Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1908 — THE RALLYING CRIES [ARTICLE]

THE RALLYING CRIES

fldtbli AddrtsiH Nterit Si Bioml Lovo Feait by Indiana’s Distlngaisbad Senators. AMAZED THE TRAIL FOR OTHERS ■ *»lip>l>nb Fora word* Uttered by >. ,1 \ *•«* ' Senator* BevorMgo and Ham an way Met tha Hearty Approval of All Who ' Hoard Thom, and’ May Wall Sorvo ‘ » Coming Rallying Crioa. Wo noad not wait for the state eontewntlon for the key-note a pooches—«hoy were delivered at the “lore foaat“ hr owe dletbagnlshed United States senators. These speeches met the inarty approval of all who heard thbm. They biased the trail for other* to follow. They were as follows: Senator Beveridge's Speech. -Fellow-Republicans—The Ropubllsen party takas no backward atop. SopnbUcan blood la not tho blood that istreata. Ws Republicans have never ’deserted a cause—never turned back when we have set oar hands to tho Slow. We took up the task of jmdtng slavery, and we ended it; Ike task et Riving free hemes to the people, and we finished It; the task of rosnmptlon. sod we oempleted It; the task of protesting American labor and Industry, sad wa made it thorough; the task of erooting civilization in Cuba and the Philippines, and we move onward with that work. And finally we took Sp the task of the moral regeneration of American business, which we have partly accomplished and which we sever will lay down till that task is Cone. “We mean to go on until the rules of common honesty, by which the average man-does business, shall be the rdles by which the exceptional man also must do business; go on until the ravishing ot the nation’s resources by land and timber robbers shall be impossible; until desperate adventures In high finance, which ruin Investors, oppress the people and shake the confidence of the business, world, shall be made as difficult and' dangerous as piracy on the high seas; until there can he no more ‘looting of the Alton’; no more secret rebates, by which the fbw wickedly wax in wealth and power while the many suffer; until law enforcement shall be taken for granted by tho greatest financier and mightiest corporation as much as by the ■mallest business man and weakest individual; until as a people we have achieved In our every-day life that righteousness by which and by which alone since the world began, a nation is exalted. “There is a present murmur by certain men against the Republican policy of writing honesty into our statutes—a restlessness under impartial execution of the country’s laws. Some politicians counsel a truce to the war we wage against evil practices, and those who profit by those practices are declaring that we have gone too far already. Yet, what man dares suggest the repeal of any of the laws that we have passed in the last five years? - “What man In any party proposes the repeal of the law establishing the Department of Commerce and Labor? If there is any such, let him stand forth and announce it. poses the repeal _of the meat inspection law? If there Is any such, let him stand forth and announce it. What man proposes the repeal of the pure food law? If there is any such, let him stand forth and announce it. What man proposes the repeal of the railroad rate law, or any of those historic statutes which have for their end the placing of American prosperity on unshakable foundations? And what public man will openly declare that our laws shall not be enforced equally? What public man will announce a policy of law heglect? If there is any such man, stand forth and declare It, afrit lethim speak out loudly enough for Ihe to hear him. Then let, the people decide. "We want prosperity to be permanent, but prosperity is weakened, not strengthened, by every rotten and crumbling brick that is built into*The -fstructure. W© are taking out the rotten bricks and putting" in sound ones. And we are going to keep at -our task till American business and the prosperity which .rests on that and the confidence upon which both are build•d shall be solid from base to ridgepole, without a leaky shingle in the roof or a crumbling stone in,foundation or wall. That all this shall.be slone and that this nation Ahall grow In righteous ' strength and wisdom, earning its self-respect and the respect of all the world-—this is the large and simple purpose of the American millions and of Theodore Roosevelt, their president. every great movement like this there is a period of hesitation and weakening courage. In the Revolution and his patriots were imperiled by the cabal and intrigue •round them as mnch as by British muskets in their front But Washington went on with hie work, and the cause of liberty triumphed. In Lincoln’s day the war was not half over I till even loyal men despaired mid paid of the seceding states, ‘Lei the erring 'enters go.’ A national convention nominated. General McClrflan upon a platform which declared that ‘‘the war Is a failure.’ But again the heart of

