ACHIEVEMENTS OF REPUBLICAN Shall tlio Brilliant Party Record He Endorsed? Haa Mndo Amorlca Ono of tho Great Natlonn of the Earth. In IiIh Toledo spocrli tho other day, Secretary 'J'nft nimln tlio bulls-eye, when ho wild tlinl I ho mil Ihsho of this campaign Is whether Uio voters of IIiIh rountry will give their ondorso input to tho Roosevelt policies nnd tho deeds of tho Republican purty or turn to the Democratic party, with its un trled promises. It Ih not, whether tho people kIiiiII nilo, iih Ilrynn stated the other hiy, because tho people already rule iih iniich iih the DciiioctiUh will permit them. The hundreds of thous iiiiiIh of dlsrriinehlHed negroes In the South, together with tho many poor while people, stand up and point the linger at the guilty Democratic party. ItH HtateineiitH iihont popular rule are hollow pretenses. ItH professions hypo critical claptrap. Jlity'o Trlliiil lo llciiiildlciiii 1'iirl)'. The distinguished American state man, John Hay, In an iiddrorH at .lack noil, Michigan, commemorating the With anniversary of the Republican party, declared that the Republican parly had it nohlo origin, that It sprang directly from an aroiiKcd and Indignant Na tional conscience. Ojiostlniw of llnnnce, of political economy of orderly admin lHtratlon, piiKH out of Hlht for tho mo ment to ho taken up and dealt with later on. Hut In 185 I tho question that brought thinking nieii together, wiih whether there Kliould Iio a limit to the uggresHloiiH of Hlavery ; and In 18U1 that solemn Inquiry turned to one Mill more portentlouH: Should tho nation live or die? 'lift: humbleHt old Hepubllcau In America Iihh a right to bo proud that lu tho diiyH of IiIh youth In tho prenence of thcHo uiometitouH questions ho Judg ed right; und If he Ih HlecpliiB In his honored grave, IiIh children may JiiHtly bo Rind of IiIh declHlou. Tho Heimbllcan arty Iiiih a hlHtory which Hluco Hh birth In 1851 Ih the history of progrcsH and proHperlty, Hh leaderH lutvu ulwnyB had tho welfaro of tho country at heart. It Iiiih never taken n backward Htep, but Iiiih alwayH been tho supporting pillar of tho Na tional government. Hh cardinal prlii dpi cm liavo been the inalutenauco of tho Declaration of Independence, Inter nal Improvements, a tarllT to protect our labor and IndiiHlrlcH and to pay Kovcrniuent expenses, tho building M ot our navy, preserving purity lu electloiiH, for tho dlffiiHlon of knowledge and hap piness among all the people, for an lion cut medium of oxehnnge. It Iiiih Htood for honor, dignity, Integrity, patrlot- Iniii, progress, proHperlty, happiness, law and order. Vo-lii Dcitiuernllo Illuli Prion!. The high priests of tho Deinocratle party hnvo for tho laHt llfty yearn tried to terrify tho people with linnglnury- political bugaboos. When Lincoln wiih llrst a candidate, they pit up tho aw ful bugaboo they called "Abolitionism' and deceived multiplied thousands of tho people. When Urnnt wiih our can dhlato for tho Presidency they maim fiictured twin hiiKabooH, called "Con trnllzatlon," and ".Military Despotism," and scared many timid persons Into tho belief that our HhcrtlcH wero about to lie taken away. When HuyoH wiih our candidate they paraded before the pub lie tho caricature denominated "A Itloateil nondholder," nnd tried to make us believe that It wiih tho Republican party In disguise, and that If Hayes wero elected tho bondholders would take all of our property from us. When (larlleld was our candidate, they Invent Pd a fcnrrul evil devil called "The Force Hill," and terrllled the Southern people by declining If (larlleld wero elected an army would bo sent to tho South to hold elections and noun but Republicans and negroes would be allowed to vote. When Harrison wuh ii candldato these Kamo Deinocratle high priests pit to gothcr and invented a new lot of hob gobllna which they denominated "Rob her Harons," and rushed them all over the country to the terror and dismay of millions of unsuspecting Democrats who actually elected Cleveland l'resl dent. When McKlnley was our candidate for President, tho bugaboo makers brought out a stupendous crawling men Htor, of antediluvian proportions, ami branded It a "(lold Hug," and swon that It was the Republican party and that If .McKlnley wero chosen President this uuuister would devour the sub Htnnco of wo Americans as tho cater pillars anil palinerworms devoured the crops of thu children of Israel In the days of old. When Roosevelt was nnm luated these perennial alarmists, said that tho republic would bo. strangled nnd bo merged Into "Imperialism," that tho "Hlg Stick" would embroil us lu perpetual warfare with foreign nations and that tho Llliorty advocated by our fathers had vanished from the land. Wo hnvo been constantly told by them that tho Republican party could not bo trusted, that all the usurers, all the money sharks, nil tho bloated bond