The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19


 cost estimated. Will not the American people consider whether they have no grateful appreciation of the honor brought to us all by the great things that has
 been done on the isthmus2
 Foreign Relations In our foreign relations controversies
 of almost of a hundred years over the northeastern fisheries have been settled by arbitration at The Hague. The at tempt to preserve the fur seal life of the Alaskan Islands has been brought to suc- cess by diplomacy with Great Britian, Japan and Russia. The delicate questions arising from the termination of our treaty regulating trade and travel with Japan has been disposed of by new treaty satisfactory to both nations. Our tariff relations with all the world under the Payne Aldrieh bill have been readjusted. The departments of state and commerce and labor have promoted the extension of American commerce so that our for eign exports have grown from l,s9l, ,744, ,6i1 in 1905 to g, ,033 ,025 in 1911 and the bal ance of trade in our favor for 1911 was $522, ,094,094.
 With this record of consistent pol- icy and faithful service the republican party can rest with confidence on it's title to command the approval of the American people. We have a right 10 say that we can be trusted to pre- serve and maintain the American sys- tenn of free representative government handed down to us by our fathers.
 We shall not apologize for Amer ican institutions. 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 declared and 10 the spirit of lib- erty and progress of justice and se- curity which they breathed into that immortal instrument.
 Not only has our country become vastly rich but there has been Q diff fusion of wealth Witness the 9,59S,- 1S7 separate savings banks accounts with S4,212,5S3,59S deposits in the year I1911 Witness the 6,361.50 farms and the value of farms and farm property of s40,991.449,090 in the year 1910. a value more than doubled between 1900 and 1910.
 Witness the stream of immigrants pouring into share the happier lot of labor in our fortunate lands, ,6I3.9Ta of them since 1901.
 We will maintain the power and honor of the nation but we will ob- serve those limitations which the con- stitution sets up for the preservation of local self government. This coun- tfY IS SD ldTEt anu tue tDHulllOHo LII 1 life are so varied that it would be in-
 tolerable to have the local and demo- cratic affairs of our home communi- ties, which involve no national rights, controlled by maJorties made up in other states thousands of miles away or by the officials of a central govern rncnt
 We will perform the duties and exer-
 else the authority of the offices with l f..s. s1 but t.fff observe and require all officials to obs
 serve those constitutional limitations which prescribe the boundaries of official power. However wise, however able, however patriotic a Congress or an ex- ecutive may be: however convinced they may be that the doing of a particular thing would be beneficial to the public, if that thing be done by usurping the powers confined to another department or another officer, 1t but opens the door for the de- struction of liberty. The door opened for the patriotic and well meaning to exer- else power not conferred upon them by law K the door opened also to the self seeking and ambitious. There can be no free government in which official power Is not limited.
 Will Protect Public Interests I've will make and vigorously enforce laws for the promotion of public interests and the attainment of public endeavors. but we will observe those great rules of right conduct which our fathers embodied in the limitations of the constitution. We will hold sacred the declarations and pro hlbitions of the bill of rights which pro- tect the life and liberty and property of the citizen against the power of govern ment. We will keep the covenant that our fathers made and that we have re- affirmed from generation to generation, between the whole body of the people and every individual under national jurisdie- ton.
 That covenant between power and weakness is the chief basis of American