enable the tariff board to ascertain the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad.

Providing for publicity of campaign contributions.

The $20,000,000 bond issue, authorized to permit of prompt completion of irrigation projects already undertaken.

The progressive naval programme, authorizing the construction of

Two 27,000-ton battleships.

Six torpedo-boat destroyers.

Four submarine torpedo boats, and

Two colliers.

The reorganization of the Light-House Board along lines of modern administrative policy.

The creation of a Bureau of Mines, designed to minimize dangers to mine employees.

Common carriers required to furnish detailed reports of accidents to the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Law requiring use of safety appliances on railroads made broader and more complete.

Adulteration and misbranding of insecticides and fungicides prohibited at the behest of farmers and orchardists.

White slave traffic penalized by a system of heavy fines for interstate commerce therein.

Drastic regulations designed to prevent collisions at sea.

The parole of federal prisoners whose conduct after conviction warrants clemency.

Seal fisheries of Alaska protected by up-to-date legislation. Gold coin fixed as the medium for paying the public debt of the United States.

The act creating the government of Hawaii amended in important particulars.

A Commission of Fine Arts, created by enactment.

Provision made for raising the battleship Maine, now lying in Habana harbor.

Extensive river and harbor bill drafted in accordance with the policy of coordinating these improvements.

Provision made for numerous necessary public buildings and the completion of those already begun.

Thirty thousand dollars appropriated to enable the Departinent of Agriculture to conduct tests looking to the discovery of a substitute for spruce in the manufacture of pulp paper.

One hundred and fifty thousand dollars provided to enable the Geological Survey to carry on the work of gauging streams and for the promotion of the conservation of water power sites.

Two hundred thousand dollars granted the Department of Justice for the prosecution of violators of the Sherman antitrust law.

Seventy-five thousand dollars provided for the use of the joint commission charged with the duty of settling questions relating to boundary waters between the United States and Canada.

The creation of the Glacier National Park in Montana.

The big-tree forest of California protected by additional safeguards.

There were introduced in the House 27,224 bills and 237 joint resolutions; in the Senate about 9,000 bills and 120 joint resolutions. There have been 1,707 reports from House committees, which included 6,295 private pension bills. There have been enacted 351 public laws at this session, embracing 156 separate items in omnibus bills, making a total of 507 public laws, or more than were enacted in both sessions of the Sixtieth Congress. In addition to this there have been about 6,500 private laws, making a grand total of legislative enactments in one session greater than the complete record of any preceding Congress.

We shall always need protective duties as long as our people insist upon a higher standard of wages and scale of living than prevail abroad.-James M. Swank.

Republican Platform, 1908

Adopted by National Convention at Chicago, June, 1908. Once more the Republican Farty, in National Convention assembled, submits its cause to the people. This great historic organization, that destroyed siavery, preserved the Union, restored credit, expanded the national domain, established a sound financial system, developed the industries and resources of the country, and gave to the nation her seat of 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.

Republicanism Under Roosevelt.

In this greatest era of American advancement the Republican Party has reached its highest service under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt. His administration is an epoch in American history. In no other period since national sovereignty was won under Washington, or preserved under Lincoln, has there been such mighty progress 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 worthiest purposes of all his countrymen. American manhood has been lifted to a nobler sense of duty and obligation. Conscience and courage in public station and higher standards of right and wrong in private life have become cardinal principles of political faith; capital 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 accomplishments of President Roosevelt have been, first and foremost, a brave and impartial enforcement of the law; the prosecution of illegal trusts and monopolies; the exposure and punishment of evil-doers in the public service; the more effective regulation of the rates and service of the great transportation lines; the complete overthrow of preferences, rebates and discriminations; the arbitration of labor disputes; the amelioration of the condition of wageworkers everywhere; the conservation 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 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. We declare our unfaltering adherence to the policies thus inaugurated, and pledge their cortinuance under a Republican administration of the Government.

Equality of Opportunity.

Under the guidance of Republican principles the American people have become the richest nation in the world. Our wealth to-day exceeds that of England and all her colonies, and that of France and Germany combined. When the Republican 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 five hundred years. The United States now owns one-fourth of the world's wealth and makes one-third of all modern manufactured products. In the great necessities of civilization. such as coal, the motive power of all activity: iron, the chief basis of all industry; cotton, the staple foundation of all fab

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Republican Party declares for the pri velopment and enjoyment of wealth so benign there shall be equal opportun The Revival of Busin

Nothing so clearly demonstrates the so our commercial, industrial and agricu founded, and the necessity of promoting fare through the operation of Republica cent safe passage of the American people disturbance which, if appearing in the rule or the menace of it, might have e Democratic panics of the past. We con upon this renewed evidence of American with confidence the signs now manifest o ration of business prosperity in all lines and manufacturing.

Recent Republican Legislat

Since the election of William McKinley of this country have felt anew the wisdo the Republican Party through decisive ma and direction of national legislation.

