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WEST AND ORIENTAL TRADE
How Irrigation Will Develop the One and Cer
tainly Secure the Other.
ROOSEVELT’S INSPIRING AMERICANISM
While Creating a New Agricultural and Horti
cultural World at Home, He Would
Establish Commercial Pres
tige in the Orient.
The heart of the great West has been
touched by the sincere, persistent, effec
tive friendship of President Roosevelt.
It had begun, but only partially, to feel
its great need; when this strong* ideal
American stepped up to it and handed
it the golden key which is to unlock its
limitless, latent wealth —greater than the
combined mineral deposits of all the
world.
By one stroke of his pen he gave the
United States a new empire greater in
possibilities, for good to the human race,
than all that other great section situat
ed between the Atlantic Ocean and the
Mississippi River. The National Irri
gation Act will transform 125.000,000
acres of land from desert to garden. It
will create the greatest home market this
country has ever known. It will make
happy homes for millions of free Ameri
cans. It will establish forever the pres
tige of our commerce in the Orient. Il
will cause President Roosevelt's name
ahd his official acts to be gratefully re
membered for all time to come.
AU the People Interested.-
All American citizens are essentially
Interested in the operations of the Na
tional Irrigation Act for the reason that
its influence ou domestic trade ami for
eign commerce is destined to be simply
incalculable. The reclamation of arid
America along the lines of the National
Irrigation Act means “a home for every
man who wants one.’* It means that
when a settler gets ready to obtain bis
share of the National heritage he will
obtain not only fertile soil, but the water
necessary to make it a self-sustaining
home and that the water right is guar
dme«! by the govern m^rrt'of tlnnTrntw!
States." TITI .4 ~ig,'beyond— att roniparisoh,
one of the greatest things ever attempt
ed by the American people.
Pregnant with great possibilities is
this proposed irrigation of 125.000,000
acres of the people’s domain, an area
that now supports but n meager popu
lation. Under irrigation farms are small
because the yield of the land is very
much greater in proportion to cost and
operating expenses than it is where the
clouds are the first ami sole reliance for
a water supply. It follows that there
will be a dense population on our irri
gated area and a greatly Increased mar
ket for the manufactured products of the
rest of the country. The railroads and
all other industries will profit by the
reclamation of a region, so vast in ex
tent, and its settlement by a prosperous
population.
Wealth Beyond Compare.
According to the National census of
19(A) the total improved farm area of the
United Slates was 4 14,800.000 acres. It
is conservatively estimated that the re
claimable land is not less than 125,000,-
OUO acres. Its reclaimation, therefore,
will add much more than one-fourth to
the actual crop-producing area of the
country and will exceed by a liberal mar
gin, the tillable land of all the States
on the Atlantic Coast from Maine to
Florida—except a modest portion of New
York. Allowing twenty acres as the
average size of irrigated farms, this area
will make 0,250,000 farms or more than
the number in the United States in 1900.
The total value of all farms in 1900, in
cluding all improvements except build
ings, was $13,115,000,000. At $42.50 per
acre, the average value of irrigated land,
the 125,000,000 acres to be reclaimed
will add to the value of the farm land
$5,312,.>00,000. If buildings are includ
ed, the value will be increased by $2.-
550.000,000; while the augmented wealth
through railroads, cities, mills and fac
tories is beyond estimation. The an
nual value of all the f«m products in
1900 was $4,379,000,000. The average
per acre of products of irrigated land
was $14.81. At this rate, the area to
be reclaimed will add products worth
$ 1,85L250,000, an addition of nearly
half of the life sustaining power of the
country.
Will Not Compete with Kaet.
National irrigation will amount to a
aeries of loans by the government and
the supervision of the construction work
end water distribution. As to the ques
tion whether the products of the irri
gated west will compete with eastern
farm products, it is only necessary to
travel through the West and see what
it raises under Irrigation to understand
that there will never be any such com
petition. Irrigated farms are small and
too valuable to grow the staple products.
They are devoted to fruit culture or to
alfalfa raising In California, for in
stance, where Irrigation is oldest and
where Its highest types are found, the
far unit, instead of being 100 or 200
acres as in the East. is 40, 20 and 5
acres. Fine fruits, wines and dairy pro
ducts are raised and cattle are fattened.
