The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-09-13

duction. 1t has enacted the Panama
Bill, the Rate Bill and the Pure Food
Bill. Any one of these bills would
mark legislative epoch. Any one Of
them could be pointed to as an
achievement worthy of whole con-
gressional term. But these great
questions all came in one single SEES
sion of seven months.
The meat inspection bill was of
equal Importance. The denatured al
4, cohol bill will furnish an additional
market for the farmers products and
! cheaper light and power. The bill to
preserve Niagara Falls will meet the
approval Of all mankind, and no
doubt our Canadian neighbors will
join us in this movement.
Our consular service has been reor-
ganized and put upon greatly i'm
proved footing by the consular reform
bill. The naturalization laws have
been remodeled and made more per-
feet.
Altogether this congress can stand
upon its record as to what it has
done.
1t has left undone the things which
would have unsettled and disturbed
the business of the country.
Every legislative body is to be
weighed by the things that it refuses
to do as well as by those it does.
The greatest and most satisfying
test of diamond is to put it in the
sunshine. The light searches its
heart So with the test of prosperity.
Legislation to stand the searchlight Of
prosperity must be sound or it's flaws
will be seen.
The glory of Republican achieve
ment should be highly gratifying to
every lover of this country.
Mr.. Bryan's return home is the sig
| nal for a new assault upon the party
in power.
The policies which he stood for
| were defeated at the polls and the
results which he taught would follow
have none of them come to pass.
He came back to us with no crown
of thorns and no cross of gold. But
he raises the standard of government
Ownership of the railways of the Unit
ed States.
President Roosevelt has been the
champion of government regulation as
opposed to national ownership.
Whether this idea of Col. Bryan will
| become the party faith of the Demo
cracy, time will tell.
But it is a remarkable illustration
of the departure from the Jeffersonian
policy of individual action and non
i interference by the government when
we see the exponent of Jeffersonian
Democracy gong to the very verge of
socialism.
The party we represent has no apol-
ogies to make for it's record and its
principles. The credit of the nation
is not only the best that it has ever
been but it is better than that of any
other nation at any time recorded in
history. Napoleon says that the price
of its bonds is the true test of ma
tons condition.
A few weeks ago $3O,O00,OO0 of Pan.
anna two per cent bonds were sold at
a $1.O4, and offers were made for
$445,OO0,O00.
Our state is a good example of wise
policies. The state affairs through a
long line of able Republican officials
have been skillfully and honestly adj
ministered. From Governor Grimes
to Governor Cummins, through lone
line of able men, have our local af
fairs been wisely and safely managed
| Your own county has shared in this
honorable state record in the person
of B. F. Carroll, who, as state aud
itor, has supervised the accounts ant
held the insurance companies to the
observance of the law.
i Let us present united front and
give an old time majority for the
whole ticket.
The campaign of 1906 is merely the
preliminary contest for the great bat
| tie of 1908, and the results of the
coming election will prepare the way
for the continuance in the nation o.
that policy which has proven so sue
cessful in the past.
The time of this convention will moi
permit more extended discussion o.
the issues at this time, but hope t.
meet you again in different parts o.
the county and present more fully al
questions before the people.
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