The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-18

charge of the Ohio bureau of the secre
publican principles, the American
| people have become the richest nation
| in the world. Our wealth today ex-
ceeds that of England and all her
colonies and that of France and Ger
| many combined.
When the Republican party was born
| the total wealth of the country was
$4,000, 100000 1t has leaped to s11o,ooO,-
| 100000 in a generation, while Great
| Britain has gathered but $6O,0O0,O0 100000
| in 500 years.
The United States now owns one
fourth of the worlds wealth and makes
one-third of all modern manufac-
tured products In the grea,
necessities of civilization, such
as coal, the motive power of al
| activity, iron, the chief basis of all in
dustry; cotton, the staple foundation
of all fabrics; wheat, corn and all the
agricultural products that feed man.
| kind, American supremacy is und15-
puted.
And yet her great natural wealth has
been scarcely touched. We have vast
| domain of three million square miles,
| literally bursting with latent treasur, =
| still waiting the magic of capital and
| industry to be converted to the prac-
| teal uses of mankind; country rich
| in soil and climate in the embarrassed
energy of its rivers, and in all the var
led products of field, the forest and the
factory.
With gratitude for Gods bounty,
with pride in the splendid productive
ness of the past and with confidence
in the plenty and prosperity
of the future, the Republican
party declares for the prin-
ciple that in the development and en-
joyment of wealth so great and blessing
so benign, there shall be equal oppor-
tunity for all.
The Revival of Business.
Nothing SO clearly demon
strates the sound basis upon which
our commercial, industrial and agricul-
tural interests are founded and the ne
cessity of promoting the present cont1n-
ued welfare through the operation of
Republican policies as the recent safe
passage of the American people through
a financial disturbance, which if ap-
pearing in the midst of Democratic
rule or the menace of it, might have
euualled the familiar Democratic panics
of the past.
We congratulate the people upon
this renewed evidence of American SUI
premacy and hail with confidence the
signs now manifest of a complete res
toration of business prosperity in all
lines of trade, commerce and manu-
featuring.
Recent Republican Legislation.
Since the election of William Nc
Kinley in 1896, the people of this
country have felt anew the wisdom
of entrusting to the Republican party,
through decisive majorities, the
control and direction of national leg
islation. The many wise and progress
sive measures adopted at recent ses-
sions of congress have demonstrated
the patriotic resolve of Republican
Iao in, in, he RI
ment to keep step in the forward
march to better government.
Notwithstanding the indefensible
filibustering of a Democratic minority
in the house of representatives during
the last session, many wholesome and
progressive laws were enacted and we
especially commend the passage of the
emergency currency bill, the appoint
ment of the national monetary COM
mission, the employers and govern
ment liability laws, the measures for
the greater efficiency of the army and
navy, the widows pension bill, the
child labor law for the District of
Columbia, the new statutes for the
safety of railroad engineers and fire.
men and many other acts conserving
the public welfare.
Republican Pledges for the Future
Tariff
The Republican party declares I'M
equivocally for a revision of the tar
iff by special session of congress i'm
mediately following the Inauguration
of the next president and commends
the steps already taken to this end
in the work assigned to the appropriate
committees of Congress which
are now investigating the operation
and effect of existing schedules. In
all tariff legislation, the true principle
of protection is best maintained by the
imposition of such duties as will equal
the difference between the cost of pro-
duction at home and abroad, together
with a reasonable profit to American
industries. We favor the establish
ment of maximum and minimum
rates to be administered by the presi-
dent, under limitations fixed in the
law, the maximum to be available to
meet determinations by foreign coun-
tries against American goods entering
their markets and the minimum to
represent the normal measure of pro-
lection at home; the aim and purpose
of the Republican policy being not
only to preserve. without excessive
duties. that security against foreign
competition to which American man
ufacturers, farmers and producers are
entitled. but also to maintain the high
standard of living Of the wage earners