It is difficult to name a California farm
product which comes East and actually
competes with Eastern products.
We get from California, oranges, lem
<ms, prunes, raisins, figs, olives, wines,
dried fruits, etc.—luxuries; on the other
hand, the Eastern farmers derive a dis
tinct benefit from irrigation in Califor
nia, for it makes California, and she fur
nishes a greedy market for every sort of
Eastern manufactured product, sending
her money back to New England and
throughout the Bist and thereby stimu
lating manufacturing. Busy factories
and well paid, steadily employed factory
bands mean good Eastern markets for
Eastern farm products.
Precedent Cited.
Our friends the farmers of the East
were somewhat alarmed as to what the
result migth be when the tide wg* west
ward and settling up the eastern por
tioc of the Mississippi Valley, but the
eastern manufacturer got such a market
as is not to Is* found anywhere else out
side of the Mississippi Valley, and the
prosperity of the eastern manufacturer
has in turn brought prosperity to the
eastern farmer. Uncle Sam has a great
deal of land and a great deal of waler
in the West. That land Is arid, and
the water, which would make it pro
ductive, is running to waste. The prop
osition is io irrigate these great moun
tain valleys ami plains and build more
homes and make more markets.
The ••astern manufacturer will sell
in the West, but the western farmer will
not sell in the Eavt, except fruits and
things like that which will not compete
with the eastern farmer. This great
work will take time. It will require
many years to wet all that dry land,
but we will begin npw ami go alohg
carefully each year until the task* is
• lone. Not many dams or new neighbor
hoods will be started before the business
men of the East will have their travel
ing men in the West to sell goods. Think
of this great home market; the whole
world wants to get into the United
States to sell things, but our home mar
ket is for ourselves first, to develop it
to the fullest extent.
Will Equalize Popnlntlnhr*"
The reclaimation of arid America will
to a great extent balance our one-sided
development. The eastern half of the
United States to-day lias a population
of over 70,000.000, while the western
Imlf contains somewhere in the neigh
borhood of 6.000.000, or less than 10
per cent, of the whole. The new irriga
tion law is working satisfactorily. The
country was-fortunate in Ending a bur
-tan of the government already equipped
to take up the question of surveys and
construction immediately. This is one of
the greatest pieces of work which has
ex er come before this government. The
dams, ditches and weirs to be construct
ed will be the greatest In the world.
They will stand not for generations, but
for centuries and contribute to the well
being of hundreds of millions of people.
Arid America will contain by far the
greatest irrigated area of any country
in the world.
Vaat Oriental Commerce,
On the other hand no person at all con
versant with current affairs can doubt
the great future of the Orient. The
lands that border upon the Pacific Ocean
contain nearly one-half the total popu
lation of the globe. Because of inade
quate transportation facilities upon the
land, the people are more dependent than
estern nations upon maritime com
merce. The Orient! What magic in the
name. The fabulous storehouse of mys
tery, wealth, art. religion. When Amer
ica was undiscovered, England the home
of rude savages, Greece and Rome un
heard of in the dim, dark ages of mys
ticism, before the dawn of history, lived
and flourished the wonderful Orient, the
far East, the islands beyond the sea.
China defies the world in age, popula
tion and industry. If all the inhabitants
of the world were stood up in one line,
every fourth man would be a Chinaman.
The Pacific Ocean, which has for cen
turies been washing the shores of our
western boundaries, has said to us:
"Here lies the East; this is the way to
India.” But it has s|>oken into dumb
ears. We heard but we heeded not.
Others have taken warning that the
great commercial development of the
future lies ujion the broad Pacific, and
। have inaugurated new lines of transpor
tation and enlarged the capacity of those
already formed. Last year Japan,
China. Korea. Hong Kong and the Rus
sian possessions fronting the Pacific
Ocean did a business with the outside
world amounting to $000,000,000; fully
; two-thirds of this was imports. During
i the year this country bought from them
$72,000,000 worth of goods, and only
sold to them a little over $50,000,000.
Peaceful Conquest of China.
