The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-18

I cry pursuit and calling which our tar
if directly or indirectly affects. Dur
ing statutory application of this
| principle, prosperity has abided with
us. When a revenue tariff has been
/ the law, adversely and want have
been our portion. Our Democratic
brethren, whose memories are as short
as their promises are frail, and who
have always exhibited lack of capac-
ity to profit by experience, unmindful
of the distress and destruction that ar
| rived and departed with the last Dem.
ocratic administration, declare in
| their platform that they favor such
Immediate revision OF - SEIZED
ules as may be necessary to restore
/ the tariff to a revenue basis" A rev
enue basis" A tariff for revenue on
! ly," ultimate free trade"-alI have
/ an Identical meaning; that meaning
/ being an assault upon American in
dustries, an attack upon the American
wage scale, a lessening demand for
the products of American soil and
/ American toll; less work. less pay
/ less of the necessaries of and comforts
of life. In the light OF history. what
! issue of the campaign so vitality affects
American citizens? Experience, that
! effective teacher effective save
with the one-man power now parading
under the title of the Democratic par
! ty-has taught the Nation a valuable
! lesson and the result of the coming
| November election will once more
prove the American people to be apt
scholars. What the laborer of the
! land, skilled and unskilled, desires, is
| the opportunity at all times to eX
change his brain and Drawn for good
pay in good money. A protective tar
if and the gold standard, both now
, the existing achievements of the Re
publican party, in spite of Democratic
opposition, give the laborer that op
portunity.
The Republican party believes il
the equality of all men before the
| law; believes in granting labors every
request that does not seek to accord
rights to one man denied to another
Fair minded labor asks no more, ne
less, and approves the record of the
Republican. party because of that par
tvs acts.
I have helped to make my party:
record in the enactment of the Eight
Hour Law, the Employers Liabilit.
Act, the statutes to minimize the haz
ard of railroad employees, the Chile
Labor Law for the District of Colum
bia, and other enactments designed
especially to improve the conditions
of labor I cannot hope to better stat
my position on injunctions than by
specific Endorsement Of Mr.. Taft's Gin
cinnati declaration on that subject
That Endorsement | make.
AS a nation our duty compels tina
by every constitutional and reasonable
means the material and educationa
condition of the colored race be ad
vanced. This we owe to ourselves a
well as to them. AS the result of
course of events that can never be re
versed, they are part of our civil
cation: their prosperity is our pros
pereity; their debasement would b.
our misfortune. The Republican PAL
ty therefore, will offer every encour
ageement to the thrift, industry an
intelligence that will better thei
prospect Of higher attainment.
| believe in the maintenance of sue
an army, the upbuilding of such na
i, Wy as will be the guarantee of the pre-
lection of American citizens an
American interests everywhere, an
an omen of peace; that at every eN
posed point we may be so fortifie