holders, nil tho robber barons, all tho Kohl bugs, all tho Imperialists and war lords, all tho corruptloulsts, nil tho enemies of tho laboring man nnd all tho focu of thu farmer wero In tho He inibllenu party and that If that party (Copyright, 1008, by tlio Mali nnil Ex press Company.) elected Roosevelt as President, awful and mnulfold would bo tho calamities that would Inevltnbly frill upon the American people and tho salt of liberty would loso Its savor, that our very free dom woukj bo like tho blazonry of silks and Jewels In thu gloom of tho grave. Falun I'roplirU All. Hut out of these nettles of direful and dangerous predictions have sprung uio iteautirul blossoms of safety and prosperity. Instead of money becom ing scarcer, It has become more plen tiful. Instead of agricultural products going down to nothing) they have great ly Increased lu pried; Instead of la borers' wages being cut down to pauper rates, they have been greatly raised; Instead of railroads having nothing to do, they have not enough cars to carry their passengers und freights; Instead of our business men being ground to powder In the bankruptcy courts, they are happy and Increasingly prosperous; Instead of our manufacturing establish ments going out of business, they are doing an Increasing business. Wo have more money lu use and circulation than ever before; inoro money per capita than ever before; more money In Hav ings bunks than ever before; tho dollar Iiiih a larger purchasing power than ever before and the laboring man lives better than ever before. Ili'tmlilli'MMN I.Iiii'oIii'h Helm. If there Is one thing more than an other lu which Republicans aro entitled to legitimate pride. It Is that Lincoln was our llrst President, that wo believ ed lu him loyally, supported lilm while he lived, and that we have never lost the right to call ourselves his followers There Is not a principle avowed by tho Republican party to-day which Is out of harmony with his teaching or In consistent with his character. Hut only those who believe In human lights and aro willing to make saeiillees to defend them, who believe In the nation and Its bonollcent power, who bellevo the American system of protection, championed by n long line of our great est ami best running back from Roose velt to Washington only those who be lieve In equal Justice to labor and to capital, In honest money and the right to earn It, hnvo any title to name them selveH by the name of Lincoln or to claim a moral kinship with that august and venerated spirit. Stood lilt' Supremo Tent, Ih the Republican party entitled to public conlldenceV Its record speaks In no uncertain tones lu answer to this question. After slavery had been abol ished by It, the war ended ami pence restored with no damage to the struc ture of the government, but on the con trary with added strength and with Increased guaranties of Its perpetuity, It remained to be shown whether the power and success of tho Republican party Were to be permanent, or whether, born of a crisis, It was titled to copo with tin problems of dally national life. It had destroyed slavery, but In tho absence of this great adversary, could the party hold to gether against the thousands of lesser evils that besot tlio public tho evils of Ignorance, corruption, avarice and lawlessness, the prejudices or race and or class, the voices or demagogues, the cunning of dishonest era ft, the brutal tyranny of tho boss, the venality of tho nieanV H Is not too much to say that the last llfty years have given an nn swer full or glory and honor to that question. The Republican party In the mass LOST! and lu detail has shown Its capacity to govern. Hy the homestead law, with oqual generosity and wisdom, it distri buted tho Immense national domain among the citizens who wero willing to cultivate It nnd who have convert ed wide HtretcheH of wilderness Into smiling homes. It built the Pacific railroad, which has bound tho union together from east to west anil made tho States beyond tho mountains nmong our most loyal and prosperous com monwealth. It redeemed our paper cur rency and iimdo all our forms of money exactly of equal value, and our credit the best In the world. Hy persistent honesty lu our llminces In the race of obstacles which might have daunted the hardest statesmen It has reduced our Interest charges so that In any mart on earth wo can borrow money cheaper than any other people. Wo have by the patient labor of years re formed und regulated our civil service, so that patronage has almost ceased to cast ItH deadly blight upon the work of our public servants. II t-l 1 1 lit it t iiikI rjlorloua llrcortl. ItH record Ih but a succession or bril liant nnd successful uchlevementH which have raised tho nation to a world power of tho llrst rank and which have vouchsafed to our people the niaxr imum of benellts with a minimum of cost. Some