Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-09

\ constitutes America. Why, then. wal
tax when there is no war, sugar ta'
heretofore denounced as robbery, e
stamp tax to bolster tottering treas
ury, and 4,00O, 900 of willing worker.
idle in the highways of the country
What has happened to reduce our in
! ternational pre- eminence? What ha!
! TRANSFERRED to disturb our local tran.
| guilty? Nothing: nothing but the in.
lcumbency of democratic administra.
ton in whose capacity for diplomatic
advantage abroad or economic manage.
ment at home nobody, here or else.
where. neither butcher nor baker mol
candlestick maker, entertains the re.
hottest confidence.
Duty Of This Hour.
What is the imperative duty Of this
hour? No delegate here can be in
! different to the overwhelming respon-
sibility which solemnises his action
this afternoon. The Importance Of this
convention to country and party can
not be over estimated in its gravity.
However, if there be fears, there are
also hopes. Within our ranks there
are conflicting opinions, Conscientious
ly cherished and honestly defended
! but they may all be generously tolerat-
ed without sacrificing any of the es-
sential principles of the party. Let us
search for grounds of cohesion rather
than for causes of dissension. We are
all in agreement that in this dem
ocracy of ours. equality Of opportunity
must be sacredly preserved; but we
! may not agree as to how that can
best be done. We are all in agree
ment that the people of the country
white and black, high and low, great
and small-must control it absolutely.
but we may not agree as to how that
control can best be asserted. We are
all in agreement that in the adoption
or abrogation Of constitutions, in the
enactment or appeal OF statutes in the
designation or displacement Of public
officials, the electors themselves must
be the ultimate authority, but we may
not agree as to how their sovereign
power can best be exercised. We are
all in agreement that in this age Of
expansion and discrimination the help
lessness OF the weak must be protect
ed against the expressions of the
strong: but we may not agree as to
the measures best adapted to assure
approximate justice to every man. We
are all in agreement that the United
States must establish and maintain a
leadership-poltical. industrial, COM
mercial, moral, and spiritual-among
the peoples Of the earth; but we may
not agree as to how that primacy can
best be attained. We are all in agree
ment that the browning ccnsummation
Of the twentieth century must be the
enforcement Of perpetual peace thru
universal arbitration. with America as
the pioneer in that sublime propa :
ganda; but we may not agree as to
how that millennium of reason can best
be promoted Harmonious as we are
upon the fundamentals Of our political
faith, because OF the differences to
WHICH I have adverted shall our party
dismember? Shall 1t disintegrate :?
Shall it separate into belligerent frag-
merts and forfeit the prestige it has
acquired by fifty years OF predomi-
nance? Never 1t will grandly sur
vive the reverses Of the moment. and
gathering renewed virility from mani
fold difficulties gloriously conquered,
II will embark upon new and Illus
trious career Of usefulness and honor.
Party Of Progress.
The republican party has been. is
now. and always must be, che pro-
gressive party Of the nation. 1t was
organized primarily. not to make men
rich. but to make men free, and it can
never surrender the impulse which
Abraham Lincoln lived and died to
communicate to it. With just and
mr. IN TIC
forward year after year, surrounding
one obstacle after an 1:hcr in the path
way OF it's upward destiny, the most
efficient agency known among men for
the upliftment and the Improvement of
the social state.
Tomorrow as yesterday, 1t will di-
rect the course Of the republic so that
the patriotic intelligence Of the many
rather than the selfish cupidity of the
few shall express the prevailing note
in the national strain.
1t will make the constitution of the
country a potential force in govern
mental life. ungrudgingly and UNI
formly obeyed and venerated, by re-
moving every unnecessary impeachment
which interposes between the people
and its amendment after fair delibara-
ton.
1t will adhere to protection as the
cardinal doctrine of it's creed, and it
will so adjust the schedules of the
tariff that prosperity for the producer
will go hand in hand with competition
to the consumer. 1t will overcome the
dangers Of combination and monopoly
by restoring to the market place that
indispensable independence and rea-
sonable rivalry which are always Incl
dent to honorable trade. And while it
will not interfere with whatever is
good in big business" it will guar
antee that big business" shall be the
servant and not the master Of the AM
erican people.
1t will confirm to every citizen in the
land, irrespective vi race or co!Ur Or
previous condition Of servitude, an I'M
tr;lmmeled ballot for the nomina ton
and election Of his party candidates, so
that the unhampered preference of the
voters may be effectuated in the re-,
suits.
1t will safeguard the life, liberty and
prosperity of all our people every
where, on the ocean and on the land,
and in that behalf il: VIII immediately
proNlue the ucSt SHIPS anu the DeSI
guns that can be devised by the in
genuity Of man; not as preliminary
to aggressive and unwarranted war,
but as security for continued and
permanent peace 1t will not be guilty
of the criminal delinquency Of remain
ing unprepared for possible confila-
grafton, while the world is on fire and
the sparks are flying in every direc-
ton.
1t will regalvanize the foreign policy