The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-19

mum clause OF the Paine -Aldrich bill
have been readjusted.
The departm OF state and COM
merce and labor have promoted the
extension OF American commerce so
that our foreign exports have grown
from s1,491 04d.6 In 1905 to $2,013.
549.025 In 1911, and the balance OF
trade In our favor for 1911 was s622.
694 ,09f. American rights have been
asserted and maintained and peace
with all the world has been preserved
and strengthened,
With this record OF consistent pol
icy and faithful service the Republi-
can party can rest with confidence
on Its title to command the approval
OF the American people, We have
right to say that we can be trusted
to preserve and maintain the Ameri-
can system Of free representative gov
ernment handed down TO us by our
fathers.
Stable Government.
No government must be admins
tered by the weak and fanatics,
and we Justly claim for our govern
ment. under the constitution, that for
century and quarter II has worked
out the best results for individual
liberty and progress In civilization
yet achieved by governmental insti-
tutions. Under the peace and security
II has afforded not only has our
country become vastly rich. but there
should inspire cheerful contld ence in
the future. Witness the 9,959,175
separate savings bank accounts, with
s4,421. .721 .5S2 deposits IN the year
1911. Witness the 6,631, o02 farms and
the value OF farms and farm property
OF 0.99l $4,000 In the year 1910.
record more than doubled between
1900 and 1910.
We will maintain the power and
honor OF the nation. but will OBJ
serve those limitations which the
constitutions sets up for the preser-
walton of local government. This
country Is SO large and the condi-
tions OF life so varied that II would
be intolerable TO have local and do
nestle affairs Of our home COM
munities. which Involve no national
rights. controlled by majorities made
up IN other states thousands Of miles
away or by the officials Of central
government
Observe Limitations.
We 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 Of
ficials TO observe these constitutional
limitations which prescribe the boun-
dary OF official power, However
wise, however able. however patriotic
congress or an executive may be;
however convinced they may be that
the doing OF n particular thing would
he beneficial to the public-if that
thing be done by usurping the power
confined TO another department or
another officer, 1t but opens the door
for the destruction Of liberty. The
door opened for the patriotic and
we'll l-meaning to exercise power not
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 observance.
We will make and vigorously en-
force laws for the promotion Of pub
lie interests and the attainment OF
public ends, but we Will observe those
great rules OF right conduct which
our fathers embodied in the l!mita-
tions of the constitution. We will
hold sacred the declarations and pro-
hlbitions OF the bill of rights. which
protect the life and liberty and prop
erty Of the citizens against the power
covenant that our fathers made and
that we have reaffirmed from gem
Grafton to generation. between the
whole body OF the people, and every
individual under national jurisdic-
ton.
with a deep sense OF duty to so
order our country's government that
the blessings which God has vouch-
safed us may be continued. We can
be trusted to keep the pledge given y,
Republican national convention;
1.-THE Republican party will uphold
at all times the authority and in
tegrity Of the courts, state and Ied-
eral. and will ever insist that their
to protect life. liberty and prosperity
shall be preserved inviolete.