Show 14 why I 1 am a republican i the bress new now york NOT nov 22 valued correspondents 0 of the aress have 01 suggested that it bold would be well to put in I 1 plain words thu the reason which a member I 1 of the Ke publican party might be eup sup 1 pored to give to the question why I 1 am republican we take great pleasure 6 in undertaking a task at once EO easy and an d BO so agreeable any republican on being challenged to give an account ol 01 the faith that ie is in him will make DO no mistake if be I 1 responds rec ponds substantially ae as follows I 1 am a republican first of 0 all because I 1 I 1 believe in the political P principles rin of xa of the republican publican Ke party foremost amon among 9 these ia Is protection to american industry just now this is the leading national msue issue it ie is forced to the front by a savka and persistent attack that ia is made the protective system partly in the interests of 0 foreign manufacturers partly artly under the nf luence of a coterie of fl free trade theorizers theon who know a great jeal deal about books but nothing at in U about business and partly in I 1 with the general democratic idea of opposing whatever the republican publican lle party ty favors I 1 believe in chis system ph because CaUse it is wise in principle and beneficent in practice it was Indo reed by george washington aton it etwas was sanctioned by john adams aud henry clay and daniel webster and a st h host ost at of I 1 be he greatest and best men bf 6 the coun try ry history shows that when there has I 1 been wen a protective the country has prospered and when there has been little or no tariff protection there has been 11 little or DO no prosperity protection has bag given profit profitable avle investment to capital and steady employment to labor at rates of wages double those that are paid for the same work in tree free trade england or could be paid here her 0 it anti protection 11 democrats and doctrin doctrinaires a free aires bad had their way and at the same time it baa has by enormously normon sly increasing the home supply ind and the home demand steadily reduced he the price ol 01 almost every protected predict product as the press has shown beyond dispute puts in its of tariff pictures protection has enabled the united states to pay its national debt at an average ate rate tor for the past twenty five years 0 of I a day presenting in this respect a eight which the world has never before seen within this tant year un ler der the operations of the mckinley law which ita enemies prophesied one year ago would raise the prices of the necea earles of life and strangle ranele st trade there has been more domestic trade more exports of american goods abroad and ao ac bally nally ditore more imports of foreign goods reckoned by value than in any twelve months before since our national existence began meanwhile one dollar haa has bought more of the necessaries of life than ever before and the people rich or poor have bave bad more dollars to bay buy with I 1 am a republican because I 1 bin an a protectionist and I 1 am a protectionist because I 1 am an american another principle of the republican party ia is honest money it ia is that every dollar hall be worth cents it ia is as president at harrison has said that at 11 every dollar issued leaned by the government ba worth h exactly aa as much as every other dollar issued by the government L it ia is opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of dollars that ware were worth 80 I 1 cents y i dor are ar worth 75 caal coats I 1 and may be worth 70 cents jess less or more 1 tomorrow to morrow but never have bean and unless present conditions of the it mining 2111 ning industry are reversed reve raed never can be worth cents the democratic party pi on the other band with a few honorable ho exceptions stands committed to a debased silver coinage today to day just aa it stood for irredeemable and depreciated i greenback currena currency a few years ago just bet as it was responsible le for the wreck wrack sod nd ruin caused by the wildcat wildest banks the shin shinplaster olaster money before the war I 1 am a republican because I 1 am an honest man in my political as in my private te conduct and I 1 know that lowering iva the monetary standard means robbery and ad especially robbery of those who can I 1 least bat afford to be robbed the poor and the wage earner 11 the Ke publican party stands for honest 7 elections in the national vat ional platforms of the party this principle finds a conspicuous place in the fifty first congress a bill to escure a tree free vote and a fair count at every congressional or presidential election east west north and I 1 south was passed by a republican house in spite of the opposition op position of 0 I 1 eve every democratic member was certain T if passed to be signed by a republican Republic tu president and would have become a law but tor for an alliance all iancu against it of all the enemies both of honest