Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-01

lar should be paid IN full, anu every
obligation met; and when. in more
recent times, the proposition Of fiat
money was advocated by our friends
upon the other side, and an attempt
was made to make 40 cents worth OF
silver worth 100 cents in gold. it was
the Republican party that adopted and
established and made part OF our
national policy, the gold standard.
The policy Of expanding money upon
our internal improvements, water
ways, canals and public buildings. is
firmly Embedded in our political sys-
tenn, and always has been and is today
a fundamental principal Of our party.
The past II years have been crowded
with achievements that have called
forth the highest qualities of states
manship Though our Democratic
friends have cried out against i'm
perialism. though they have Grated
against the dangers Of retaining the
Philippines, though they have declared
that we are seeking our own personal
ACKNOWLEDGMENT; yet the RepuphcaIl
rarty, true to the course which 1t had
mapped out, has gone on and on, car
rying out those ideas and those poll
cies, which have given to Cuba, her
freedom, to the Philippines, enliSht-
eminent and education and to the Unit
ed States the standing, influence anu
authority OF one of the greatest ma
tons of modern times.
know not what would have been
the result had the Democrats been in
power at the close of the war with
Spain. Would they have said to the
world at large: I'VE have conquered
the, enemy; now let us take Cuba to
rccompense us for our outlay?" Would
the spirit of slavery, Unborn and
STRENGTHENED by generations of the
mower exercised in Southern states.
controlled that party and it's policy:
Or would they have adopted the
broad principles of the Republican
party and legislated for the freedom
of others, and not for the aggrandize-
nent of self? The Republican party
has never yet repudiated it's pledge
made to the people, or abandoned
policy once asked for and then rati-
fed by the people.
The magnanimity of this country
towards Cuba appears to have met
with the approval Of that All-w1se
Providence that controls the destiny OF
nations as we'll as the affairs of men,
for since the treaty of peace was de-
clared we have made the greatest ad-
vancement in material prosperity
that we have ever made. Our inter-
state commerce is greater than the
foreign commerce of all the nations
of Europe. We have more money in
circulation than ever before. In the
last five years it has increased $780,
600, O0O Our savings bank deposits in
that time have increased $S45,O0O,0OO
and our bank deposits of every kind
have increased ,S7o,oOo,000 In the
treasury there are 's260,OooOO0, cash
balance.
Last year our exports and imports
amounted to $3,000,000,000 an increase
of $334,000,O00 from the year before.
Our agricultural exports last year in
creased S15O,OOO,OO0. We now lead all
the nations of the world in our exports.
We sell our products in Canada, South
America. Europe, Asia and Africa. We
lead as a manufacturing nation. In
1890 the number OF wage carriers in
this country was 100000, last year,
6 100000. In 1890, the wages paid, in
round numbers, were 1.100,000,00O, last
year they were 2.6OO,OOO,0OO. All this
is not the result of chance or luck. 1t
is not the result of guess-work. 1t is
the result of natures bounty, aided and
abetted by the governmental policy OF
the Republican party
When President Mckinley was
struck down by the assassin's bullet,
and lay dying in the home of his
friend at Buffalo, the Vice President
hurried to his bedside, and when death
came, while the people were grieving
in their sorrow, he took the oath of
office, and in the presence of the dead,
promised that he would carry forward
the policies of his chief He has lived
up to that promise. The transition
from the dead President to the living
President was made without the slight
est disturbance of existing conditions.
A wonderful example of the prema-
nency of our institutions.
| For the last seven years. the policy
of the Republican party has been the
policy of President Roosevelt His
record meets with the approval of the
country. No man has warmer friends
or stronger allies. or Il greater hold
upon the hearts of the people, North
and South and East and West-and no
man ever has had Il greater hold-than
MI Roosevelt It has been a period
of strenuous activity, of active parti-
| cipation in the affairs of nations, of
practical application of theories hereto
fore unthousht Of
To build a canal across the isthmus of
Panama has been the dream of ages: at
tempted by the French. ruins only mark
ed their efforts. The Republican party
said through it's President, let this be
done" 1t has been undertaken ana is
| being carried rapidly to success. IN a
few short years the waters of the Allan
tic and Pacific will mlngle together, and
the fleets of the world will sail through
the heart of the continent.
Russia and Japan engaged in a cruel
var. They fought~to q standstill upon
the plains of Manchuria-one. unable to
go on because of weakened finances, the
othe, unable to proceed because of the
distance from the scene OF hostility. A
truce was declared and their ENJOYS
gathered within the confines of our State
to make a treaty of peace and end the
boodshed and suffering. When they
were unable to agree and all other efforts