The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-16
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100000 in a generation. while Great
Britain has gathered but $4,000, 900
In 500 years.
The United States now owns one
fourth OF the worlds wealth and makes
one-third Of all manufactured products.
In the great necessities of civilization,
such as coal, the motive power of ali
activity, iron, the chief basis Of all in
dustries; cotton. the staple foundation
OF all fabrics; wheat, corn and all the
agricultural products that fed mankind.
American supremacy is undisputed.s
Untouched Wealth.
And yet her great natural wealth has
been scarcely touched. We have vast
domains of 80 millions square miles,
literally bursting with latent treasure,
still waiting the magic of capital and
industry to be converted to the prac-
tical uses of mankind; a country rich
In soil and climate in the Embarrassed
energy of its rivers, and in all the var
led products.
With gratitude for Gods bounty,
with pride in the splendid productive
ness Of the past and with confidence
in the prosperity of the future. the Re-
publican party declares for the prin-
ciple that in the development and en-
joyment of wealth so great and blessing
80 benign, there shall be equal oppor-
tunity for all. Nothing so clearly dem
onstrates the sound basis upon which
our commercial, industrial and agricul-
tural interests are founded and the
necessity of promoting their continued
welfare through the operation OF Re-
publican policies as the recent safe
passage of the American people through
a financial disturbance, which II ap-
pearing in the midst of Democratic
r,11A ~ ha ,.1an have
equalled the familiar Democratic panics
of the past.
We congratulate the people on this
renewed evidence of American SUI
premacy and hail with confidence the
signs now manifest of a complete res
toration of business prosperity in all
lines of trade, commerce and manu-
featuring.
Since the election of William Nc
Kinley in 1896, the people of this
country have felt anew the wisdom
of entrusting to the Republican party,
control and direction of national leg
islation. The many wise and progress
sive measures adopted by recent ses-
sions of congress have demonstrated
the patriotic resolve Of Republican
leadership in the legislative depart
ment to keep step in the forward
march toward better government.
Democrat Obstruction.
Only the obstruction and filibuster-
ing of Democratic minority In the
last house of congress, prevented the
enactment of number of measures
of great public benefit, the consider
alton of which can only be entrusted
to another Republican majority. But
many wholesome and progressive
laws were enacted and we especially
commend the passage of the emer-
gency currency bill. the bill for the
o NM ct cf-x-
commission, the employers and gov
eminent liability laws, the measure
for the greater efficiency of the army
and navy, the widows pension bill,
the model child labor law for the Dis
trict of Columbia, designed for emu
lation by the states, the new statutes
for the safety of railroad engineers
and firemen and many acts conserving
the public welfare ~ -
The Republican party declares I'M
equivocally for revision OF the tar
iff by a special session of congress i'm
mediately following the Inauguration
of the next president and commends
the steps already taken to this end
in the work assigned to the appropriate
committees of the two houses which
are now investigating the operation
and effect of existing schedules. In
all tariff legislation, the true principle
Of protection Is best made by the i'm
the difference between the cost of pro-
duction at home and abroad, together
with a reasonable profit to American
industries; and the benefits that fol-
low are best secured by the estab-
lishment of maximum and minimum
rates to be administered by the presi-
dent, under limitations fixed in the
law, the maximum to be available to
meet determinations by foreign coun-
tries against American goods entering
their markets and the minimum to
represent the normal measure of pro-
lection at home; the aim and purpose
of the Republican policy being not
only to preserve, without excessive
duties. that security against foreign
competition to which American man
ufacturers, farmers and producers are
entitled, but also to maintain the high
standard of living of the wage earners
of this country. who are the most
direct beneficiaries of the protective
system.
Between the United States and the
Philippines we favor a free inter-
change of products, with such limita-
tons as to sugar and tobacco as will
avoid injury to domestic interests.