the people and their Immortal leader proved equal to the times, and the cause of the batten was victorious. “So tho faint ot heart In the present movement have precedent for their timidity; but the stout of heart have preoedeat for their courage, and more —-they also have the prophecy ot' suitsees. There la still work ahead. Alter we sleet our president we will revise our tariff; any man In any party who proposes tariff revision on the eve of a national election is either too anlmformsd or too insincere to be trusted. Any tariff revision unsettles somewhat the legitimate business of the oountry. hut a tariff revision before a presidential election would prolong that disturbance for ruinous months. Meanwhile a tariff " commission should gather file facta and have them ready for aongresa. ~ ' “We must amend the railway rats law at points where it Is We must make modern the Sherman law, which new shackles honest enterprise because It does not fit prosont conditions. Ws must prevent overcapltaUsatton and the swindling tor which It famishes opportunity and excuse. W* must drive the oaxal to completion and Improve the nation’s waterways that the people may have the transportation designed by nature. - “And wo must and will end the Infamy and shame of oklld laker In this republic. Those who say that It Is unconstitutional tor the nation to stop this national evil deny file authority of the supreme court Itself and the validity of a doses similar laws already on the statute hooks. WS Republican* regard the constitution as Marshall regarded It—the chart ot progress, not the shield es wrong. “Our platform and our candidates must personify the movement of the times—one of those movements which history shews, semes to true peoples about every forty years apart and which never Is defeated till Its purpose Is accomplished. It Is useless to sound the ancient war cries—unless to shout mere party names and party catch-words. The American people today wan t to know not so much whether a measure or candidate is Democratic or Republican, as whether a measure Is the best policy and whether a candidate is the best man. Today the word ‘merit’ is more powerful than the word ‘party.’ We must name our purest, strongest, ablest men who most powerfully appeal to the confidence and respect of the people, if we would win with our candidates; and we must show the righteousness and wisdom of our measures if we would win with our policies. After we nominate and resolve, we must justify and elect “But we are not concerned with state candidates only. We will do our. best to name national qamjlidates as well. Two years ago upon this platform I said that the man whom Indiana Would support for the presidential nomination Is Charles W. Fairbanks. To that statement we are steadfast Let us now move forward to its consummation with that harmony, based on reason for harmony, which brings success. “Our party has the nation’s confidence because it believes In American ideals; yes, but even more because it insists in enacting those ideals into laws and realizing those ideals in the administration of the laws. No Juggling with the people’s faith for us; no fooling of the people In the open and betraying them in secret for us. “We dare not ‘play politics’; we must practice statesmanship. We dare not render the nation the lipservice of the hypocite; we must give the nation the heart devotion of the honest, earnest and sincere man. Let us bear forward consecrating it anew to the people’s welfare in our day as our fathers did in their day. With the old spirit of ’76 and ’6l let us move onward to the battles of the future. So shall our glory not depart, but gather each year fresh and increasing splendor.” ' “ ■ ■ Senator Hemenway’s Address. Senator James AT Hemenway was loudly-applauded when he spoke for a continuance of Republican policies, and shld that public opinion was rapidly centering toward the nomination of' Vice President Fairbanks for president, He paid *a tribute to the vice president, and said that he had beenone of the closest and most trusted advisers of President McKinley. Senator Hemenway said: ' , .“The . Republican party came ifito power with Jtbe election of Abraham and ;, canted the country through the civil,Hwar, to a successful .conclusion and settled forever the questions which gave riße to the war. It was the Republican party that bore the burden of the reconstruction period which followed after four years of destructive warfare. This left us burdened with an enormous debt,' hut there was never a .single year after we started to -pay the. debt under a Republican- administration that we did not reduoe -the amount and at the same*time -provfde’Well for the running expenses of the government: “During the last ten years, under Republican rule, vte demonstrated that the policies of our party did not favor any particular class individuals, but that Its legislation was, beneficial to all classes. Under our tews the employers of our country have had unparalleled opportunities, - Thejrhave prospered as neyer before in the history ’ of the country, apd at the same time the men . employed,, by them have re- ; ceived the highest wages that have ever been , paid to laboring men. * “The . agricultural interests likewise had-unparalleled prosperity, and the railroads.have been'taxed to

thetr greatest capacity to carry the products of the factory and farm. An eminent, aathority on this question estimates that for the last year the return to the manufacturer on every JI.OM invested waa 9190; that dor every 91,000 invested In agricultural Interests, the return was 9*9, and far every |l,Offthtnvestefi in railroads the return was 944. “As my colleague, the senior senator, has well said: 'We have enacted much of good legtoMtion under th# administration of President Roosevelt' It is now being enforced In the vigorous Roosevelt style and will, no doubt, result In great benefit to the people. No one will advocate Its repeal until It has been given a fair trial. Then I hare no doubt from time to time it will be amended a* experience points out the .neeeaslty for amendment "Recently, In the midst of this wonderful prosperity, the clouds were seen hovering over the skies. The banka limited tke amount they would pay tc' their depositors, and in spite of the fact that there Is 9180,000,0*9 more fa circulation, or that ought to be In circulation, than wa had six months ago, we are told that there is an Uuulßeient amount of currency to transact the business ot th k country. “X have always believed, and I sttn believe, that Ihe Republican party Is equal to all emergencies, and that tor tha time betfig we should he content to abide by the old Republican Ideas, and there should be a cessation of experimental legislation until, tha legislation now enacted shall have ample time to be tried out. and tha people should he educated in the understanding that all Ills cannot ho cured by legislation. In my own Judgment , there should he legislation eo tha currency question, but only after careful consideration of the problem* nofi confronting us. \ “I believe in government by poUttoal parties rather than by Individuals. The people of a country can hold a party responsible for its tail ore and give it credit for its success. If it fails to carry out its pledges to the people U can he punished at the succeeding election. If it keeps its promises and is able to point to duty perfortned, the people can reward It by returning it to power. The principles of the Republican party are the combined Intellect and wisdom of all the members of that party rather than individual views. The temporary financial trouble through which we are passing I hope cannot long endure betoereJjupJfandamegtal reason for the continuance of such conditions. In fact, at the present time conditions are already giving promise of improvement. “I congratulate the Republicans of Indiana assembled at this love feast upon the f Act that, public opinion over the United States is rapidly centering toward the nomination of Charles W. Fairbanks by the next Republican national convention. The Republican party can, make no mistake in coning to Indiana for its candidate. We qfijer them in the person of our vise president, a man of clean' public life, a clean home life, with broad and tried experience in public affairs, having enjoyed the confidence of our beloved president, William McKinley; having been one of his most trusted advißers during the time when men of soundest judgment and diplomacy were needed to guide the nation beset with war and to maintain friendly relations with other powers. "The son of a farmer of small means, having worked his way to the vice presidency of the United States, he is well acquainted with the needs of the people In all conditionlt of Hfe, and his sympathies are naturally with Those of us who have to struggle -far existence. He is well founded in the principles of the Republican party, progressive and up to date, and he hqs demonstrated his ability t'o deal with changing conditions, believing that his party should neveF take a backward step, hut should always stand in the front rank of progress and should meet bravely new conditions, as they may arise.” ‘ .