The Falls City tribune., 1908-08-28

government was established to pro-
tect for all times the rights and OPP
portunities of every individual
from abridgment. That principle
1t has successfully maintained.
Through the Civil war it conse-
Grated a reunited country 10 free
and equal American citizenship.
Ii has kept the channels Of Inter.
state Commerce open for all and,
through the National Banking
System, the refunding of the M
tional Debt, Resumption of specie
payments, the Gold Standard and
the Emergency Currency Law, has
sustained the life current of M
tional integrity.
As trustee of the National wealth
ii has investigated mineral regions,
surveyed soils, developed water.
ways, including the Panama Canal,
irrigated deserts, conserved water
sheds, and husbanded the public
lands. Protecting American labor
by regulating immigration and by
taking at the Custom House, 10
pay American taxes, foreign capt.
tails advantage from low wages, II
has preserved To American indus
tries the home market of eighty
millions of the world s greatest
consumers and SO laid the surest
basis for American competition in
foreign markets. Uniting capital
and labor, thus, in acommon pros
perity and common source of in
creased reward, it has created OPP
portunities, improved conditions
of employment, brought about a
higher standard of living, and
more widespread distribution of
wealth and w%ell-being, and made
expansion moral as we'll ms material.
Entrusted with insular posses
sions, it has brought them peace
and progress, and provided for the
extension and protection of Amer
rican trade, for the National de.
Tense, and for the honorable dis
charge of the responsibilities of
world greatness. Maintaining
peace at home, with foreign ma
lions and among them, it has given
American rights and American OPP
portunities new meaning through
out the nation and throughout the
world.
Promising progress and pros.
perity, 1t has been politically sin.
cere. 1t has never had a canai-
date of a section, prejudice, or
class, nor a platform of negation,
scheme of reputation, program of
scuttle, or doctrine of despair. 1t
has never lent itself to a demand
for revolution, to be followed by
reaction and retrogression, it has
stood firm for evolution by con-
slant, steady and enduring pro-
gress. Finding trusts, giant born.
fourishing under supposed con-
hict Of State and National law. the
double prohibition of existence
serving but to foster their devel-
opment, it has never, in an attempt
to destroy trusts, withdrawn, in
State or Nation, the protection of
law from property, buthas, through
Executive investigation and resort
to the courts, resolved the conflict
which had silenced law and given
trusts existence.
1t has never proposed to adj
vance American workingmen and
American institutions by Danish
ing American industries and build
ing up those of other lands, and
scorned to insult labor with an H.
lusory promise of immunity from
law, Yet it passed the Pure Food
Law and the Employers Liability
Law, secured equal accommoda-
tions on railroads, aided agricul.
ture, created the Civil Service, es-
tablished Free Rural Mail Deliy-
cry, reduced foreign postage, and
increased pensions. Continuing
naturally marked. out progress, it
will keep its pledges of Tariff re-