money and honest elections it is the republican party 1 that for the most part has secured the tj fl adoption in many elates states odthe of the australian lill or reformed fo ballot and it is the j 1 democratic larata lara tf party that has bits hindered its j ado adoption float aa an witness the repeated vetoes f of if governor hill and the fact that the solid south is arrayed against ballot reform I 1 am a republican because I 1 believe 1 in anbo u and un bullied suffrage the republican party is the friend of the soldier it believes belle that justice not to speak of genero generosity pity demands that be the men who imperiled their lives to say save e i oar our country requires the redeemed nation to care tor for its deliverers and for their loved ones with the open palm of crati tude ude and not with the clinched fiston j parsimony I 1 am a republican becatti e 1 am a patriot the republican party stands for or the sc bool and the home from that party have come the most liberal a appropriations the niort moat effective laws oa behalf of free public education prom from that I 1 party have come practical practically ly the only on y laws r that exist today 1 to lo day designed to restrict the traffic in intoxicating drinks or by other means to limit ii the terrible t evils of intemperance bait thadeo per contra n a wherever a political party pica joins with the enemies of f the public school to get got the votes of ig noriece or superstition aa in wisconsin and od illinois it is in always the democratic anever never the republican party wherever I 1 a political party is is in leagie with the as cansina of society with keepers keep ra of grog I 1 aboab and gambl log n dens and brot brothels bels q pd receivers of stolen goode goods levying pe tribute tor for police protection as in the league between tammany hall and the law breakers ot of new now york it is away always the democratic never he the re publican rub publican lican party because I 1 believe in jaw 4 aw intelli genc gene and decency I 1 am a re publican lican I 1 bare have said that I 1 am a republican first fire t ol 01 all because I 1 alieve in th the e political ii principles of the Ra republican publican party nd I 1 have cited these protection to american industry honest money mousy honest elections elec tiong i justice tice to veterans frei tre e schools and public morale morals now teay i lays in the second place that I 1 am a republican because the past of my party Is one of which I 1 am proud that would not alone be a sufficient reason but taken together with the bartys present attitude on living 11 vine questions it makes assurance doubly eure sure there is but one lamp said patrick henry by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience history Is philosophy teaching by example said D dionysius Dionys LOUY Eus iua of and this saying has passed current for ages an as one of the coined fagots of human wisdom history teaches me that the democratic party was the part party lf 1 nullification of human a slavery ay iy avery of the suppression of free speech of secession of armed rebellion at the south of at the north of national repudiation anat the democratic party was opposed to free homesteads for the people out of the public domain that it connived at the plundering of the nations treasury and the stealing of the count rys arms and warships under buchanan that it declared the war a failure alter after gettysburg had been fought and won that under democratic control the country went from bad to worse from poverty to bankruptcy and from bankruptcy to the verge of disruption and that in all the thirty years and more since democratic guns opened fire on fort sumter the party as a party has his never got control blany of any one state or any one branch a of the federal govern government men t without riving giving evidence that it has not cli aneed its nature meanwhile the republican party from the day of its birth until now has been I 1 the b party P ary of freedom progress union honesty honor the party to which whatever is beet best in the young manhood of each generation gravitates the its republican party freed the slaves and saved the nation it preserved the count rys credit it made a depreciated currency good as gold it settled the alabama claims by an arbitration that combined peace and honor it joined the atlantic to the pacific by lines of transcontinental railway it gave to our government a foremost place among liming the nations of the earth its men have baen commensurate with its measures not ot now nw to allude to the living except to say that they are worthy successors of the noble dead thy the republican party is the party of ll 11 lincoln and chase seward and greeley samner sumner and thaddeus Thadd eua stevens Sl ovens of grant and dad garfield because no intelligent citizen can recount the history of the onn one party with out pride or of the other without shame I 1 am a republican 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