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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
THE AMERICAN COURSE.
A Policy that Works to the Advantage
of Commercial Interests.

We are what we have become, and we
propose to hold our interests as world
power for the benefit of the American
people. This is the Republican program.
Hence the recent Shanghai incident.
China is an enormous nation occupying
an enormous country, just now in state
Of dissolution or reconstruction-no one
can tell which. The various nations with
various interests look upon its territory
with longing eyes, but it does not seem
best, with the interests of all considered,
that it should be dismembered. 1t APP
pears to be best for the interests of all
the other nations of the world that 1t
should be aided rather than divided.
This course has been decided upon by the
leading nations of the world, following
the suggestion and with the assistance of
the present Republican administration of
this country. This attitude is certainly
right morally, and in the long run, must
be right as to material interests partlcu-
larly for the people of the United States.
Russia and Japan are at war. There
has arisen an incident which is some
what an anomaly in international affairs.
Warships have fed into a neutral port OF
China and other warships have pursued
them Under the laws of nations no
battle may occur in a neutral port, such
as that of Shanghai The United States,
taking the initiative, has promptly inter
vened to see that no violation of the laws
of nations may occur, and has done this
because of the helplessnesS of China, vast
as the empire is, to enforce all proper IN
ternationaI obligations in it's own har-
bors.
This is but in keeping with the tone of
what the United States under the pres
ent administration has done before. 1t
suggested and induced an agreement be
tween the great nations that China
should not be dismembered! Having tax
en- the initiative in this respect, it was
but right and proper that we should take
the initiative in seeing to it that what
was suggested and built up by US should
be enforced. This has been done.
That is the way the present admins
tration of the government is doing things.
What is the way it will continue, to do
things The doing of this is for the
greatest good for all the commercial IN
terests and other interests Of all the
world. The doing of this implies and in
wolves immediate executive action by the
administration of the United States. 1t
is for the good of the world.
Imagine such prompt, sensible and
forceful action under the administration
of a man like Parker, admitting for
moment the possibility of his election.
Well we can't ina CINE it!
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
Senator Stewart of Nevada Sees the
Great LiDht.

Senator Stewart of Nevada, the last
of the Silverites, has seen the great
white light. His visions are those Of
Joseph and the seven fat years. His talk
is of minerals and Nevada, and the bless
ings of the Dingley tariff on borax and
wool He said:
president Roosevelt is very popular
in the mountain States of the West.
Through his influence the irrigation law
was passed. The Dingley tariff is a
great blessing to the far West. The
tariff on lead borax, wool and hides is
especially beneficial to the interior noun
tain States. The people of Nevada are
beginning to realize that the silver ques-
ton has been relegated to the rear as a
result of the enormous output of gold
during the last eight years. Those voters
who left the party on account of 1.-The
silver issue are returning and, with the
Democrats who desire practical good, are
uniting in support of the administration.
Ny information is that Nevada will 60
Republican"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY.
That Is What wiz Follow Our Control
of the Pacific.

Laying aside the other questions to
be affected by locality, is it possible
that any sensible human being, living
west of the Rocky Mountains, could do
anything but support what those who
are fumbling for objections to the exist
ing administration call "ImperialsIn"?
This attitude is not confined to those
west of the Rockies alone-far from it,
because, with new means of trade com
munlcation, we are as one people in our
handling facilities across this continent
but to the people of all the Pacific
Coast States especially must appeal the
fact that much of their future welfare
must depend upon the new and extra
ordinary pathway the United States has
made across the greatest of all the oceans
and has SO connected itself, for all COM
mercial purposes, with the greatest of all
the old nations of the Orient.
Business is business. We have taken
into our hands the management Of the
Pacific Ocean and we are quite capa BILE
of retaining that management under any.
circumstances. Upon our retention Of it
depends, to an extent, our commercial
welfare. We are the great producers
of new land-a vast continent yet in
its infancy, and our welfare must year
~ depend to great extent upon what
we export We have exported to Europe
and the East and exploited the Atlantic
almost to its utmost; now we purpose
to export across the Pacific and supply
with whatever they may need the TEEN
ing millions of the Asiatic continent
Upon the realization of this great indus
trial dream, which has become a fact,
must largely depend, in the future, the
commercial welfare of the American peo-
pie. Does any group of fatuists, oppos-
ing whatever has become an absolute es-
sential, think that by raising the cry
of imperialism" the course of demands
Of great lines of trade of great nation
can be deviated for moment? Non
SenSel
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
TRADE WITH THE EAST.
We Have a Pathway to Asia and viii
Maintain II.

