Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-09-30
CONG, MANN OUTLINES
REPUBLICAN POLICIES
Rights Of Citizens Must Be
Protected in Mexico.

St. Louis, Mo-, Sept. 2S.-The fol-
lowing speech of Congressman James
Mann, Republican leader Of the
House Of Representatives, was de-
livered at Republican meeting in
this city yesterday:
Republicans of the Great State of
Missouri
Your state ought to be Republi-
can state. 1t ought to give it's sup
port in congress and elsewhere to the
dominant ideas of the Republican
party. 1t is your duty to your state,
to the nation, even to the civilizing
influence of prosperity, to put this
state in the Republican column at the
next election, and believe you will
do your full duty.
1t is the duty of the government,
at the least, to permit prosperity at
home, to provide means of defense
against aggression from abroad and
to secure the rights of American citi-
zens and their prosperity the world
over. ..
A proper protective tariff is neces-
sary for all of these purposes.
Such tariff should be the means
Of raising q large amount of revenue,
in the main paid by the foreign ex-
porter. 1t should give reasonable
degree of protection to the American
producer against the undue competi-
ton of cheaper labor abroad. We
cannot maintain our high standard
of living otherwise. Our producers,
who pay high wages for short hours
and exclude child labor, who pay high
taxes for our costly governments and
our fine schools, must not have their
industries destroyed by the competi-
ton of those who do not contribute
any taxes for our use.
The first duty of the Republican
party when it comes into power again
will be to write protective tarin
law and provide for a tariff commits
sion of disinterested experts.
The business, labor and industries
Of the country cannot we'll wait for
tariH revision until after the tariff
commission has reported. We want
to start up every old industry and
many new ones at the earliest pos
sible moment.
( The tariff commission will investi-
gate and ascertain the facts more
completely than has been done here
tofore and tariff schedules Of the fu-
tufe will be based upon full informa-
tion obtained by scientific methods.
Tariff schedules should be high
enough to secure fairly, the Ameri-
can market to American producers,
but not so high as to permit e1orbl-
tant charges for the things produced.
In other words, the rates should be
reasonable.
The rights of capital should be
fairly we'll ascertained and secured.
We cannot otherwise obtain the most
complete investment of capital In
great and new undertakings. The
markets of the world are ripe for our
picking. We need great sums OF
money in order to more fully develop
our resources and spread our trade
at home and abroad. The money
may be readily secured II, and only
il, it's investment offers fair returns.
Government, instead of endeavoring
to prevent or hamper the use of great
combinations of capital, should en-
deavor to provide fairly the oppor-
tunity of reasonable rewards for such
investment. Large sums of money
cannot be used in furthering indus
tries at home and trade abroad with
out greatly increasing the employ
ment and wages of labor.
The rights of labor should be Sc
cured and maintained everywhere in
our country. The increase in our ma
tional wealth, augmented by devel-
oping industries and trade, should be
participated in by those who do the
manual and brain work as we'll as
those who provide the working
funds. No nation ever, before had
the opportunity for Industrial and
trade developments which lies before
our country now in this unexampled
condition of the worlds anairs. II
we act wisely in our own interests
we will give situation OF material
prosperity and intellectual and moral
growth to all our people of every de-
gree and class, such as was never
known before. If the government
will only aid and not hinder, our
growth and development will become
the wonder of the world. But the
Job is too big for the statesmen OF
the Democratic party.
The highly developed modern civ
ilization is liable, If not likely, to
break down in other countries. The
immense Indebtedness of foreign
lands with it's tremendous current
burdens is almost sure to bring about
a revolution, II not many national
revolutions. The interest burden is
likely to prove too great for the
backs of some of the foreign coun-
tries.
That there will be trouble abroad.
even after q treaty Of peace between
the warning nations is secured, seems
most probable. We cannot afford to
take the risk Of not. being prepared
to defend ourselves and our rights.
+ II we make the effort to capture
the markets of the world, rs the OPP
portunity now offers, we must be
ready to defend and protect the
rights Of our citizens doing business
abroad and their property. We
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