The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-08-24
MR. ROOSEVELT
Us REAL ISSUE
MA. sEN ERipeE BHlMas RREsE
DENT no FRo NT--lN INDIANA
SENATOR IN MAINE

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PORTLAND, Ne, August 1T he.
lRepublican campaign In the First con-
eressional district was formally open
ed here with q rally. at which sena-
Itor ALERT q. Beyertdge Of Indiana,
was the speaker Senator Beveridgs
discussed national pffaiFs and urged
that congressman and senators be
detected who WIN aid President Roose-i
lvelt to purify American business and
taggrssslvely support his policy of in.
lereasIng the prosperity Of the coun-
Try.
He said in part:
@The issue in this national congress
l sionai campaign Is moral rather than
economic. 1t is not the tariff exclus-
lively protection Is permanent Amer
Iican policy, but. tariff schedules will
receive all necessary attention before
1.-THE next election) so much as the
whole policy of the admlnistr ataion
not SO much mere partisan struggle
4 for mere party success asthe ongoing
\ OF the movement for the moral regen-
Grafton OF American business; not the
condition OF the country alone, but
that condition in connection with leg
fslatfon urged and secured, and the
execution of existing laws by Theo-
dore Roosevelt and the moral advance
for which he stands whoever fights
under that flag Will win; whoever APP
peals to the people on any smaller is
sue viii wage a harder and more
doubtful battle.
"Do you believe in Theodore Roose-
welt? that is the question. II you
do, you will elect congressman and
senators who will support him. Do
you believe that American business
should not only be the greatest, but
also the ,purest, in the world? If You
do, you will elect congressman and
senators who win aid President Roose-
welt in his policy of publication. Do
you believe in increasing the prosper
ity of the nation and at the same time
uplifting the morality of the natioR2
II you do, you will elect congressman
and senators who win sggressiveiy
support President Rooseyelt's policy
of constructive righteousness.
Equality Before the law"
4They said that unless the Roosevelt
policy Of law enforcement ceased cap
ital would decline to invest and pan
lie result And yet there is more
than $3,G6s 100000 invested in manu-
featuring Industries to-day than there
were when Theodore Roosevelt be-
came President Equality before the
law, the doctrine of our Institutions
AYE, the doctrine of our race-is
honest industry's greatest friend. Am.
erican business needs no letters of
marque and reprisal to prosperously
as .the seas of commerce.
1.-THE number of employees in Amer
lean factories and mills has increased
almost 100000 during the present
administration. But while the number
of employees in American manufactur-
ing establishments has thus increased
during the present administration 1913
per cent, but wages paid employees in
these establishments have increased
3O1 per cent. Equal enforcement Of
equal laws takes no bread out OF the
mouths of toflers. Give labor en-
ployment and 1T WIN take care OF It,
self and the natton-and this is ma
ton of workers.
"Immigration is the barometer of
American prosperity or adversely,
During the present administration i'm
migration has risen until the present
year it is the highest in history. The
number OF immigrants arriving in
America in 1900 was 44s,572i in 1901,
4s7,91s: in 1902, 64s.743; in 1908, s57,-
o46; in 1904, s12,s70; in 1905, 1,o26p-
499; in 1896, 100000.
"Thnk Of the nations railway bus.
tincss! Over 1T 100000 more tons of
freight md over 6O,OOO,oOO more pas
sengers were carried during the pres
4 ent year than the first year OF Pred-
4 dent Roosevelt's administration.
Prices of Commodities.
"And prices have increased only in
comparison with the low record made
during the terrible years from 1893 to
1897. Prices rapidly fell from 1892
Iuntn 1897, and then rapidly rose until
the present time. Prices have exactly
represented the conditions of the coun-
try's prosperity. Prices, rise when
people have money to buy; prices fall
when people have no money to buy.
Empty pockets and falling prices are
cause and effect. Republican admin
istration and the peoples pockets I'LL
ed are also cause and effect,
'For example, mIddling cotton was
III cents pound in 1890: 744 cents