The Empire of China will soon be
opened in all parts tq the commerce of
the world, and it becomes a question of
the share this country may secure in
the face of existing competition. The
purpose of establishing Oriental trade is
primarily to secure a market for the
manufactured commodities of the east
ern States ami the agricultural products
of the Mississippi Valley, but these alone
will not make cargoes for the Pacific
steamers.
It is essential, in order to support
steamship lines, that a practically un
limited supply of bulky freight be avail-
I able for trans|»ortation. Cotton, wheat,
' and flour in this instance must be relied
' upon. The cotton xvill be furnished by
the foutbern States, and will bear the
freight charges to ports of shipment,
but the less valuable breadstuffs must be
grown an the slopes of jhe contiental
divide and the Pacific in order to'Com
pete in price with other grain-growing
countries. The fertile mountain valleys
xx ill produce grain in any desired quan
tity if the ground is irrigated. A situs
lion is thus presented which makes the
success of an Orients! trade, of any con
siderable volume, dependent almost sole
ly upon the reclamation of the arid
lands.
Will Benefit Farmers Most.
The American farmer will be the
chief, the prominent gainer by the open
ing up of this vast section to trade and
commerce. For there are limitations to
Oriental agricultural resources. As the
Asiatics become lea met! in scientific
agriculture, adopt modern methods and
increase the working efficiency of the in
dividual, the discrepancy in the price
of labor will diminish. At present, under
the method employed, one American
farmer can do the labor of seventy
Chinamen. Ao. these conditions change,
Jn_obe<lienc^ to economic laws, the Ohi
noe farmer becomes our competitor.
The land vaKie will regulate the price
of the product* and no competitor, the
world over, can enter the market against
our western prairie. We can place our
foodstu < in the Oriental market at
prices which will prove loss than the
o«-t of producing them ‘in Asia, and
right hire comes the question: With
this future before it, what are the pos
sibilities <»f the arid West? An untold'
treasure house, the products of which
will, in one year, exceed in value, all the
gold coin since the world began.
Another great advantage for the farm
er is, that unlike the manufacturer who
must .educate the Orient in the use of
his products, there are no prejudices to
overcome in the case of foodstuffs. The
Orientals know their value, and the
market is already made and waiting. It
is one that cannot be taken from us.
Our I’eminnl Duty.
The twentieth century opens for the
Uhit“d States with its industrial ma
chinery adjusted to the production of
wealth on a scale of unprecedented mag
nitude. In land, in labor, supplemented
by b<»st inventive skill; in wealth—the
three great agents of production, this
country easily leads the world.
The reclamation of the arid West and
the extension of our Oriental trade are
patriotic questions in * which our na
tional honor, pride and profit are at
stake. Whosoever commands the sea
commands the trade; whosoever com
mands the trade of the world commands
the riches of the world, and consequent
ly the world itself.
This country has too much at stake to
jeopardize such vast interests and pos
sibilities. Every one knows what Roose
velt has done for the West and where he
stands on the questions of Oriental trade.
M hat has Parker ever done for the
West? Does he know that such a coun
try exists?
President's Letter to Irrigation Con-
The North Dakota Irrigation Congress,
in session at Mandan, Sept. 27, received
the following letter from President
Roosevelt:
Oyster pay, N. Y.. Sept. 19 My Dear
Mr. williams: [ nm In receipt of your let
ter of the loth Inst. Inviting me to be
present nt the North Dakota State Irriga
tion Congress on the 27th Inst, ami 1 wish
It were possible for me to be present, but I
regret to say It Is not. During the time of
my presidency there has been no measure
In which I have taken a keener Interest
than thar which started the policy of na
tional aid to the cause of Irrigation.
I have felt that the use of the rivers and
smaller streams of the States of the great
plains and Rocky Mountains for irrigation
was even mole im|ortnnt to the future of
tills country than the Improvement of the
course of these same rivers, lower down, as
an aid to navigation, and when 1 became
President one of the-first things to which I
turned my attention was the effort to se
cure the passage of the law which inaugu
rated this system.
1 congratulate the people of North Da
kota Indeed, I congratulate the people of
all the United States upon the fact that
this work has begun. It will be of Incal
culable benefit to the people of the semi
arld regions, and therefore to the people of
the whole country, for In this country
whatever benefits part of It benefits nil.
