The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-09-26


the Republican Congressional Committee as The
best article submitted on the subiect.1
1.-The Party of Expansion.
| The Republican party vas founded
upon the principle that this govern
ment was established TO protect for all
times the rights and opportunities of
every individual from abridgment.
That priocipie it mas successfully
maintained. Through Tie civil war it
consecrated reunited country to free
/ and equal American citizenship. 1t
has kept the channels of interstate
| commerce open for all and. through
| the national banking system, the re-
funding OF the national debt, resump-
ton of specie payments, the gold
stand and the emergency currency
law, has sustained the life current of
national integrity.
AS trustee OF the national wealth, it
] has investig ated mineral regions, sur
/ veyed soils, developed waterways, in
Guiding the Panama Canal, irrigated
/ deserts, conserved watersheds, and
usbanded the public lands. Protect
Ing American labor by regulating i'm
migration and by taking at the custom
gtouse, to pay American taxes, foreign
capitals advantage from low wages,
it has preserved to American indus
tries the home market OF eis hty mill
lions of the world IS greatess consumers
and so laid the surest basis for Amer
can competition in foreign markets.
| Uniting capital and LABOR in COM
| EuoG prosperity anu common source OF
| lncre ased rev dIa, IL mas created OPP
portu uities, improved conditions of
emplo ymeuJ, brought about higher
stand ard of living, and more wide
| read disbrI button OF wealth and we'll
being, and mace expansion moral as
we'll as material.
Entrusted with insular possessions,
IL has brougha them peace and pre-
gress, and provided for the extension
and protection OF American trade, for
the national defense, and for the hon
orable discharge OF Inc sponsibilIties
of world greatness S. Maintaining peace
at nome, with foreign nations and
among them, II has given American
rights and American opportunities
new meaning throughout the nation
aud throughout the world.
( II.-Iha Party OF Progress and osperity
Promising progress and prosperity,
1t has been politically sincere. It has
never had candidate OF a section,
| prejudice or eltss, nor platform of
neg ation, scheme OF reputation, pro-
gram of scustia, or doctrine Of despair.
1t has never lent itself TO d demand
for revolution, to be followed by re
action and retrogressiop, it has stood
firm for eyoiLtion by constant, steady
&nd enduring progress. Finding trusts
giant born, fiour.snGng under supposed
conflict OF state and national law,
the doublt prohibition of existence
serving hug TO foster their develop
ment, it las pever, in an attempt to
destroy trusts, withdrawn, in state or
nation, the protection of law from
property, but has, through executive
investigation ana resort to the courts,
fenced law and given trusts existence.
1t has never proposed to advance
American workingmeu and American
institutions by banlshing American
industries and building up those of
other lands, aud scorned TO Insult labor
with an illusory promise of immunity
from law. Yet it passed the pure food
law and the employers liability law,
secured equal accommodations on rail.
roads, aided agriculture, created the
civil service, established free rural
mail dellvery, reduced foreign postage,
and increased pensions. Continuing
naturally maFked-ouG progress, il vii
keep its pledges Of tariff REIMBURSEMENT,
currency reform aad development OF
the merchant marine, and make the
United States the financial centre as it
has made it the Industrial centre of the
world.
III.-The Constructive Party.-It Organ
ixes tl,e Rational Will.
Ia The evolution by which party gov
ernment has become the extra constitu-
tional method OF securing RESPONSE
bility TO the people, the Republican
party has become their traditional
representative and the Democratic
party the organized aspiration of in
dividuals for power without respon.
sibility. Fairly tried, from 1893 to
1896, the two Democratic houses and
the Democratic president were wild
team" and helpless driver. Democ
raey agitates local differences Repub
licanism organizes the national idea.
In 1868 the people were committed to
the cause OF human Liberty; the idea
of Liberty and Union" expanded for
the first time into the reality of the
American nation.
In 1879 money was committed TO a ,
specie basis; specie Was at once, until !
1888, no longer sought, and govern
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