Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28
1.-THE PARTY OF EXPANSION

1.-THE PARTY OF EXPANSION
The Republican party was founded
upon the principle that this govern
ment was established to protect 70
all times the rights and opportunitie
OF every Individual from abridgement
That principle it has successful.
maintained. Through the Civil Wa
it consecrated reunited country tt
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, Re
sumption of specie payments, the
Gold Standard and the Emergency
Currency Law. has sustained the life
current of national integrity.
AS trustee of the National wealth.
it has Investigated mineral regions
surveyed soils, developed waterways,
including the Panama Canal, irrigated
deserts, conserved watersheds, and
husbanded the public lands. Pro-
tecting American labor by regulating
immigration and by taking at the
Custom House, to pay American tax
es, foreign capitals advantage from
low wages, it has preserved to Ameri-
can Industries the home market of
eighty millions of the worlds great
est consumers and 50 laid the surest
basis for American competition in
foreign markets. Uniting capital
and labor, thus, in common pros
perity and common source of increas-
ed reward, it has created opportun-
tiles, improved conditions of employ
ment, brought about higher stand
ard OF living, and more Widespread
distribution of wealth and well-being,
and made expansion moral as we'll as
material.
1ntrusted with insular possessions,
it has brought them peace and prog
ress, and provided for the extension
and protection Of American trade, for
the National defense: and for the
honorable discharge Of the responsi-
bilities of world greatness. Main
tanning peace at home, with foreign
nations and among them, it has given
American rights and American op-
portunities new meaning throughout
the nation and throughout the world.
1.-THE PARTY OF PROGRESS AND
pRoSpHRJTy
Promising progress and prosperity,
it has been politically sincere. 1t has
never had a candidate of section,
or class, nor platform Of
negation, scheme Of repudiation, pro-
gram of scuttle, or doctine of despair.
1t has never lent itself to demand
for revolution, to be followed by re-
action and retrogression, it has stood
firm for evolution by constant, steady
and enduring progress. Finding
trusts, giant-born, flourishing under
conflict Of State and Ma
tional law, the double prohibition of
existence serving but to foster their
Development, it has never, in an at
tempt to destroy trusts, withdrawn,
10 State or Nation, the protection OF
aw from property, but has, through
Executive investigation and resort to
5he courts, resolved the conflict which
1ad silenced law and given trusts ex-
stence.
1t has never proposed to advance
American workingmen and American
by banishing American
Industries and building up those of
,ther lands, and scorned to insult Ia
DOR with an illusory promise of i'm
nunity from law. Yet it passed the
Pure Food Law and the Employers
Liability Law, secured equal accom-
nodations on railroads, aided agricul-
;ure, created the Civil Service, es-
;ablished Free Rural Mail Delivery,
'educed foreign postage, and in
creased pensions. Continuing natural
y marked-out progress, it will keep
is pledges of Tariff readjustment,
Currency Reform and development of
he Merchant Marine, and make the
United States the financial centre as
t has made it the industrial centre
II the world.
1.-THE CONSTRUCTIVE PAKTY-Ir
ORGANIZES THE NATIONAL WILL
In the elolution by which party
government has become the extra
method of securing
responsibility to the people, the Re-
publican Party has become their
representative and the
Democratic Party the organized as
oiration of individuals for power with
,ut responsibility Fairly tried, from !
1893 to 1895, the two Democratic
Houses and the Democratic President
we're wild team and a helpless
lriver. Democracy agitates local diff
erences, Republicanism organizes the
National idea. In 1263 the people