Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-06-30
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM

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The republicans of the United
States in national convention assem-
bled renew their allegiance to the prin-
ciples upon which they have triumphed
in six successive presidential elec-
tions, and congratulate the American
people on the attainment of SO many
results in legislation and administra-
ton by which the republican party
has, after saving the Union, done so
much to render its institutions just,
equal and beneicient, the safeguard
of liberty and the embodiment of the
best thought and highest purposes of
her citizens. The republican party
gained it's strength by quick, faithful
response to the demands of the peo-
pie for the freedom and equality of
all men, for a united nation assuring
the rights of all citizens, for the eles.
vation of labor, for an honest cur
rency, for the purity in legislation,
and for integrity and accountability
in all departments of the government,
and it accepts anew the duty of lead
ing in the work of progress and re-
form.
We lament the death of President
Garfield, whose sound craftsmanship,
long conspicuous in congress, gave
promise of safe and successful adj
ministration, a promise fully realized
during the short period of his office
as president of the United States.
His distinguished successes in war
and peace have endeared him TO the
hearts of the American people.
In the administration of President
Arthur we recognize wise, conserva-
tive and patriotic policy under which
the country has been blessed with re-
markable prosperity, and we believe
his eminent services are entitled to
and will receive the hearty approval
of every citizen.
1t is the first duty of a good gov
ernment to protect the rights and to
promote the interests of its own peo-
pie. The largest diversity of indus !.
try is most productive of general
prosperity, and of the comfort and
independence OF the people.
We therefore demand that the i'm
position of duties on foreign imports
shall be made not for revenue only,
but that in raising the requisite reve-
nues for the government such duties
shall be levied as to afford security
to our diversified industries and pro-
lection to the rights and wages of the
laborers, to the end that active and
intelligent labor, as well as capital,
may have its just award and the Ia
boring man his full share in the ma
tional prosperity. Against the So
called economical system of the dem
ocratic party, which would degrade
our labor to the foreign standard, we
enter our earnest protest. The dem
ocratic party has failed completely to
relieve the people of the burden OF
unnecessary taxation by wise re.
duction of the surplus.
The republican party pledges itself
to correct the inequalities of the tariff
and to reduce the surplus, not by the
vicious and indiscriminate process ot
horizontal reduction, but by sucl
methods as will relieve the tax-paye
without injuring the laborer or th'
great producing interests of the coun
try.
We recognize the Importance o
sheep husbandry in the United States
the serious depression which it il
now experiencing and the DANCE
threatening Its future prosperity, ant
we therefore respect the demands 0
the representative of this importan
agricultural interests for re-adjust
ment of the duty upon foreign woo
in order that such Industry shall hav
full and adequate protection.
We have always recommended th
best money known to the civilized
world, and we urge that an effort b
made to unite all commercial nation
in the establishment of an interna
tional standard which shall fix for al
the relative value of gold and silve
coinage.
The regulation of commerce wit
foreign nations and between the state
is one of the most important preroga
tives of the general government, an
the republican party distinctly an
nounces its purpose to support sue
legislation as will fully and efficientl
carry ont the constitutional power O
congress over interstate commerce
The principle of the public regulatio
or railway corporations is wise an
salutary one, for all classes of pee
| pie, and we favor legislation tha
shall prevent unjust discriminate
and excessive charges for transports
tion, and that shall secure to the pee
pie and to the railways alike, the fa
and equal protection of the law.
, We favor the establishment of
national bureau of labor, the enforce
ment of eight-hour law, wise an
judicious system of general educatio
by adequate appropriation from th
national revenue wherever the sam
is needed. We believe that ever,
where the protection to a citizen {
American birth must be secured t
citizens by American adoption, an
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