The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 12, 1904, Page 2

P ——— Theodore Roosevelt's Acceptance of the Chicago Nomination a Mas- terly Argument. Reviews Records of the Parties and Asks the Nation to Choose Between Them. ject to the part we not know that the s would mow count ar East if we had aban- | ippines and refused to do nnmt Sept of accept ican nomination to Un Its tull ed exec made publi e ua”? Do they object to the fact that this ¢ ment secured @ peaceful set- ment of the troubles In Venegueia two years Do they object to the presenge of the to-day. of war off Colon when the lution roke ocut in Panama, and when only the | presence of this ship saved the lives of Ameri- cah citizens, and prevented insult to the flag? s | 1o they object to the fact that American certain | War ships appeared promptly at the port of ut when an effort had been made to as- | espucial | Be ate an American . official, and in the u at the utter of Tangier when an Ameérican citizen the real been abducted? and that in cach case | . whic wage this | the wrong complained of was righted and ex- msujaign. 1 piated? and that within the last few days! ihe visit of an American squadron to Smyrna was followed by the long-delayed concession of their just rights to those Americans con- cerned in educational work in Turkey? Do they object to the trade treaty with China. 0 full of advantage for the American people in the future? Do they object t ily believe and a t n a “ae so0n as they ruise > K iseek to expiain | the ships carrying the mational flag now ha y tide is the probably | higher standard than eve u fiort to improvise | mansiup and in seamanship, as indlvidual units and as component parts of squadrons |anc Adets? If they object to any or all of | these things, we join issue with them. Our foreign policy has been not only highly ad- vaniageous to the United States, but hardly less advantageous to the world as a whole. Peace and good will have followed in its footsteps. The Government has shown itsell thus improvised, it is uld be beid in & tenta- = ¢ the Government e guess if jt seems unpopular. which we profess are those in and soul wnd | no less anxicus to respect the rights of others us; but they |t insistent that the rights of Americans insincerity. | be respected in return. As for tbe navy, it d wre those which | has been and is now the most potent guar- as essential to the national Our actions speak eveu words for the faith that is our appeal upon what we upon our reoord of islation during the last i we have had complete ee of peace. nd it is such chiefly because it is formidable, and peady for use. When our opponents speak of ‘‘encroach- ments” by the cxecutive upon the authority of Congress or the judiciary, apparently the act they ordinarily have in view is Pension’ 3 our weven Order No. 78, issued under the authority of ot We intend in the | existing law. This order directed that here- r the Government in the | after any veteran of the Civil War who Mad bave carried it on in reached the age of €2 should be presumptively entitled’ to tbe pension of $6 & month, given under the dependent pension law to those whose capacity to earn their livelihood by manual labor had been decreased 50 per cent, and that by the time the age of 70 was reached the presumption should be that the physical dis- ability was complete, the age being treated as an evidential fact in each case. members are radically at vital issues, and if united ed on issues where their widespread disaster to the st be trusted to govern in which, with facile ease, ctions before election can- re with tenacity to any s &% BROAD LIBERALITY mndtins?%: ) FOR THE MEN WHO solving the prob- hese campaigns it meet_other problems ion; and it is no small to public confidence that ed with the same success that he solution ties at the px FOUGHT FOR UNION This order was made in the performance of @ duty imposed upon the President by an mct of Congress, which requiresythe executive to make regulations to govern the subordinates of the Pension Office in determining who are entitled to pensions. President Cleveland had already exercised this power by a regulation which declared that seventy-five should be set as the age at which total disability should | be conclusively presumed. Similarly President McKinley established sixty-five as the age at which half dieability should be conclusively presumed. The regulation now in question, in the exercise of the same power, supplemented these regulations made under Presidents Cleve- land and McKinley. The men who fought for union and for Uiberty in the years from 1861 to 1865 not only saved this nation from ruin,-but rendered an inestimable service to all mankind. We of the United States owe the fact that to-day we ¢ those concerning were fought. In efficiency not ont! 't governmental . v the tasks that were & each unanticipated arose utest of 1898 was decided the | the war with Spain was not an the contest of 1900 was decided the Isthmian canal question 114 not have been foreseen. qualities which enabled those | naking and administering the gton to deal successfully with he currency enabled them also « Spanish war; and the same | enabied them to act wisely in Cuba also enabled as regards the prob- d with the trusts and to secure jan canal. We are fore the American ok the fact that to adherence o & | have a country to what they did: and the na- ideal We have added proved EOVern- | iion has decreed by law that me one of therm, tal cfficiency. Therefore our promises may | if disabled from earning his own ii -shall ¥ be trusted as regards any issue that is the people: to deal with any cafter arise has the work been done that our s do not venture to recite the facts | policies or acts and then oppose | attack them only when they misrepresented them; for ‘a truth- would leave no room for adverse ving, -shall lack the pension to which he is entitled, mot only as a mattér of gratitude, but as a matter of justice. It is the policy of the Republican: party. steadily continued through many years, to treat the veterans of the Clyll War.in .a spirit of broad liberality. The order in ques- tion carried out this policy .and is justified not merely on legal grounds, but also on grounds of public morality. ‘1t is a matter of common knowledge that when the average man who depends for his wages upon bodily labor has reached the age. of sixty-two his earning ability is in all probability less half than it was when he was in his prim and that by the