The morning Astorian., June 19, 1908, Page 7, Image 7

FRIDAY, JUNE 19
THE MORNING ASTOIIIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. I
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mil icai ur
As Adopted by the Con
vention Yesterday,
TELLS PARTY'S HISTORY
Party Reaches Highest Service
Under Leadership of Pres.
Theodore Roosevelt
MIGHTY PROGRESS IS MADE
Under the Guidanct of the Great
'Republican Party the American
People Become the Wealthiest Na-
. tlon In All the World.
CHICAGO, June 18. -The text of
the platforms adopted by the com
mittee on resolution, it at follows:
Once more the republican party,
in national convention auemblcd,
submit its caute to the people. This
great historic organization that de
stroyed slavery, preserved the union,
restored credit, expended the nation
al domain, established a sound finan
cial 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 problem of govern
ment with the same courage and ca
pacity with which it solved the old.
In this the greatest era of Ameri
can advancement the republican party
has reached its highest service under
the leadership of Theodore Roo'sevclt,
administration is an epoch in
American history, In no other period
jkince national sovereignty was won
litnder Washington or preserved tin-
fder 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 Ameri
can people have found a voice. Their
most exalted servant represents the
best aims and worthiest purposes of
all his countrymen. American man
hood has been lifted to a nobler sense
of duty and obligation. Conscience
and courage in public station and
high standards of right and wrong in
public and private life have become
cardinal principles of political faith.
CapitaJ and labor have been brought
into closer relations of confidence
and inter-dependence and the abuse
of wealth, the tyranny of power and
all the evils of privilege and favorit
ism have been put to scorn by the
simple, manly virtues of justice and
fair play.
The great accomplishments of
President Roosevelt have been first
ynd foremost a brave and impartial
enforcement of the laws; the prose
cution of illegal trusts and monopo
lies; the exposure and punishment of
evil doers in the public service: the
more effective regulation of their
rates and the service of the great
transportation lines; the complete
overthrow of preferences, rebates and
discriminations; the arbitration of
labor disputes; the amelioration of
the wood workers everywhere; the
conservation of the national re
sources of the country; the forward
step in the improvement of the in
land waterways; and always the earn
est 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
he an inspiration to those who have
yet greater things to do. We declare
our unfaltering adherence to the
policies thus inaugurated and pledge
their continuance under the republi
can principles the American people
have become the richest nation in the
world. Our. wealth in the world to
day exceeds that of England and all
of her colonics, that of France and
Germany combined. When the re
publican party was born the total
wealth of the country was $16,000,000.
If' has.leaped to $110,000,000,000 in a
(feneration while Great Britain has
)tlt $OU,lH)U,UUU,'HIU 111 years.
The United States now owns one
fourth of the world's wealth and
makes one-third of all modern manu
factured products. In the greatness
of civilization such as coal, the motive
power of all activity, iron, the chief
basis of. all industry; cotton, the
staple foundation' of all fabrics;
wheat, corn and all the agricultural
products that feed niandkind,, Ameri
PLATFORM
ca's supremacy is undisputed, and yet
her great natural wealth has scarcely
been touched. Wc have, a vast do
main of 300,000,000 square miles, lit
erally bursting with latent treasure,
stilt waiting the magic of capital and
Industry to be converted to the prac
tical uses of mankind; a country rich
in soil and climate, in the unharnessed
energy of its rivers and in all the
varied products of the field, the for
est and the factory, 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 republi
can party declares for the principle
that in the development and enjoy
ment of wealth Kb great and bless
ings so bcniiig there shall be equal
opportunity for all, Nothing so clear
ly demonstrates the sound basis upon
which our commercial industrial and
agricultural interests are founded
and the necessity of promoting the
present continued welfare through
the operation of republican policies
i the recent safe passage of the
American people through a linancial
disturbance which if appearing in the
midst of democratic rule or the
menace of it might have equalled the
familiar democratic panics of the
past We congratulate the people
upon this renewed appearance of
American supremacy and the signs
now manifest a restoration of busi
ness prosperity in all lines of trade,
commerce and manufacturing.
