Arizona republican., 1908-06-18

cret. We seek by all means to publish ours to the world. If we refer to theil history they charge us with calumny We regard ours, truthful and undis- torted, as our greatest glory. To the youth of the country they say: Judge us solely by our undiscovered future We say: Read our record. judge us by our past and our present and from these, learn what we are-what we i have been and what we mean to be. Recall the cries which have sounded from the lips of these two parties dur | ing the last half century. On the one side: Slavery; secession; repudiation of public debt; fiat money; free trade; free silver ;the overthrow of the courts and government ownership
 "On the republican side: Free soil; [ free men; the union; the payment of | the debt ;honest money; protection to American industry; the gold industry; the maintenance of law, of order and of the courts and the government reg ulation of great corporations The old shiboleths of the democrats are to- day the epitaphs of policies which are dead and damned. They serve only to
 
 warn us of perils to be summed. The battle cries of the republicans have been the WatchWOrds of great causes. They tell of victories won and triumphs tasted-they are embodied in the laws land mark the stepping stones by which the republic has risen to ever greater heights of power and prosperity.
 As We thus call up the past and the echoes Of these old conflicts again sound in our ears and touch the chords of memory, one great fact stands forth, clear and shining. The republican par ty has never failed except when it has faltered. Our long career of vic tory, so rarely broken. has been due to our meeting boldly each question as it arose, to our facing every danger as it crossed our path. with entire cour- age, fearless of consequences and de- termined only to be true to the princi- pies which brought the party into eX- istenca and to the spirit which has in spired it from it's birth.
 We faced secession rather than as sent to the extension of slavery Rath- CT than submit to secession we took up the dread burden of civil war. But a few years ago we permitted thous- ands of republicans to leave US, there by imPeriiing our political power rath- CT than abandon the gold standard and plunge the country into disaster and dishonor.
 True to Traditions.
 'In these latest years, as in the most remote, we have been true to our tra-
 
 point was reached where the country was confronted by a situation more perilious than any it has ever faced except in the civil war and we repub- licans were. therefore. obliged to deal with problems of the most complex and difficult character.
 To our honor, be it said, we have not shrunk from the task. Much has been dOne-much, no doubt, still remains to debut the great underlying princi- ples have been established and upon them we can build, as necessity arises, carefully and deliberately.
 'I have spoken of the seriousness of the situation with which the country was confronted. Its gravity can hardly be over estimated. It grew out of con- ditions and was the result of forces beyond the control of men. Science and invention, the two great factors in this situation have not only alter ed radically, human environment and our relations to nature, but, in their they have revolutionized economic conditions. These changed economic conditions have, in turn. af- fected profoundly society and politics. They have led. among other things. to combinations of capital and labor on a scale and with power never before witnessed. They have opened the way to accumulatiOns of wealth in masses beyond the dreams of avarice and never before contemplated by men.
 The social and political problems thus created, are wholly new. It is a fallacy to suppose that because the elements are old the problem itself must, therefore differ only in degree from those which have gone before. The elements may be old but the problem presented by change in the of the elements may be, and, in this case is, entirely new.