The daily sentinel., 1908-08-18

when nOtl1led OF MS nomination as
the Republican candidate for presi-
dent.
THAT speech fully and compre-
hensively discusses the issues of this
campaign as presented by the plat
forms of the two great parties, SO
that it is appropriate that my state
ment should be short. Those not
convinced by the presentation of Mr..
Taft / could not hope to persuade. 1t
is. however, in conformity with Gus
tom that / refer at least briefly to
some of the important issues of the
campaign.
First, then, let me say that ! am
a protectionist. / am sufficiently
practical to value the utility of a fact
higher than the beauty of a theory,
and / am protectionist because ex-
perience has demonstrated that the
application of that principle has lift
ed us as Nation to plane of pros
perity above that occupied by any
other people.
Il especially commend that plank
of our platform which promises an
early revision of tariff sched ules.
That pledge will be fulfnled in an
adjustment based in every partic-
ular upon the broad principles of
protection for all American interests;
alike for labor, for capital, for pro-
ducers and consumers. The Dingley
Bill, when enacted, was well adapted
to the then existing conditions. The
developments of industrial prosperity
in a decade. which in volume and
degree have surpassed our most rose
ate expectations, have so altered con-
ditions that in certain details of
schedules they no longer in every
| particular mete out justice to all.
| In l,i 1 ot,,l kf
protection must and will govern;
such duties must and will be i'm
posed as will equalize the cost of
| production at home and abroad and
insure a reasonable profit to all Am
erican interests. The Republican
idea of such profit embraces not
alone the manufacturer, not alone
the capital invested, but all engaged
in American production, the employ
er and employed, the. artisan, the
farmer, the miner and those engaged
in transportation and trade; broadly
speaking, those engaged in every
pursuit and calling which our tariff
directly or indirectly affects. Dur
ing a statutory application of this
| principle. prosperity has abided with
| MS. When revenue tariff has been
| the Jaw, adversely and want have
been our portion. Our Democratic
brethren, whose memories are as
short as their promises are frail, and
who have always exhibited lack of
capacity to profit by experience, un
mindful of the distress and destruc-
tion that arrived and departed with
the last Democratic administration,
declare in their platform that they
favor such Immediate revision of &
schedules as may be necessary to re-
| store the tariff to a revenue basis.
| A revenue basis a tariff for rev.
enue only ultimate free trade
all have an identical meaning; that
meaning being an assault upon Am
erican industries, an attack upon the
| American wage scale. lessening de-
mand for the products of American
| soil and American toll: less work,
less pay, less of the necessaries of
and comforts of life. In the light
of history, what issue of the cam
paign so vitality affects American
citizens? Experience, that effective
! teacher-effective save with the one
man power now parading under the
title of the Democratic party-has
taught the Nation a valuable lesson
and the result of the coming Novem-
ber election will once more prove the
American people to be apt scholars.
! What the laborer of the land, skilled
and unslxilled. desires is the oppor-
tunity at all times TO exchange his
| brain and Drawn for good pey in good
money. A protective tariff and the
gold standard, both now the existing
achievements of the Republican
party, in spite of Democratic opposi-
tion, give the laborer that oppor-
tunity.
The Republican party believes in
the equality of all men before the
law; believes in granting labor's ev-
cry request that does not seek to ac-
cord rights to one man denied to
another. Fairminded labor asks no
more. no less, and approves the rec
ord of the Republican party because
of that party's acts.
l have helped to make my partys
record in the enactment of the Eight
Hour Law, the Employers Liability
Act, the statutes to minimize the
hazard of railroad employees, the
Child Labor Law for the District of
Columbia. and other enactments de-
signed especially to improve the con-
ditions OF labor. l cannot hope to
better state my position on injunc-
| tions than by specific endorsement
of Mr.. Taft's Cincinnati declaration
on that subject. That endorsement
make.
LAS Nation our duty compels
that by every constitutional and
reasonable means the material and
educational condition of the colored
race be advanced. This we owe to
ourselves as well as to them. AS the
result of a course of events than can
never be reversed, they are part of
our civilization; their prosperity is
our prosperity; their debasement
would be our misfortune The Repub-
lican party, therefore. will offer ev-
cry encouragement to the thrift in
dustry and intelligence that will bet
Ter their nrnSnect of hirhar attain