Morning Astorian, 60 cents per
month, delivered by carrier. Full As
sociated Press reports and local r.ews.
'A
Definite announcement was made at a late hour la't night of the formal sale of the Tongue
Point Lumber Company's property to A. B. Hammond. The consideration was not stated. It
was also said by Mr. Hume, who announced the transfer, that Mr. Hammond would take posses
sion of the property at once. That the sale would be made has been rumored for several days
past, as has been stated in the Astorian, but no formal corroboration of the matter could be ob
tained. The announcement made last night to
many will be glad to know that Mr. Hammond, a
spirit, has secured possession of the property.
PERSONAL MENTION
Rev. William Seymour Short and
Mrs. Frank Spittle who are visiting
in the east are expected to arrive in 1
this city next Sunday.
F. O. Affeld Jr. of New York City
was in the city yesterday the guest
of friends, Mr. and Mrs. J. Welch.
John McGuirc, superintendent of
the A. & C. Railway ,is in the city on
a business trip.
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THE PRODUCTION OF
HIOH GRADE WORK
RATES At 10W At EASTERN HOUSES
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1 IN ONE OP. MANY C0L0R3
MS GREAT SPEECH
Senator Burton Nominates War
Secretary
STRONG AND ABLE SPEECH
CalU William II. Taft S-Perfect Type
of American Manhood, a. Peerless
Leader, and Representative of the
Noblest Ideals in Our National Life
Following is the great speech made
by Senator Burton yesterday in plac
ing Secretary Taft in nomination:
This convention enters upon the
grave responsibility of selecting a
presidential condidate with the serene
assurance that the Republican party
will continue to rule this people.
What assembled multitude in any
land has ever pointed th way to such
beneficent results for home and for
the progress of the whole human
race, as the recurring conventions of
this grand organization? Yet we do
not rely alone upon the record of that
which is has accomplished. We em-
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TONGUE POINT MILLS SOLD
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phasizc, even more, its supreme quali-
tication to solve the problems of the !
pree;ii. j
It is especially appropriate that "
ims KauieriiiK suouiii ne neia in tnis
marvelous city of Chicago, whence
the stet-l
bands of commerce reach
out in every direction, over plain and
river and mountains, to almost bound-
less distance, bringing the richest
treasures of a continent to lay them
at your feet. Here it was that the
righteous uprising against slavery
and Bourbonism, sprung from the
nation's conscience, raised its first
triumphant voice when Abraham Lin-
coin was nominated. And here, again.. has stood preeminent, and that man training and has always shown him.
with notes of thunderous acclaim, en-ps T;1(;( dore Roosevelt. Against cor-',df master 0 the situation and com
raptured throngs greeted the naming I nl))tion in every form he ha8 set his;petent to niake more honorable and
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of Roosevelt,
' Again Ohio presents a candidate to
the National Republican Convention.
In seven stubbornly contested presi
dential campaigns, sons of her sacred
soil have led the embattled Republi
can hosts to victory. The Buckeye
State has assurely contributed her
share of statemen and generals for
the upbuilding of the Nation. But that
of which we are prouder still is her ; plenty. 1 he story of his achieve
stalwart citizens the mightiest ments will make up one of the brigh
buhvark of the Republican in every! test pages' in the history of this-or
commonwealth made up of Ameri
ca'sfree yeomen, ever ready to, re
spond to the tocsin of alarm in days
of peril, or to crush1 corruption when
ever it raises its menacing head.
