The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-08-28

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The Republican party was founded on tho principle that
this government was established TO protect for all times tho
rights and opportunities of every individual from aordsmon,
That principle 1t has successfully maintained. Through tho
Civil War It consecratcd a reunited country TO free and equal
American citizenship. IL has kept the channcl" OF intorstatc
Commerce open for all and, through the National Banking Sys-
TEN, the rcfunding of the National Debt, Resumption OF specie
payments, the Gold Standard and the Emergency Currency
Law, has sustained the life current OF national integrity.
AS trustee of the National wealth, it has Investigated miaeral
regions, surveyed soils, developed waterways, including the
Panama Canal, irrigated deserts, conserved watersheds, aud
husbanded the public lands. Protecting American labor by
regulating immigration and by taking at the Custom House,
to pay American taxes, foreign capitals advantage from low
wages, it has preserved to American industries the home mar
ket of eighty millions of the worlds greatest consumers and so
laid the surest basis for American competition in foreign mar
kets. Uniting capital and labor, thus, in a common prosperity
and common source of increased reward, it has created oppor-
tunities, improved conditions of employment, brought about a
higher standard OF living, and more widespread distribution of
wealth and wen-being, and made expansion moral as well As
material.
Entrusted with insular possessions, it has brought them
peace and progress, and provided for the extension and pro-
lection of American trade, for the National defense, and for the
honorable discharge of the responsibilities of world greatness.
Maintaining peace at home, with foreign nations and among
them, it has given American rights and American opportunities
new meaning throughout the nation and throughout the world.
1.-THE Party Of Progress and Prosperity
Promising progress and prosperity, it has been politically
sincere. 1t has never had a candidate of section, prejudice, or
class, nor a platform of negation, scheme OF reputation, pro-
gram of scuttle, or doctrine of despair. 1t has never lent itself
to a demand for revolution, to be followed by reaction and re-
Progression, it has stood Arm for evolution by constant, steady
and enduring progress. Finding trusts, giant born, hourishing
under supposed conflict of State and National law. the double
prohibition of existence serving but to foster their development
it has never, in an attempt to destroy trusts, Withdrawn, in
State Or nation, the protection of law from property, but has,
through Executive investigation and resort to the courts, re-
solved the conflict which had sienced law and given trusts ex-
istence.
1t has never proposed to advance American workingmen
and American institutions by banishing American industries
and building up those of other lands, and scorned to insult
labor with an illusory promise OF immunity from law. Yet it
passed the Pure Food Law and the Employers Liability Law,
/ secured equal accommodation on railroads, aided agriculture,
/ created the Civil Service, established Free Rural Mail Delivery,
! reduced foreign postage, and increased pensions. Continuing
naturally marked.out progress, it will keep it's pledges of Tariff
! REIMBURSEMENT, Currency Reform and development of the Mer-
! chant Marine, and make the United States the financial centre
I as it has made it the industrial centre of the worldt
J NI-The Constructive Party it Organizes the National VIII
In the evolution by which party govermen, has become the
} xtra-consdtutional method of securing responsibility to the
! people, the Republican Party has become their traditional rep
! resentadve and the Democratic Party the organized aspiration
I Of individuals for power without responsibility. Fairly tried,
( from 1893 to 1895, the two Democratic Houses and the Demo-
I cratic President were a "wild team" and a helpless driver.
I Democracy agitates local differences, Republication organizes
the National idea. In 1858 the people were ommitted to thu
! cause of human liberty; the idea of elderly and Union ex-
panded for the first time into the reality of the American
! nation.
In 1879 money was committed to a specie basis: specie
/ was at once, until 1893, no longer sought, and government
bonds went to a premium at the reduced rate OF interest. In
1896 business men we're again committed to condolences; be-
( fore q single statute was enacted prosperity set in and in ten
years bank deposits almost trebled-a perm anent gain which
the recent panic, a estate of mind now completely dispelled,
scarcely touched. In 1905 business was committed to fair
methods; without compulsion violations largely ceased.
The Republican Party, at each period, sounded the public
conscience, felt the National pulse, framed its policies in re-
Spouse, and realized in law the dominant American idea. It's
constructive past assures it's constructive future. 1t is to-day
I as it always has been, "The Party fit to Govern"
Iv.-rhe Party Of statesmen
The party of Statesmanship, it has been the training school
I of statesmen. It's policies have been forged in the heat of pub
} lie discussion, tempered in the deliberation and shaped in the
I conflict of many trained minds, and drawn and finally wrought
I for the country's welfare. Dominating its members through
principles, it assures unity in Government; its stauachest par
I tisans have made the greatest contributions to National pro-
gress. The roster of its leaders is the national roll of honor of
I public service.
V-Taft and Sherman Constructive CandIdates-A
Constructive Platform
Republicanism stands to-day for progressive policies in
/ safe hands. BY solving the constructive problems of world