The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-08-28

TOR.
PRESIDENT Roosevelt in his letter to Con-
gresham James E. Watson, of Indiana,
defines the attitude of the Republican
party in this years campaign. Nor is his
definition partisan one All the people
of the country experience the benefit of
the legislation by Congress at it's session
this year, and all the people are interested
in the preservation of the great prosperity
that the country now enjoys. The Presi-
dent appeals to the record of Congress and
again to the necessity for preserving the
protective tariff system unimpaired.
Both in our foreign and domestic affairs,
as the President points out, the Republican
party has been eminently successful. One
of the greatest achievements is the realiza-
ton of the half-century dream of an 18TH
milan canal under American control. The
American people have no idea of the pow
erful influences that were employed to
defeat that great enterprise and, as the
President says, eff Congress had been
timid or corrupt the work OF building the
canal would never have been begun.
One of the notable incidents. and per.
haps the deciding one in canal legislation,
was the mastery speech by Senator Dry
den, of New jersey, in favor of the Presi-
dents insistment for d lock canal. Had
the question of type been left undetermin-
ed at the close of the first session of this
Congress the great project would still be
in doubt
In speaking of the nations foreign pol
icy President Roosevelt could talk on in
definitely wfthout exhausting his subject.
Since the inauguration of President Nc
kinley it has witnessed uninterrupted sue
cess, while the brilliancy of American
craftsmanship has excited the admiration
OF Europe. Not the least of our diploma
tic successes were the peace effected be-
tween Russia and Japan and the recent
settlement of the war involving three of
the Latin American States.
Our internal policy more nearly affects
the welfare of the nation, and this Con.
gress has done more than any previous
Congress to promote the national welfare.
Its legislation has been practical Its pc.
culiar merit, as Mr.. Roosevelt well saws.
is that while the laws enacted ..have
aroused the deepest anger of the reac
tionaries, of the men who make a fetch
OF wealth. they havesnot satisfied the un-
wise extremists, and the present Congress
In achieving this merit has acted in the
spirit of Abraham Lincoln, who was never
to be frightened out of going forward by
the cries of those who feared progress.
nor yet TO be hurried into or appreciate
the advance by the demands of crude
thinking men"
President Roosevelt disposes of the hopes
OF the Democrats and mugwumps of 1906
as to the attitude on the tariff question
They have insisted that he was ..laviny
low" with radical tariff revision policy
OF his own which he would soon exploit
and that he was in sympathy with the
antl-organization movements in various
States In fact, some of these anti-tariff
organizations in disguise have borrowed
the Roosevelt name But hear what the
President SAYS:
We stand unequivocably for a protec.
tive tariff, and we feel that the pbenom.
eLal industrial prosperity we are now en-
Joying is not lightly to be jeopardized. for
1t would be to the last degree foolish to
secure here and there a small benefit al
the cost of general business depression.
When the time comes for a change in the
tariff schedule it will be demanded bv the
business interests, and the changes will be
made by the friends of the protective
tariff, not by its enemies.
MIR. Bryan would make the tariff oues-
ton turn on the issue of the trusts. adroit-
~ trading upon popular feeling. Presi
dent Roosevelt says: "The question of re.
vlslng the tariff stands wholly apart from,
the question of dealing with the so-called
trusts'-that is, with the control of mo-
nopolies and with the supervision of greal
wealth In business, especially in corporate
form The only way in which it is possi. |
bic to deal with those trusts and monopo.
lies, and this great corporate wealth is by |
action along the line of the laws enacted
by The present Congress and its immediate
predecessors.
In view of the vital interests affected
the President gravely deprecates any
change in the leadership and organization
OF the House of Representatives. Such a |
change would substitute purposeless
confusion, violent and hurtful Oscillation |
between the positions of the extreme radi
cal and the extreme reactionary, for the
present orderly progress along the lines of
a carefully thought out policy"
The same logic applies to both Housee
81 Congress. The people cannot safely
give encouragement and aid to the enemies
OF tariff protection by radical changes in
the Senate, in retiring Senators known for
their devotion to the principle of protec
ton and replacing them with untried men
or men with academic views on the tarjfT
or men with no pronounced views. Pres
ldent Roosevelt has set forth the RepubE.
can position in this years CAMPAIGN
NeaoGrk Aacegtiser
A grain of sand in the eye can cause ex-
agony. A grain of pepper in
place of the grain of sand intensifies the
orment. The pain is not confined to the
'rgans affected. The whole body feels the
hook of that little irritating particacle
I is so when there is any arrangement or
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