time he has reached the age of seventy he has probably lost all earning ability. If there is doubt upon this peint let the doubter examine the employes doing. man- ual labor in any great manufactory or on any great rafiroad and find out how large is the proportion of men between the ages of sixty- two and seventy and whether these men are still employed at the highly Daid tasks which they did in their prime. As a matter of fact, many railroads pension their employes when they have reached these ages, and in nations where old age pensions prevail they always begin somewhers between the two lmits thus set, It is e to_test our opponents’ sincerity inthis matter. The order in question is re- vocable at the pleasure of the executive. If our opponents come into power they can re- voke this order and announce that they will treat the veterans of sixty-two to seventy as presumably in full bodily vigor and not en. titled to pensions. Will they now authorita. tively state that they Intend to do this? If 80, we accept the issue. If not, then we have the right to ask why they raise an issue which, when raised, they do not venture tn meet. betore and we may problem which | | ffers an instance in point. Our | riticize what we did in Panama | jon of misstating what was ration behaved throughout | faith, but with extraordi- | and large geperosity toward whom it dealt. It was also mind- erican interests. It acted in strict b the law passed by Congress. Had Panama been promptly recognized #nd the transit cross the Isthmus kept open, e with our treaty rights and ob- there would have ensued endless guer- e and possibly foreign complica- all chance of building the canal would have been deferred, certainly for years, perhape for a geperation or more. Criticlem of the action in this matter is simply criti- sm of the only possible action which could have secured the building of the canal; as well as the peace and quiet which we were, by treaty, bound to preserve along the line of transit ‘across the isthmus. The service ren- dered this country in securing the perpetual right to construct, maintain, operate and de- fend the canal was o great that our oppo- nents do not venture to raise the issue in straightforward fashion: for if so raised there would be no issue. The decisive action which brought about this beneficent result was the exercise by the President of the powers vested in bim, and in him alone, by the constitution; | the power to recoguize forelgn rnments by entering into dipiomatic relations with them and the power to make treaties which, when ratified by the Senate, become under the con- stitution part of the supreme law of the land. Neither In this nor in any other matter has there been the slightest failure to live up to the constitution in letter and in spirit. MISREPRESENTATION IS THE ONE WEAPON OF THE OPPOSITION Put the constitution must be observed posi- tively as well as negatively. The President's Auty is to serve the country in accordance with the constitution; and 1 should be derelict in my Guty if T used a false construction of the constitution as & shield for weakness and tim- igity, or s an excuse for governmental im- Dpotence. Similar misrepresentation is the one weapon of our opponenis in Tegard to our foreign policy and in the way the navy has been made useful in carrying out this policy. Here again I thet we ask fs tbat they truthfuily state what has been dcne, and then s2y whether or not they object to it: for I continued in power | we shall continue cur foreign policy and eur hendliug of the navy cn exactly the same lines in the future as in the past. To what phase of our forelen . and to what use of the navy, do our opponents object? Do they object o the way in which the Monroe doctrine has | been ftrengthened and upheld? Never before | has this doctrine been acquiesced in abroad us it is mow; and yet, while upholding the rights of the weaker American republics agaiust foreign aggression, ihe administration las Jost no opportinity 1o point but to these republics that those who seek equity should come with clean hends, and that whoever claims liberty s & right must accept the re- sponsibilities that go with the exercise of the right. Do our opponents object to what was done in reference 1o the petition of American citizens against the Kisheney massacre? or to e protest against the treatment of the Jews in Roumania® or to the efforts that have beer made in behal? of the Armenians in Turkey? In addition to those acts df the administra- tion _which they venture to assail only after misrepresenting them, there are others which they dare not overtly or officially attack and yet which they covertly bring forward as rea- sons for the overthrow of the party. In cer- tain great centers and with certain great in- terests our” opponents make every effort to show that the settlement of the anthracite ccal strike by the individual act of the Presi dent and the successful suit against the Nort ern Securities Company—the merger suit—un. dertaken by the Department of Justice, were #cts because of which the present administra- tion should be thrown from power. Yet they dare not openly condemn either act. They dare not in any authoritative or formal man- ner say that in either case wrong was done or error committed In the method of action or in the choice of instruments for putting that action into effect. But what they dare not manfully assert in open day they seek to use and through special agents. It s natural that an attack so conducted should made sometimes on the ground that too much, sometimes on the ground that too little, has been done. Soms of our op- ponents complain because under the anti-trust and interstate commerce laws euits were un- dertaken which have been successtul; others, because suits were not undertaken which would have been unsuccessful. The Demo- cratic State Convention in New with the anthracite coal strike by demanding in deliberate and formal fashion that the Na- tioral Government should take possession of the coal fields; yet champlons of that con- verntion's cause mow condemn the fact that py action by the President at all— hough they must know that it was only this the President which prevented the ownership of the coal gaining what might well have been an irresistible impetus. Such mutually eriticisms _ furnish an adequate f the for rent action w comstructive legislation if our opponents should be given power. 