The San Francisco call., 1906-09-06

toned the fact that before delivering
his address he wept, / take it that he
looked upon the faces of Tammany and
realized that he was at political
wake. One of the most important re-
marks that he made was that he was
proud of his country, because of obser-
vations that he had made when abroad.
The remark proves that even Demo-
crat can learn something If you give
him time and opportunity, because Mr..
Bryan in his salad years assured the
people of the United States that it was
matter of entire Indifference to them
what the rest of the world thought
of the United States.
when Mr.. Bryan said that he was
proud Of his country he neglected to
enter into a discussion of reasons
which had created those conditions
which enabled him to be proud. Ger
tainly he would have had no undivided
country extending from the Gulf to
.he Great Lakes if the Republican
party had not put Abraham Lincoln in
the White House. sent Grant to Vicks-
burg, and Appomattox and sent Sher-
man from Atlanta to the sea- Is he
proud of the financial position of this
country? The Republican party estab-
lished it and buried the free silver
heresy so deep that neither Bryan's
horn nor GabriePs trumpet can resur-
rect it.
ROOSEvELTS LEADERSHIP.
rs Bryan proud of the commercial
position of the United States and fits
domestic wealth? 1t was the Dingley
bill that restored our industry and put
idle wheels in motion and brought
about again the noisy hum of happy
labor which had been silenced by
Democratic free trade. He should be
proud, also. of the fact that under the
wise and able leadership of Theodore
Roosevelt the strong arm of the law
is grasping the trusts. common car
riers are being regulated by stringent
legislation and every domestic policy
is being administered to the advantage
of the whole country.
Mr.. Bryan, in view OF the failure of
his political prophecies In the past.
might well be abashed, but that is not
human nature. Despite the triumphs
of science and medicine, the takers
still cry their wares upon the public
street and the advertising columns of
our Sunday papers are made hideous
by the pictures of quacks and char
latans and Mr.. Bryan doubtless will
continue to offer his political panaceas
upon the market. First and foremost
of these is his old cry of a tariff for
revenue. Under our protective tariff
we have built up our great industries,
which have an output in manufactures
greater than that of Great Britain,
France and Germany combined. We
pay our labor better wages for less
time than any other country In the
world. California, particularly, with
It's great protected fruit interests, with
its developing manufactures, threat
ened by cheap competition of labor In
Japan and China, is interested IN the
continuance Of our protective policy.
If were to write the platform of this
convention I would emphasize three
words, Let us stand pat
SAN FRANCISCO TO RISE.
when the Republican party was or
ganized California was an outpost OF
civilization, separated from the East by
arid deserts and great mountains. With
can administrations, our railroads have
crossed the deserts and pierced the
mountains; the tide of population Is
| flowing this way, but the development
of our resources is only begun. We
scarcely know the wealth hidden in our
mines. in our fields and in our forests
In the southern end of our State, the
change has been equally great. At tina,
time. our country, used only for grazing
and Familiarity known up here as the
COW counties, was a hotbed of Democ-
racy, but as we changed the cattle
range into orchard and the pasture into
the vineyard. we began to roll up Re-
publican majorities. And so it has beer
throughout all this State.
"At the gate of the Orient stands our
great city, it's progress checked for the
moment, but its people, with the Same
energy and enterprise TINT built up San
Francisco I'm the firrt place, will build
greater and fairer city, it's mer-
chants, with the same enterprise tina,
has made San Francisco commercially
will continue TO hold 1t the first place
ON the Pacific Coast and 1T is and should
he the center of commerce toward the
Orient
Republican administration opened
the doors of the Orient and secured
foothold in the Philippines and Hawaii
and under Republican administration
we can look for a continued yigorou.
foreign policy and the extension OF oul
trade limits. Today the visit of Secre-
/ tary Root to the various South Amer
ican countries is paving the way fol
the greater development of our trade