Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-08-28

The Republican party was founded up
onthe principle that this governmentwa
established to protect for all times the
rights and opportunities of every indi-
vidual from abridgment. That princi-
pie it has successfully maintained.
Through the Civil War it consecrated
a united country to free and equal Am
erican citizenship. 1t has kept the
channels of Interstate commerce open
for all, and, through the National
Banking System, the refunding of the
Notional Debt, Resumption of Specie
PAYMENTS, the Gold Standard and the
Emergency Currency Law, has sustain
the life current of national integrity.
As trustee of the National wealth,
it has Investigated many mineral re
gions, surveyed soils, developed water
ways, including the Panama canal, and
irrigated deserts, conserved watersheds,
husbanded the public lands. Protec-
ting American labor by regulating i'm
migration and by taking at the Custom
House. to pay American taxes, for
eign capitals from low wages, it has
preserved to American industries the
home market of eighty millions of the
worlds greatest consumers and so laid
the surest basis for American competi-
ton in foreign markets. Uniting capital
and labor, thus, in common prosperity
and common source Of increased re-
ward, it has created opportunities, i'm
proved conditions of employment,
brought about higher standard of
living, and more widespread distribu
ton of wealth and well-being, and
made expansion moral as well as ma
terial
Intrusted 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 hon
orable discharge of the responsibilities
Of world greatness. Maintaining
peace at home, with foreign nations
and among them, it has given Ameri-
can rights and American opportunities
new meaning throughout the nation
and throughout the world.
H-Party of Progress and Prosperity
Promising progress and prosperity,
it has been pol tically sincere. It has
never had a candidate Of a section, pref
udice or class, nor a platform of mega
ton, scheme of reputation, program of
scuttle ordobtrine ofdespair. 1t has never
lent itself to a demand for revolution,
to be followed by reaction and retro
gression, it has stood firm for evo-
luton by constant, steady and endur
ing progress. Finding trusts, giant
born, fiourishing under supposed conflict
of State and National law. the double
prohibition of existence serving but to
foster their development, it has never,
in an attempt to destroy trusts. with
draw, in State or Nation, the protec-
ton of law from property, but has,
Executive investigation and
resort to the courts, resolved the con-
hct which had silenced law and given
trusts existence.
1t has never proposed to advance
American workingmen and Americanin-
By banishing American indus
tries 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 postage,
and increased pensions. Continuing