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TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1920
WHAT HAS THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY ACCOMPLISHED?
The best guarantee of an individ
ual’s or an organization’s capacity for
honest and efficient service, is found
in the record of that individual’s or
that organization’s achievements.
Any individual or organization can1
make promises. Not all individuals
and organizations can furnish a rec
ord of service that makes the promise
worthy of belief.
The best evidence of what it may be
possible for the Republican party to
do, if returned to powrer in this re
public by the people at the national
election now six months away, is ad
duced from what the Republican party
actually, did do during more than a
half century of almost uninterrupted
Republican control. For only two
years prior to the election of Wood
row Wilson as president in 1912 was
the Democratic party in complete con
trol of both legislative and executive
branches of the federal government.
The story of the nation from 1861 to
1913, is in effect, the story of the Re
publican party.
What did the Republican party ac
complish in the national behalf during
that fifty years?
It established once and for all the
principle that the United States is a
nation, an indissoluble Union, and not
a loose confederacy of petty states.
It abolished human slavery; made
American democracy a reality rather
than a theory.
It elected Abraham Lincoln presi
dent of the United States, and upheld
his hands through the four long,
bloody years which made his name im
mortal and the Union eternal.
It paid the gigantic debt created by
the nation’s greatest war, preserved
the national credit, created a banking
system under which the American peo
ple achieved a prosperity unexampled
in human history, resumed specie pay
ment, and defeated repeated efforts to
debase the national currency.
It threw open the great West to de
velopment through the homestead pol
icy of free land for the landless, the
pacification of savage tribes, the en
couragement of transcontinental rail
roads, and the policy of internal im
provement which brought the strength
of the nation to the accomplishment of
tasks beyond the power of individual
effort to perform.
It established and maintained al
most uninterruptedly for more than a
half century the American policy of
protection, under which the American
standard-of wages and living was kept
at the highest level known in history;
under which the domestic and foreign
trade of the United States attained
proportion unprecedented in this or
any other nation, and made this coun
try the richest of this or any other
period in history; under which the
American masses enjoyed a diffused
prosperity, a range of opportunity, an
intelligence and an initiative prevalent
among “the common people” of no
ether nation that ever existed; under
which labor ceased to be the fixed
function of a caste or class, under
which there was no slave, no peon, no i
peasant, no <500116; a nation which be
came to such a degree the hope and
admiration of the world that there
rushed into it during the half cen
tury of Republican control the great
est current of immigration that ever
swept upon a nation’s shores. Under
Republican policies and Republican
commercial prosperity and political
stability this mighty army of aliens
was absorbed into the great body of
the American people without conflict
or disturbance. The alien was being i
lifted up toward the American level
rather than the American being low
ered to the alien standard.
It fulfilled the pledge of Lincoln to
the volunteer soldier of the republic,
his widow and orphan, with a gener- j
osity unparalleled in the history of
governments.
It made the Monroe doctrine, safe
guarding the affairs of this hemis
phere from European entanglements,
an international rather than an Amer
ican tenet; it drove France from the
soil of Mexico; it drove Spain from
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines;
it bought Alaska; it peacefully settled
questions of differences in our rela
tions with Canada; it made the dom
inance of the United States in the af
fairs of the new world unchallenged,!
and its influence in the affairs of the
whole world unquestioned.
It forced reparation from England
for the depredations of British built
cruisers during the rebellion; it main
tained everywhere and always
throughout the world the dignity and
security of American citizenship.
In the Orient America gave the
world, through its Philippine policy,
the example of a colonial program in
spired by altruism, in a government
which has given to the Philippine peo
ple more of progress and prosperity
than they had known in all the cen
turies of European control. It pre
vented the partition of China by the
powers, and earned through its dis
interested conduct the confidence and
admiration of a people who have now
established a republic in imitation of
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the United States, comprising within
its borders nearly one-third of the
world’s population.
It planned and pushed near to com
pletion the construction of the Pan
ama canal, the greatest engineering
feat of history. In Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippines it exemplified the
possibilities of modern sanitation in
the suppression of plague spots.
In Cuba it fulfilled a solemn pledge
to the world by surrendering control
when orderly government had been
established, retaining only that degree
of suzerainty, by treaty, essential to
the permanence of republican govern
ment in the island.
It prohibited the immigration of Ori-1
ental coolies, maintaining standards- of
living hopelessly below the American
level, and of the criminal, the insane
or the pauperized from any land.
It created the department of agri- j,
culture, and brought it to a high state
of usefulness as a factor in agricul
tural development; it established free
delivery of mail in the smaller cities
and towns and in rural districts; it
created the parcel post and the postal
savings banks; it vastly increased the
scope and efficiency of the postal ser
vice of the United States.