There exists, practically, no limit to
the enormous possibilities Of trade with
Asia for our Western wheat-groWlng
States Japan will be the entering
wedge. Already we are in touch with
Japan, already we are on the frlendllest
Of commercial relations with her, rela-
lions certain to become closer and clos
er. Already Japan is beginning to eat
wheat instead of rice. Her many mil
lions of tons of rice Japan consumes
every year cannot, of course, be detn-
itely ascertained The total is some
thing enormous. But the sudden fact
appears that already Japan is begin
ming to eat wheat instead of rice.
With mutual regard and commercial
good-f fellowship existing, and with Japan
now turning. to flour, and with the whole
western side of our vast empire with
flour to give to the rest of the world,
the condition becomes most simple. For
the good of all concerned, whole nations
considered it is necessary that we should
put our wheat and -four across the Pa
cifc Ocean and give to our brothers,
of any color, what they may require,
and, so. benefit them and greatly benefit
ourselves.
The fact that the japanese army is
using the American bareback cracker is
a fact the tremendous consequences of
which, in it's commercial possibilities, has
not vet been realized. 1t means that
Japan has begun trading earnestly with
the United States in the cereal upon
the production of which so much of our
commercial welfare depends, and yet this
is but a starting point as to what is
coming to the United States in supply
ing Asia with food. Japan is our friend
and will undoubtedly remain so through
out the future, but Japan, wonderful as
she is. is but the fringe nearest to us
of that great Asia, overpopulated and
hungry. and looking to this newer hemi-
sphere to feed it, under newly existing
conditions.
The conditions have been provided by
the accidental possessions following
Sudden war. We have made our path
way. Not to maintain that pathway,
with it's landing at the other side of
the Pacifc-which means the Philippines
would be a crime against the interests
of this country and crime against the
interests Of the Asiatic nations.
This crime will not be committed. The
great commercial road secured across
the' greatest of the oceans, will be re-
tanned and maintained by the United
States of America. Imperialism" as
they call it or not, the bald fact remains
that under the present Republican ad-
ministration it is proposed to hold what
Providence has given to us and with it to
do what seems best for the ultimate well
fare Of the people of two hemispheres.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
ROOSEVELT AND FARMERS.
Why the President Is Admired by
Agriculturists.
(San Francisco CaI.)


Through the many expressions of Pres
ident Roosevelt runs a hearty note of
appreciation for the homely and simple
features of life as found in the country
and~on the farm. He said to the rugged
people of Maine in 1902: 'The man on
the farm more than any of our citizens
to-day, is called upon continually to ex-
ercise the qualities which we like to
think of as typical of the United States
throughout it's history-the qualities of
rugged independence, masterful resolu-
ton and individual energy and resource
fitness. He works hard, for which no
man is to be pitied, and often he lives
hard, which may not be pleasant, but his
life is passed in healthy surroundings,
which tend to develop a fine type of citi
zenship. In the country, moreover, the
conditions are such as to allow a closer
touch between man and man than is
often found the case in the city. Men
feel more wildly the underlying sense of
brotherhood and community of interest
And again: 1.-THE man who tills his
own farm, whether on the prairies or in
the woodland, the man who grows what
we eat and the raw material Of what we
wear, still exists more nearly under the
battled farmers of 1776 made this coun-
try nation than is true of any others
of our people. In a country like ours it
is fundamentally true that the well-being
of the tiller of the soil and of the wage
worker is the well-being of the State"
Roosevelt's vital touch with things is
always responsive to a contact with the
natural conditions that characterize life
on the farm. In an allied vocation he
resorted TO the wilderness to rid himself
Of the serious handicap of a frail ply
sique, and emerged from that rugged ex
perience physically a type of the Ameri-
can man, firm, broad-shouldered, deep
chested and with endurance equal to the
performance of the hardest tasks. His
contacts with the people have inspired
his philosophy, expressed in this: "An
American who is to make his way in
America should be brought up among
his fellow Americans" That is true, for
what can be expected of a man, expat-
rated in his childhood, educated and
reared abroad, with no knowledge of his
country and his countrymen?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