The many wise and progressive measures sessions of Congress have demonstrated th of Republican leadership in the legislative d step in the forward march toward better go

Notwithstanding the indefensible filibuste cratic minority in the House of Represent last session, many wholesome and progressi acted, and we especially commend the pass gency currency bill, the appointment of the tary Commission, the employers' and Gov laws, the measures for the greater efficiency Navy, the widow's pension bill, the child la District of Columbia, the new statute for th road engineers and firemen, and many other the public welfare.

Republican Pledges for the Futu

The Republican Party declares unequivoca vision of the tariff by a special session of diately following the inauguration of the next commends the steps already taken to this en assigned to the appropriate committees of C are now investigating the operation and effe schedules. In all tariff legislation the true pr tection is best maintained by the imposition as will equal the difference between the cost at home and abroad, together with a reason American industries. We favor the establishr mum and minimum rates to be administered dent under limitations fixed in the law, the ma available to meet discriminations by foreign cou American goods entering their markets, and to represent the normal measure of protection aim and purpose of the Republican policy be to preserve, without excessive duties, that sec foreign competition to which American manufa mers and producers are entitled, but also to

the development of a permanent currency system, responding to our great needs; and the appointment of the National Monetary Commission by the present Congress, which will impartially investigate all proposed methods, insures the early realization of this purpose. The present currency laws have fully justified their adoption, but an expanding commerce, a marvelous growth in wealth and population, multiplying the centers of distribution, increasing the demand for the movement of crops in the West and South, and entailing periodic changes in monetary conditions, disclose the need of a more elastic and adaptable system. Such a system must meet the requirements of agriculturists, manufacturers, merchants and business men generally, must be automatic in operation, minimizing the fluctuations in interest rates, and above all, must be in harmony with that Republican doctrine which insists that every dollar shall be based upon and as good as gold.

Fostal Savings.

We favor the establishment of a postal savings bank system for the convenience of the people and the encouragement of thrift.

Trusts.

The Republican Party passed the Sherman Anti-Trust law over Democratic opposition, and enforced it after Democratic dereliction. It has been a wholesome instrument for good in the hands of a wise and fearless administration. But experience has shown that its effectiveness can be strengthened and its real objects better attained by such amendments as will give to the Federal Government greater supervision and control over, and secure greater publicity in, the management of that class of corporations engaged in interstate commerce having power and opportunity to effect monopolies.

Railroads.

We approve the enactment of the railroad rate law and the vigorous enforcement by the present administration of the statutes against rebates and discriminations, as a result of which the advantages formerly possessed by the large shipper over the small shipper have substantially disappeared; and in this connection we commend the appropriation by the present Congress to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to thoroughly investigate and give publicity to the accounts of interstate railroads. We believe, however, that the interstate commerce law should be further amended so as to give railroads the right to make and publish traffic agreements subject to the approval of the Commission, but maintaining always the principle of competition between naturally competing lines and avoiding the common control of such lines by any means whatsoever. We favor such national legislation and supervision as will prevent the future overissue of stocks and bonds by interstate carriers. Railroad and Government Employees.

The enactment in constitutional force at the present session of Congress of the Employers' Liability law, the passage and enforcement of the safety appliance statutes, as well as the additional protection secured for engineers and firemen, the reduction in the hours of labor of trainmen and rail

Wage Earners Generally.

The same wise policy which has indu Party to maintain protection to American an eight-hour day in the construction of a increase the list of employees who shall ha for wages under the bankruptcy laws, to a statute for the District of Columbia, to d tion into the condition of working women later, of employees of telephone and telegr gaged in interstate business, to appropriat recent session of Congress in order to secu quiry into the causes of catastrophies and mines and to amend and strengthen the la importation of contract labor, will be pursu mate direction within Federal authority to dens and increase the opportunity for happin ment of all who toil. The Republican Par special needs of wage-workers generally, for means the well being of all. But more im other considerations is that of good citizensh cially stand for the needs of every Americ occupation, in his capacity as a self-respecti Court Procedure.

The Republican Party will uphold at all ti ity and integrity of the courts, State and F ever insist that their powers to enforce their protect life, liberty and property shall be pre We believe, however, that the rules of proced eral Courts with respect to the issuance of the tion should be more accurately defined by s no injunction or temporary restraining order s without notice, except where irreparable injur from delay, in which case a speedy hearing th be granted.

The American Farmer.

Among those whose welfare is as vital to the whole country as that of the wage-earner can farmer. The prosperity of the country r upon the prosperity of agriculture. The Rep during the last twelve years has accomplished work in bringing the resources of the Nationa to the aid of the farmer, not only in advancin itself, but in increasing the conveniences of ru rural mail delivery has been established; it now lions of our citizens, and we favor its extensio community in the land receives the full benefits service. We recognize the social and economica of good country roads, maintained more and mo public expense, and less and less at the expense ting owner. In this work we commend the grow of State aid, and we approve the efforts of the N cultural Department by experiments and otherw clear to the public the best methods of road const Rights of the Negro.

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The Republican Party has been for more than the consistent friend of the American negro. freedom and citizenship. It wrote into the orga declarations that proclaim his civil and political

it believes to-day that his noteworthy progress in