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52 REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Platform adopted at Chicago
June 18, 1908:
Cnce more the Republican party,
in National convention assembled,
submits its cause to the people.
This great historic organization,
that destroyed slavery, preserved
the Union, restored credit, expand-
ed the National domain, established
a sound financial system, develop-
ed the industries and resources of
the country and gave to the Nation
her seat or honor in the councils
of the world, now meets the new
problems of government with the
same courage and capacity with
which it solved the old.
Roosevelt Administration.
In this the great era of American
advancement the Republican party
has reached its highest service un-
der the leadership of Theodore
Roosevelt. His administration is
an epoch in American history. In
no other period since National sov-
ereignty was won under Washing-
ton, or preserved under Lincoln,
has there been such mighty prog-
ress in those ideals of government
which make for justice, equality
and fair dealing among men.
The highest aspirations of the
American people have found a
voice. Their most exalted servant
represents the best aims and wor-
thiest purposes of all his country-
men. American manhood has been
lifted to a nobler sense of duty and
obligation. Conscience and cour-
age in public station and higher
standards of right and wrong in
private life have become cardinal
principles of political faith; capi-
tal and labor have been brought
into closer relations of confidence
and interdependence, and the abuse
of wealth, the tyranny of power
and all the evils of privilege and
favoritism have been put to scorn
by the simple, manly virtues of
justice and fair play.
The great accoinplishments of
President Roosevelt have been, first
and foremost, a brave and impar-
tial enforcement of the law, the
prosecution of illegal trusts and
monopolies, the exposure and pun-
ishment of evildoers -in the public
service, the more effective regula-
tion of the rates and service of
the great transportation lines, the
complete overthrow of preferences,
rebates and dicriminations, the ar-
bitration of labor disputes, the
amelioration 'of the condition of
wageworkers everywhere, the con-
servation of the natural resources
of the country, the' forward step
in the improvement of the inland
waterways, and always the earnest
support and defense of every
wholesome safeguard which has
made more secure the guarantees
of life, liberty and property.These are the achievements that
will make for Theodore Roosevelt
his place in history, but more than
all else the great things he has
done will be an inspiration to those
who have yet greater things to do.
WVe declare our unfaltering aaher-
ence to the policies thus inaugur-
ated and pledge their continuance
under a Republican administration
of the Government.
Equality of Opportunity.
Under the guidance of Repub-
lican principles the American peo-
ple have become the richest Nation
in the world. Our wealth today ex-
ceeds that of England and all her
colonies, and that of France and
Germany combined. When the Re-
publican party was born the total
wealth of the country was $16,-
000,000,000. It has leaped to $110,-
000.000,000 in a generation, while
Great Britain has gathered but
$60,000,000,000 in 500 years. The
United States now owns one-fourth
of the world's wealth and makes
one-third of all modern manufac-
tured products. In the great ne-
cessities of civilization, such as
coal, the motive power of all ac-
tivity; iron, the chief basis of all
industry; cotton, the staple foun-
dation of all fabrics; wheat, corn,
and all agricultural products that
feed mankind, America's suprema-
cy is undisputed. And yet her great
natural wealth has been scarcely
touched. We have a vast domain
of 3,000,000 square miles, literally
bursting with latent treasure, still
waiting the magic of capital and
industry to be converted to the
practical uses of mankind; a coun-
try rich in soil and climate, in, the
unharnessed energy of its rivers
and in all the varied products of
the field, the forest and the fac-
tory. With gratitude for God's
bounty, with pride in the splendid
productiveness of the past, and
with confidence in the plenty and
prosperity of the future, the Re-
publican party declares for the
principle that in the development
and enjoyment of wealth so great
and blessings so benign there shall
be equal opportunity for all.
Revival of Business.
Nothing so clearly demonstrates
the sound basis upon which our
commercial, industrial and agricul-
tural interests are founded, and the
necessity of promoting their con-
tinued welfare through the opera-
tion of Republican policies as the
recent safe passage of the Ameri-
can people through a financial dis-
turbance which, if appearing in the
midst of Democratic rule or the
menace of it, might have equaled
the familiar Democratic panics of
the past. ' 'We congratulate the
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