things It has accomplished may be mentioned hero: The homestead law passed by a Re publican Congress and signed by Abra ham Lincoln. The national banking lnws, which gave the people a currency stable In all partH of the country. The system or Internal revenue tax ation by which approximately one-hair of the ordinary expenses of tho gov eminent have been raised from malt and spliitiibus liquors, tobacco and cigars. The constitutional amendments, which abolished slavery, created cltl zeushlp of the United States, as (lis tlngulshed from citizenship of the sev era! states, and established equality of suffrage. The Civil Rights act. which extended to all persons the equal protection of the laws. All existing laws for pensions to war veterans. The resumption of specie payments; the reduction of postage; the money order system; the establishment of tho railway mall service. Rural und city free delivery. The endowment of public schools, agricultural colleges, etc., by grants or land from the public domain. The establishment of the Circuit Court or Appeals to relieve the Su preme Court and no longer require litigants to sutler a delay of three or four years lu securing a decision on appeal. The principle or reciprocity, by which we reduce the duties on cortalu Imports rrom countries that oiTer cor responding advantages to our exports, and thus extend our foreign market. Statehood for Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Colorado, North and South Dakota, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Oklahoma. Tho Sherman anti-trust act. The national tmnuruptey law of ISO" and 1SDS, which relieved many thousands of unfortunates and restor ed them to commercial or Industrial milvlty. The establishment oi the gold stand urd which placed our monetary system on a stable basis, lu harmony with the great nations or the world. A protective tariff In the Interest of American Industries nnd American la bor. The building of the Pannma cnnnl. The national Irrigation act, which Is transforming the West from n desert to the most productive area of Amer ica. The Puro Food Lnw, stopping pois oned foods. Tho Uallroad Rate Law, nbollshlng rate discriminations. The Emergency Currency bill nnd the National Monetary Commission. The Employer's und Government Liability laws. Tho measures for the greater elllc leney for the Army nnd Navy. The model child labor law for the District of Cojimbla. I ue new statute for the safety of tnllroal engineers and llremen nnd many other acts concerning tho public Welfare. Shall tho Republican record bo en dorsed? Triumphant millions of free, enlightened American citizens will answer YES, at tho polls November itn, and overwhelmingly elect Taft nnd Sherman. PROTECTION FOR DEPOSITORS. Postal Savlnga Banks Offer n Satis factory Measuro of Protection. Mr. llryan's scheme for tho protec tion of depositors Is to mnko solvent and prudently nmuaged banks pny the losses ot the Insolvent and Imprudently managed. It Is a plan to inako every bank go security for every other bank, nnd it may wolf be questioned If n lnw Imposing such tin obligation without the consent of the person charged would bo sustained by the courts. Mr. 'I aft, discussing this subject, said that he favored postal savings banks ns a protection for depositors rather than the Hrya ns uicriieocciufwyp cmrwyp Hie lirynn scheme ot enforced liability. 'i lie distinct advantage of tho postal savings bank proposition Is that It would provide for direct government responsibility. Tho depositors would no guaranteed against loss by tho government, boenusi) the bunks would no government Institutions. There would bo no possibility of loss, and no Injustice would be Indicted upon other banks like that to which they would tie subjected under the Hryan scheme, IT they were compelled to pay losses Incurred by banks over which they Had no control. Postal savings banks lu other coun tries have given great nutisfnctloii, nnd there Is no question that they would bo conducted as safely and In every other way as satisfactorily In tho Unit ed States. The government be ing tho banker, would properly be charged vlth responsibility to the de IKisltors and otliers doing business with It. On the other hand, the State has no more authority to make a banker re sponsible ror tno dents or another bunker than It has to Impose a like responsibility upon a uierehaut ror the debts or other merchants. Suretv Is a mutter or voluntary eontrnet, and the essential element lu any tluauclal ob ligation Is consent on the part or the person to lie charged. To rorco banker to Insure tho payment or the debts of another banker Is to Impose upon hint an obligation against his will, which would bo manifestly un Just. Denver Republican. 1. 