The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-09-05

elected Roosevelt as President, awful
and manifold would be the calamities
that would inevitably fall upon the
American people and the salt of liberty
would lose its SAVIOR, that our very free
dom would be like the blazonry OF silks
and jewels in the gloom of the grave
False Prophets All.
But out of these nettles of direfu
and dangerous predictions have sprung
the beautiful blossoms of safety and
prosperity. Instead of money becom-
ing scarcer, 1t has become more plen-
tiful. instead Of agricultural products
going dowL to nothing, they have great
ly increased in price; instead of la
borers' wages being cut down to pauper
rates, they have been greatly raised ;
Instead of railroads having nothing to
do. they have not enough cars TO carry
their passengers and freights; instead
Of our business men being ground to
powder In the bankruptcy courts, they
are happy and increasingly prosperous ;
instead of our manufacturing establish
ments going out of business, they are
doing an increasing business. We have
more money in use and circulation than
ever before; more money per capita
than everzbefore more money in saw
ings banks than ever before; the dollar
has larger purchasing power than
ever before and the laboring man lives
better than ever before
Republicans LincoIn's Heirs.
If there is one thing more than an
other in which Republicans are entitled
to legitimate pride, 1t is that Lincoln
was our first President, that we beiev-
ed in him Loyalty. supported him while
he lived. and that we have never lost
the right to call ourselves his followers
There is not principle ayowed by the
Republican party to-day which is out
Of harmony with his teaching or in.
consistent with his character. But only
those who believe in human rights and
are willing to make sacrifices to defend
them, who believe in the nation and
! its benehcent power, who believe u
! the American system of protection
/ championed by long line of our great
est and hest-running back from Roose
welt TO Washington only those who be
lieve In equal justice to labor and t
capital, in honest money and the right
to earn it., have any title to name them
selves by the name of Lincoln or t
claim moral kinship with that august
and venerated spirit,
stood the supreme Test.
Is the Republican party entitled t
public confidence? Its record speak.
in no uncertain tones in answer to thi:
question. After slavery had been abol
ished BY it, the war ended and peac,
restored with no damage to the struc
ture of the government, but on the con
trary with added strength and will
increased guarantees of its perpetuity
1t remained to be shown whether tn,
power and success of the Republican
party were to be permanent, or whether
born of crisis, 1t was fitted K
cope with the problems Of dali!
national life. 1t had destroyed
slavery. but in the absence of this grea
| adversary, could the party hold to
gether against the thousands of Jesse
evils that beset the nublic-the evil
of ignorance, corruption, avarice ant
lawlessness, the prejudices of race an,
of class, the voices of demagogues, tn,
cunning of dishonest craft. the bruta
tyranny of the boss, the yenality of tn,
mean? 1t is not too much to say tina
the last fifty years have given an an
swer full of glory and honor to tina
question.
The Republican party in the mas