Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1908 — Page 7

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Indiana Senator and Governor Hughes •f New York Open the Ohio Cam- ’ ■ ~ paign With Rousing Note. BRYAN THE DREAMER, f TAFTTHEDOER. Youngstown la the Beene of an Enthu'elastic Meeting, Full of PolitlcalFer-. vor—Marching Clubs and Delegations From Other States Present.. Youngstown, Ohio, Sept. 5. —The Republican national campaign in Ohio was opened with great enthusiasm here this afternoon. A great parade preceded the meeting. It' is estimated that 10,000 men were in line. Delegations and marching clubs were present from several cities in Ohio as well as some from Pennsylvania and New York. Senator Beveridge was'met at Pittsburg by a marching club and delegation which escorted trim to Youngstown. Arthur I. Vorys presided, and notable Speeches were made by Governor Charles H. Hughes and Senator Beveridge. Bryan the dreamer; Taft the doer, was the theme of the senator’s tribute to the Republican nominee. He spoke as follows: We are midway In an historic movement for righteousness written into law. Shall that movement be carried out, or wrecked? Its concrete expression is the Roosevelt policies. Shallthey be saved or lost? Had the aboutfacers in both partleb wbo now are powerless, succeeded, they could. not have wrecked the movement, but only have delayed it For the people would have gathered headway again until their purpose was worked out. But extravagant schemes and emotional agitators can wreck it. The Revolution would have failed had Impracticable men been in command instead of the cautious and wise, yet daring and determined Washington. Many a cause has gone down at the hands of hot-headed and eccentric friends. And so today, in the American people’s mighty moral advance, thus far successfully led by Theodore Roosevelt, the gravest question is whether we shall place our commander’s standard in the hands of his most trusted captain,, who will lead us safely and surely along the well-marked, course we are following, or in the hands of those who will lead us on zig-zag marches after rash adventures Untilthe whole movement dissolves in the people’s disgust and the world's ridicule. ~

“By their fruits ye shall know them.” Seven years ago we started upon the great work of modern and humane legislation that has made the Roosevelt period historic. In those years we passed the railroad rate bill, which for the first time in American history asserts the principle that the government of all the people can and will regulate those who carry the products of all the people. We passed the meat inspection and pure food laws, which ended the sale of poisoned foods and adulterated drugs; the irrigation law, which is making fertile the arid West and will build within our own continental boundaries a new empire of productive wealth. In these seven years we have enacted more important laws for the safety, comfort and welfare of labor than in any two decades since the government was founded. We passed the employers’ liability law, which revolutionized the heartless rule of the common law and gives the railroad laborer or his family compensation for his injury or death; the law forbidding railways from requiring employes to work an inhuman number of hours without rest; the safety appliance act, which not only lessens the danger to life and limb of employes, but which increases the safety of the traveling public. We passed the -Chinese exclusion act, which keeps coolie labor out of the republic and diminishes the number of coolies already here. We passed the government employes’ liability law, by which every man who works for the government is certain of compensation for injury or his family for his death while in the government’s employ. Bryan Never Thought of These Laws. All these are Republican laws. Each of them is a part of that plan of statesmanship which seeks to write conscience and humanity upon our statute bqoks. Each of them was opposed secretly or openly by both Democrats and Republicans; each of them received both Republican and Democratic votes. But each of them was urged by a Republican president, originated by Republican statesmen, and some of them were not even thought of outside the Republican party. For example, •ven Mr. Bryan never dreamed of the meat inspection and pure food laws, yet that law means more to the health of the American people than all the curious devices he ever proposed. A Brick at a Tims. In these seven historic years we have also advanced the American name throughout the world, increased toward us the good will of nations and added to our lasting power in international affairs. At home and abroad our work already done has been so vast that the world speaks of It with praise and wonder; but we are midway In that work, and the question Is whether we shall go on until we finish tL Mr. Bryan complains that It Is not finished now. But a brick nt a time is. the way to build a house. Would you trust an architect who promised to