0. HEARST RESIGNS FROM IROQUOIS CLUB In a Cleverly Sarcastic Letter Tells Why He Withdraws With Gratification. "THERE IS NO DEMOCRACY." Thero Is Only a Bryan Party and Its Followers Don't Know When They Go to Bed at Night What Thoy Will Bo Called Upon to Be llevo When Thoy Wako Up in tho Morning. The Iroquois Association, an essen tially Democratic organization, of San Francisco, a few days ago suggested to Mr. William Randolph Hearst that since he had decided to oppose the elec tion of the Democratic candidate, Mr. Hryan, he could not consistently retain his membership In the organization. In reply to this suggestion, Mr. Hearst tins sent the following letter to the as sociation r To the Iroquois Association, San Fran cisco, Cnl.: Clentlenien I received your letter with both pleasure and surprise. I was surprised to know that Mr. Rognrt was sending four dollars dues to your organization, but pleased to learn of it, us I am exceedingly ready to stop that. I was pleased and surprised, too, to learn that the Iroquois Club was still In existence, for I thought that It had been peacefully burled along with the last remnants of the defunct Deino cratle party of California. Hut since the Iroquois Club still In a way exists, I nm glad to resign from It, and the situation suggested In your letter seems sulllclent reason for me. You Imply that I am not a Democrat, nnd I strongly suspect that I am not, according to the Deinocratle standards of to-day. I worked hard for the Dem ocratic party at one time and contrib uted many thousands of four-dollar checks, and cheerfully suffered much nbuso and much Injury for the Demo cratic party, but I believed In It then, and I don't now. You Imply, furthermore, that you are Democrats, and I cannot help wonder ing what kind of Democrats you think you nre. Are you 1892 Democrats, or 1S0( Democrats, or 11)00 Democrats, or 1001 Democrats, or 100S Democrats? Are you Cleveland Democrats, believ ing lu tho tariff reform that we didn't get, and the military suppression of labor Unions that we did got? Aro you Parker Democrats supporting the trusts If they contribute and opposing them If they don't? Are you Hrynn Democrats, believing In free silver sometimes and in government owner ship sometimes, and in the initiative and tlio referendum sometimes? And If you nro Hryan Democrats and be lieve In these things, do you also be lieve In a Hryan platform that contnlns none of these things? Denr friends and brothers of the Iroquois Club, you all remember how tno nomocracy or rreo silver was taught you and how you got Intensely excited over It, and cheered ror It nnd marched ror It, and then were informed that free silver was not true Democ racy after all, but that public owner ship was. Then you remember how you threw your hats In the air over public ownership and worked up an almost hysterical enthusiasm for It, and then were. Informed that this wasn't true Democracy either, but tbnt the Inltln tlve and referendum were. Then you came nobly to tho front again and af- llrmed undying devotion to tho ever lasting principles or the Initiative and referendum ; but now you have a plat form In which there Is no free silver, In which there Is no public ownership, In which there Is no Initiative or refer endum, and still you are Informed by the old Dr. (Jiingle of Democracy that only that platform with the owner's trade-mark pasted on the front and the owner's name blown In tho bottle is genulno Democracy, and that If you don't subscribe to that you will bo read out of the Democratic party. Friends and ex-brothers or the Iro quois Club, there Is no Democratic party. There Is only a Hryan party, und the followers of that party don't know when they go to bed at night what they will be called uion to be lleve when they wake up in the morn lug. Once there was a ninn who had an old carving knife which bo said had boon handed down to him from his grandfather. A friend said to him "it iooks raiuer new. liaveirt you ever done anything to It?" And the man said: "Oh. I've had tho blink changed once or twice, and the handle renewed a couplo of times, but otherwise It Is Just the same knife r-y grandfather hail. Mr. Hryan tells us that his variable doctrines are the Democracy or our fathers, but I say Hint both the blade and the handle have been changed so often that there Is no recognizing the original principles. Once, again, there was a farmer who had a balky mule and ho couldn't make tho mule go. A stranger came along nnd offered to help, and tlio farmer told him to go right ahead. The strangpr had a bottle of turpentine, and ).. opened the mule's mouth und pimheti back his head and poured about half of Hip bottle into the mule's stomach. The mule gave one startled gasp ami struck out across the prairie, and was lost to sight. The surprised farmer stood for a while lnimorsOjd in deep thought, nnd then he said: "Stranger, please give mo the rest of that turpen tine; I've got to catch my mule." Friends and