The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1904-06-25

ment through the storms of civil war.
We then found the country, after
four years of Democratic rule, in evil
plight, oppressed with misfortune and
doubtful of the future. Public credit
had been lowered, the revenues were
declining, the debt was growing, the
administration attitude toward Spain
was feeble and mortifying, the stand.
ard of values was threatened and un.
certain, labor was unemployed, bust.
ness was sunk In the depression which
had succeeded the panic Of 1893, hope
was faint and confidence was gone.
PROTECTIVE TARIFF RESULTS
IN EXPANSION OF TRADE.
We met these unhappy conditions
vigorously, effectively and at once. We
replaced Democratic tariff law based
on free trade principles and garnished
With sectional protection by a consis.
tent protective tariff and industry,
freed from oppression and stimulated
by the encouragement of wise laws,
has expanded to degree never be-
fore known, has conquered our mar
kets and has created volume of ex-
POASo NAASA Ad0 oul paSoSu 1u1d6lud.
ton. Under the Dingley tariff labor
has been fully employed. Wages have
risen and all industries have revived
and prospered.
We firmly established the gold stand.
ard, which was then menaced with de.
struction. Confidence returned to bust.
ness and with confidence an unex.
ampled prosperity.
For deficient revenues supplement.
ed by improvident issues of bonds we
gave the country an income which
produced q large surplus and which
enabled us only four years after the
Spanish war had closed to remove over
$lOO,0OO,000 of annual war taxes, re.
duce the public debt and lower the
interest charges of the government.
The public credit which had been
so lowered that in time of peace
Democratic administration made large
loans at extravagant rates of interest
In order to pay current expenditures,
rose under Republican administration
to its highest point. and enabled us to
borrow at per cent even In time OF
war.
We refused to falter longer with the
miseries Of Cuba. We fought quick
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| set Cuba free, governed the island for
Cuban 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 mutual interests.
We have organized the government
nf pnrtn o,,I itr
Joy peace, freedom, order and pros
perity.
CIVIL LIBERTY FOR PEOPLE
OF THE PHILIPPINES.
In the Philippines we have sup
| pressed insurrection, established order
and given to life and property secur-
ity never known there before. We
have organized civil government, made
1t effective and strong in administra-
tion and have conferred upon the peo-
| pie of those islands the largest civil
| liberty 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 Peking and a decisive part
In preventing the partition and the
| preserving of the integrity of China.
The possession Of a route for an
isthmian canal, so long the dream of
American craftsmanship, is now an
accomplished fact. The great work Of
connecting the Pacific and Atlantic
oceans by canal is at last begun and
1t 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.
We have reorganized the army and
put 1t in the highest state Of efficiency.
We have passed laws for the i'm
provement and support of the militia.
We have pushed forward the build
ing of the navy, the defense and the
protection of our honor and our inter-
ests.
Our administration of the great de-
partments of the government has been
honest and efficient and wherever
wrongdoing has been discovered the
Republican administration has not
hesitated to probe the evil and bring
offenders to justice without regard to
party or political ties.
ANTITRUST LEGISLATION
AND PROTECTIVE TARIFF.
Laws enacted by the Republican
party, which the Democratic party
failed to enforce and which were in
tended for the protection Of the public
against the unjust discrimination OF
the illegal encroachment of vast ag'
gregations of capital, have been fear.
lessly enforced by Republican presi.
dent and new laws ensuring reason.
able publicity as to the operations of
great corporations and providing ad-
ditional remedies for the prevention
of discrimination in freight rates have
been passed by Republican congress.
In this record of achievement dur
ing the past eight years may be read
the pledges which the Republican
party has fulfilled. We propose to con.
tinue these policies and we declare our
constant adherence to the following
principles:
Protection, which guards and de.
velops our industries, Is 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 readjust-
ed only when conditions have so
changed that the public interest de-
mands their alteration, but this work
cannot safely be committed to any
other hands than those Of the Repub.
lican party. To entrust it to the Demo.
cratic party Is to invite disaster.
Whether, as in 1892, the Democratic
party declares the protective tariff un.
constitutional or whether 1t demands
tariff reform or tariff revision its real
object is always the destruction OF the
protective system. However specious
the name the purpose is ever the same.
A Democratic tariff has always been
followed by business adversely; Re-
publican tariff by business prosperity.
To a Republican congress and Re-
publican president this great question
can be safely entrusted. When the only
free trade country among the great ma.
tions agitates return to protection
the chief protective country should not
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