tory and farm. American experience IS,
of course, appealed to. The facts that
our farmers find their best customers IN
great manufacturing centers built up by
protection, and that our manufacturing
States and section are also the area OF
high farm land values and agricultural
prosperity form an object lesson that
must appeal powerfully to Canadian
farmers who are handicapped by the
lack of a near home market for their
produce. The people of our manufac-
turing States receive in wages and sal
aries So, 1914 1886, 683, a large proportion
of which passes eventually to the farm
ers. 1t is a system of close mutual in
terchange and support. of domestic farm
and factory reciprocity, which. with our
great natural advantages, has made
America a synonym for prosperity the
world over.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
PARKER is NOT A SAFE MAN.
Will BE Influenced by the Radical
Element in His Party.
AInnnEnld 70 NTl,r.re.A


If his own utterances are to be cred
ited-and nobody is dsputing them
Judge Parker in 1896 and 1900 was not
for free silver, but on the contrary was
an advocate of the gold standard, and
vet he admits to having voted for Bryan
and free silver twice. How strong his
convictions and principles were for sound
and honest money may best be judged
by his profession of one thing and his
practice of another.
If then as a virtually private citizen,
protected as it were by the divinity he
seems to think hedges in the Judiciary,
Judge Parker possibly then without
thought of further political preferment
could not bring himself to elevate
principle above politics and to place pa
triotism above partisanism, how could
he be expected, in the fierce light that
BEATS upon place of political power and
preferment to prove other than mildly
plastic and complaisant to the widest
demands of the Democratic Huns and
Vandals who would rend asunder the
very fabric of government in their wild
scramble for place and pie, pelf and
self?
Is It not wiser for the people of this
nation to keep erring and SHINING Democ-
racy, possibly, but not positively peni-
tent, on probation awhile longer-at least
until it has brought forth fruits meet
for repentance?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
A THING WELL DONE.
A Record that Recommends Roosevelt
to the Voters.

Record that Recommends Roosevelt
to the Voters.
The relations between capital and
labor in the United States are the ex-
istent conditions when affect the welfare
of many millions of people. The rela-
tons between any administration and
the adjustment of these questions must
necessarily be careful and most delicate.
What has happened in this relation un-
der the, administration of President
Roosevelt? What happened and what
made the ultimate result in the gigantic
miners strike in Pennsylvania? Who
was it who devised, in plain, common
sense, American way, solution or the
problem which affected the welfare Of
hundreds of thousands? or course that
is all. now. relatively, an old story. The
man who did this with his common
sense was the present candidate Of the
Republican party for the Presidency
He ventures upon things, and he does
them well from a straightforward, pa
triotic point of view.
Is it not good thing to bear in
mind that the record Of what Theodore
Roosevelt did in connection with the
Pennsylvania labor troubles is one OF
the greatest recommendations for his
election to the Presidency? There was
a delicate situation-it was even a ques-
ton whether the President should inter-
venc or not. He did intervene, with
wholesome manliness, and the result
was for the good Of a great mass Of the
people Gould there be a better cam
paign document than the plain story Of
what this man did in Strengthening out
the relations between Capital and Labor
in Pennsylvania.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
TARIFF TRIMMING.
why the Work Should Be Entrusted
to Republicans.


This is but an allusion to a phase of
what the Republican party, as it exists,
is doing and is going to do, particular
phase to which reference is made, casu-
ally. as to the regulation of the tariff in
the future. Those who make things
know best what to do with the things
they have made. The Republican party
having made the tariff, which has made
this country the most prosperous of all
the countries of all the world, is the
only party which can readjust the tariff
as occasion may demand
Naturally. and very properly, from
their point of view, the opponents of the
Republican party concede nothing. As a
preliminary. they claim the tariff is a
monster of some sort; that it is bad and
has been ever bad. Nevertheless, under
certain existent circumstances it seems
to have worked well, and our great trade
Adventures and our manufacturers and
our farmers and our workmen fatten I'M
der this same tarIff.
So goes the present situation. Where
has been exhibited intelligence should not
intelligent be exhibited in the future
The party which has made the tariff is
tie party which will revise the tariff
under the suggestions of common sense.
as occasion may demand
SO potent haze been the results Of the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
SECOND TERM QUESTION.
Rooseve1t's Claim to the Presidency
Stronger than Any Other Mans.

