Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-09-27

changes in the tariff laws in their own
interest without regard to their effect
upon others equally concerned, that time
has long since passed.
1.-THE tariff policy of the United States
is national in its operation and whoever
seeks to alter or amend it must consider
not the profits of a single industry, not
the investments of a particular section,
but the welfare of the American people as
a whole. So far as the republican party
Is concerned / do not doubt that we will
be found discussing our differences OF
opinion In a friendly spirit in the council
chambers of the party of which we are
all members, confident that the leader
ship of Theodore Roosevelt will not carry
US far astray in our purpose to promote
the welfare of the American people.
TWO Kinds of Standpatters.
1.-THE republicans of the United States
have allowed foolish division in their
ranks to grow up about merry figure of
speech employed in his campaign against
the democratic party In Ohio by Uncle
Mark Hanna-that plain spoken republic
can leader whose common sense, good
the year round, will always be renem-
bered by his countrymen. But your
Uncle Mark Hanna was not the original
standpatter. | find here in this book
in 1896, a volume which has already be-
come classic as the dream book of Ameri-
can politics, a bit of proverbial wisdom
which l will ask you to listen to. He
had spoken on the 18th of September at
Baltimore, and in order to make the
folks feel as badly as possible, had VEN
tured into the domain of prophecy:
1--WE denounce the gold standard he
said as wrong; we denounce the dollar
under gold standard as a robber. Do
you think that we have reached the end
of the gold standard? There is no end.
Do you think that we have drained the
cup of sorrow to it's dregs? No, my
friends, you cannot set limit to financial
depression and hard times
1.-THE next day he spoke at the capital
of Delaware. and in order to clinch the
argument of hard times he utterd these
words; so rational and instructive that
it is almost an act of charity to take
them out of this book and deliver them
from the society of the hallucinations in
the midst of which they have been slum-
bering for ten years:
al want to talk with you a while this
afternoon he said, about our financial
condition. If things are good then there
is no reason why we should make any
change in legislation. If our present con-
dition is satisfactory, then we ought to
leave it alone'-a proposition so obvious
/
straight back to the eXhortion of the
| apostle: Prove all things and hold fast
that which is good"
Senator Dolliver spoke briefly on the
| questions which have arisen out of our
| intervention i'm behalf of the colonies of
| Spain. Among other things he said:
No New Questions.
| zone of the strange things in the history
| of this world is the fact that there are
| hardly any questions which are new In
| 1900 the paramount issue of the free silver
| campaign was as dead as it is today and
| the political controversy of that year, so
| far as the democratic leaders could control
| it, related almost exclusively to matters
| which were grouped adroitly under the
| head of Imperialism. 1t is interesting to
| recall the fact that the old democratic
| party of Lincoln's time had notions of it's
| own on this subject which it became the
| duty of the early republicans to combat.
! Our first platform denounced the Ostend
| manifesto, OF which the democratic can
| didate for president was one of the au-
| thors--a cheerful proposition to buy Cuba
| II Spain would SELL and, if not to take
| il anyhow. This proposition the republ-
can fathers when they nominated FIRE.
! mont denounced as the hghwayman' s
| plea that might makes right.
"In these later days the government OF
| the United States has come into a larger
| responsibility for the welfare of the
| helpless and backward races than was
| then ever thought of. We have been led
| by circumstances beyond our control into
| the management OF the Philippine
| Islands, of Hawaii and OF Porto Rico.
These new responsibilities laid upon our
shoulders by the treaty of peace with
| Spain have proved burdensome, difficult
| and at times discouraging. We have
taken them up with no selfish purpose of
national agsrandizement but have de-
voted our energies and expended our re-
sources with a sincere desire to bring
| these distant peoples 10 the stature of
| self governing communities.
"Our labors in Porto Rico and the
Hawaiian Islands have been crowned with
| gratifying success. Under the administra-
tion of Secretary Taft we laid broad and
deep in the Philippine Islands founda-
| ton for the growth. education and ulti-
mate self government of ten millions OF