8o much for what our opponents openly or covertly advance in the way of an attack on acts of the administration. When we come to consider the volicies for-which they to stand we are met with the difficulty | aiways arising when statements of policy a 5o made that they can be in in ai ferent ways. On some of the vital questions that have confronted the American people In the last di le our o) tion that i is possi| convey their views. They contend that lukewarm attitude of partial acquiescence in what others have accomplished entitles them custod| the financ No other administration in our history, ho 17 be made ans ot ial ! Gther Sovernment n the world, has wore | NOUET 00 Sontly sought to ruln. © Bein ne | SR o Deethiheel oy t| able to agree themselves as to whether men humenity, or has heid a more reso. e e Jute aftitide Of Drotest ainst every wi as rong that outraged the civilization of the age, at homwe or abroad. Do evr oppoments object to the fact that the international tribunal at the Hague was rescued from impoténce, and turned iato o poterit instrument for peace among the nations? This Government has ' used tribunal, pursuaace of of international peace henorable methods. it has settled dispute after arb) tration or by friendly egreement. It has bo- baved toward all nations, strong and v-fi with courtesy, dignity end justice; and it now on excellent terms with sli. Do pur the Alaska bow reciprocal trade advantages with the 4 party should nof is an alteration in the reiative quantity of production of sflver and sold. $ ard disturbed POLICY WOULD NOT STAND STRAIN OF YEAR OF ADVERSITY States. whilc at the same time ing naval Yo moaing ntn chacar p— R g tal $ts_sinking into o or Men who hold sincere convictions on _vital orelgn power? Do they object to the fact | ¢uesrions ¢ That e flay mow fies over Porto Ricos Dy | Jucstions can respect equally sincers men with they cbiect 4o the mcquisition of Hawail? Once wa they radically diffef; and men they “hat) M"uwv”h mm&-.“o‘m‘nfioflm: Boisted it again; do they ‘once more to bonor or thelr self-respect. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1904 GIST OF ROOSEVELT'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE. “Choose between the party of action and the party of negation, the party of honor and the party of dishonor, the party of honesty and the party of insincerity, the party of proved ef- ficiency and the party of inefficiency.” Such is the message to the American voter sent broadcast throughout the land by Presi- dent Roosevelt in his letter accepting the unanimous nomination to succeed himself, accorded to him by the Republican National Convention in Chicago last June. In his letter President R ooscvelt arraigns the Democratic party as a house divided against itself; as an organization without fized policies on any of the great issues to be settled at the polls next November; -as a political Ariful Dodger, whose more than dubious past augurs ill for the future, in the event of its wictory two months hence. : f % Especial stress is laid by the President on the subjects of the Philippines, the tariff and firance. He arraigns the Democrats for having shifted * three times in their attitude on the Philippines, and declares that their policy of independence for the natives, if carried out, would be an international crime. In like manner he asserts that an abandonment of the protective tariff system would bring national misery. Regarding finance, he holds up to ridicule the policy— or, rather, the lack of policy—of the opposition. l Opposition’s Lack of Policy on the Question of National Finance Is Held Up to Ridicule. But it is difficult to respect an attitude of mind such as has been fairly gescribed above, and where there is no respect there can be no trust. A policy with so slender a basis of principle would not stand the strain of a single year of business adversity. We, ‘on the contrary, believe In the gold standard as fixed by the usage and verdict of the business world, and in & sound ‘mone- tary system as matters of principle; as mat- ters not of monetary political expediency, but of permanent organic policy. In-1506 and again in '1900 far-sighted men, without regard to their party fealty in the past, joined to work against what they regarded as a debased mon- etary system. The policies which they cham- ploned have been steadfastly adhered to by the administration; and by the act of March 14, 1900, Congress established the single gold standard as the measure of our monetary value. This act received the support of every Republican in the House, and of every Repub- licen except one in the Senate. Of our oppo- nents, eleven supported it in the Mouse and two in the Senate; and one hundred and fifty opposed it in the House and twenty-eight in the Senate. The record of the last seven years proves that the party Now in power can be trusted to take the additional action neceseary to improve and strengthen’our mon- etary system, and that our opponents cannot be %0 trusted. The fundamental fact is that in a popular government such a& ours no policy is irrevocably settled by law unless the people keep in control of the Gavernment men who believe in that policy @e a matter of deep-rooted conviction. Laws can always be revoked; it is the spirit and the purpose of- those responsible for thelr enactment and ad- this extrayagance of promise by absolute mul- lity in_performance. This Government is based upon the funda- mental idea that each man, no matter what | his occupation, his race, or his religious belief, solution of the trust problem such & change would therefore merely mean that the trust was relieved of the competition of its Weaker American competitors, and thrown only into competition with foreign competitors, and that is entitled to be treated on his worth as a man, | the first effort to meet this new competition and neither favored nor discriminated. against | would be made by cutting down wages, | because of any accident in his position. Even | and would therefore be primarily at the cost here at home there is painful difficulty In the |of labor. In the case of some of our greatest effort to realize this ideal; and the attempt | trusts such a change might confer upon them to secure from .other nations acknowledgment .a positive benefit. Speaking broadly it is of it sometimes encounters obstacles that evident that the changes-in the- tarift will | ‘well-nigh insuperable; for there are many na- | affect the trusts for weal or for woe.simply tions which in the slow processiog of the ages | as they affect the whole