Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-19

he maintained or shall be permitted
to fall back to a level with the weak
err and unconsidered countrys of the
world
''rhe construction of the Panama
canal has been pressed forward with
renewed evidences under the con-
eentrated observation of all the civ
iized world, that America possesses
constructive genus organizing power
and habits of honest administration,
equal to the greatest undertakings. IT
is manifest now that the work will be
done in advance of the time fixed and
within the cost estimated and that
during the coming year it will be
substantially completed
"Will the people of America wish
that the honors of that greater than
a Roman triumphs be given, not to the
men who executed the great design.
but to the men who opposed and
seoffed and hindered and sought to
Illustrate the enterprise, until in spite
of them, its success was assured?
In our foreign relations, contro-
versies of almost hundred years over
the northeastern fisheries have been
settled by arbitration at The Hague.
The attempt to preserve the fur seal
life of the Alaskan islands has been
brought to success by diplomacy in
the fur seal treaty with Great Britain,
Japan and Russia. The delicate aues-
tions arising from the termination Of
our treaty regulating trade and travel
with Japan has been disposed of by
a new treaty satisfactory to both ma
tons and to the people of both coasts
of our own nation. Our tariff rela-
tions with all the world under the
maximum and minimum clause of the
Payne Aldrich bin have been readjust-
ed The departments of state and
commerce and labor have promoted the
extension of American commerce so
that our foreign exports have grown
from $1,491, 744.641 in 1906 to $2.0f3-
$40, OPS i'm 1911, and the balance of
trade in our favor for 1911 was $522.-
094.094. American rights have been
maintained and peace with all the
world has been preserved and
with this record of consistent pol
icy and faithful service the Republi-
can party can rest with confidence on
it's title to command the approval of
the American people. We cherish with
gratitude and reverence the memory
of the great men who devised the
American constitutional system. We
will be loyal to the principles they de
elared and the spirit of liberty All
progress, of justice and security which
they breathed into that immortal in
strument
I'VE may justly claim for our gov
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for a century and a quarter II has
worked out the best results for indi-
vidual liberty and progress in civiliza-
ton yet achieved by governmental in
situations.
witness the 1887 1856 separate saw
ings banks accounts. with $4,2l2,5S3,-
SOS deposits in the year 1911. Witness
the 63G1 .512 farms and the value of
farms and farm property of si0,s91,-
10, 0a0 in the year 1910.
"Witness the stream of immigrants
pouring in from all countries of the
earth. This country is so large and
the conditions of life are SO varied
that il would be intolerable to have
the local and domestic affairs of our
home communities, which involve no
national rights, controlled by MAORI
ties made up in ether states thousands
of miles away or by the officials of Il
central government.
I'VE will perform the duties and ex-
ercise the authority of the offices with
which we may be invested but we will
observe and require all officers to OBJ
serve those constitutional limitations
which prescribe the boundaries Of ofi-
able. however patriotic, a Congress or
an Executive may be, however, con-
WINGED they may be that the doing OF
a particular thing would be beneficial
to the public life If that thing be done
by usurping the powers confided TO
another department or another officers,
it opens the door for the destruction of
liberty The door opened for the patri-
otto and well-meaning to exercise pow
or not conferred upon them by law is
the door opened also to the self seeking
and ambitious. There can be no free
government in which official power is
not limited. and the limitations upon
official power can be preserved only by
vigorously insisting upon their observ-
ance.
I'VE will make and vigorously enforce
laws for the promotion of public inter
ests and the attainment of public ends,
but we will observe those great rules of
right conduct which our fathers embod-
led in the limitations of the Constitution,
We will hold sacred the declarations and
prohibitions of the bill of rights, which
protect the life and liberty and property
of the citizens against the power of gov
eminent. We viii keep the covenant
that our fathers made, and that we have
reaffirmed from generation to generation,
between the whole body of the people.
and every individual under national iuris-
diction. 1t is solemn covenant that be-
tween the weak Individual and all the
power OF the people and the people
officers shall forever stand the etenranl
principles of Justice, sacred, defined and
made practically effective by specific
rules in those provisions which we cal
the limitation of the Constitution. Thai
covenant between power and weakness
is the chief basis of American prosperity
American progress and American liberty
| Upon submission and confirmty to these
| rules of justice depends our existence as
nation, and as we love our country and
| hope for the continuance of its peace
/