With best wishes, believe me. sincerely
yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Trade the Watchword of the West.
The Hon. finger Herman, Republican
member of Congress from Oregon, in a
public address recently delivered in that
State said:
"We of the Pacific const can never look
much for great markets In the Atlantic
States. We must look elsewhere. Europe
is pressing us closely. With adverse tariff
laws In some nations and with Increasing
imitations of our products In others, we
must expect the European market to re
ceive less and less of our surplus. It is
time to provide for future contingencies.
We look to the Orient, and there we find
one-half the population of the earth begin
ning the career of consumption of such
products as we produce. The Asiatic rice
eaters are as fond of flour as we are. Sup
pose our nation Increuses our trade with
the Chinese alone only one per cent per
capita, for each day,' that would equal
per day. or one billion five hun
dred nd Ilion dollars per year. One bushel
of wheat sold the same people per capita
would equal an increased market of 400.-
000,000 bushels each year. We shall beat
our foreign rival in the east Just as long
as we can sell cheaper than be can. We
can cross the ocean cheaper, as we have
but one ocean to cross, while he has three
to cross."
For developing the West and establish
ing American prestige in Oriental com
merce, vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
Why Parker <>bj**ctr
The Democratic presidential candi
date says, in substance, that President
Roosevelt advocates violent methods of
diplomacyHhat is, he has departed from
the old style, believes in a straightfor
ward expression of exactly what the at
titude of this nation is, and does not hes
itate to say that this nation is quite pre
pared to take care of itself.
Well, what would you have? Are we
not a great nation, practically owning,
with our Canadian brothers, a great con
tinent and quite prepared, not merely to
suggest but to assist in the affairs of the
world? And is it not n duty?
Why does ex-Judge Parker, David
Bennett Hill’s ex-political manager, ob
ject to this?
Why .West Hhnniq Vote for Him.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Sept. 27,
speaking of the National Irrigation Act,
said:
"Thst Theodore Hoosevelt wna one of the
foremost to appreciate the benefits and that
he lent most powerful reinforcement to the
society In Its finally succcssfel appeal to
Congress, is not the least of his claims to
the support of the Hepubll nn people. The
st tflng apart of the ptoe, cds of public lauds
as a fund to be used In the roust ruction
of Inl.uitlon works . n fund which comes
hack to the rnvetumant through the sa’r
of the Irrigated lands nt advanced prices as
the work pro-h»ssrs has In the minds of
many given the final Impetus needed to
carry the dreams of the early Irriga tlonlsts
to a final consummation."
Knows Ite <»wa Ch id.
In discussing the irrigation law at
Billings, Mmit., Sept. 26, Senator Fait*
banks said: “After a Republican Con
gress enacted the Irrigation measure
upon the recommendation of a Repub
lican President, a Democratic conven
tion has the effrontery deliberately to
claim that Democracy is the author of
the great irrigation policy.”
“No other Artin inlet ration Inourhle
tory, no other government in the
world, hae more consistently stood for
the broadest spirit of brotherhood In
our common humanity, or has held a
more reeolute attitude of prnt»st
against every wrong that outraged
the^lvlllzatlon of age, at home or
abroad.”— Roosevelt's lellrr of Mcc»*pu Dce>
Everybody cheerful. Ererjbody busy.
Business booming. Crops selling for big
prices. The nation at peace, and on good
terms with the whole world. WHAT'S
THE MATTHRI
FARMERS BENEFITED
PROTECT VE TARIFF FURNISHES
THEM A PAYING HOME MARKET.
This Continued Prosperity Depends
Largely oa the Success of the Rcpub*
licaa Ticket—Platform on Which
Roosevelt and Fairbanks Stand.
That the farmer has enjoyed great
prosperity during the last seven years
will net be denied. Prosperity to the
farmer means the raising of abundant
crops and a demand for his products at
good prices, and both have prevailed dur
ing tho period named. The. raising of
abundant crops depends in a measure
upon conditions over which he has no
control, but largely upon his ability.