- ‘ - I build it in the wink of an eye? The instantaneous statesman writes no sound laws, works no lasting reform. Aladdin- rears none but imaginary palaces. The Tariff. ' ■ ' \ ©rthe work that remains, the first fa to revise the tariff. The tariff we shall make will protect American industries, and also open foreign markets to American products.! A straight out revenue tariff Is ancient; a single protective tariff is out of date —we Republicans propose to keep tip with the times. As a straight out revenue tariff gives everything away to foreign nations afad gets nothing in return, so a straight out protective tariff gives nothing away and gets nothing in.Xeturn. - The modern tariff is a maximum and minimum tariff —a high tariff to be applied to any nation that will not give Us advantages in Its markets, and a lower tariff, still protective, to be granted to any nation that will give us advantages in its markets. The Republican idea is to meet other commercial nations with their own weapons. By such a tariff Germany, considering her comparative resources and situation, in a dozen years has increased her foreign trade more rapidly than any other nation. By this method France has kept her mills open,.her shops active, her trade vigorous in spite of causes that- worked against hpr commercial progress. That man or nation has begun to die who refuses to learn; and just as the French and Germans and other commercial peoples learned th? wisdom of a single protective tariff'from us, So. we must learn the advantages of a double protective tariff from them. Such a tariff win sell abroad many head of live stock* barrels of flour, manufactured articles, where one now is sold. Thia Increase in trade means new employment for the laborers, new markets for the farmer. A Tariff Commission. • isor will we stop there. Republicanism means advance. Tens of thousand of American citizens are demanding a tariff commission. The great organized producing interests—manufacturers, farmers, stock-raisers—have petitioned congress for this commonsense iftethod of handling this intricate question, as Germany, France, Japan and other aggressive twentieth-cen-tury nations are handling their tariff question. Yet the only hope for a tariff commission is in the Republican party. When the tariff commission idea was advanced, Mr. Bryan opposed it in formal printed debate. When a tariff commission bill was introduced in congress, every Democrat was hostile to it. A tariff commission has not a single friend among,Democratic public men. Certain Republican public men are against it, too; but its only friends are Republicans. A Democratis vote is a certain vote against a tariff commission. A Republican vote Is a possible vote for this business-like reform. it? The Real Labor Question. Every labor law we have passed and will pass Is a part of that web of Industrial questions which we call the labor problem. But, after all, the fundamental labor problem is the problem of employment and pay. Work and wages are the foundations of labor’s well-being, without which all la,bor legislation la the giving of a stone instead of bread. More American workingmen own their own homes (and those 'homes have more comforts) than the workingmen of England, Germany, Japan, France combined. Had any political economist been told twenty-five years ago that carpenters, miners and steel workers ever would be paid the American wages of the present day? he would have scoffed. All this has come during Republican administrations. We plan to continue And, dminimum tariff which we will enact will enlarge the markets for American products, as Germany in the same way has enlarged the markets for her products. Markets mean Industries to supply them; industries mean demand for labor; demand for labor means high wages. Recovery From the Panic. W« are quickly recovering from the briefest panic in our history. Let workingmen contrast that panic with the one that occurred under the last Democratic administration and then answer this question for themselves: Will the election of Mr. Bryan or Mr. Taft beet help the rapidly Improving business of the country? And remember that active business means wellpaid employment. That Ms. Bryan and the opposition would make business practically impossible is proved by their national franchise plan. They propose that •very enterprise big enough to flo business in more than one state shall secure a national license, which can be granted or withdrawn by any administration. But no business dan succeed without certainty; no business man could afford to invest a dollar when he knew that his very right to do business at all might be taken away by the caprice, of a president or the accident of an election. The .franchise plan makes every president S four-year-Cz.ar with absolute power over the life and death of every business concern large enough to trade throughout the nation. i The Navy. . A nation without power is a nation without influence. A maritime nation’s power is la her navy. With longer coast lines than any thre« of the greatest commercial nations combined; with far-flung possessions and a foreign commerce with tn a quarter of a century will pass that of England and Germany together with the canal giving ns undreamed of advantages tn foreign commerce which in a quarter a navy as great as these tromehdose nets require. We are midway la tM