country. The tarlft have mot yet reached that point where the | affects trusts only as it affects all other in- principles which Americans regard as axiom- | terests. It makes all these interests large or atic obtain ‘any. recognition whatever. One of | small, profitable, and its benefls can be ‘taken the chief difficulties arises In connection with | from the large only under penalty of taking certain American citizens of foreign birth, or | them from the small also.” of particular creed, who desire to travel | There is little for me to add to this. It ia abroad. Rusdia, for instance, refuses to ad- = but ten years since the last attempt was mit and protect' Jews, Turkey refuses to ad- | Made, by means of lowering the tariff, to pre. mit and protect in sects of Christians. | vent some people from prospering too mueh. This government consistently demanded | The attempt was entirely successful. The equal protection abroad for all American citi- | tariff law of that year was among the causes zens, whether native or naturalized. On | Which in that year and for some time after- March 27, 1899, Secretary Hay sent a letter | Ward effectually prevented anybody from pros- of Instructions to all the diplomatic and con- | pering too much, and labor from prospering at sular officers of the United States, in which | all. Undoubtedly it would be possible at the he sald: ‘‘This department does not discrimi- | present time to prevent any of the trusts from nate between native-born and naturalized citi- | remaining prosperous by the simple expedient zens in according them protection while they | of making such a sweeping change in the are abroad, equality of treatment being re- | tariff as to paralyze the industries of the quired by laws of the United States.”” | country. The trusts would cease to prosper, These orders to our agents abroad have been | but their smaller competitors would be ruined, repeated again and agaln, and are treated as | and the wage-workers would starve, while it the fundamental rule of conduct laid down | Would not pay the farmer to haul his produce for them, ng upon the theory ‘‘that | to market. The evils connected with the trusts all naturalized citizens of the United States | c&n be reached ‘only by rational ngt step by mipistration which must be fixed and un-| gppe iy nd | #tep_ along the lines taken by Congress and chamgeable: It is idle to say that the mone- | Mhile I forelgn countries are entitied to and | &SPy ocuR oo Guring the past three years, . 1t tary standard of the nation is irrevocably fixed | SISV Fecelve, from thie sovermment (8, SAme | o Norit law is passed under which the country 50 long as the party which at the last elec- tion cast approximately forty-six per cent of the total vote, refuses to put: in its platform any statement that the question is settied, A determination to remain silent cannot be ac- cepted as equivalent to a recantation. Until our opponents as a party explicitly adopts the yiews which we hold and upon which we have acted and are acting,.in the matter of a sound currency,. the only real way -to the question from becoming unsettled 18 to keep the Republican party in power. As for what our opponents say fin refe ence to -capital and labor, individual or cor- porate, here again all wé need by way of is to point to what we have actually nd to say that If continued in power prospers, as the country has prospered under the present tariff law, then all classes will share in _the prosperity. If a tariff law is passed aimed ltpflmenun‘ the prosperity of some of our people, It is as certain as any- can be that this alm will be achieved the prosperity of all of accorded to native-born citizens.” In issuing passports the State Department never dis- criminates, or alludes to any man's religion; and in granting to every American citizen, na: tive or naturalized, Christian or Jew, the same wer it insists that | thing Il accept the pass- | only by cutting down that the person | our e. SRRy bl roielo o el 1| OUESTION OF WHAT " TARIFF IS BEST IS 'ONE OF EXPEDIENCY matic mamgonm-r officer to protect every Of_course; 1f our opponents are not sincere American citizen, of whatever faith. from un- in their proposal to abolish the system of a el port ‘as. prima’ facle proof therein described s a citizen of the States and entitled to protection as such. Just molestation; and our officers abroad have been stringently required’ to comply with this circumstances, the demand of our oppofients, that negotiations be begun to secure equal treatmient of all Americans from those governments which do not mow' accord it chows either ignorance of the facts or In- done, we shall continue to carry out the policy we have been pursuing, and to execute the laws | tely and fearlessly in the future as past. as resolul we have executed them in the speech of acceptance I said: ~ & ey g ‘protactive’ tarift'there is no use in arguing the “We ‘Tecognize the organization -of- al s L 10 oot e detiver | matter at fil. save by pointifig out again that and-the omnwtonn:htmnm“fllw-,r.m t mufiuwawo if on one great issue they do not mean what comes of our industrial system. Each kind |:3n3'sy’ qoing. dy pressure which the-| they say it is hardly safe to trust them on any- ‘of organization. s to “be fav it acts in a spirit of justice and of regard for the rights of others. ' Each is to be granted the full protection of the law, and “each in turn 1s to be held to. a strict obedience to_the law; for no man is above it and no mam below it. The humblest individual is to haye his rights safeguarded as scrupul those of the strongest organization, 18 to receive justice, no more and no less. The problems with which we have to deal in our modern industrial and social life are mani- | fold; but the spirit in which it is to approach their solution is simply the spirit of honesty, of courage and of common-sense.”’ The action of the Attorney General in en- forcing the anti-trust and interstate commerce laws, and the action of the last Congress in enlarging the scope of the interstate com- merce law, and in creating the Department of Commerce and-Labor, with a Bureau of Cor- porations, have for the first time opened a chance for the National Government to deal department has been g up_ in the past | 4 . will be continued Jn the future. This admin- Other. 