The sale of his crops and the price he
receives can in a large measure also be
controlled by the farmer. This he can
de by stimulating the demand and in
creasing the consumption of farm prod
ucts. The farmer may live and have
everything necessary to sustain life, but,
to enjoy prosperity in its fullest sense,
he must be able to sell at profitable prices
xxhat he does not need for consumption.
How can he assist in maintaining this
condition? A foreign demand will not
suffice, as the demand for farm products
from foreign countries is limited, and
the prices obtained for exported farm
products DEPEND Ui )N THE DO
MESTIC or HOME DEMAND. With
factories idle, industries paralyzed, and
workmen unemployed, home consumption
is curtailed ^nd prices decline. ' How
can the farmer prevent this condition?
By voting to maintain the protective
tariff principles of the Republican party.
That the protective tariff is a benefit to
the farmer, experience has proven, and
a continuation of the prosperity hereto
fore enjoyed under the principles of pro
tection can best be attained by the united
support of Roosevelt and Fairbanks by
the independent, liberty loving, level
headed farmer vote.
Protection Plank.
Following is the protection plank of
the Republican platform:
“Protection which guards and develops
our Industries Is a cardinal policy of the
Republican party. The measure of protec
tion should always nt least equal the dif
ference In the cost of production nt home
and abroad. We insist upon the main
tenance of the principle of protection, and,
therefore, rates of duty should be read
justed only when conditions have so
chanced that the PUB Lit’ INTEREST DE
MANDS THEIR ALTERATION, but this
work cannot safely be committed to other
hands than those of the Republican party.
To intrust it to the Democratic party IS
To INVITE DISASTER. Whether, as In
1892. the Democratic party declares the
protective tariff nncoiuMLtulional, or wheth
er It demands tariff reform or tariff rev!-
Rlnh. Ifs real objWt IS ALWAYS THE
DESTRUCTION OF THE PROTECTIVE
SYSTEM. However specious the name
THE PURPOSE IS THE SAME. A DEM
OCRATIC TARIFF HAS ALWAYS BEEN
FOLLOWED BY BUSINESS ADVERSITY;
a Republican tariff by BUSIN ESS PROS
PERITY. To n Republican Congress mid
a Republican President this great question
can lie safely Intrusted. When the only
free trade country among the great nations
(England) agitates a return to protection,
the chief protective country should not
fair r In maintaining It.
"We have extended widely our foreign
markets, and xve believe in the adoption of
all practicable methods for their further
extension. Including commercial reciprocity
wherever reciprocal arrangements can be
effected consistent with the principles of
protection AND WITHOUT INJURY TO
AMERICAN AGRICULTURE, American
labor, or any American Industry.”
This is a plain, truthful statement of
facts, supported by experience and his
tory, a declaration of principles in lan
guage uot to be mistaken or misunder
stood, and subject to but oue interpreta
tion.
The Democratic party is hopelessly
divided on the tariff question, admitted
ly so by its candidates and leaders. The
Republican party stands, ns it always
has, for the principles of protection. No
class receives greater benefit, no other
class is more vitally interested in main
taining the protective policy, than the
farmer.
THEY WILL HAVE THEIR SAY.
The Plein People and Their Candid ata
for President.
It is about time that the plain people
had their say; the farmers, mechanics,
railroad men, store-keepers, sailors,
teamsters and general workers all along
the line of American industrial life.
These men are tired of the ceaseless
adultation given to the fortunate few;
tired of the neglect in which the for
tunate many are left. The fortunate few
ore the accumulators of vast wealth and
corresponding houses, lands, and the ap
pearance of ease, ahe fortunate many
are the workers who live in comfort, but
do not have race horses, yachts or auto
mobiles to kill lime, yet these last nam
ed fortunate men want to bo heard in
the councils of the nation. They are de
termined to have a President who re
spects and cares for the plain people,
one who has declared and who has lived
np to the declaration that “EACH MAN,
NO MATTER WHAT HIS OCCUPA
TION, HIS RACE. OR HIS RELI
GIOUS BELIEF. IS ENTITLED TO
BE TREATED ON HIS WORTH AS
A MAN. IN ANY AND ALL PLACES.
UNDER ANY AND ALL CONSIDER
ATIONS.”