Frointhis citizenship Ohio, in the su
preme emergency of the Civil War,
sent ' forth more than two hundred
thousand soldiers for our country's
defense, a formidable array easily
surpassing in numbers the world-conquering
legions of imperial Caesar,
and even larger than any army ever
mustered by Britain for the tented
field. But transcendent above all is
the fact that Ohio is one of a match
less union of States linked together
in everlasting bonds of amity and
constituting an empire wonderful in
power and almost immeasurable in
extent, F.ach sovereign State alone
would occupy but a subordinate place
in the great current of the world's
events, but when represented by one
of forty-six bright stars on a field
of stainless blue, every one forms
part of an emblem of union and of
strength more beautiful far than the
most brilliant constellation in the
heavens.
The most perplexing questions of
today arise from the bountiful devel
opment of our material wealth. Such
a development can not occur without
the creation of inequalities and dang-
ers to the social fabric, I most stren
uously deny that the American busi
ness man or the American citizen
cherishes lower standards than the
citizens of any other country. The
American people are by no means dc-( with academic dissertation or hollow
praved. But by reason of their busyiWOrds. He has been imbued with the
absorption in varied pursuits and of
the glamour which attend success in
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Tiie Astorian definitely settles the matter, and $
man who is known to be of a very progressive J
great, undertakings, questionable
methods have been able to engraft
,.,,. ....,, , hll,:ns, of the i
c0lllltr,-. r,.h rewards have too frc-!
Qntly ix-en gained by some who are
none too scrupulous. Monopoly, dis-
honesty and fraud have assumed at
prominence which calls for the earn-!
est attention and condemnation of!
every man who truly loves the Re
public, Against all these abuses and in the
work for restoring old ideals of hon
esty and equality, as well as for high-,
er standards ot civic duty, one man
i;ice wiui Knm ueiermuiumH, piumpi
and fearless in action and with that
intelligent leadership which has as
sured the establishment of a better
era in vhich the strong and the weak
i'.likc must submit themselves to the
impartial execution of the law. There
was- need of a strong, courageous
spirit to restrain those destructive
forces which have asserted them
selves in this time of growth and
:ny age and will prove that today,
as in any critical hour of social un
rest or of danger, the man will ap-
pear who can grapple with" the emergency,
Who so fit to take up the tasks
which this wondrous generation de
niands should be wisely and impart
ially performed as his great War
Secretary? Since the day when, in
Benjamin Harrison's administration,
these two first met, the one as So
licitor General, the other as a meni
ber of the Civil Service Commission,
they have been bound together by
like ideals and aims, by close ties of
friendship, and by the exchange of
mutual counsel, each with his own
individuality and characteristics keep
ing constantly in view the ennobling
vision of better and a greater Amer
ica. They have not been satisfied that
the Temple of Prosperity should be
decked alone by the jewels of the
fortunate and the opulent, but have
insisted that it should still more
abound in trophies which commemo
rate the enforcement of even-handed
justice and the maintenance of that
equal opportunity which spreads
hope and blessing even to the humbl
est home Since the day when, less
than thirty years of age, Mr. Taft de
nounced, with burning words, a mem
ber of his profession who had been
guilty of flagrantly vicious practice
and had demoralized the community,
he has ever been associated with the
cause of true reform with that re
form which will not content itself
spirit of action. His advocacy of sound
er conditions is a part of himself. It has
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always been based upon unswerving
intccrlty and the courage to speak the
truth. he understands it. on all oe-
casions. no matter how influential or
POrfuI the ev.ls which he may at-
tack.
No one has ever yet assumed the
presidential chair who had received a
more ideal preparation for the duties
of that great office. As Judge in
State and Federal courts, as Solici
tor General, as Governor of the Phil
ippines, as 'Secretary of War, which
has included the work of Colonial
Secretary and Director of National
r..ui: i, w ..u,a t,;
beloved the American name, inere
have been no years of inaction in his
career. He has been continuously en
gaged in weighty tasks and each suc
cessive service has been characterized
by an increasing influence upon most
vital ruiestions.