4am0e.. " But 1€ty are-gincery: i this, istration has on all proper occasions given | Mmatter, then their advemt to power would clear expression to the bellef of the Ameri- [ mean domestic misfortune and misery as wide- can people. that discrimination and oppression | spread and far-reaching as. that which we because of religion, wherever. practiced, are |saw ten years.ago. When they speak of pro- acts of injustice before God and man: and In | tection as -robbery,” they of course must Seaking evident to the word the. deptl. of . X e s 1 this Fegard wo have | mean that it is immoral to enact a tarift de- gone to the very limit of diplomatic usage. signed (as is the present protective tariff) to Tt is @ striking evidence of our opponents’ | secure to the American wage-earner the benefit insincerity in this matter that with their de-:| of the high standard of living which we desire mand for radical action by the State Depart- | 1o see kept up in this country. Now to speak ment they couple a demand for a reduction in | o v yore i gense a o b our small milita tablishment. Yet they robbery,” there- must know that the heed pald to our protests-| by &iving it a moral relatiod, Is not merely agalnst ill-treatment of our citizens will be | thetorical; it is an its face false. The ques- | exactly proportionate to the belfef in our abil- | tion of what taglff is best for our peopie is 1ty to make these protests effective should the | primarily one of expediency, to be determined need a not on abstract academic grounds, but in the light of exverience. It is a matter of busi- for fundamentally curs is a business Our opponents have now declared themselves in favor of the civil service law, the repeal of 4 which they demanded In 1900 and in 1806, If ness; intelligently and adequately with the ques- ¥ fhey should have gone one step | Deople—manufacturers, merchants, farmers, tions © affecting _soclety, whether for gool | tonSetent, ey SUOWL, YL EQCL CT° ipon | wage-workers, professional men, all alike. Our or for evil, because of the accumulation of | 430 way in which the clivil service law is | experience as a people in the past has cer- Dt Telirions consed thereby. Thase taws | DOV edministered and the wey la Which.the |tatnly not shown us that .we could 1 n exten L ex- » are now being administered with entire effl- | Chassified Seryice Bas DeC e ewer by rar | Afford in this . matter to follow those Sency: and as, In thelr working, meed 1a| CDUODS fRom XA ellon Aned to jndividua) | Professional counselors = who have con- ned themselves to study in the closet; for the actual working of the tariff has emp qally contradioted helr theories. ) From shown for amendment or addition to them— whether better to secure the proper publicity, or better to guarantee the rights of shippers, or in any other direction—this need will be cases, where the application of the rules would be impracticable, unwise, unjust or unneces- sary. met. It Js mow asserted “that the common | o 3 of the country; e o snmmotens Sytvaere tge| MERIT SYSTEM FREE - Fis"aone sl S o s Sommied '8 common law the United States. Its rules can be enforced only by the State courts and officers. No Federal court or officer could take any action whatever under them. It was this fact, coupled with the inability of the States to control trusts and monopolies, which led to the passage of the Federal stat- utes known as the Sherman anti-trust ict and the interstate commerce act; and it is only through the exercise of the powers conferred by these acts, and by the statutes of the last Congress supplementing them, that the Na- tional Government acquires any jyrisdiction over the subject. <To say that action it trusts and monopolies should be limited to the application of the common law is equiva- lent to saying that the National Government should take no action whatever to regulate them. Undoubtedly, the multiplication of trusts and their increase in power has been largel; due to the “‘failure of officlals charged wit! the duty of enforcing the law to take the and destroy that system would be to insure the prostrution of business, the closing of fac- tories, the impoverishment of the farmer, the ruin of the capitalist and the FROM POLITICS AND WELL ADMINISTERED The administration of the great body of classifled civil service s fres from politics, and appointments and removalé have been put upon a business basis. Statistics show that there 1is little difference between the tenure of the Federal classified employes and that of the employes of private business cor- porations. Less than one per cent of the classified employes are over 70 years of age, and in the main the service rendered is vig- orous and efficlent. Where the merit system was of-course most needed was in the Philip- pine Islands, and a civil service law of very advanced type has there been put into opera- what they say, then it is precisely to structicn and ng of the tariff, therefore of ess and industry, that iast nati to 1897. tration lasting from 1863 It a prote tive tariff is either ‘‘unconstitutional’ or bery,” then it is just as unconstitutional, lust as ‘m to revise it down, still leav- ing it protective, as it would be to enact In other words, our opponents have committed themselves to the destruction of the protect- ive principle in the tariff, using words which if honmestly used forbid them from permitting necessary p ure.” Such stricture u, this principle to obtain in even the smallest The fallure of the officials of the National | tion and scrupulously observed. Without one | Gogree. » Government to o their duty tn this matter | exception every appolntment in the Phillppines [~ Our opponents assert that they believe in has been made in accordance with the strictest reclprocl:.y. gel: nc‘llon on t!'ln most llmpor. a tant recibroc reaty recently negotiated— e i R Without-heed to any | 4 with GUlle-does bot Dear-ouk thin Gveers Qther on. tion. - Moreover, there can be no reciprocity Finally, We come to certain matters upon | unless there is a substantial tariff; free trade which our opponents do In thelr platform of | und reciprocity are not compatibie, * We are on principles definitely take issue with us, and | record as favoring arrangements 1 where, If they are sincers, their triumph | [0 TElR(ORS T QUher COniTn, thest ar ‘would mean disaster to the country. But ex- | penefit to both the contracting parties. The _actly as it is impossible to call attention to the | Republican party stands pledged to every wise present promises and past record of our cp- |and gonsistent method of increasing the for- ponents without seeming offensive, o it ia | SIER commercc of the country. That