Work today, and we mean to go on With that program of' economy, safety and peace. Had our navy been as large in 1898 as it Is today, Spain would not have gone to war and Cuba would have been freed by diplomacy; yet the actual "cash, spent in that little war would have built two navies as great as the ene we have today and maintained them for a score of yea rSr . 45 This is a campaign of candidates even more than of platforms. The i question is' not which candidate is most upright, patriotic, brave, for both are equally so. Both mean equally Well toward their country. The real question is, which candidate will make the best president? Which is the wisest and steadiest? Which man would you choose as administrator of your estate? Which would you select to manage your business Which has the best training and the most experience? Mr. Bryan never has handled a sin- " gle foreign problem. He has governed no Philippines, regenerated no Cuba, built no canal, avoided no alien danger, saved us from no threatened peril. Mr. Taft has done all. It was his genius for the practical and devotion to humanity that took Philippine chaos and made Philippine order; took Philippine hate and changed it, by the alchemy of his tact, to Philippine love. It was his statesmanship that achieved the impossible, converted an Oriental people Into a voting citizenship, and laid the foundations for a future which, as God wills, may become a separate nation or a glad and patriotic part of this great republic. It was William H. Taft who set Cuba in order, established her feet in civilization's upward path; and it was he who, when so directed by President Roosevelt, who first advised with Mr. Taft, when these children of liberty tore his work to pieces set up once more the blessed rule of order and liberty and law with a father’s patience and a statesman’s wisdom. It is he who is commanding the practical work of that greatest enterprise of human history, the building of the Panama Canal. , - Taft the Experienced) It was he whose counsel President Roosevelt sought at every crisis of his historic administration; he who helped avert war when little politicians and narrow minds would have plunged us Into conflict. It was William H. Taft whom our president, when confronted with foreign perplexities and.witk the awful weight of our ninety millions’ welfare on his heart, sought for strength and wisdom; and it is William H. Taft more than any man ever called to tlie leadership of the American people, who has had the best training, the widest experience and the wisest teaching to fit him for that glorious but serious task. In domestic affairs Mr. Bryan has written not one law, administered not a single department, advised no presi-dent—-while. lecturing all. He is a preacher of righteousness, but not an administrator of affairs. He never conducted the government of a city, a county, a state or a nation. William H. Taft has been judge on the bench, governor of a people, administrator of a department. His hand has helped to shape most of the progressive laws we have passed in the last seven years, and his great heart and splendid mind are behind every law we propose today. The sought-for counselor of three presidents—as different yet as wise as Harrison, McKinley and Roosevelt —Fate has equipped him to be the trusted leader of the people who loved and honored these three chief magistrates. Almost it seems that here is a man prepared by Providence ..to be the captain of this chosen people. Bryan’s Rightful and Useful Place. Let no man denounce Mr. Bryan. Suqh men are necessary to human progress. Always such men have been “Gw* voice of protest, buT never the statesmen of a cause. Always they have been the urgers of reform, but never the doers of the work. Mr. Bryan is an Aaron, but not a Moses; a Henry, but not a Washington; a Wendell Phillips, but not an Abraham Lincoln. He is the storm of unrest’ which clears the atmosphere, but not the trade winds that carry to ' port the freighted ships of a people’s hopeFour years ago, in his own home, paying tribute to hie character and mind, I called him a dreamer who beholds happy visions but achieves no useful deed. His is the mind that thinks of the barren field bending with grain; but his is not the plowman’s hand, the sower’s craft or the gleaner’s husbandry. The poet’s dream of an undiscovered Utopia has cheered us all; but the Pilgrims, actually landing on Plymouth Rock, planted the real tree of liberty, beneath whose real shade we rest and by whose real fruits we live. * No Astrologer. William H. Taft is of the Pilgrim ■tuff —his Is the wisdom that makes the idea! vision a living fact. Tried In every realm of government, tested in •very department of statesmanship, he never yet has failed. He is a ■killed seaman of statesmanship who takes his reckoning by the fixed stars of human nature and experletfce—not an uncertain astrologer casting absurd horoscopes from imaginary signs and symbols. And not once on all his voyages has the reckoning he has made been wrong; not once has a single horoscope that Mr. Bryan has cast been right. I When the great commander who has guided our ship of state through storms of opposition and amid the rocks of hatred straight for the port of our higher hopes and our largsr liberties, voluntarily steps from ths bridge and delivers to us his Ugh eommisslon, let us band it to the ablest offloer aboard and safely make the harbor of our heart’s deeire.

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