Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-06-26

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stroyed slavery. preserved the Union,
restored credit, expanded the national
domain, established sound financial
system, developed the industries and
resources of the country and gave to
the nation her seat of honUr in the
councils of the world, now meets the
new problems of government with the
same courage and capacity with which
it solved the old.
Republicanism Under Roosevelt.
In this, the greatest year of Ameri-
can advancement, the republican
party has reached its highest service
under the leadership of Theodore
Roosevelt. lis administratio is an
epoch in American history. In no
other period since national sover-
eighty was won under Washington or
preserved under Lincoln has there
been such mighty progress in those
ideals of government which make for
| justice, equality aud fair dealing
among men. The highest aspirations
of the American people have found
voice. Their most exalted servant
represents the best aims and worth
Jest purposes of all his countTymen.
American manhood has been lifted
to nobler sense of duty and obliga-
ton. Conscience and courage in
| M lnl IN or f.Vh cfo IL,
of right and wrong in private life
have become cardinal principles of
| political faith; capital and labor
have been brought into closer re-
lations of confidence and inter
dependence; and the abuse Of wealth,
the tyranny of power and all the evils
of privilege and favoritism have been
put to scorn by the simple, manly
virtues OF justice and fair play.
The great accomplishments of presi-
dent Roosevelt have been first and
foremost brave and impartial en-
forcement of the laws ;the prosecution
of illegal trusts and monopoiies; the
exposure and punishment of evil
doors in the public service; the more
effective regulation of the rates and
the service of the great transportation
| lines; the complete overthrow OF pre-
| ferences, rebates and determinations;
the arbitration of labor disputes; the
amelIoratIon of the wage workers
everywhere; the walton of the
natural resources of the country; the
forward step in the impI ovement of
the inland Waterways; and always
the earnest support and defense of
every wholesome safeguard which has
made more secure the guarantees of
life, liberty and property.
These are the achievements that
will make for Theodore Roosevelt his
place in history. but more than all
else the great things he has done will
be an inspiration to those who have
| yet greater things to do. We declare
our unfaltering adherence to the
| policies thus inaugurated, and pledge
their continuance under a republican
administration of the government.
Equality of Opportunity.
Under the guidance of republican
principles the American people have
become the richest nation in the
world. Our wealth today exceeds
that of England and all her colonies,
and that of France and Germany com
oined. When the republican party
was born the total wealth of the
country was $4,000, 600, 600. 1t has
leaped to Sll0, O00, GOO, 900 in genera
ton, while Great Britain has gathered
but $50, 600, 900, 00O in 800 years. The
| United States now owns ne-fourth
of the worlds wealth and makes one
third OF all modern manufactured
! products. In the greatness of
civilization, such as coal, the motive
| power of all activity; iron, the chief
basis of all industry; cotton, the
staple foundation of all fabrics, wheat
corn and all the agricultural products
that feed mankind, Americas supre-
macy is undisputed. And yet her
great natural wealth has scarcely been
touched. We have a vast domain of
1900, 600 square miles. literally burst
ing With latent treasure, still waiting
the magic of capital and industry
to be converted to the practical uses
of mankind; a country rich in soil
and climate, in the embarrassed
energy of its rivers and in all the
varied products of the field, the
forest and the factory. With graft
tude for Gods bounty, with pride in