it has its pledge is proven by the fact that while Impossible to compare their platform with | the dom trade of this country exceeds in estic thelr other and later official utterances and | volume the entire exvort and im not create doubt as to their sincerity. In their |all the nationa of the world, the private or unofficlal utterances nfany of them addi jon ‘more frankly advance this fnsincerity as a merit, | the exvort trade of the world, standing the position that as regards the points femt among the nations in this respect. The United on which 1 am about (b speak they have no | Siaics has exparted during the last seven years intention of ‘keeping thelr promises or of de. nearly ten bitlions of dollars’ worth of goods parting from the policies now established, and | ag gy -on an average half s much annually that therefore they can be trusted not e ey abuse they power they seck. to | of our people were ing nothing but nec- we take up the great question of the essaries, and some of them a scanty supply tarlff we are at once confronted by the doubt | T yenrs king at Logansport, T g 0 years ago, speaking ai n- as to whether our opponents do or do not mean | diana, { sald: what they say. They say that “K:ouruun “The one consideration which must never be ' and promise to carry tl I;el omitted in a tariff change et o Kinley's is concerned; - appll tion at all to Republican administration, is also undoubtedly true that what is most needed fs “officials having both the disposi- tion and the courage to enforce existing law.* This fs vrecisely the need that has been met Dby the consistent and steadily continued action of the Department of Justice under the pres- ent administration. PROTECTION ABROAD DEMANDED FOR ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS So far as,the rights of the individual wage- worker and the individual capitalist are con- cerred, both as regards one another, as regards the public, and as regards organized capital and labor, the position of the ad- ministration has been so clear that there is no excuse for misrepresenting it, and no ground for opposing it unless misrepresented. | Within the limits defined by the national | prominent _ among them assert that |.ving for the American constitution the national administration has | they do not reaily mean this that if rate must never fall below that which | SOt s ahorite, §6 SR Jesk - | come into power they will adopt our policy | will protect the worl b+ “ enjoy- | gs regards the tariff while seem | lowing for the difference between the general | ment of his right to live his life and dispose | anxious to prove that it is safe to give them cost bere and abroad, so at to of his property and his labor as he déems: 1 power. use power would be | equalize the conditions ait- best, so long as he wrongs mo onme eise, It § e bas shown in efféctive fashion that in endeav- ” i i all men, rich or poor, whatever their creed, e to say a | fed and better clof wo) of a ' their color, or « 1 than to be found in alike before the law. Under our form of gov: e, Tues | TP ‘At il hazards, and no matter fin"fl:l Simtimguished the This is al- | I8 sought for of Sowly circarosoeibd SRy Tenl eflort | e i ain O wagon, that . o P s T 2 B e T AR S w e power of the National Government s laws shouid i no event afford advantage to in such ma ourselves (iDeaking | foraign industries over American industries, them, we have been ‘trusts. No change. in | They fhould in no event do less equalize | the ne hand to be moderate in-our prom "“"“"“‘"sfi BB difiechoion Ju: contti i, " 4t and | l‘:dkutrl.ldlnh;m,om' D | s Ie e & matter of resret that the protective , They have promised, and e it i e | ise, action which they could by no Ve { country, i not now accestea .as _definitely ' ubum':::.x&»“mnn %‘fg‘ fabiihes. Sursly we Rave o rleht io eay | business to a stan oal nerely ingers ias | O mnmmw:!wg a0 o i o o i B Sounds, Yhot e ‘appeal p’ Ko 3 excite one set of &--3“ connected with | over :5% actual experience. i i I B | possessed the| necessary thrift, emersy and | business ntelligence to turn their vast materiai ? PRESIDENT SENDS FORTH STIRRING MESSAGE TO AMERICAN VOTERS Democracy Arraigned for Its Proved Inefficiency and of Its L the Insincerity eaders. Chief Executive Says Abandonment of Protection National prosperous years than any other nation has ever seen. EVERY CITIZEN IS BENEFITED BY THE PROTECTIVE TARIFF Beyond question this prosperity could not have coms if, the American people had not resources to account. But it is no less true that it is our economic policy as regards the tariff and finance which has enabled us as a nation to make such good use of the individ- ual capacities of our citizens, and the natural resources of our country. Every class of our pecple is benefited by the protective tariff. the last few years the merchant has | seen the export trade of this counfry grow | faster than ever in our previous history. The | manufacturer could not keep his factory run- | ning it it were not for the protective tariff. The wageworker would do well to remémber | that if protection is “‘robbery,” and is to be | punisfed accordingly, he will be the first to ' pay the penaity; for either he will be turned adrift entirely, or his wages will be cut down 'to the s lon point. As donclusively shown | by the bulletins of the Bureau of Labor, the purchasing power of the average wage re- ceived by the wageworker has grown faster | than the cost of living, and this in spite of | the continual shortening of working hours. | accumulated savings of the workingmen of the country, as shown by the deposits in the savings banks, bave increased by leaps and bounds. At no time in the history of this | or any other country has there been an era s0 productive of material benefit allke to workingman and employer as during the | seven years tbat have just passed. : The farmer has benefited quite as much as the manufacturer, the merchant and.the wage- worker, The most welcome and Impressive fact establisbed by the last census is the | wide and even distribution of wealth among all classes of our countrymen. The = chief | agencies In producing this distribution _are shown by the census to be the development | of manufactures and the application of new inventions to universal use. The result has | been an increasing interdependence of agri- | culture and manufactures. Agriculture is now, as it always has been, the basis of civiliza- | tion. The 6,000,000 farms of the United States, | operated