That Is the kind of democracy which
is real—not a name merely. It is the
democracy of the first citizen of the
United States, a man born into the Re
publican party, a consistent Republican
all bis life and one xvho puts to shame
the injustice and inhumanity of the
party which calls itself "Democratic.”
This man of common sense, justice and
Christian brotherhood is Theodore Roose
velt, our President now, and our Presi
dent to be until 1908.
The plain people will hoye a chance
to speak out loudly early next November.
And they will give no uncertain sound
when their day comes. They xvill elect
their man by such a majority as will
astonish the world.
Democratic legislation has never erect
ed a factory, or given a workingman a
job, or increased bis wages. On the
contrary, it has put out factory fires
that Republican legislation had lighted,
it has closed mills that Republican legis
lation had opened, and it has taken jobi
from thousands of workingmen to xvhom
Republican legislation had given employ*
ment. No American workingman owes
anything to the Democratic party.
parker is a strict constitutionalist and
Herrick i* one those party bosses
who wants to know what's the constitu
tion got to the natural right
of the citizen with the longest judicial
pull to knock the persimmon.
MUNICIPAL CREDITS.
They Have Strengthened and Im
proved Under-Kepu blican Policies*
The same Republican policies which
have strengthened tire credit of the Uni
ted States government and caused its
■bonds to rise steadily in value have also
promoted the credit of States, municipal
ities, school districts, etc., xvhich can
now issue bonds to far greater advant
age than eight years ago, thus resulting
in great saving to taxpayers. Owing to
the increase in the general prosperity,
savings have steadily accumulated and
have become invested largely in bonds
issued by municipalities in furtherance
of public improvements.
Eight years ago, in Democratic times,
municipalities and States found it even
more difficult than the general govern
ment to sell bonds except at great sacri
fice, oxving to the extreme depression in
the investment markets. Public im
provements, therefore, had to wait in
definiitely sim^ the money for them could
not be obtained, except by excessive in
crease in taxation.
Tlie change, however, withhi the last
eight years from bad to good, as regards
the credit of these local governments and
their ability to borrow money for needed
improvements, is an evil thing from the
Democratic standpoint.
In his speech to the Democratic edi
tors at Rosemount on September 8, Al
ton B. Parker bexvailed the "extrava
gance in Federal. State and municipal
governments,” and dolefully noted: “The
indebtedness of the municipal govern
ments is steadily piling up. BOND IS
SUES ARE INCREASINGLY FRE
QUENT, and the people have not the
satisfaction, in many instances, of a full
equivalent in improvements for the
money expended.”
The appended table shows how in
seven typical cities of the United States,
about evenly distributed geographically,
municipal credits have risen during the
last eight years of Republican prosperity,
and have made it possible for public im
provements to Im? accomplished xvith dim
inishing burden to taxpayers. The table
compares the basis on xvhich these bonds
were sold in 1895 and 1896 xvith the
basis on xvhich they have been sold this
year. (Of course the loxver the basis
the greater the advantage to the muni
cipalities in placing nexv issues and the
greater the advantage to investors who
hold the original issues.) Here are the
figures:
Per cent. Per cent.
IR9B. 1004.
Detroit, Michigan 3.57 3.19
1895. 1904.
Philadelphia, Pa 3.50 3.44
1895. 1904.
Memphis, Tennessee 4.29 3.08
A 895. 1904.
Minneapolis, Minn 3.71 3.41
18! Ml. 1904.
Milwaukee, Wis 3.05 3.54
1895. 1904.
Seattle. Wash'. (Sch. Dis.).. 4.71 4/O0
1895. 1904.
Los Angeles, Cui. ........ 4.13 3.75
The foregoing table is furnished through
the courtesy of Mason, Lewis Co., bank
ers and bond dealers, of Chicago and Bos
ton.
Mr. Parker is probably rfyht in think
ing that if there was a return to Demo
cratic policies municipalities xvould is
sue less bonds. They probably could
not, if they xvould. The reason is sim
ple. Democratic victory would again
create depression in the investment mar
kets, prices of municipal bonds xvould
go tv pieces, municipalities could not
issue such bonds except at exceptional
cost to taxpayers, and they would be forc
ed to the alternative either of not spend
ing money in furtherance of improve
ments commensurate xvith their growth,
or they would have to enormously in
crease taxes, and so let present taxpay
ers pay the entire bill for benefits xvhich
posterity xvould enjoy.