It created the department of com
merce and labor; now two depart
ments. Through its naval construc
tion program, it brought the United
States to the third place among the
world’s naval powers, and sent the
American fleet on a trip around the 1
world which immeasurably increased
American prestige abroad.
It originated the conservation mo\je
ment, and inaugurated the irrigation
projects 6n the arid lands of the West.
It gave statehood to more than one
fourth of the states of the Union— :
West Virginia, Nevada, Colorado, 1
North Dakota, Montana, Washington, 1
Idaho, Wyoming, Oklahoma, New Mex- 1
ico and Arizona.
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It raised the American flag in the
Hawaiian and Samoan islands, provid
ing naval bases essential to the pres
ervation of American prestige in the
Pacific.
it passed tne sherman anti-trust |
law, the most effective statute for the
prevention of monopolistic combina
tions in restraint of trade yet enacted
in the United States, and enforced it
in the dissolution of many such com
binations; it passed the interstate
commerce act, the railway rate bill,
the pure food law; it created a com
merce court and a tariff commission.
It established the system of promo
tions for efficiency in the diplomatic
and consular service, improving great
ly the character and broadening the
usefulness of both.
It brought about, through the media
tion of a Republican president, the
termination of the Russian-Japanese
war; and it took the first step toward
international peace through the form
ulation of treaties of peace and arbi
ration with the great powers of Eu
rope.
Through postal subventions, under
the Harrison administration, it
brought into being the only trans
Atlantic steamship line operating un
der the American flag, and was de
feated in repeated efforts to restore
the American merchant marine only
by persistent Democratic opposition.
It proposed the amendments to the
constitution providing for the direct
election of United States senator, and
naking lawful the income tax as a
method of federal taxation.
It suppressed the Louisiana and
ether lotteries, and enacted and en
forced legislation prohibiting the use
of the mails for fraudulent purposes.
It established the gold standard,
making and keeping every dollar of
American money equal to the best
known in the world.
It established so firmly the nation’s
credit, that its securities became the
most desirable in the world, bearing
the smallest rate of interest.
It gave to the nation in fifty years
the leadership of ten presidents, no
one of whom was of aoubteful patriot-!
ism or ability ,and each of whom gave
to the country an administration sig
nalized by some notable public ser
vice—Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes,
Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, McKinley,
Roosevelt and Taft; gave to American
public life such names as SewardJ
Stanton, Chase, Morton, Blaine, Conk-1
ling, Shurz, Curtis, Sherman, Fair-!
banks, Allison, Logan, Foster, Reed, I
Hay and a host of others whose biog-1
raphies are a part of the creditable ’
history of the republic.
These are a few of the enduring
achievements the lasting value of
which is not a mere subject for acad
emic speculation, but which has borne
the test of time; deeds of the past
which give weight to the party’s
pledges for the future. It is a glorious
record which should inspire every Re
publican, and particularly every young
Republican, to do his best to make
the future of so great a party worthy
af its mighty past.
‘NAN OF THE MOUNTAIN’
REPEATED THIS EVENING:
NEW PLAY TOMORROW
“Nan of Music Mountain” is a good
western drama, with handsome Wal
lace Reid as hero, and Ann Little ef
fective support. It’s well done, but
not overdone, which is why it’s mighty
good entertainment. And the finish of
program, “When Love Is Blind,” is an
other knockout for Cross-eyed Ben and
the Sennett beauties. You’ve seen;
mystery - dramas, mystery - comedies, j
mystery-farces, and then some mys-{
teries. But did you ever before see a
mystery-riot. It’s going some.
Tomorrow comes clever May Alli
?on with her clever charm, in “Castles
in the Air.” Who has never dreamed
dreams, and seen visions? How many
of us have built castles in the air, and
lived in them? Here is a delightful
comedy with a decidedly ingenious
twist to it that will give you some
thing new to think about.
FARMERS OF AUSTRIA .
REFUSE TO PLANT CROPS
VIENNA, June 1 (by Associated
h-ess).—Complaint that farmers re
use to plant food crops for sale to
Vienna and other cities is frequently
leard here.
At a meeting of the Vienna Associa
tion it was charged that the Alpine
’armers are confining their planting
o just what they will need themselves
tnd that even less produce than last
all will be available for Vienna at
he next harvest. One speaker said
hat while Austria had more milch -
:ows than Switzerland, children were -
lying here for lack of milk. In the
>rovinces it was being fed to pigs.
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CORDOVA
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S. S. Alaska
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