by men who, as a class, are steadfast, | and industrious, form the | the other achievements of the American people and are more fruitful than | all their other resources, The men om those | 000,000, faris recelve from the protective tariff what they most need, and that is the | best of all possible markets. All other classes | depend’ ubon the r, but the farmer in | turn depends upon the market they furnish him for his produce. The annual output of our | agricultural products is nearly four billions of doflars. Thelr increase in value has been prodigious, although agriculture . has lan- guished in most other countries; and the main factor in this increase is the corresponding increase of our manufacturing Industries. American farmers have prospered because the growth of their market has kept pace with | the growth of the farms. The additional mar- ket continually furnished for agricultural products by domestic manufacturers bas been far in excess of the outlet to other lands.. An export trade in farm products is necessary to dispose of our surplus; and the export trade of our farmers, both in animal products and in plant products, has very largely increased. Without the enlarged home market to keep this surplug down, we should have to reduce or else feed the world at less than tiie cost of productfon. 1In the forty years ending in 1900. totdl value of farm prop- erty Increased twhive and a half. billions of &llary: the farmes gaining eoen ford during this period than the manufacturer. Long ago would bave checked the mar- velous development of our national agriculture but for the steadily increasing demand of American manhufacturers for farm’ products re- quired as raw materials for steadily expand- ing indystries. The farmer has become depend- ent upon the manufacturer to utilize that portion of his produce which does not go di- rectly to food supply.. In 1900 562 per cent, or a little over &im l!ou.l value of lh: produ nation was consume in manufacturing inddstries as the raw ma- terials the factories. Ee'g‘t“:fl' the manu- 3 all the raw materials of every kind and de- seripticn consumed in - American manafac- tories are of American production. The manu- facturing establishments tend steadily to mi- e into the heart of the great agricultural s The center of the manufacturing in- dustry in 1900 was near the middie of Ohio, and It westward at the rate of marked increase in the valué of lands. Local causes, notably the competition between new farm and old farm lands, tend here and there to obscure what is hap- certain as the operation c Jaw that In the country as a whole, tarm values will continue to increase as the partnership manufacturer and farmer grows more intimate through further advance of The American manufacturer never could have placed this nation ai the head of the manufacturing na- tions of the world if he had not had behind him, sccuring him every varlety of raw ma- terial, the exhaustiess resources of the Ameri- can tarm, developed by the skill and the en- terprise of intelligent and educated American farmers, On the other hand, the debt of the farmers to the man is equally heavy, and the future of American agriculture is interwoven, so mutually interde- ndent, that neither can hope to maintain [teelf «t the high-water mark of ‘with- out the cther. Whatever makes to the ad- vantage of one is equally to the advantage of the other. REVERSAL OF POLICY ‘WOULD INJURE THE AMERICAN WORKMAN 0 it is as between the capitalist and the wage-worker. Here and there there may be an unequal sharing as between the two in the benefits that have come by protection; but benefits have come to both, and a reversal in policy would mean damage to both, and while the damage would be heavy to all, it would be heaviest, and it would fall sconest, upon those who are pald in the form of wages each week or each month for that week's or that month's work. Conditions change and the laws must be modified from time to time to fit new exigen- cles. But the genuine underlying prineiple of protection, as it has been embodied in all but one of the American tariff laws for forty years, has worked out results so o cent, so evenly and widely spread, so advan- alike to farmers and capitalists and Forkingmeny to commerce and trade of every kind, that American people, if they show their usual business sense, will in- sist that when tl be modified £ i hese laws are modified they Wwith the. utmost care and the friends and not the H '821 i 7 s i great export and im- be_well-plgh exclusively in E"i'iflzil Eg Eaa<al i T ‘ B i gl ] i 3 2] b i _!i!i ; % i i ! made to take effect only Would Bring Misery. It is now used, as never before, for aiding in < he organized militia of the the upbuilding of the ors: miiitia ot the country. The War, Department * a systematic effort to strengthen and develop the National GUard in the several States; aa withess, among many instances,_ the great field maneuvers at Manassas, which have just clased. 1f our opponents should come into power they could not redoce our army below its ‘present. size withant greatly impairing its % and.abandoning part of the national d . In she in_ this mat- ter, if our oppenents should come into power they ‘Would either bave to treat this particulan promise of the ysar 1904 as they now treat the promises they made in 1506 and 1900, that i& as possessing no binding force; or else they would have to embark on a policy which would be ludicrous at the moment, and fraught with grave langer.to the national honor in the fu- ture. - Our cpponehits contend that the government is now administered extravagantly, and that Whereas there was “a surplus of $50,000.000- in 1800 there 13 ‘“a deficit of more than $40,000,000° in the year that has just closed. This deficit Is imaginary, and is obtained by including in the 8rdinafy current expenses the sum of $50,000,000; which vas paid for .the Fight-0¢-way ot the Pagama Canal out of the accumulate surpius in fhe treasury. Compar- ing the current or ordinary expenditures for the two years, there was a surplus of nearly £80,000,000 for the year 1900, and of only & littie mare than. $8,000,000 for the year that has just closed. But this diminution of the annual surplus was brought about designedly- by the abolition of the war taxes in the ia- terval” between ‘the two dates. The acts_ of March 3, 1001, and April 12, 1902, cut down the internal revenue taxes fo an amount es- timated at $105,000,000 a year. In ofher words, the reduction of taxation.bas