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PRESIDENT ROOSEYVET9S LETTER OF AGGEPTINCE1 DOCUMENT WAS MADE PUB LIC THIS MORNING. Questions of Vital Importance Dis cussed By The Chief Executive! Who Is An Adept In The Art of Self Praise-The Party Position set Forth. President Roosevelt's letter of ac ceptance was made public this morn ing, in which he discussed at length party issues and party principles. The following extracts will show the general trend of the document: Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 12, 1904. Hon. J. G. Cannon, Chairman of the Notification Committee, My Dear Sir: I accept the nomi nation for the presidency tendered me by the Republican National con vention, and cordially approve the platform adopted by it. In writing this letter there are certain points upon which I desire to lay especial stress. It is difficult to find out from the utterances of our opponents what are the real issues upon which they propose to wage this campaign. It is not unfair to say that, having abandoned most of the principles up on which they have insisted during the last years, they now seem at a loss, both as to what it is that they really believe, and as to how firmly they shall assert their belief in any thing. In fact, it is doubtful if they venture resolutely to press a single issue; as soon as they raise one they shrink from it and seek to explain it away. Such an attitude is the probably inevitable result of an ef fort to improvise convictions; for .when thus improvised, it is natural that they should be held in a ten tative manner. The party pow in control of the government is 'troubled by no such difficulties. We do not have to guess at our own convictions, and then cor rect the guess if it seems unpopular. The principles wb'ch w, profess are those in which we believe with heart and soul and strength. Many men differ from us; but they cannot ac cuse us of shiftness or insincerity. The policies which we have pursued are those which we earnestly hold as essential to the "national welfare and repute. Our actions speak even louder than our words for the faith that is in us. We base our appeal upon what we have done and are' doing, upon our record of adminis tration and legislation during the last seven years, in w'hich we have had complete contrc of the government. We intend in the future to carry on the government in the same way that we have carried it on in the past. A party whose members are radi cally at variance on mo'st vital is sues, and if united at all, are only united on issues where their attitude threatens widespread disaster to theI whole country. cannot be trusted to govern in any matter. A party which, with facile ease, changes all its convictions before election can not be trusted to adhere with tenacity to any principle after election. A party fit to govern must have con victions. in 1896 the republican par ty came into power, and in 19oo it retaine'd' poppr ora certain definitet pledges, each of which was scrupu lously fulfilled. But in addition to meeting and solving the problems which were issues in these campaigns, it also became necessary to meet other problems which arose after election; and it is no small part of our claimn to public confidence that these were solved with the same suc cess that had attended the solution of those concerning which the battles at the polls were fought. In other words, our governmental efficiency proved equal not only to the tasks that were anticipated, but to doing each anticipated task as it arose. When the contest of 1896 was de cided, the question of the war with Spain was not an issue. When the contest of 1900 was decided, the* shape which the Isthmian canal ques tion- ultimately took could not have been foreseen. But the samie qualities which enabled those respon~sible for making and administering the laws at Wahngon to deal succ'esfully with the tariff and the currency enabled them also to deal with th( Spanish war; and the same qualitie: which enabled them to act wisely it the Philippines. and in Cuba, also en abled them to do their duty as re gards the problems connected witi the trusts, and to secure the build ing of the Isthmian canal. Ve ar< content to resi our case before th< .-merican people upon the fact tha to adherence to a lofty ideal we hav< added proved governmental efficien Cv. Therefore, our promises may surely be trusted as regards any is sue that is now before the people and we may be equally trusted tc deal with any problem which may hereafter arise. The men who fought for union an< for liberty in the years from 1861 t< 1865 not only saved this nation fron ruin, but rendered an inestimable ser vice to all mankind. We of the Uni ted States owe the fact that today we have a country to what they did and the nation has decreed bi lav -.hat no one of them, if iisabled fron earning his own living, shall lac the pension zo which he is entitle! not only as a matter of gratitude. ba a. a matter of justice. It is the pol icy of the republican party. steadilN continued: through many years, t< treat