Do you feel that the cause of human freedom would best advance under the Cuban flag, or under that flag which, whenever it has been lifted, has meant practical progress and real freedom?

Liberty that is the method of human progress. It is toward liberty that all mankind is struggling. And the Nation which, under God, is leading the world to liberty is this American Republic. It is for the realization. of liberty and its fruits that all our laws are passed for the preservation and spread of liberty that all our wars are fought. No American soldier ever died for his country but gave his life for liberty and civilization. It is as the agent and instrument of progressive liberty that the American people have written their record of usefulness and glory; and it is as workers for an ever purer, stronger liberty that the American people take their stand to-day.

THE ERA OF POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE

Extracts from speech opening the Massachusetts Republican campaign delivered at Boston, October 8, 1906.

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HE only question before the American voters in this campaign is good government. There are no issues of policy dividing political parties-no conflict of principle to take the people's minds from the practical process of running the government. The individual and not the party at this moment dominates our political life, and the only question now before the individual American is which party can best administer the people's business.

Everybody is practically agreed on the money question. Everybody is practically agreed on recent legislation. No party struggle is thought of against a single statute enacted by Congress in the last five years. Everybody approved the Pure Food Law, and Democrats as well as Republicans voted for it. Everybody applauds the Meat Inspection Law, and Democrats were as earnest as Republicans in its support. Everybody now sees the statesmanship in the Irrigation Law, and it was passed by Democratic as well as by Republican votes. Everybody rejoiced at the enactment of the bill for free denaturized alcohol, and it became a law without party division. We are in an era of patriotic unity. Such, with all its trials, is the triumph of free government administered by honest men.

The whole people are satisfied with the legislation un

der which the canal is being dug, and no party lines were drawn in its enactment. The enormous majority of the American people demanded the passage of the Railway Rate Bill, and Democrats and Republicans were practically unanimous when it was put upon its passage. The most far-reaching law in its ultimate results since the Civil War, the law creating the Department of Commerce and Labor, had practically the solid support of all parties. There was no party division on the anti-rebate bill or on any law enacted for the correction of trust abuses.

There is no practical proposition by either party to which the other party is opposed with sufficient earnestness to make it an issue. None but free-trade theorists would destroy the protective system on the one hand, and none but protection extremists would deny that tariff schedules must from time to time be readjusted, on the other hand; and it is the safety of American institutions that EXTREMISTS ARE ALWAYS FEW AND THE MODERATEMINDED ARE ALWAYS MANY. There can be no tariff issue because the party in charge of the government will revise tariff schedules as soon as the party in opposition could possibly change them.

The policy of administering just government under equal laws in the Philippines, at least until the Filipinos themselves are prepared for self-government, is admitted as the proper policy by both parties; and what shall be done when that time comes is a consideration so distant that it is not yet an issue. The question as to whether we should have taken the islands in the first place is so many years in the past that it is no longer an issue.

And so it is that the spirit of political independence is

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awakened and the spirit of partizanship slumbers. This is always so in times of national contentment. The spirit of partizanship rules when vital policies are to be determined, and it should rule then; the spirit of independence reigns when the largest question is that of good government, and it ought to reign then. When the Republic is in danger, neither partizanship nor independence is dominant, for then Americans are unanimous.

[Senator Beveridge here detailed the work done by each department of the Government, showing that such work is well done.]

So much for the past achievements and present issues. The questions which we must now answer are great economic and social questions. There must be an everincreasing morality in American business; an ever-increasing care for the life and health of fellow-men; an ever-increasing upbuilding of citizenship. The profits of greed must be replaced by the profits of honesty. Childhood must not be debased by labor enormous fortunes must not be builded at the cost of the degeneration of children who to-morrow must constitute the Nation's citizenship. Classes whose very existence means death to free institutions must be prevented by giving ever larger care to the physical, mental and moral wellbeing of all the children of the Nation, the children of the poor as well as of the rich. A national child labor law is an immediate necessity.

In a word, the making of the Nation must go forward -the making of a nation of strong, sane, pure men and women; a nation of clean and wholesome homes; a nation of people and not of classes; a nation of millions of individuals and not a compact of petty sovereignties; a

nation of brothers and not of groups; a single nation and not forty-seven nations; a single flag and not fortyseven flags; a nation which as the years pass and the centuries roll by increasingly becomes the mightiest uplifting power on all the earth; a nation which shall lead her sister nations along the paths of peace into the green fields and beside the still waters of universal human well-being; a nation which righteousness exalteth and whose God indeed is the Lord.