Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-16

tween destroying the egg and the open
ing of the shell.
To control our corporations would
destroy them; to correct some minor
abuses in the tariff they would wipe it
| out; to restrain some overzealous
policeman they would abolish the
police force; to keep some men from
becoming too wealthy would destroy
all individual incentive by advocating
government ownership.
There is nothing so important to the
development of the nation as the en-
| couragement OF individual effort, and
there is also nothing more
important than that each individual
should feel that his own efforts and en-
ergy will be given fair play in the race
| of progress.
This the Republican party has done;
this the Republican party proposes to
do. Its first motive is to form a firm
and secure government, and its second
| motive is to develop and encourage
individual effort. 1t is also the pur-
pose of the Republican party to en-
courage cooperative of stock company
development and energy, subject
always to such restrictions and regula-
tions as shall not discourage private
individual efforts and ambition, no mat
ter on how small or large a scale the
individual wishes to make the attempt.
All organizations of laboring men to
improve their social and material con
dition are entitled to the same pro
lection and encouragement as combi-
nations of business men, and, of course
should always be subject to the same
restrictions and regulations,
No man can buy out another mans
business and make a success of it un-
less he has grasp of the possibilities
of increasing it. 1t is all right to cut
down expenses, providing it does not
cut down the positive and initiative
foroe of progress. 1t is not low
salaries and cheap machinery
we want, but better machinery,
evEh at a higher price, if it
wiz give better results; and it is not
a low tariff and cheap money that we
want, but better tariff and better and
more elastic money, better protection
from weak and unscrupulous competi.
tion and cheap financial theories.
No man is competent to remodel
house who is not competent to plan
new one, because he will not realize
the Importance of the foundations nor
the eternal fitness of things necessary
| to harmonic it as whole The
| Democratic party are not suitable con-
tractors to remodel our tariff or our
money standards, because they do not
understand the foundations of these
institutions and have no clear concep-
tion of their purpose and Importance
to our enterprising and progressive, as
well as safe and sound, National life.
Bryan says, abolish the gold standard,
mix some other metal with the gold and
make money cheap. Bryan says, don't
let men get too rich, pass law that no
man can be a director in more than
one company.
1t is not cheap money we want but
honest money. 1t is not one horse,
men that we want but honest men; and
you do not make men honest by stop
ping them from doing business. Do you
know, Mr.. Chairman, that every dollar
of paper money issued by the banks is
backed up by one dollar and seven
cents of United States bonds deposited
at Washington. That is honest money,
that is gold standard American money
and we are proud of it, and all the
world is glad to get some of it.
Our people, irrespective of party,
evince their honesty and patriotism by
open and enthusiastic recogn ition of
the honesty and manhood of Theodore
Roosevelt; but it is surprising that
some of our people calling themselves
Roosevelt-Bryanites would just as hon.
esty and enthusiastically declare
Bryan secoud Roosevelt. One is an
open, straightforward, manly states.
maG, standing for protective tariff,
SQUAD money and fair play alike to the
corporations and the individual work
er, while tie other openly and anx-
iously pondering to the prejudices and
passions of men, has laid himself open
TO the charge of insincerity, by sweep
ing from pOpulism and free trade
through free silver and the reorgani-
zation Of the supreme court to his pres
ent place to restrict individual ambi-
ton. One man represents warm
healthy sunshine, and the other sings
of sweet delusive moonshiue.
In the last Legislature l tried to use
my influence for better roads, better