. Golden jubilee of the Republican Party; the celebration in Philadelphia, June 17, 18 and 19, 1906. was pouring out argument and advice, which someof us less intelligent speakers in the east immediately appropri-ated to our own use. (Applause.) Since that hour he has beenmarching on, the Governor of Iowa, Secretary of the Treasury,and I take great pleasure not in introducing, for he needs no in-troduction in this country, in presenting to this audience the Sec-retary of the Treasury, Leslie M. Shaw. The audience arose andreceived Secretary Shaw with great enthusiasm: Address by Secretary Lesl
. Golden jubilee of the Republican Party; the celebration in Philadelphia, June 17, 18 and 19, 1906. was pouring out argument and advice, which someof us less intelligent speakers in the east immediately appropri-ated to our own use. (Applause.) Since that hour he has beenmarching on, the Governor of Iowa, Secretary of the Treasury,and I take great pleasure not in introducing, for he needs no in-troduction in this country, in presenting to this audience the Sec-retary of the Treasury, Leslie M. Shaw. The audience arose andreceived Secretary Shaw with great enthusiasm: Address by Secretary Leslie M. Shaw. The Republican Party, is and ever has been, progressive. Ithas gone on solving problem after problem, and while it has some-times hesitated and occasionally tripped, it has neither fallen norfled. It has met its every responsibility and fulfilled its everypledge. It is impossible to appreciate the steadfast, onward courseof the Repubhcan Party without comparison with the record ofour political opponents. The first complete victory achieved 162 GOLDEN JUBILEE OF THE REPUBLICAN LESLIE M SHAW,SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY by the Democratic Party in a third of a century was in 1892-That victory was won in a clean-cut, good-faith, and honor-able issue between the cardinal doctrines of free trade and protection. The opposition platformof that year declared it to be a fun-damental principle of the DemocraticParty that the Federal Governmenthas no constitutional power to im-pose and collect tariff duties exceptfor purposes of revenue only. TheRepublican Party, on the contrary,referring to the universally recog-nized prosperity of the country,gave just credit to the cause thereofby the use of this language: We maintain that the pro-sperous condition of our country islargely due to the wise revenue legisla-tion of the last Republican the issue was joined. Our opponents appealed to theAmerican people as consumers, and commiserated them. Weappealed to the Amer
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