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To: robnhood who wrote (38726)	11/17/2000 9:24:00 PM
From: KeepItSimple	Respond to of 436258

>In your wildest dreams, the republicans did not give us wilderness... Republicans were responsible for the formation of the EPA. What else do you want to hear?

To: robnhood who wrote (38726)	11/18/2000 10:09:09 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 436258

I think you are Canadian, so you probably didn't study American history in school. The Republican party was formed in 1854 after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed states which were coming into the Union to decide for themselves the issue of slavery. The Republican party was formed to oppose slavery. The first Republican candidate for President was Horace Greeley, a journalist, who, among other things, favored conservation. The first Republican president was Lincoln, who freed the slaves. The first national park, Yellowstone National Park, was created by a Republican congress in 1872, under a Republican president, Grant. Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior in 1877, who advocated forming the National Forest Service and creating forest reserves, was a Republican. Benjamin Harrison, who created the nation's first federal forest preserve, in Wyoming, and the nation's first federal wildlife preserve, in Alaska, by presidential proclamation, was a Republican. But the President who made conservation one of the primary goals of his administration was Teddy Roosevelt, an ardent conservationist, who placed 150 million acres of land into federal reserves. You probably also don't know that the first woman elected to Congress was a Republican, who was a pacifist and the only Representative to vote against the US entering into World War I and World War II. Or that the Republican party was the first party to adopt women's suffrage as part of its platform. Or that twelve states gave women the vote before the passage of the Equal Suffrage Amendment to the Constitution, all Republican. Or that the Congress which adopted that Amendment was Republican. Or that all the states which voted against that Amendment were Democrat. So now you know. I could go on and on, by the way, but I think I've made my point and won't belabor it.