ex-brothers of the one time Iroquois Club, I have always stood Just where I stand now, square ly uiHJii tho principles of the founder of the Deinocratle party and the frnnicr or the Declaration of Inde pendence; but the Democratic Donkey hns gone galloping over the political prairie until It Is lost to the sight of Its original adherents. I nm not In the race to catch that donkey, nnd If you nre. you will find that you have to keep plumb full of n different kind of turpentine In every campaign. And so I received your communica tion with gratltlcatlon and gratitude, and so I withdraw from your club with pleasure and without the slightest hard feeling. Good luck and fJod bless you, nnd may you all be able to keep up with your mule. Sincerely. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. CURTAILMENT OP PRODUCTION What Would bo tho Effect of Bryan'a Plan for Curbing tho TrustsP Now comes the suggestion that, by aw, the operations of a eornorntlon shall bo so curtailed that to the whole output It shall not contribute more than 00 per cent. Those who have neither the time nor the Inclination to go below the surface of tilings may. acquiesce, but eve.li they may not. Presume u machine to bo Invented. and presume Its promoters, not only to establish a nlaiit for its mnmifticturo. but to be fortunate to the extent that the use of the contrivance becomes gen eral. At the start they make the whole output. Then-comes a rival, beginning by producing 125 per cent. Down swoops tno government, compelling contrac tion by tlio pioneer. What Is the result? It Is to reduce tho total production, though the de mand for the machine may be greater than tho supply. The nloneer nlant cuts off r0 per cent lu obedience to gov- crmpntnl mandate, nnd Its rival makes good but half of the deflelenev. Of course, there are what may be called secondary ellects, and they ensue imme diately. Presume the first plant to hnvc cost two millions and to eninlov 2.000 men. No sooner Is the second plant estab lished than 1,000 men nre thrown out of work, nnd nronertv renresentpd hv a million Is converted Into an Industrial Junk shop. The author of this brilliant idea suggests that the coinnnnv sell wiint It becomes Illegal to use. This is equally brilliant. It may take the entire plant to produce one machine, of which there may be many parts. In that event, eomnlinneo with law can come only by discharging 1,000 men or ny keeping 2,000 nt work ou half time. Nor does tho nronosition emanate from an occupant of a home ror the rocble-nilinled. It comes from the Democratic candi date for the Presidency. It comes from mental machinery which enjoys a mo nopoly of that sort or thing. Of this innchlnery the- aggregate output is large, but no effort has been made to restrict It. One of the choicest of its products Is that monopolies be exter minated. This Is n pet thunderbolt but Mr. Hrynn has the crudest notions as to Its significance. He seems to think that lu some mysterious way It would benefit the "plain people." A big corporation produces on n big scale. Exterminate it, and it stops. Corporations become big for reasons economists have no trouble In compre hending. They do things by wholesale. And part of what they save renminbi the pocket of the consumer, who would otherwise have to pay far more' for his purchase. Mr. Hryan says he would dissolve, destroy, obliterate, extirpate, exter minate. Sometimes, he soys, kill. Ho llnds fault with Mr. Taft because be will make no use of these terms or of synonyms for them. Well, the Repub lican candidate for the Presidency has not lost his mind. He is not formulat ing a policy of destruction. He knows that evolution from the little to the big was not only Inevitable, but bene llcent. in declamation the Nehraskan Is r reitive and Impressive; In elaboration, In detail, in what are called specllica- tlons, he Is out of his el cut. To ask him to be exact Is to suggest that he clip his own wing. The only known equivalent for his Democracy Is De struction. Rrooklyn Eagle. .lolut I ntrrt-MN, I.-ibor needs capital to secure tho best production, while capital needs labor in producing anything. The share or each laborer In the Joint product Is affected not exactly, but lu a general way, by the amount or capital In use ns com pared with the number or those who labor. The more capital In use the more work there Is to do, mid the more .work thero Is to do the more laborers are needed. The greater the need for laborers the better their pay per man. Manifestly, It Is In tho direct Interest or the laborer that capital shall In crease faster than the number or those who work. Everything which legltb mutely tendH to Increase the iiccuinu hitlou or wealth and Its use ror pro duction will give each laborer a larger share In the Joint result or capital nnd labor. Hon. Wm. H. Taft, nt Coopei Union, New York (,'lty.