La Junta tribune., 1908-10-31
Rejected Beneficial Measures and
Enacted Disastrous Legislation.
A Trinity Of Benefcent Republican
Laws-Free Homesteads-Na-
tional 1rrigation-Fres
Delivery.

party has held the rcins OF power dur
ing the past forty-five years. 1t In
creased the national debt at the rate of
half u million dollars q day during its
entire term OF office. and each day we
lost half million dallars in foreign
trade. The value OF farm products de-
creased more than five hundred million
dollars
Disastrou. Democratic Regime.
The business OF this nation, in two
Dnonths after the enactment of the VIII
son law decreased six per cent Banks
closed their doors. business houses as
signed the balance OF trade was
against us We had deserted mills,
snokeleSs factories. silent machinery
We had tramps and bcsgars and indus
trial armies and starving women and
children In the midst OF plenty, with
bountiful crops rotting unharyested i'll
the fields, at million hearthstones sat
Famine, pitilcss and cruel. Ii shut
the door of industry and clothed labor
in rags.
1t fought under the dishonored ban
ncr of free silver. 1t subscribed to the
driyeling stupidity that a nation can
create values by law that the govern
mcnt could stamp n lie upon fifty cents
worth OF silver and make it a dollar 1t
opposed keeping our flag in the Orient
and advocated that it be lowered in re-
treat and tralled in the dust of dis
honor And yet this same party which
has not learned anything or forgotten
anything in fifty years. opposed the eN-
tension of the rural free delivery serv-
ice on the ground Of expense.
People Coming Into Their own.
At least GO per cent of our people
are so situated as TO be served success
fully by the rural delivery service.
They and their fathers have been the
pioneers OF this country, in blazing
the trail of civilization and in subju-
eating the land for the benefit of all
the people. They are the legitimate
heirs to all the benefits this govern
ment can legally 2nd consistently be
stow upon them They are the natural
beneficiaries OF three Of the greatest
pieces OF Republican legislation known
to recent American history-that trim
ity of laws looking toward the creation
and development of homes on the pub
o. domain for all who wish them
sne homestead law, the national irriga-
ton law, and the establishment of a
rural free delivery. Each and all of
tbVFt hdNe pN1Vh Iotrht ~ ahN i,Ni''
cratic party and in after years two of
these measures have been claimed by
that party as its offspring. 1t is more
than probable that before the expira-
tion of another fifty years. the Demo
cratic party will claim the credit for
having established rural free delivery.
Democracy "Hind-StEht."
The party's remorse over its repeated
faS itS Mt In
the people sometimes comes to the sur
face and appears in more or less pitt
full light For instance, at all modern
Democratic conventions the Democrats
show their veneration for the memory
Of Abraham Lincoln. Although while
he yet lived. while is was doing the
deeds for which they now praise him,
the Democratic party, north and south,
exhausted the vocabulary of yitupera-
ton in traducing and maligning and
reviling him. They praised the great
Mckinley only after his death. The mo-
tive In such cases may be appreciated
while the morals of a political party
which seeks to have Its former opposi-
tion to public measure forgotten in
the loud clamor of Its present appro-
baton, cannot be approved.
Republicans to Perfect the Work.
The rural delivery service will be
continued under succeeding Republican
administrations until 1t will be fully
provided for the entire United States.
it drives home the impression upon our
fSse;1,fs. that this great government care
fully looks after their individual inter
0sts and personal convenience as far as
possible Through this service the gov
ernment delivers at the doors Of rural
citizens their mail as promptly and
conveniently as it delivers the same to
the residents Of cities. The service is
one of the greatest means for the dis
semination of knowledge and informa-
tion to the people Of the country, they
have ever enjoyed. BY it they are en-
sbIed to keep In touch with the markets
of the country and with current events
in all parts of the world. 1t has ripened
into a permanent service which will
continue to improve and eventually
reach the door OF the humblest citizen
in its growing benefits.
Many BeneAcent Results Follow.
1t has removed the nightmare Of
loneliness and Of isolation from the
country and brought to 1t many Of the
benefits of city life. 1t has allayed the
spirit Of discomfort and restlessness
which drove many Of the better class
Of young people to the cities. 1t has
appealed to the densely populated cities
whose noxiOus atmosphere hastens the
dread disease OF tuberculosis and In
duced them to raise the cry Of. Back
to the land, back to nature" and move
out upon the extended plains, peaceful
valleys and the inviting plateaus Of the
country.
Rural free delivery, the national
irrigation act and the government
homestead law are the three Jewels Of
legislation In the crown Of the Republi-
can party, whose chisfest and priceless
gsn, is its abolition Of human slavery.