The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-09-11
WHY REPUBLICANS SHOULD
WIN.

awarded $50 by the republican col
gresssonal committee as the best a
tic,s submitted on the subject: sWh
the Republican party should be su,
cessful in November"
The Republican party was found
ed upon the principle that this gov
eminent was established to protec
for all times the rights and oppor
tunities of every individual iron
abridgment. That principle it ha
successfully maintained. Through
the civil war 1t consecrated a reu
nited country to free and equal Am
erican citizenship. IT has bert TIL;
channels of Interstate commerce
open for all and. through The Nation.
al Banking system, the refunding Of
the National debt, resumption 81 spe.
Gle payments. the gold standard and
the emergency currency law, has
sustained the life current Of national
integrity.
As-trastee 'ofrthe national wealth,
it has investigated mineral regions.
surveyed sois. developed waterways,
including the Panama canal, irrisa-
ted deserts, conserved watersheds,
and hasbanded the public lands. Fro
tecting American labor by regulating
immigration and by taking at the
custom house, to pay American tag
es, foreign capitals advantage ffoia
low wages. It has preserved to Am
erican industries the home market
OF eighty millions of the worlds
greatest consumers and so laid the
surest basis for American COMPETE
ton In foreign markets. Uniting cap
ltal and labor, thus, in common
prosperity and common source Of in
creased reward, 1t has created oppor-
sunities, improved conditions of en-
ployment, brought about higher
standard of living, and more wide
spread distribution of wealth and
yell-being, and made expansion NOR
Il as well as material.
lntrusted with insular possessions,
7 has brought them peace and pro-
'ress. and provided for the extension
nd protection of American trade,
or the national defense, and for the
lonorable discharge of the response
ilities of world greatness. Maintain
ne peace at home, with foreign ma
Ions and among them, 1t has given
american rights and American op-
ortunities new meaning throughout
ne nation and throughout the world.
Promising progress and prosperity,
has been politically sincere. 1t has
ever had a candidate OF section,
rejudice, or class, nor platform of
egation, scheme of reputation, pro-
ram OF scuttle, or doctrine of de-
,air. 1t has never lent itself to a
emand for revolution, to be fol-
wed by reaction and retrogression.
has stood firm for evolution by
steady and enduring pro-
'ess. Finding trusts, giant-born, !.
lorishing under supposed conflict of :
ate and national law, the double :
ohibition of existence serving but
foster their development, 1t has
'ver, In an attempt to destroy
lists, Withdrawn, IN state or nation,
g protection OF law from property,
t has, through executive inyestiga-
N and resort to the courts, re- r
lved the conflict which sad silenced D
v and given trusts existence. s,
IT has never proposed to advance II
nerican workingmen and American Il
'titutions by banishing American Il
iustries and building up those OF /,
Ter lands, and scorned to insult la Al
with an fllusory promise of i'm
nifty from law. Yet It passed the
70 food law and the employers H.
lily law, secured equal accommo- :,
ions on railroads, aided agricul- -
e, created the civil service, estab- :,
led free. rural mail delivery. re1I
Asa y atats T
'ed foreign postage, ana Increased -
lsions. Continuing 4 NATURALLY ~
rked-out progress, It will keep its =. =,
dses Of tariff readjustment, cur y.
cy reform and development Of the =,
rcnant marine and make the Uni -
States the financial center as It
made It the industrial center Of ~
world. ~ 4 4 Sss &f = ~
q the evolution by which party \,
eminent has become the extras i :.
stitutional method Of SECURING re-
disability to the people, the Repub- I.
. party has become their trafi- n .
al representative and the Demo- ,
10 party the organized aspiration -. .
Individuals for power without re- y,
lsibility, Fairly tried, from 1893 "a !,
S95. the two Democratic houses Y.