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Show JPOIHTED EXPRESSIONS PROM ROOSEVELT'S LETTER. Wo Intend In the future to oirry on the government In the Mine way that wo have carried It on In the I'ast We are contetit to rest our case he-fore he-fore the American people upon tlie fnct that to adherence to it lofty Idea we have lidded, proved Kovernmental efficiency. No other administration In our his- torv. i.o other government In the world, Iiiih more cimMeiitl stood for TiiEoionx noosr.vciiT. the limmli'it spirit of liiotherhood In our eoiimicin litiiiiiiulty. or lini held n I more tv-olute attitude of protest against vuij wton;; th.it outraged the civilization of tlie world, at home or ! abronil. It Ins liclnned towiud nil nations, RtnniK or wenk, with cointe.x.v. dlKiilty and Justice: mid Is now on excellent tcim- with till. . . . I Our foreign policy has been not only I highly itdvauliiKeoiiM to the United I States, hut linrdly less advantageous to I the win Id us u whole. Peace and I good will have followed In Its foot- Htejih. Within the limits dellned hy the national constitution the national administration ad-ministration as sought to secure to each iniin the full enjoyment of his right to live his life ami dispose of his property and his luhor as he deems host, so long as he wrongs no one eUe. It Is hut ten yearsi since tlie first attempt was made, by means of lower-! lower-! lug the tariff, to pi event some people I fiom proscriiig loo much. The at-I at-I tempt was eutlielv successful. I ... To uptoot mid destiny the protective ' pj'ftein would be to Insure the prostration prostra-tion of business, the -closing of factories, factor-ies, tlie luipoveiishmeiit of the farmer, the ruin of the capitalist and the starwitlon of the wage-worker. ... During the last live years more has been done for the material null moral well-being of the Klllpluo than ever before 'luce Hie Island llrst came within with-in the ken of civilized man. ; We did not take the I'lilllpplncn at will, and we cannot put thcin aside at I will. ... We lime striven both for civil righteousness right-eousness and for national greatness; niul we have faltli to believe that our hands will be upheld by all who feel love of country and tiust In the uplifting up-lifting of miniUliid. ... We hold ever befoie us as the nil-Important nil-Important end of policy and administration adminis-tration the lelgn of peace at home and thioiighout the world; of ioaee which come.s along by doing Justice. ... The constitution must 1k observed positive! as well as negatively. ... We do not have to guess at our own convictions and then eoneet the guess If It seems unpopular. ... A party which, with facile ease, changes all Its convictions before election elec-tion cannot be trusted to adheie with tenacity to nny principle after election. elec-tion. ... As for the navy, It has been anil Is now tlie most potent suaiunty of peace: and it is such ehlelly because It is formidable and leady for use. ... If on one great Imue thoy (tho UciiiocrnU) do not mean what thoy bj, It is hui illy Bafe to trast.Uiem oil mi other Ixsiio. . Tree trade iinti reciprocity are not compatible. ... Tlie.v (Hie Democrats) bare occupied occu-pied three entirely different positions (un the Philippines) within fifty days. WhJeh is the pjoinbe they really intend in-tend to keep'.' . Since the close of the war with Spain there linn been no mitatitntliil change In the rule of annual ex-pcuilitiiies. ex-pcuilitiiies. When- there is no respoit there cau he no trust, a policy with no slender u basis of principle would not stand the strain of a dingle year of business adversity. ... If o tariff law Is pased iiimed nt preventing tho prosperity of tome of our people, It is iiH certain an anything can be that this aim will be achieved only by cuttlnn down the prosperity j of all our people I ... I There l not n policy, foreign or I domestic, which we are now currying out, which It would not be dlsistrom i to reverse or abandon. ... This government Im-1 been tn: to the spirit of tlie fourteenth amendment amend-ment In the Phlllpph.es. Can mr opponents op-ponents deny that here at home the principles of the fourteenth ami fifteenth amendments have been In effect ef-fect nullified? ... If contuiiiid In power we .hill eon-, eon-, thine our foielgn policy and our hand-I hand-I ling of the navy nn exactly the s-inie j lines In the future as In th" past. |