RURAL FREE DELIVERY.
Kepublicann Alone Deserve Credit for
Inaugurating the Service.
When Democrats assert that their
parly is the “father” of rural free de
livery, they willfully misstate the facts.
It is charity to call their assertion a
plain falsehood, for it is a deliberate lie,
uttered with the intention to deceive
many persons. Rural free delivery had
its origin under the Harrison adminis
tration, and Postmaster General Wana
maker was its “father.” He proposed
and established the first experimental
route. When the Democrats came into
power, under President Cleveland, they
did everything possible to kill the rural
free delivery; in fact, they absolutely
refused to expend any of the SIO,OOO
congressional appropriation for its nour
ishment, and both Postmasters General
Bissell and Wilson, in their annual re
ports, did their utmost to discredit It.
President Cleveland also threw cold
water on it in a hostile message to Con
gress. When McKinley became Presi
dent, rural free delivery waa pushed to
the front as a Republican policy. This
policy has been continued under Presi
dent Roosevelt, until now there are
about 27,500 routes In operation. No
farmer need be deceived by Democracy’s
false claims, for the record shows that to
Republicans alone belongs the credit of
inaugurating and fostering a mail aer
vice that is of incalculable benefit to
rural communities.
Democrats and Protection.
The difference between the Republi
can and Democratic parties on the tariff
question is radical and fundamental. The
former believes in protection to Ameri
can industries because experience has
proved beyond a doubt that it is promo
tive of the prosperity ah^e of capitalist
and workman, of manufacturer and wage
earner, or employer and employe. The
Democratic party denounces protection
as robbery, and xvould wipe it out.
The Democratic platform attempts to
make an issue out of tariff revision, but
when Democratic orators talk of tariff
revision they mean destruction of pro
tection. It Is the protective principle
with which they are at xvar. The Re
publican party believes in real tariff re
vision. Conditions change, and as they
change the tariff needs modification to
meet the new conditions. The Repub
lican party would revise schedules, but
still maintain protection, while the Demo
cratic party proposes not to revise sched
ules but to slrelish protection.
“The Hepnblican party has not been
the nerveless party of expediency. It
has stood for the right and challenged
•11 comera. It haa met every emer
gency which has arisen upon thq^iigb
level of duty and honor. Above mere
party trlumph* It haa put the welfare
of the people.”—Senator Fairbank* at Sara
toga.
And Parker thinks the army and navy
are too eipen>ive. But nothing can
frighten those national defenders.
DUNKARDS ARE FIRM
HIRED MALIGNEft OF ROOSEVELT
REbUKED BY INDIANA MINISTER.
Can Stand War, Fleas. Ellen, Fro«a
and All the Other Plagues of Pha
•aoh, but Not Another Democratic
Ad ministration.
At the opening of the campaign the
Democratic managers asserted that
Friends, Dunkurds and members of oth
er peace-loving Christian siwieties would
oppose Mr. Roosevelt’s election. Inves
tigation showed the assertion to Ire un
true. Now the Democratic managers are
resorting to despicable means, in the
hope of winning a few votes, but are
meeting xvith merited rebuffs. W. J.
Showalter, xvho-professes to be a Dunk
ard, has been employed by the Democrat
ic committee to do its dirty xvork. Here
is a sample of the letters he is sending
W India ha Dunkards nm! the kind of re
plies lie is receiving. The recipient of
the letter quoted is a preacher at Kappa,
Indiana. Showalter’s letter follows:
“Washington, D. C., Sept. 15.
"My Dear Sir —I enclose you a stamp
ed-envelope in xvhich I want to ask you
to be good enough to send me the names
and addresses of all the male members
of your church who are over 21 years of
age, or as many of them as you can.
"You xx ill see by the enclosed slip just
what President Roosevelt thinks of peo
ple xvbo profess the peace principle, and
I simply xvant to put the same thing in
their hands so that if they vote at all
for him they can do it xvith their eyes
open. My people are all Dunkards, my
father being treasurer of the Old Folks’
Home at Timberville.
