The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-08-04
REAL PEOPLES PARTY
What the G. Q. P. Has Done
For the CommonweaI.
PROGRESS ITS WATCHWoRD.

by Nations Growth In Wealth anc
Power--Interests of Capital and La
Dor Alike Protected and Conserved.
The Republican party re-established
the business Of the country in 1896
after it's prosperity had been destroyed
by the Democratic tariff by declaring
nnequivocally in favor of maintain
ing the parity of the gold, silver and
paper currency and maintaining that
business and enhancing prosperity by
re-enacting the principal of protection
to American industry.
1t has maintained the credit of the
country at home and abroad by main
tanning the gold standard.
It has established and made Amer
lean diplomacy feature of the worlds
history.
1t has fostered the prosperity of the
country and encouraged business by
erecting public buildings and construct
ing warships out of the surplus money
in the treasury, thereby giving remu-
nerative employment to thousands of
skilled mechanics, who were thus en-
abled to purchase from the merchants,
who in turn increased their orders on
manufacturers, benefting all trades
and all industries, as we'll as large
consumption of farm products.
1t has made the postal service the
model for the world for its efficiency
and extended its benefits and opera
tons to the rural districts, thus bring
ing the agricultural interests into close
and ready communication with the
markets of the world.
1t has reduced domestic postage from
3 cents for each half ounce to cents
for one ounce.
1t has reduced foreign postage from
IA cents for each half ounce to 2 cents.
1t has established parcels post con-
ventions with several foreign coun-
tries.
It has demanded and enforced equal
Justice for capital and labor.
Under its administration the COM
merce of the country has grown from
$1,5O0,O00O00 to nearly $3,000,000,000
until the balance of trade in favor of
the United States has reached the
enormous sum of $666,000,0OO.
1t has encouraged education, agri-
culture, manufactures and commerce.
1t has advanced the consular service
until it now ranks with that of any
other country in the high character
and efficiency Of its officials.
Under it's administration wages have
been increased and remunerative en-
ployment is readily found
1t has taken hold Of the gigantic en-
terprise of connecting the two great
oceans, thus realizing the dream of
centuries.
A party must be judged by what it
has not done as well as by what it has
accomplished.
The Republican party has always
been a positive party-pever party Of
negation.
1t has been party of building up
and not of tearing down.
1t never destroyed the business of
the country by refusing to protect
American industry. by threatening the
free coinage Of silver, by crying out or
constantly predicting calamity" by
threatening the overthrow of the SUI
preme court. (See Chicago platform
of 1860
1T never discredited the patriotism
and ability for self government of the
American people by the cry Of 'im-
perialism" when we annexed Hawaii
sand took possession of Porto Rico and
the Philippine Islands,
II has never played the dog in the
Manager whenever it did not control the
Manager
1t never took up with populism or
greenbackism nor flirted with social
ism and communism. In short, it has
been a party Of convictions and not of
isms; party of work, not of waste;
party Of construction, not destruction;
party of action, not promises.