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lightly esteemed by the nations of the earth. A short six years, and what do we behold?—prosperity in business surpassing all former periods, unequaled national credit, all our workmen employed at better wages than ever before in our history, the people contented and happy, our voice the most persuasive and potent in the councils of the nations. In wise administration, in substantial development, in international influence, we lead the world to-day. What other issue does the Republican party need to present? How can it better commend itself to the support of the people of the United States than by patient continuance in this well-doing? Nor is our national prosperity and glory accidental. Our country has always prospered under Republican rule; it has always languished when so unfortunate as to come under the sway of the Democratic party. The one overwhelming issue of this campaign is the endorsement of the Republican administration of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.

Recognizing the force of this, our opponents are indulging in a most frantic hunt for some other issue on which to go before the people. There is a fascination in hunting when there is game to be found and secured, but it is dull and tiresome sport where there is no game to be either found or secured, and this hunt of the Democratic party for a new issue must be both dull and tiresome. When we restored the gold standard and reëstablished the credit of the nation on solid foundation, its free-silver issue disappeared with the clouds. When we gave Porto Rico popular and representative government, when we put down rebellion in the Philippines, established civil government there, clothed its inhabitants with all the rights guaranteed to our own citizens by the Constitution, we started it on the road to popular and representative government; its paramount issue of imperialism became but a dissipated fog.

We have wrought a grand and glorious work in the Philippines, and the people now know it. No nation in the long annals of history has ever accomplished so much for justice, for civilization, for the advancement of humanity, in a conquered territory as we in the Philippines. It is marvelous beyond the dream of the philosopher or the prediction of the prophet. The example of a semi-barbarous and warlike people pacified, and in four years transformed into a people seeking to regulate their own affairs under the sovereignty of the United States, and under our promise of self-government to the full limit of their capacity, is not to be found elsewhere in the world's history. That it has been accom. plished against virulent opposition and attack

upon both our military and civil administration only attests the wonder of its consummation.

For once in its history it is apparent that the Democratic party is ashamed of the issues upon which it has so recently sought power. The mere mention of free silver, anti-expansion, and anti-imperialism, which but a few short years since constituted the entire stock in trade of the Democratic and Populistic partnership, is most distasteful, and so it now has started on its vain and vexing hunt for other issues with which to delude voters into its support. Thus in all Demo. cratic journals, and from all Democratic platforms, we now hear the cry revise the tariff, down with the trusts." On this subject the Republican party has something to say, and says it frankly.

The Republican party stands for a protective tariff. The Democratic party is against a pro. tective tariff. Protection has brought prosperity and filled our land with happiness, and when the time comes for either a complete or partial revision of the tariff, the interests of the country require that it shall be revised along the lines of protection and not for the establishment of free trade. Whenever and however there shall be tariff revision, it should be a revision which will not destroy our home market or take away work from our own workmen to give it to the workmen of foreign countries. Tariff revision should be attempted only when it will not seriously disturb the business of the country, or check our de veloping activities. When that time shall come, and the need shall be apparent, the Republican party may be relied upon to undertake this work. Tariff schedules are not sacred. The principle of protection should be held sacred in the United States. The Democratic cry for tariff revision which is sounding through the country is pitched upon one key: the destruction of protection, which is the main factor of our prosperity.

With regard to great aggregations of capital, indefinitely called trusts, all men know that business cannot now be conducted successfully in the United States with the limited capital of former times; that to attempt it would result in wide-spread disaster and misery, and that even if it were possible to reëstablish old trade conditions the consumers would necessarily be compelled to pay enhanced prices for the needed articles of consumption. Other nations were firstto seize the opportunities which steam and electricity offered in extending business operations throughout the field of the world which had been previously limited by slow correspondence and transportation. The United States was forced by the changed conditions of trade to do business upon a larger scale, and that could only be done with augmented capital. Business thus con

ducted, honestly and fairly according to the common judgment of mankind, is not only a necessity, but a blessing.

But great aggregations of capital result in enormous power, and there comes with that power the temptation to do business unfairly, and without due regard to the rights and interests of the great body of our people. The difference between the Republican and Democratic parties in the matter of trusts may be stated thus: The Democratic party proposes to destroy trusts and the business conducted by them; the Republican party proposes to regulate trusts and the business conducted by them, so that no unfair advantage shall be taken of the people of the United States, and to the full limit of its constitutional power it will carry out this policy. The Republican party does not set itself against business or the capital needed to develop business; it does set itself against capitalistic monopoly or extortion. The Democratic party, true to its traditional policy of destruction, has apparently but one, and only one, remedy for evils. arising from the improper management of business carried on by great corporations, and that is to put all articles manufactured by corporations which have the supposed ability to control prices on the free list, thus destroying at one blow protection to our industries and the business pursued by the trusts.

