Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-25

The Republican party was founded
upon the principle that this government
was established TO protect for all times
the rights and opportunities Of every
Individual from abridgment. That
principle it has successfully maintained.
Through the civil war il consecreted q
reunited country Of free and equal
American citizenship. It has kept the
channels Of Interstate Commerce open
for all and, through the national bank
ing system, the refunding Of the ma
tional debt, resumption of specie pay
ments, the gold standard and the emer-
gency currency law, has sustained the
life currency Of national integrity.
AS trustee OF the national wealth, it
has investigated mineral regions, sur
veyed soils, developed waterways, in
Guiding the Panama canal, irrigated
deserts, conserved watersheds, and hus-
banded the public lands. Protecting
American labor by regulating inrnigra-
Ition and by taking at the custom house,
to pay American taxes, foreign capitals
advantage from low wages, 1t has pre-
served to American industries the
home market of eighty millions of the
worlds greatest consumers and so8laid
! the surest basis for American competi-
ton in foreign markets. Uniting capi-
tai and labor, thus, in a common pros
perity and common source of increased
reward it has. created opportunities,
| improved conditions of employment
brought about higher standard of liv-
ing, and more widespread disposition Of
| wealth and well-being, and made ex-
pansion moral as we'll as material.
Entrusted with insular possessions, it
has brought them peace and progress,
| and provided for the extension and
protection of American trade, for the
national defense, and for the honorable
discharge Of the responsibilities of world
greatness. Maintaining peace at home,
with foreign nations and among them,
it has given American rights and Ameri-
can opportunities new meaning through
out the nation and throughout the en-
| tire world.
THE Party Of Progress and Prosper
ity,
! Promising progress and prosperity, II
has been politically sincere It has
never had a candidate of section, pref
| udice, or class, or a platform Of mega
ton, scheme of reputation, program Of
scuttle, or doctrine Of despair. II Has
never, lent itself to- a demand for revo1u-
ton to be followed by a reaction and
retrogression, 1t has stood firm for evo-
luton of constant, steady and enduring
progress. Finding trusts, giant-born.
hourishing under supposed conflict Of
state and national law, the double pro-
hibition Of existence serving but 70, fos-
ter their development, it has never, in al,
attempt to destroy trusts, Withdrawn, ii.
state OF nation, the protection Of the law
from property, but has, through execu-:
tive investigation and resort to the
courts. resolved the conflict which had
sa1enced law and given trusts existence.
It has never proposed to advance
American workingmen and American
institutions by banishing American i'm
dustries and building ZIP those of other
lands and scorned to insult labor witt,
an illusory promise of immunity from
law Yet it passed the pure food law
and the employers liability law, secured
equal accommodations on railroads, aid