Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-19
SECRET OF WAR WILLIAM H TAFT Of OHIO
NOMINATED BY REPUBLICANS ON FIRST VOTE
las 7Oz the $50 Second With 67 Cannon 5 Roosevelt
Vice President Be Nominated TodayStrong Platform Adopted

wealth has been scarcely touched. We
have a vast domain of three million
square miles, literally bursting with
latent treasures still awaiting tn"
magic of capital and industry to be
converted 70 practical uses of man.
kind; a country rich in soil and
climate and in the embarrassed en-
ergy of its rivers and in all the va
ried products of the field, the forest
and the factory. With gratitude for
Gods bounty, with pride in the splen-
did productivencss of the past and
with confidence in the plenty and pros
perity of the future, the Republican
party declares for the principle that in
the development and enjoyment of
wealth SO great, and blessings so be-
nign, there shall be equal opportunity
for all.
The Revival Of Business.
Nothing so clearly demonstrates the
sound pasis upon which our CONNER
cial, industrial and agricultural inter-
ests are founded. and the necessity of
promoting their continued welfare
through the operation Of Republican
policies, as the recent safe passage of
the American people through a tinan-
cial disturbance. which if appearing
in the midst of Democratic rule or the
menace of it, might have cqualled the
familiar Democratic panics of the
past We congratulate the people
upon this renewed evidence of Ameri-
can supremacy and hail with conf
lencc the signs now manifest of Il
complies restoration of business pros
perity in all lines of trade, commerce
and manufacturing.
Recent Republican Legislation.
Since the election of William McKin-
ley in 1896 the people of this country
have felt anew the wisdom of entrust-
ing to The Republican party. through
decisive majorities the control and di-
rection of national legislation.
The many wise and progressive mea-
surcs adopted at recent sessions of
Congress have demonstrated the patri-
otto resolve Of Republican leadership in
the legislative department to keep step
in the forward march toward better
government.
Notwithstanding the indefensible fill
clustering of a Democratic minority in
the House of Representatives during
the last session, many wholesome and
progressive laws were enacted and we
emergency currency bill; the appoint
ment Of the national monetary commits
sion; the employers and government
| liability laws, the measures for the
greater efficiency of the army and ma
| w; the widows pension bill; the child
| labor law for the District of Columbia;
! the new statutes for the safety of roal-
road engineers and firemen and many
no
| fore.
Republican Pledges for Future Tariff.
The Republican party declares une-
quivocally for n revision of the tariff
by a special session of Congress imme-
diately following the inauguration Of
the next President and cOmmends the
steps already taken to this end in the
work assigned to the appropriate CON-
mittees of Congress which are now in
vestigating the operation and effect of
existing schedules. In all tariff legis-
lation the true principle of protection
| is best maintained by the imposition Of
such duties as will equal the difference
between the cost of production at home
and abroad, together with a reasonable
profit to American Industries We fa-
vor the establishment of maximum and
minimum rates to be administered by
the President under limitations fixed in
the law, the maximum to be available
to meet determinations by foreign
countries against American goods en-
tering their markets, and the minimum
TO represent the normal measure OF
protection at home; the aim and pur-
pose of the Republican policy being not
only to preserve, without excessive du-
ties, that security against foreign COM
petition to which American manufac.
turers. farmers and producers are ems
titled, but also to maintain the high
standard Of living Of the wage earners
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