“I trust that God xvill speed the day
when all men xvill espouse the peace
principle as your good people have done,
the day when there will be none to ma
lign them for it.
“Thanking you in advance for the fa
vor, I am, very truly,
“W. J. SHOWALTER.”
The reply sent by the Dunkard preach
er was as follows:
“Kappa, Ind., Sept. 19.
“W. J. Showalter, Esq., Washington*
D. C.:
‘‘Dear. Sir—ln reply to yours of tire
15th inst., concerning President Roose
velt’s attitude toxvard those who do not
believe in war, I will say that xvhile
your statement may be correct, I ques
tion it. Even if the President is a xvar
like man, as you say, and if by electing
him xve should be thrown into war, I
xvould say that we can stand war, fam
ine, pestilence, fleas, flies, blood, frogs
and all the other plagues of Pharaoh,
but, O, I pray you, do not give us anoth
er Cleveland. We couldn’t stand anoth
er of his administrations, and that is
what we xvould get from Parker.
“You have thanked me in advance for
the names of my brethren. I will do
you a greater favor than you asked. I
xvill not send them. Their reply to you
would be in substance the same as mine,
but they might uot take the care to ex
press themselves pleasantly. Like me,
they are for Roosevelt; their minds are
made up.”
A Word taj^artlsnn Democrats.
Republican prosperity is not a vague,
meaningless platitude. It is not some
thing that may be good for the other
fellow and not good for you. If you
xvould be willing to deny yourself Re
publican prosperity for the sake of being
a hide-bound partisan Democrat, you
ought nevertheless to ask yourself wheth
er you have a good moral right to voto
to deprive others of it.
Republican prosperity is xvhat will con
duce to the happiness of your home. In
Democratic times your wives and chil
dren and your neighbors suffered as well
as yourself. If you are willing to try
for yourself another dose of Democratic
hard times, your affection nevertheless
for the helpless ones at home, who want
the good things of this life if you don’t,
ought to be sutheient to make you vote
for four more years of Republican pros
perity.
A Democratic Contradiction*
The following is an interesting illus
tration of the xvay Democrats say things
they don’t believe, or the way they let a
few of their members officially express
for them as a collective whole views
that later on they can unofficially and
individually repudiate.
The Democratic platform says: “WB
DENOUNCE PROTECTIONISM AS
A ROBBERY OF THE MANY TO
ENRICH THE FEW.”
James J. Walsh, chairman of tbs
Democratic State Committee of Connec
ticut, says, according to “Raymond” of
the Chicago Tribune: ‘‘NO ONE BE
LIEVES IN FREE TRADE NOW-
A»AYS, IF FOR NO OTHER REA
SON THAN BECAUSE THE TARIFF
IS THE EASIEST WAY OF RAIS
ING REVENUE, AND THE TAXA
TION IS FELT LESS THAN BY
ANY OTHER SYSTEM ”
Confidence In XooaeTelt*
Not all public men who are popular
enjoy public confidence in the same de
gree. People may say of a public man:
“1 admire him for his brilliancy and re
sourcefulness, but I am not sure that
his motives are altogether disinterested.”
No person speaks that xvay of Presi
dent Roosevelt. People not only admlrs
bis ability and resourcefulness, but they
have absolute confidence in his integrity,
ih the purity of his motives and In his
determination to administer the govern
ment in the interest of the xvhole people.
That being the case, why not re-elect
him and a Congress that will bold up
his hands? Why vote to remove a tried
and faithful public servant, or for a
Congressman who xvould try to tie bis
hands and embarrass his administra
tion ?
Klect a Republican House.
Nearly every American Citizen who
will vote for President in the coming elec
tion will also vote for a Representative
in Congress. It Is to be hoped that no
Republican will fail to vote for the Re
publican candidate for Congress in his
district. While the national honor and
the public welfare demand the election of
President Roosevelt, and while the rea
sons for his election are overwhelming
and unanswerable, those for the election
of a Republican House of Representa
tives are equally so. With a Democratic
House Mr. Roosevelt ’ would be almost
helpless to carry out the great Republi
can policies to which he rs committed.
No Republican should be induced by any
consideration not to vote for the Re
publican candidate for Omgreas In hie
district.