The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-04-12

will Immediately usher into every
home a blighting era akin to the days
experienced from 1893 to 1897.
What the Republican party has
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done, what it is doing, and what il
proposes to do, is an ample guarantee
of what it will do in the future.
four work is not yet done, our mis-
sion is not ended.
I'VE are pressing now in the solut
don of problems as great and grave
as any that have engaged the atten
ton of the past.
with sturdy tread we are climb
ing to the goal,
"In the last nine years, beginning
with the Dingley bill and following
every avenue of enlightened adven,
ture, we have taken the place that be
longs to us.
| I'VE have been the creator of digni
fed and self-respecting labor.
Labor enters into and holds up
everything. ....
at is the backbone of the nation.
at breeds our children and nourish'
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| Human toll of heart, and brain and
hand. is the only true manhood, the
only real nobility, the aristocracy OF
the republic. $3.50.
When labor is happy and prosper.
GUS our country is safe, the rest will
take care of itself.
| Gold is good in it's place, 1t is alb
solutely necessary to modern life; but
man, brave, self-reliant, loyal, happy
man Is the most important question
which commands public attention to.
day.
- How splendidly have we fulfilled
the trust?
I'VE have given every poor boy a
right to aspire to riches, and always
competence.
I'VE lighted a torch over every era
die and placed crown of laureled cit.
izenship on every brow.
| Industrial Evolution.
"Now while all this has been going
on to excite the marvel and admira-
ton of the world. and evolution has
gradually taken place in industrial
affairs.
1--WE nave read of the glacial period,
the stone age, the Jpn age, and the
age of bronze.
This is an age of organization and
combination.
1T belongs to no one party or coun-
try.
They are formed with equal facility
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Everywhere they are conceived in
the mind of restless liomotion. And
the question is not who is responsible
| for them.
But who shall harness them a
gainst wrongful injury to others?
Republicans enacted the Sherman
antitrust measure in 1890.
Then came Cleveland and democ-
racy, they did nothing.
After that Mckinley and Roosevelt,
end during their terms republican
congress has passed four practical
bills supplementary to the Sherman
act, and we are engaged now in the
passage of another, the proposed rail-
road rate legislation. .-
And we have not yet fulfilled the
precusored message of our birth.
The device of railroad rebates is
the life Gripping, death dealing arm
Of organized oppression.
There can be no doubt but that
hany business men have been doomed
to despair and destruction through
the unfair use of the power of rebate.
1T is we'll to have giants strength
but wrong to make the tyrannical ar
bitter of success and failure.
There is vast deal of talk now
adays about governmental ownership of
railroads. This talk has been largely
excited by the abuse OF commercial
power and the unfairness of rate in
EQUITIES.
THE republican party, true to the
ancient traditions bequeathed to us
true to the unfiinched courage, baptiz-
ed into our being by our God.fearing
ancestors is now battling in the house
and senate of the nation. upheld by
the strong right arm of Theodore
Roosevelt, to relieve the people so far
as legislation can relieve them, of I'M
just discrimination, and to secure ev-
en-handed and steady rates to all ship
pers.
Praise For Indiana.
After reviewing the Nations Work
in the Philippines, Congressman
Brick said: And now a word about
Indiana. We are comparatively
young in years, but pride in the mater
ial and intellectual wealth. And we
have right to be proud. No state in
the union can point to a more splen-
did development of industrial and
| mental prosperity than Indiana. We
meet today, happy in all the comforts
and conveniences of life, and proud of
the self-respect that comes from the
distinguished achievements OF our
citizenship. Indiana stands today the
equal of other states without excep-
ton. in the statesmen she has given
to the nation ana the world. Indiana
at this hour is giving more creative
literature to the English-speaking
world than any other single common
wealth of the republic. And here as
elsewhere, republican predominance
has meant surprising prosperity of the
people, economic expenditure of the
public money, reduction Of the debt
and wise legislation. Labor is fully
employed at remunerative wages. The
farmer has enjoyed steady increase