Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1908-09-12
PRIZE ESSAY.
Why the Republican Party Should
Be Successful i'm November.
(By Frank Henrick of New York City. }

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(By Frank Henrick of New York City
THE PARTY OF EXPANSION
The Republican party was founded
upon the principle that this govern
ment was established to protect for all
time the rights and opportunities of
every individual from abridgment.
That principle it has successfully
maintained. Through the Civil War
it consecrated reunited country to
free and equal American citizenship.
1t has kept the channels of Interstate
Commerce open for all and, through
the National Banking System, the re-
funding of the National Debts, Re-
sumption of specie payments, the
Gold Standard and the Emergency
Currency Law, has sustained the life
current of national integrity.
AS Trustee of the National wealth,
it has investigated mineral regions,
surveyed soils, developed waterways,
including the Panama Canal, irrigated
deserts, conserved watersheds, and
huabanded the public lands. Protect
ing the American labor by regulating
immigration and by taking at the
Custom House, to pay American taxes,
foreign capitals advantage from low
wages, it has preserved to American
industries the home market of eighty
millions of the worlds greatest con-
sumers and so laid the surest basis for
American competition in foreign
markets. Uniting capital and labor
thus, in common prosperity and COM
mon source of increased reward, it
has created oppor tunities, improved
conditions of employment, brought
about higher standard of living, and
more widespread distribution of
wealth and we'll being, and made ex-
pansion moral as we'll as material.
Intrusted with insular possessions,
it has brought them peace and pro-
gress, and provided for the extention
and protection of American trade; for
the National defense, and for the
honorable discharge of the RESPONSE
bilities of the world greatness. Main
tanning peace at home, with foreign
nations and among them, it has given
American rights and American OPP
portunities new meaning throughout
the nation and throughout the world.
1.-THE PARTY OF PROGRESS AND
PROSPERITY
Promising progress and prosperity,
it has been politically sincere. II has
never had candidate of a section,
or class, nor platform of
scheme of reputation, pro-
gram of scuttle, or doctrine of des-
pair. It has never lent itself to de-
mand for revolution, to be followed
by reaction and retrogression, it has
stood firm for revolution by constant,
steady and enduring progress. Find
ing trusts, giant born, fourishing
under supposed conflict of State and
National law, the double prohibition
of existence serving but to- foster
their development, it has never, in
any attempt to destroy trusts, with
drawn, in State of Nation, the pro-
lection of law from property, but has,
Executive investigation and
resort to the courts, resolved the con-
aict which had silenced law and
given trusts existence.
1t has never proposed to advance
American workingmen and American
Institutions by banishing American in
dustries and building up those of other
lands, and scorned to insult labor with
an illusory promise of immunity from
law. Yet it passed the Pure Food
Law and the Employers Liability
Law, secured equal accommodations
On railroads, aided agriculture, Great
I'D Civil Service, established Free
Rural Mail Delivery, reduced foreign
postage, and increased pensions.
naturally marked out pro-
gress, it will keep its pledge of Tariff
readjustment, Currency reform and
development of the Merchant Marine,
and make the United States the fin
ancial centre as it has made it the in
tustrial centre of the world.
III.-THE CONSTRUCTIVE PARITY