the veterans of the Civil war ir a spirit of broad liberality. The or der in question carried out this pol icy, and is justified not merely or legal grounds, but also on groundE of public morality. It is a matte: of common knowledge that when th( average man who depends for hii wages upon bodily labor has reache< the age of sixty-two his earning abil ity is in all probability less by hal than it was when he was in his prime and that by the time he has reache< the age of seventy he has pr-babI lost all earning ability. If there i: doubt upon this point let the doubte: examine the employees doing manua labor in any great manufactory or or any great railroad, and find out hov large is the proportion of men be tween the ages of sixty-two an< seventy, and whether these men ar< still employed at the, highly pai< tasks which they did in their prime As a matter of fact, many railroadE pension their employees when they have reached these ages, and in na tions where old age pensions prevai they always begin somewhere be tween the two limits thus set. I' is easy to test our opponents' sincer ity in this matter. The order it question is revocable at the pleasur< of the Executive. If our opponent: come into power they can revoke thit order and announce that they wil tYeat the veterans of sixty-two tc seventy as presumably in full bod iy vigor and not entitled to pensions Will they now authoratively statn that they intend to do this? It so we accept the issue. If not, ther we have the right to ask why they raise an issue, which when raised they do not venture to meet. As for what our opponents say it reference to capital and labor, in dividual or corporate, here again al' we need by way of answer is to poin1 to what we have actually done, anc say that 'if continued in power w< shall continue to carry out the pobecs we have been pursuing, and to exe cute the laws as resolutely and fear lessly in the it.-. as we have ex ecuted them in the past. The action of the attorney-genera in enforcing the anti-trust and inter state commerce laws, and the actior of the last congress in enlarging the scope of the interstate commerce law and in creating the department o: commerce and labor, with a bureat of corporations, have for the firs1 time opened a chance for the nationa government to deal intelligently an< adequately with the questions affect' ing society, whether for good or foi evil, because of the accumulation o: capital in great corporations, and be cause of the new relations cause< thereby. These laws are now be. ing administered with entire effcien' cy and as, in their working, need it shown for amendment or addition t< them,-whether better to secure th< proper publicity, or better to guaran tee the rights of shippers, or in an! direction-this need will be met. I is now asserted "that the commot law, as developed, affords a completi legal remedy against monopolies.' But there is no common law of th4 United States. Its rules can be en forced only by the state courts an< noffiers Nro feal court or offie: could take any action whatever under I them. It was this fact, coupled with the inability of the states to control trusts and monopolies. which led to the passage of the federal statutes known as the Sherman anti-trust act and thle interstate commerce act: and it is nly through the cxercise oi the powers ciinferred by these acts. and by the statutes of the last congress .upplementing them, that the nation al government acquires any jurisdic tion over the subject. To say that action against trusts and monopolies should be limited to the application 1 the common law is equivalent to saying that the national government should take no action whatever to regulate them. Agriculture is now, as it always has been. the basis of civilization. The six million farms of the United States, operated by men who, as a class, are steadfast, single-minded, and industrious, form the basis of all the other achievements of the Ameri can people and are more fruitful than all their other resources. The men on those six million farms receive from the protective tariff what they most need, and that is the best of all possible markets. All other classes depend upon the farmer, but the farmer in turn depends upon the mVket they furnish him for his pro duce. The annual output of our ag - ricultural products is nearly four - billions of dollars. Their increase in value has been prodigious, al though agriculture has languished in most other countries: and the main factor in this increase is the corre sponding increase in our manufact ur-i,g industries. American farmers - have prospered because the growth E of their markets has kept pace with the growth of their farms. The ad I ditional market continually furnished for agricultural products by domes tic manufacturers has been far in ex - cess of the outlets to other lands. An export trade in farm products is nec essary to dispose of our surplus; and the export trade of our farmers, both in animal products and in plant pro ducts has very largely increased. Without the enlarged home market to