The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-06-25
REPUBLICAN, NATIONAL HA7FoPMI

served the union, restored credit, expanded
financial system, developed the Industries
and resources of the country, gave to the
nation her seal of honor in the councils
of government with the same courage and
capacity with which it solved the old.
In this the greatest era of American
reached its highest service under the Lead
-ership of Theodore Roosevelt.
His administration is an epoch in Am
ericen history. In no other period since
national sovereignty was won under
Washington or preserved under Lincoln,
has there been such mighty progress In
those ideals of government which make
among men. The highest aspirations Of
the American people have found a voice.
Their most exalted servant represents
all it's countrymen. American manhood
has been lifted to a noble sense Of duty
an p%S obIIea station ce and his s ana epaEag &c
come cardinal principles Of political
b fa1sns '1iP nfo clo ana r 1ssa I sao of co osfn
~dence and interdependence; and the
abuse of wealth, the tyranny of power
itism nave been put to scorn by the
simple, manly virtues of justice and fair
play.
Great Accomplishments.
The great accomplishments of President
Roosevelt have been, first and foremost,
"a brave and impartial enforcement of the
laws; the prosecution of illegal trusts and
monopolieS, the exposure and punishment
of evil doors in the public service, the
more effective regulation of rates and
service of the great transportation lines;
the complete overthrow Of preferences, re-
bates and Determinations, the arbitration
of labor disputes, the amelioration of the
condition of wage workers everywhere,
of the country; the forward step in the
improvement of the inland waterways and
always the earnest support and defense
made more secure the guarantees of life,
liberty and prosperity.
These are the achievements that will
In history. But more than all else, the
great things he has lone will be an in
SEPARATION to those who nave yet greater
things to do. We declare our unfaltering
adherence to the policies thus ~inaugurated
and pledge their continuance under a re-
publican administration Of the govern
1nent.
Equality of Opportunity.
Under the guidance of republican prin-
sciples the American people have become
the richest nation in the world. Our
and all her colonies, and that of France
and Germany combined. When the re-
publican party was born the total wealth
leaped to sl16,ooo,oo 900 in a Generation,
while Great Britain has gathered but
500, 100000 BOO in 500 years.
The United States now owns o%ne-fourth
of the worlds wealth and makes one
third Of all modern manufactured pro-
ducts. In the greatness of civilization, such
as coal, the motive power of all activity,
iron the chief basis of all industry. cot
ton the taple~ foundation of all fabrics,
wheat, corn and all the agricultural pro-
ducts that feed mankind, Americas SUI
remac Is u~ndisputed. And yet her nat
ural wealth has been scarcely touched.
We have a vast domain of 10000 900 square
miles literally bursting with latent treas
ure still waiting the magic of capital and
industry to be converted into the practical
uses of mankind; a country rich in soil
climate, in the Embarrassed energy
of it's rivers and in all the varied products
of the field, the forest and the factory.
With gratitude for Gods bounty, with
pride in the splendid productiveness of the
past and with confidence in the plenty and
prosperity of the future, the republican
party declares for the principle that in the
development and enjoyment of wealth so
great and blessings 50 benign there shall
be equal opportunity for all.
The Revival of Business.
Under guidance of the republican prin-
richest nation in the world. Nothing
so clearly demonstrates the sound
basis upon which our CONNER
t%erests are founded and the neces-
ssity of promoting their continued welfare
through the operation of republican poll
'cies as the recent safe passage of the Am
'erican people through a financial dis
%turbance, which. If appearing in the midst
of democratic rule, or the menace of it.
might have equalled familiar democratic
panics of past. We congratulate the peo-
pie upon this renewed evidence of Ameri-
can supremacy, hail with confidence signs
now manifest of complete restoration of
business prosperity in all lines of trade;
and manufacturing.
Recent Republican Legislation.
Since the election of Mckinley in 1896,
me people of this country have felt anew
the wisdom Of intrusting to the republic
can DartV.L thrnIph decisive m inritjpS
the control and direction of the national
aeglslatlon many wise and progressive
measures adopted at regent sessions Of
resolve of the republican leadership in the
legislative department to keep step in the
foSw otbd, ma afeh to better be g]oyeTnmehnt az,
clustering of a democratic minority in the
House of Representatives during the last
session, many wholesome and progressive
laws We're enacted and we especial
~ the passage of the emergency
currency bill. the appointment of national
monetary commission, the employers and
greater efficiency of the army and navy;
me Widows pension bill: the model child
LABOR law for the District of Columbia,
neslgned for emulation by states; the new
s.alutes FOR the safety of railroad engl-
neers and firemen and many acts con-
STRIVING the public welfare.
The Tariff.
me republican party declares %unequivo-
10y q REVISION OIL the taTlII by a Specldl
session of congress Immediately following
tne inauguration of the next president and
Comnends the steps already taken to this
END In the work assigned the appropriate
committees of congress which are now in
vestigating the operation and effecting of
schedules. In all tariff legislation the true
principle of protection is best maintained
oy the imposition of such duties as will
equal the Siffe! ence between the cost
OF production at nome and broad together
With a reasonable profit to American in
dustries. We favor the establishment Of
maximum and minimum rates to be ad-
Inlnistered by the president under limita-
lions fixed under the aw, the maximum to
oe available to meet discrimination by for
elgn countries against American goods en-
terlng their markets and the minimum to
represent the normal measure of protec-
ton at home; the aim and purpose of the
policy OF the republican party being not
only to preserve, without excessive duties,
mat security against foreign competition
70 which American manufacturers, farm
ers and producers are entitled, but also to
maintain the high standard Of living of
the wage earners of this country, who are
the most direct beneficiaries Of the pro-
receive system. Between the United States
ana the Philippines we believe in a free
interchange of products with such limita-
tons as to sugar and tobacco as will ac-
cord adequate protection to domestic in
feresfs