Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-09-04
WHY REPUBLICANS SHOULD WIN

drick. OF New York City, was awarded $3.50
by the republican congressional committee
as the best article submitted on the sub
iect: why the republican party should
be successful in November
The republican party was founded upon
the principle that this government was es-
tablished to protect for all times the rights
and opportunities of every individual from
abridgment. That principle it has success
fully maintained. Through the civil war
it consecrated a reunited country to free
and equal American citizenship. It has
kept the channels of Interstate Commerce
open for all and, through the National
Banking system, the refunding of the Ma
tional bebt, resumption of specie payments,
the gold standard and the emergency cur
rency 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 husbanded the public lands.
Protecting American labor by regulating
immigration and by taking at the Custom
tabs advantage from low wages, it has pre-
served to American industries the home
market of eighty millions of the worlds
greatest consumers and so laid the sufest
basis for American competition in foreign
markets. Uniting capital and labor, thus
in a common prosperity and common source
of increased reward, it has created oppor-
tunities, improved conditions of employ.
ment, brought about higher standard of
living and more widespread distribution of
wealth and well-beng, and made expansion
moral as well 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 de-
Tense, and for the honorable discharge of
the responsibilities of world greatness.
Maintaining peace at home, with foreign
nations and among them, it has given Amer
lean rights and American opportunities new
meaning throughout the nation and
throughout the world.
Promising progress and prosperity. it
has been politically sincere. 1t has never
had a candidate of a section, prejudice, or
class, nor platform of negation, scheme of
reputation, program of scuttle, or doctrine
of despair. 1t has never lent itself to de-
mand for revolution, to be followed by re-
action and retrogression, it has stood firm
for evolution by constant, steady and en-
during progress. Finding trusts, giant
born, hourishing under supposed conflict oil
state and national law, the double prohibi-
ton of existence serving but to foster their
development, it has never, in an attempt to
destroy trusts, withdrawn, in state or ma
ton, the protection of law from property,
but has, through executive investigation
and resort to the courts, resolved the con.
hiet which had sienced law and given trusts
existence.
1t has never proposed to advance
American workingmen and American insti
tutions by banishing American industries
and building up those of other lands and
scorned to insult labor with an illusory
promise of immunity from law. Yet il
passed the pure food law and the employ
ers' liability law, secured equal aceommo
dations on railroads, aided agriculture
created the civil SERVICE established free
rural mail delivery, reduced foreign postage
and increased pensions. Continuing natur
ally marked-out progress, it will keep its
pledges of tariff REIMBURSEMENT, currency re
form and development of the merchant ma
rine and make the United States the finan
cial center-as it has made it the industrial
centre of the world.
In the evolution b. which party govern
ment has become the extra-e0nstitutiona