinos. We
are steadily striving TO transform this
self-government by the Filipinos as
sisted by Americans.
During the seven years that have
just passed there is no duty, domestic
CT foreign, which we have shir, -
no necessary task which we have +
cd TO undertake. or which we 20
not performed with reasonable eSlsl-
ency. We face the future with our
past and our present as guarantor
our promises. and we are contenWb
stand or to fall by the record which
VA have made and are making"