The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-06-18
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They tell CT victories won and tri
umphs tasted they are embodied in
1.-The laws and mark the stepping stones
lby which the Republic has risen TO
ever greater heights OF power and
prosperity.
As We thus call up the past and the
echoes OF these old conflicts again
pound in our ears and touch the
chords OF memory, one great fact
stands forth, clear and shining The
Republican party has never failed ex-
cept when it has faltered. Our long
career OF victory, so rarely broken.
1 has been due to our meeting boldly
/ each question as II arose TO our facing
every danger as it crossed our path
with entire courage. fearless of con
sequences and determined only 10 be
true To the principles which brought
the party into existence and to the
spirit which has inspired it from its
birth.
We faced secession rather than as
sent to the extension OF slavery. Rath-
er than submit to secession we took
up the dread burden of civil war, But
a few years ago We permitted thou
sands of Republicans to leave us.
thereby imperiling our political power
rather than abandon the gold stand
ard and plunge the country into disas
ter and dishonor
In these latest years as in the mos.
remote, We have been true to our ira
ditiOus. In the process of develop
ment a point was reached whore the
country was confronted by a situation
more periolous than any 1t has ever
faced except In the Civil War and We
Republicans We're therefore, obliged to
deal with problems Of the most com
pick and difficult charcter
To our honor be it said, We have
not shrunk from the task. Much has
been done-mush. no doubt. still re
mains to debut the great underlying
principles have been established AMI
upon them We can build. as necessity
arises. carefully and deliberately.
have spoken of the seriousness OF
the situation with which The country
was confronted. Its gravity can hard |
ly be oyer-estimatei 1t grew out of
conditions and was the result Of forces
beyond the control OF men. Science and |
invention, the two great factors in this /
situation. have not only altered ra5i /
cally. human environment and our To- f
lations to nature, but. 10 their applica /
ton. they have revolutionized econo /
mic conditions. These changed econo |
mic conditions have In turn affected /
society and politics. They /
have led, among other things. to com |
binations of capital and labor on 8 |
scale and with a power never before /
They have opeud the way
to accommodations Of wealth in masses
beyond the dreams OF avarice and mes,
er before contemplated by men.
The social and political problems
thus created. are wholly new. Il is a
fallacy to suppose that because the
must. therefore, differ only In degree
from those which have gone before
The elements may be- old but the prob ,
lem presented by a change in the pro /
portion of the eiemnts may be. and. In
this case is, entirely new. If
Great individual fortunes and rirh II
men are. it is true. as old as recorded 1t
history. Nearly two thousand years /
ago the tax farmers Of Rome formed a |,
trust" for their own profit and pro Ii
lection; the English people. three cen
turtles ago. revolted against the pa h
tents and monopolies granted by |.
Elizabeth and James to their counters h
and monopolists. forestallers ant
spectators III the necessities of life h
were a curse in our revolution ard
bitterly denounced by Washington. II
Yet. it is none the less true that the \
same things today present questions II