The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1908-10-10
BY Frank Hendrick, of New York City
1.-The Party of Expansion.

10y FRANK EieuuTlCk, vi new 1OTh Slty
1.-The Party OF Expansion.
The Republican party was founded
upon the principle that this govern
ment was established to protect for all
times the rights and opportunities of
every individual from abridgment.
That principle il 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 Debt, Resump-
ton 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
huSuduuSu tic puUiiS JANUS. iolCSt-
ing American labor by regulating i'm
migration and by taking at the Custom
House, to pay American taxes, foreign
capitals advantage from low wages,
it has preserved to American indus
tries the home market of eighty mill
lions of the worlds greatest consum-
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American competition in foreign mar
kets. Uniting capital and labor, thus,
in a common prosperity and common
source of increased reward, it has
created opportunities, improved con-
ditions of employment, brought about
a higher standard of living, and more
widespread distribution of wealth and
wellbeing, and made expansion moral
as we'll as material.
Entrusted with insular possessions,
1t has brought them peace and prog
ress, and provided for the extension
and protection of American trade, for
the National defense, and for the hon
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ties of world greatness. Maintaining
peace at home, with foreign nations
and among them, it has given Ameri-
can rights and American opportuni-
ties new meaning throughout the ma
ton and throughout the world.
1.-THE Party of Progress and Pros
perity.
Promising progress and prosperity,
1t has been politically sincere. 1t has
never had candidate of a section,
prejudice, or class, nor platform of
negation, scheme of reputation, pro-
gram of scuttle, or doctrine of despair,
1t has never lent itself to a demand
ton and retrogression, it has stood
firm for evolution by constant, steady
and enduring progress. Finding trusts,
giant-born, fiourishing under suppos-
ed conflict of State and National Law,
the double prohibition of existence
serving but to foster their develop
uucnl, II has hCNSl, III au dllShlpl w
destroy trusts, withdrawn in State or
Nation, the protection of law from
property, but has, through Executive
investigation and resort to the courts,
resolved the conflict which had silenc-
ed 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, Sc
cured equal accommodations on rail-
roads, aided agriculture, created the
Civil Service, established Free Rural
Mail Delivery, reduced foreign post
age, and increased pensions. Continu-