No more fatuous policy could be conceived. We deny that the tariff is the mother of trusts, we affirm that the tariff is the parent of prosperity. Upon the Republican policy of regulation as against the Democratic policy of destruction, we appeal confidently to the good sense and sober judgment of the thinking people of the United States. It will be a sad day for our workmen if ever in an attempt to punish and destroy our trusts the work now performed by them shall be transformed to the workmen employed by foreign trusts. And right here it may be observed that no plan has ever been proposed by the Democratic party relating either to tariffs or trusts which would result in the employment of an additional workman in the United States, or in the enhancement of the wages of labor. What then can be said of Democratic profession of sympathy for wage-earners but that it is a hollow pretense, —in a word, demagogy. Upon this subject the Republican party has no more courageous, intelligent, or honest exponent of its principles and policies than Theodore Roosevelt. Read his utterances upon this subject and be assured that he speaks for the Republican party. From the at

tempt to sway the people of the United States by appeals to prejudice, the Republican party appeals to reason.

Right alongside the policy of protection, going hand and hand with it, is the policy of reciproc. ity, a reciprocity which shall extend and not curtail our trade; which, on the whole, will give us wider markets without seriously crippling our own. This reciprocity has been aptly denomi nated the handmaid of protection, and whenever and wherever reciprocal trade arrangements with foreign countries can be made which will result in more widely extended markets without serious injury to the business of this country, the Republican party is bound by the expressed views of its late President, in what may be termed his farewell address to the American people, as well as in the explicit declarations of President Roosevelt, to sanction and ratify such arrangements. Democratic reciprocity is but another name for free trade. Republican reciprocity is entirely consistent with protection.

I must speak to you feelingly in behalf of reciprocal trade arrangements with our nearest neighbor, Cuba. I would make such arrangements along the lines which I have indicated,—a reciprocity in trade between the two countries mutually advantageous to each, a reciprocity whereby we would extend our own trade and at the same time benefit the industrial interests of Cuba. That this is entirely practicable I do not for a moment doubt. Cuba, more than any other nation, is related to us. It is a child rescued and adopted by us. We are both its liberator and its sponsor. It is neither for her interests nor for ours that Cuba should become a part of our nation; it is both for her interests and ours that she should find prosperity in independence, and stability growing out of that prosperity. If ever one nation was obligated to deal justly and liberally with another, we are obligated to deal justly and liberally with Cuba. We can help Cuba in the maintenance of her independence with great benefit to ourselves. We can enable her to start on a career of self-supporting nationality without perceptible injury to any American industry and with manifest benefit to all. There are times when popular prejudices and fear obscures the most important issues and prevents wise legisla. tion, but the second sober thought of the American people sweeps away the barriers erected by prejudice and fear, and allows the voice of conscience, and justice, and wise policy, to be heard. I believe that the time of dealing justly with Cuba has only been delayed, and will surely come.

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N September 17, Secretary Moody accepted the new battleship Maine, a vessel specially interesting to Americans in the historic associations with her name, as well as from the fact that it was demonstrated, by a trial trip in the last of August, that this latest addition to the American navy is the speediest battleship we have ever had, and one of the most powerful in the world.

The new Maine was built by the Cramps, of Philadelphia. The contract requirements for speed were more exacting than for any battleship previously ordered by the United States Government, and the finally revised figures show that the fine vessel exactly reached the necessary speed,-18 knots an hour. It is necessary to remember, in comparing this speed trial with the figures given out for European battleships, that an American battleship has a very different task in proving its pace from that set for an English or German fighter. The latter are equipped with picked coal, and the speed made over a mile of smooth water is credited to the vessel. The United States requires the new fighter to steam out to sea and speed over a triangular course of 40 miles of blue water, with the run of coal in its bunkers, and under service conditions generally.

This battleship is a much more powerful vessel than her unfortunate predecessor. She is 388 feet long, with 72 feet of beam, and 12,300 tons

displacement. Her coal bunkers carry normally 1,000 tons of coal, which can be doubled on occasion. The tremendous main battery consists of fourteen 12-inch rifles and sixteen 6-inch rapid-fire guns, while the secondary battery has twenty-four rapid-fire guns of smaller caliber, and two torpedo tubes are provided below the water line; the armor reaches 12 inches in thickness on the turrets and barbettes. There is provision for a crew of 40 officers and 511 men.

On an opposite page is shown, by way of contrast with this twentieth-century type of naval unit, Lord Nelson's famous battleship Victory as she appeared in the Coronation Naval Review. Great Britain has reconsidered her unfavorable judgment on the very last experiment in naval warfare, the submarine boat; a third illustration shows the trial of a new English vessel of this type, as presented in Black and White.

THE YACHT "ARROW" THE SWIFTEST VESSEL

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A wonderful exhibition of speed was given on the Hudson on September 6, by Mr. Charles R. Flint's yacht Arrow. The little vessel surpassed, indeed, any speed previously made for a nautical mile, and may fairly be put on record as the fastest vessel the world has seen to this day. Mr. Flint was desirous of putting the Arrow to her best paces, and the trial was made

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THE OLD VICTORY," LORD NELSON'S BATTLESHIP-A STRIKING CONTRAST WITH THE MAINE."

(As she appeared in the Coronation Naval Review on June 26. The yards are manned in the old-fashioned salute, to welcome the arrival of Edward VII.)

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A NEW ENGLISH SUBMARINE TORPEDO BOAT ON ITS TRIAL TRIP IN STOKES BAY.

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