been cogs siderably’ greater than the reduction -In the annual surplus. Since the close of the war with Spain there has been no substantial change in the rate of annual expenditures. As compared with the flscal year ending in June, 1901, for example, the fiscal year that has, just closed showed a relatively small increase in. expenditure (excluding U al payment al- ready referred to), whi the year previous showed a relatively small decrease. The expenditures of the nation have been. managed in a spirit of economy as far res moved from waste as from niggardliness; and in the future every effort will be continued to secure an economy. as strict as is consistent with efficiency. Once more our opponents have promised_what they cannot or should mot per- form. The prime reason why the expénses of the Government have increased of recent | years is to be found in the fact that the peo= have deemed it ple, after mature thought wise to have certain new forms of work for the public undertaken by the public. This Recessitates such expenditures, for instance. as those for rural free delivery spection of meats under- the Department Agriculture, or for irrigation. But these new expenditues are necessary: no ome wouid se- rlously propose to abandon them: and vet it is idle to declaimn against the inereased ex- pense of the Government uniess- it is intended 2o cut down the very expsnditures w cause the increase. IRRIGATION PLANS ARE FRAUGHT WITH FAR-REACHING GOOD The pensions to the veterans of civil war are demanded by every sentiment or re- gard and gratitude. The rural free delivery is of the greatest use and conveniénce to the farmers, a body of men who live under con= ditions which make them ordinarily receiva little direct return for what they pay toward the- support .of the Government. The irri tion policy M the arid and semi-arid regi of the West Is one fraught with the most beneficent ‘and far-reaching goed to the aciual settlers, the, homemakers, whose encourage- ment s a traditiondl fegture in Amerfea s national poliey) - Bo-our epponents grudge the fitty miflions-paid-fog -che Panama, canal? Do they intend to~cut. down on the pengigns fo the veterans of the civii war? Do they inténd to put a stop to the frrigation policy? or to the permanent cemsus Bureau? -or to immigra= the tion - inspection? - Do. they intend to abolish rural free delivery? Do théy intend to cut down the or the Alaskan'- telegraph system? - Do they ' intedd to -dismantle” our coast fortifications? If there is to be a real, substantial -cutting down in national expendi- tures it must be in such matters as these. The Department of Agriculture has done serve ice of incalculable value to the farmers of this country in many different lines. Do our op~ ponents wish to cut down the money for tuis service? They can do it only by destroying the usefulness of the service itself. The public work of the United States has never been conducted with a higher degree of homesty and efficiency than at the present time; and a spécial meéd of praise belong: to those officials_respopsible for the Philip pines and Porto_Rico, where the administra- tions have been model of their kind. .Of course wrong has occasionally occurred. but it has, been relentiessly stamped out. We have known no party in dealing with offenders and have hunted down without mercy every wrong- doer in the service of the nation whom it was passible by the utmost,vigilance to detect; for the public servant who betrays his trust and the private individual who debauches him stand as the worst of criminals, because thefr crimes are crimes against the entire com~ munity and not only against this generation, but against the generations that are yet to be. Our opponents promise independence to the Philippine Isiands. Here again we. are con- fronted by the fact-that their irreconcilable differences of opinion among themselves, thelr proved inabllity to create a constructive pol- fcy when in power, and their readiress, for the sake of momentdry -political expediency, to abandon the principles upon -which have insisted as essential, conspire to puzzie us as to whether they do or do mot interd in good falth to carry out this promise if they are given control of the Government. In their platform they declare for parently—for _their scure—without qualification as to time indeed a qualification ae to time is an ab- for we have neither right mor pa them; while if there is any principle invoived in_the , it _is just as wrong to deay independence for & few years as to deny it for an indefinite perfod. But in later and equally official utterances by our opponents the term self-government was substituted for seribed precisely the pelicy now being on. The language of the platform indidated a radical change of policy; indicated & continuance ‘of the present policy. But this caused trouble in their own 9 and in a still later, although formal, ut- terance, canted, and independence at some future time was promised in its place. They have occu- pled three entirely different positions within ffty days. Which is the promise they really intend to. keep? They do not know own minds; and no onme can tell how would keep of same they by any t a agreement among themselves. If such at- @0 greatly matter, for the American people can take care of themselves. But the Filipinos are in mo such condition. Confidence is with them a plant of slow growth. They have beea taught ton‘:r\:é: the 'Wdh.ol this Governmeng because t! vernment s rfl”.“ nothing b promised inde- the; expect Independence: not in the remote future, for their descendants, but fmmdiately, for themselves. If the ise thus made is not immediately fulfil will regard It as broken, and will not again trust to American faith: and it would be in- deed & wicked thing to deceive them in such fashion. Moreover, even if the promise In the distant the Filipinos would be thrown into thereby. Instead _of. cont! to endeavor to fit themselves for moral material ahandon * vancement in the mn:.‘lm ‘would - a hvmcn‘: begin factional in- all effort at trigues 2 To promise to give them independence w! is “prudent’’ to do %0. or when they " for it. of course implies that they not fit for it now, and that it would be prudent to give it to them now. But as must oursely he ‘become ““fit." dent” to Keep made, It necessarily foll promise § were f 2 ) ] £ 5 & promise it | lows that to mal s now: would amount to a upon the Filipinos. 1 FILIPINOS WOULD SUFFER 1F THERE 1S A CHANGE MADE It may well be th