The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-23
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standard, which was then menaced
with destruction Confidence return
ed to business and with confidence an
uneXampled prosperity.
For deficient revenues, supplemented
by improvident issues of bonds, we
gave the country an income which inn
mediately produced a large surplus
and which enabled us only four years
after the Spanish War had closed to
remove over $100,000,000 of annual war
taxes, reduce the public debt and low
er the interest charges of the govern
ment
The public credit, which had been So
lowered that in time of peace a Dem
ocratic administration made large
| loans at eXtraVagant rates of inter-
| est in order to pay current eXpendi-
| lures, rose under Republican admins
| tration to it's highest point and enabled
us to borrow at per cent. even in
| time of war.
Takes Credit for CubR's Freedom.
We refused to palter longer with the
miseries of Cuba. We fought a quick
| and victorious war with Spain. We
| set Cuba free, governed the island
for three years, then gave it to the Gu
ban people with order restored, with
| ample revenues, with education and
public health established. free from
debt and connected with the United
States by wise provisions for our mu-
tual interests.
We have organized the government
of Porto Rico. and it's people now en-
| joy peace, freedom, order and pros
| perity.
In the Philippines we have suppress
| ed insurrection, established order and
| given TO life and property a security
never known there before. We have
organized civil government. made 1t
| effective and strong in administration
and have conferred upon the people
of those ISLANDS the largest civil lib
erty they have ever enjoyed.
BY our possession of the Philippines
we were enabled to take prompt and
effective action in the relief of the
legations at Pekin and decisive part
in preventing the partition and pre-
| serving the integrity of China.
Likewise the Isthmian Canal.
| The possession of a route for an 18TH
milan canal, so long the dream of
American craftsmanship, is now an ac-
| comphshed fact. The great work of
connecting the Pacific and Atlantic by
| a canal rs 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 within the area of cultivation.
put it in the highest state of eff
cheney.
We have passed laws for the inn
| provement and support of the militia.
We have pushed forward the build
ing of the navy, the defense and pro-
lection of our honor and out inter
| ests.
Our administration of the great
| departments of the government has
been honest and efficient, and wherever
wrong doing has been discovered, the
Republican administration has not hest
tated to probe the evil and bring Of
tenders to justice without regard to
party or political ties.
Laws enacted by the Republican
party which the Democratic party fall
| ed to enforce and which were intend
ed for the protection of the public
against the unjust discrimination or
| the illegal encroachment of vast ag-
gregations of capital have been fear
Iessly enforced by a Republican Presi-
dent, and new laws ensuring reason
able publicity as to the operations Of
great corporations and providing addi-
tional remedies for the prevention of
discrimination in freight rates have
been passed by a Republican Congress.
Adherence to Protection.
| In this record of achievement dur
/ ing the DdSI eight uldy DG IEdu
| the pledges which the Republican par
| ty has fulfilled. We promise to con-
| tinue these policies and we declare
| our constant adherence to the follow
| ing principles:
Protection, which guards and de-
velops our industries. is a cardinal
| policy of the Republican party. The
| measure of protection 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, there
| fore, rates of duty should be re-
! adjusted only when conditions have so
| changed that the public interest de-
4 ntands their alteration but this work
cannot safely be committed to any
other hands than those of the Repub-
| lican party. To entrust 1t to the Demo-
| cratic party is to invite disaster.
| Whether, as in 1892, the Democratic
| party declared the protective tariff
| unconstitutional, or whether it de-
| nands tariff reform or tariff revision,
| it's real object Is always the destruc-
ton of the protective system. How
ever specious the name, the purpose
| is ever the same. Democratic tariff
has always been followed by business
| adversely; a Republican tariff by bust
ness prosperity.
| To a Republican Congress and a
| RepuDllCdn 1TeSluenI lHlS great QueS-
| ton can be safely entrusted. When
| the only free trade country among
the great nations agitates a return
| to protection. the chief protective
| country should not falter in maintain
| fnS il.
For the Gold Standard.
We have extended widely our for
| eign markets, and we believe in the
| adoption of all practicable methods for
| their further extension, including COM
mercial reciprocity wherever reciprocal
| arrangements can be effected consist
| ent with the principles of protection
| and without injury to American agri-
| culture American labor or any Anneri-
| can 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 mainte-
nance of the gold standard, established
by the Republican party, cannot be
safely committed to the Democratic
party, which resisted its adoption and
has never given any proof since that
| time Of belief in 1t or fidelity to it.
While every other industry has pros
pered under the fostering aid Of Re-
| publican legislation, American shipping
engaged IN foreign trade in competition
with the low cost of construction, low