Stronger than Any Other Mans.
Kansas City Times, independently
If President Roosevelt had been elect
ed to the office he now occupies, Judge
Parker's declaration that, if chosen Pres
ident,, he would not be a candidate for
reelection, might have some special
weight III the present canvass among
those who are believers in the one-term
principle. But President Roosevelt came
into office by accident. He was made
Vice President against his personal
wishes and political judgment. He was
duty bound and he voluntarily pledged
himself to carry out so far as possible.
the policies of his predecessor. If he
has done well, he is especially entitled
to the votes of the people. Under the
circumstances his claim to the presidency
is stronger than that of any ordinary
candidate could be- for if he has faith
fully fulfilled the Office to which he was
called by accident, he should be honored
with the same Office by election. His
present incumbency of the presidential
post should at least serve as reliable
probationary service. 1t is for the peo-
pie to answer to his administration, for
if it has been equal to or above the aver
age, or satisfactory generally, he has
stronger claims than any other man
could have, for he asks an Endorsement
where another would ask for a trust
And this is the way the country is likely
to look at the situation. President Roose-
welt has made himself tremendously
with the masses. He has con-
WINGED the nation of his honesty, courage
and capacity. He has pleased vastly
more Democrats than he has offended Re
publcians. And both the admiration he
has aroused on the one hand and the en-
nifty he has engendered on the other are
tributes to his virtue and motives.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

tariff in the past that it appears almost
impossible that it's effects should be
brought up as an issue in the present
campaign, but yet the trimming of sails
is always vital issue in all sailing. The
Republican party will trim it's own sails,
and it will be extraordinary should the
American people delegate the task to any
ono else
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

The cry that President Roosevelt, if
reelected, will pick a quarrel and plunge
the country in war is raised by the Dem
ocrats for the purpose of soaring the
farmers. who are peace loving. The eff
fort will be in vain. as the farmer, as
does everyone else. knows that President
Roosevelt. while urging that the country
at all times be prepared to defend itself
and maintain its policies is for peace.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

Joseph Chamberlain, the great English
statesman, in recent speech 10 English
men declared that free trade was "a sui
cidal course. If you proceed in the pres
ent policy your workmen must either
take lower wages or lose their work"
The Democratic party would have us
take up the policy which England is get.
ting ready to discard.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

Compare the ruin and disaster during
the last Democratic administration with
the prosperity everywhere seen to-day.
The contrast is an unanswerabe argu-
nsent in favor Of Republican rule.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

Democrats may abuse President
Roosevelt personally and misrepresent
the Republican party. but they dare not
tell the truth about his official acts or
the record of the party, and then con-
denim it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

1--WE each and ali owe duty to the
community and to the State. 1t is
positive duty, and that is to aid in Sc
curing good laws and their faithful
enforce nent. We are not menaced by.
foreign foes, We have no fear of alien
attack. We have nothing within to
dread except the, indifference of the
intelligent citizen to the discharge of
his civic obligations. Hon G. w. Fair
banks at Freeho q, \. J., June %, 1903
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

Here is veritable Roosevelt family:
E. r. Conley, a farmer, who lives at
Westfeld, ILL.,, has six sons, six grand
sons and three sons-in-law. All includ-
ing Mr. Ccnley himself, will vote for
Roosevelt in November
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

"Distrust whoever pretends to offer
You patent cure-aII for every i'll of
the body polite, just as you would
man who offers a medicine which
would cure every evil of your indiyid-
uaI body. a medicine that is recon-
mended to cure both asthma ami
broken leg is not good for either"
From Roosevelts Speech at Providence r. l.,
August %, 1902.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

The auspieious and momentous fact
Is that never lefore in the history Of the
world has comfort been enjoyed. educa-
ton acquired and independence secured
by so large a proportion of the t9tal
population Of the world in the United
States Of America that has occurred
under protection.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

Carefully, prepared statistics show that
the number of business failures in 1892,
the last year under President Harrison,
was 1894. while in 1893. the first year
of his Democratic successor, they were
10, 242. A party whose successN always
alarms capital and causes an increase in
the number of business failures us not
one for patriotic Americans to support.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
Farm and FACTORY Reciprocity.
Farmers Sentinel


Piotrctionist sentiment is growing in
Canal aad appeals are made to the
farmers to SUPPORT that policy on the
theory Of the mutual helpfulness Of fac
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

In the government printing office at
Manila there are 240 t'ilipinos employed
and only so Americans. The natives are
being educated in the printing art-a step
toward government.