In the larger sphere of world poli
tics, we are entering into new and
closer bonds with all the nations of
the earth. Who is better qualified
than he to lead America to her true
position in this later day when the
boundaries established in the centur
ies past are becoming less distinct and
kingdoms and races are beginning
to realize that they have all one com
mon destiny? -
Secretary Taft has exceptional
SEAWALL CHRONI
CLES OF INTEREST
ANOTHER PROMINENT CITL
ZEN OPFERS MEATY CON
CLUSIONS IN REGARD TO
THE LEADING ENTERPRISE
AFOOT IN THIS CITY.
The Morning Astorian is pleased
to offer the following interesting
statement anent this very popular
subject, from one of the leading pro
prietary citizens of Astoria, who is
qualified tn all ways to express an
opinion which is entitled to consider
ation and respect; and it will be glad,
at all time, to receive just such dis
cursive communications from any and
all, who may speak "by the card":
"Astoria, Or., June 18, 190a
"To the Editor of the Astorian:
"A few days ago I noticed a report
made by Mr. A. M. Smith and Mr.
Abercrombie on the seawall proposi
tion in which they gave some figures
saying what it would cost, but they
did not state whether it was an engi
neer's estimate or an expert's, so I
presume it was their own estimate.
"It is well known by everybody
that the seawall is only a part of the
proposition; if the seawall is built,
we would have to at once fill up the
tide flats and streets inside of the sea
wall, as this would be necessary for
sanitary protection.
"Aftr talking with two engineers
who understand that kind of work, I
have been told by them that the
building of the seawall and the filling
ni of the tide flats and streets inside
would incur an enormous expense,
which, considering the values of the
property at the present time, would
practically result in confiscating the
property.
The benefits claimed for the pro
ject are the permanency of the work;
I do not think that any property
holder would object to the work if we
had a -population sufficiently large to
make the property valuable enough
to pay for the work, and it seems to
me, before we attempt to carry on a
large proposition of this kind, we
ought to wait until we have more
population. Even if the work were all
completed ,as proposed, it wouldn't
bring a dollar more into the town.
"It is claimed by many, that if the
fill were made that the property
would be enhanced in value, but I be
lieve they will find that more depends
upon the location than this proposed
fill, as lots near the postoffice are of
less value than those in the tide flats.
I know that nine-tenths of the prop
erty holders who will have to pay for
the seawall, do not want it at the
present time, for the reason that it
would take their property to pay for
the improvement, and I understand
that this improvement is wanted by
a minority of people who will not
have to bear the burden of paying
for it. Respectfully submitted,
"C. G. FLAVEL."
familiarity with conditions in the dis
tant Orient in Japan, in China. We
may rest assured that our traditional
friendship with Japan will continue.
Moreover, the future promises that
the slumbering millions of China will
awake from the lethargy of ages, and
she will realize that the morning
dawn of fresher life and wider out
look comes to her across the "broad
Pacific from free America, her truest
friend and helper. We covet no por
tion of her territory. We desire from
her, as from all nations, increased
good will and that mutual respect
which knows neither bluster nor
cringing on either side. Thus in this
new area of larger relations, Secre
tary Taft with his comprehension of
national and international subjects,
would furnish a certainty of peace
and sustained prestige. Under him,
at home and everywhere, this mighty
people would have an assured confi
dence in the secure development and
progress of the country and would
rest safe in the reliance that a Chief
Executive was at the helm who, in
peace or in war, would guide the
destinies of the nation with a strong
hand and with a gentle, patriotic
heart.
And so today, in the presence of
more than ten thosand,. and with the
inspiring thought of the well-nigh
ten thousand times ten thousand who
dwell within our borders, I nominate
for the presidency that perfect type
of American manhood, that peerless
representative of the noblest ideals
in our national life, William H. Taft.
of Ohio. "
PERSONAL MENTION
L. F. Buck, traveling representative
for the Portland Flouring Mills was
in the city yesterday on business for
his company, and incidentally took in
the great Philharmonic concert last
evening to his complete enjoyment