keep this surpus down, we should I have to reduce production or else feed the world at less than the cost of production. In the forty years ending in igoo the total value of farm value increased twelve and a half billions of dollars; the farmers gaining even more during this ner iod than the manufacturer. Long ago over-production would have checked the marvelous development of our national agriculture, but for the steadily increasing demand for American manufacturers for farm products required as raw material's for steadily expanding ' industries. The farmer has become dependent upon thg manufacturer to utilize that portion of his produce which does not go directly to food supply. In 19oo fifty-tw'o per cent. or a little over half, of the total value of the farm products of the nation was consumed in manufacturing industries as the raw materials of the factories. Evi dently the manufacturer is the far mer's best friend and most direct customer. Moreover, the American manufacturer purchases his farm sup Iplies almost exclusively in his own country. Nine-tenths of all the raw materials of every description con surmed in American manufactories are of American production. The mann facturing establishments*tend steadily to migrate into the heart of the great agricultural districts. The center of the manufacturing industry in 1900 was near the middle of Ohio, and ii is moving westward at the rate of about thirty miles in every decade; and this movement is invariably ac companied by a marked ncrease in the value of farm lands. Local causes, notably the competition between new farm lands and old farm lands, tend here and there to obscure what is happening; but it is as certain as the operation of any economic law, that in the country as a whole. farm values will continue to increase as the part nership between the manufacturer and farmer grows more intimate through further advance of indus-i trial science. The American man ufacturer nedver could have placed: this nation at the head of manufac turing nations of the world if he had not had behind him, securing him every variety of raw material, the exhaustless resources of the Ameri .can farm, developed by the skill and ithe enterprise ,of intelligent and ed-i (Ctnuedn on Third Page.) Taken With Cramps. W,Xm. Kirmse. a mernber of the brd%e gang working near Litthport was taken suddeniv ill Thursday night with cramps and a kind of cholera. His case was so sever tha; he had to have the members of the crI Iai upon him and Mr. Gi-ffor-, a i called an( consulted. H.l e told them he had a medicine in the orm of Chamberlain's C,lic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy that he thought world help him and accordingly ;ev eral doses were administered with the res0t that the fellov wa-z ablen be around next day. The incident speaks quite highly of Mr. Gifford's redicin-es.-Elkoder, Iowa, Argus. This remedy never fails. Keep it in your home, it may save your life. For sale by Smith Drug Co., Newber r-: Prosperity Drug Co., Prosperity. Commenced Business N ROBERT NORRIS, General Agent, I HAMS a Not those mentic but a fresh lot ju1 Kingans Relic Kingans Port Kingans Drie< Try our Pinac DAVENPORT & Phone 110. A CANE We hereby annour candidate for more-b~ *ourselves to satisfy a +MAYES' DRi We believe in wol We have a grea1 goods that we half their value. l Oc. Muslins and I 1 2 I-2c Muslins ari 15c. Muslins and L 20c Muslins and L 25c. Muslins and L White Damask Waistii gg66 66 gg 5566 Ladies', Misses' and C reduced from $3.00 to $1.25; from $1.50Oto 95 from 75c. to 49c. The above are not se goods. Yours tru1s S. diW Corn must have a sufficient supply of Potash in order to develop into a crop. No amount of Phosphoric Acid or Nitrogen can compen sate for a lack of potash in fertilizers [for grain and all other crops]. We shall be glad to send free to any farmer ourlittlebook which contains valu able information about soil culture. GERIAN KALI WORKS, New York-98t namau Street. or Atlanta. Ga.-22,' So. Broad t early Forty Years Ago Not the largest --not the oldest but, by reason of its peculiar legal organization, the strongest life m surance company in the world. The Pacific Mutual Life writes in the plainest terms the most lib eral policy sold. In taking life insurance it is not estimates (guesses) that the 1peo ple want but Guarantees. Our Guaranteed values, writen, in the policies, are greater than the guarantees of any other company. Its rates are no greater tham those of other old, line companies. To find out all the good th!ns we offer send date of birth to, or, call on her Postoffice, Newbery, S. C.. kGAIN. med heretofore t received. Lble. rs. I Beef Hams. li Flour. , CAVENAUGI Main Street. UDOATE ce ourselves as a tsiness and pledge* .11 customers. JG STORE.+ an's suf frage. * uclionSale! many Summer are offering at awns now 5c. d Lawns now 7c. wns now8lI-3c. awns now lic. wns now 13c. igs 50c., row 35c. 40c., " 28c. 35c., " 221I-2c 25c., " 16 I-3c -ildren 's Oxford Ties $1.90; from $2.00 to c.; from $1.00 to 69c.4 :onds, but first class ~OTEN.