Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-10
PLEA OF REPUBLICANS
Campaign Text Book Just
Published.
APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE
Record of the Party Given in De-
tail.
WOULD LET THE TARIFF REMAIN
Opposed to Changes as Long as Pres
emit Conditions Continue
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Work Of Congress.
The republican party-its achievements
for half century. and particularly its rec
ord In the present Congresses commended.
to the voters Of the country in the campaign
text book Just given out by the republican
congressional committee. The book con-
tains 215 pages. and Is replete with repub-
lican doctrines, embracing practically every
conceivable subject upon which informa-
tion may be desired Radicalism or con-
servatism. 1t Is declared. are never matters
OF concern to republicans. but 1t Is stated
they are content with practical and pro-
gressive Ideas, and the maturing of these
ideas into positive performance" Every
statement made and all figures presented
are declared to be official or authoritative,
and the foreword concludes: 1.-THE truth Is
the highest exemplificat ton Of republican
doctrines. and policies and party record the
best plea that can be made for continue
ton in power"
In discussing the campaign issues of 1906
the book calls attention to the fact that
since the termination of the F1fty-third
Congress, In 1895, the House of Represent
atives has been republican, and adds that
there Is every reason to expect that a
substantial working republican majority
will be elected next November" During
these ten years, 1t Is stated, I'VE have made
a greater advance as nation and a people
than was ever made before in generation,
and In many respects greater than during
our whole previous history There can
not. then. be the least doubt of republican
success IL the voters study carefully the
record OF the two parties"
To the Young Voters.
There will be thousands and hundreds of
thousands" the book says, who will vote
for the first time In November, who were
mere children when the democrats last had
majority in the House Of Representatives,
and they do not all wildly remember the
awful times and conditions brought on the
country by that Congress. They were not
born when the only democratic President
since the civil war was first elected. They
were babes in arms when Grover Cleveland
sent his famous or infamous free trade
message to Congress. and when. a year
after, the tntquitOus Mills bill was framed
and passed by the democratic House Of
Representatives of the Fiftieth Congress.
But fortunately there was then a repub-
lican Senate to prevent the enactment of a
free trade law, and disaster and calamity
was for the time averted. But in 1893 the
democrats had the presidency as well as
both Senate and House of Representatives.
and the work of that single Fifty-third
democratic Congress cost the industries and
people of the country many billions OF dol
lars and incalculable suffering.
These facts should be weighed with the
record Of the republican party before and
since, and especially should the record of
the present Congress be studied, for though
it's work Is not yet finished, more has al
ready been done in one session than by any
previous Congress since the war of the re-
bellion. The fiscal year which closed June
30, and the calendar year so far. gave and
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our industrial life, and only democratic sue
cess can prevent in any way its continu-
ance.''
only democratic success. it is declared. can
prevent the giving to the people of the
country new records in every phase of our
Industrial life.
Cause Of Advancement.
The book then continues:
Republicans have a right to claim that
our financial, commercial and Industrial adj
vancement is due to the laws enacted and
executed by their party leaders The party
came into power when the government and
the people were practically bankrupt and
without credit. A disrupted Union was re-
stored, the vast expenses Of war provided,
specie payments resumed. a protected coun-
try continued till the democratic check
came in 1893" But 1t Is stated: The peo-
pie were quick to see their mistake. and at
the first opportunity restored the republican
party to-full power. and no party change
has been made since during period of ten
years." Referring to industrial progress,
the situation is claimed to be unparalleled
in the annals of nations Our volume of
employment" the statement continues. "our
rewards of labor, our enjoyments Of life
were never before equaled. and best Of ALL
there Ia no sign Of abatement or signal of
retreat. There is prospect of still greater
and grander results. and only the rankest
pessimist can see cloud on our national
material horizon"
Because of the various financial and tariff
measures Of the republican party. which.
the book says, have brought about compe-
tition in manufactures. 1t Is declared that
a home market has been built up in this
country "of such magnitude that for sew
eral years we have given full employment
TO labor at wages about double those paid
when the republican party came into
power. In some cases these wages are
treble and quadruple what they were in
1890"
A list of twenty-three instances Of I'M
portant republican legislation follows, be-
ginning with the homestead law. signed by
Abraham Lincoln. and including references
to the acts for the issuance of legal tenders,
the system Of internal revenue taxation,
the thirteenth amendment to the Constitu-
ton. which abolished slavery; the civil
rights act, laws for the payment Of PEN
sions to veterans OF the civil war and their
surviving relatives s.s.u resumption Of specie
measures in the promotion Of agriculture.
the administrative customs act, the admis-
sion Of ten states and the provision Of
statehood for Oklahoma, the antitrust act
the national bankruptcy act, the establish
ment of the gold standard and the applica-
ton Of the policy Of protection to American
1abAr.
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A long summary OF the important laws
enacted at the last session of Congress- is
given, including the following subjects
Railway rates, the Panama canal pure
food, meat inspection. free alcohol, admis-
sion of Oklahoma and Indian territory as
one state, and Arizona and New Mexico If
they agree to union; reorganization OF the
consular service; national quarantine
against yellow fever: rigid steamboat in
spection; limitation Of immunity of wit
nesses In criminal cases; promotion of mil
itia efficiency; aid for San Francisco suffer-
ers; establishment OF national cemetery
embracing the grave Of Andrew Jackson,
with fifteen acres of land: marking Of the
graves of Confederate soldiers: jamestown