Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1888-08-31
Republican Platform.

at the NepuDiican convention held
at Charleston last week:
The Republicans of Yves. Virgin
ia, represented by their delegates in
State Convention assembled, cor
daily endorse the full and manly
declaration of Republican princi-
pies presented to the country by
the Republican National Conven-
tion of 1888. In the wholesome
doctrine of Protection to American
industries and American labor, we
reco2 nZe the conservation of every
legitimate American interest. the
development of every latent Amer
lean energy, the safeguard of every
American home. 1t is this policy
which has enabled the American
employer to pay wages above the
foreign standard, and if this policy
were fairly supported at the custom
houses and the laws strengthened
where they are weak or open the
way to fraud, the Beneficial effect
would at once be felt by the Ameri-
can wage earners.
We favor protection TO so called
raw materials" as well as to man
ufactures, to coal, iron ore, lumber
salt and wool; to every product of
the farm rs wellas fthe workshop,
for we recognize in each and all of
them American intelligence and
American labor, and we are unwil-
ling that any American shall be
robbed of a fair return for the ben
eft of foreign producers. We OPP
all other measures aiming to degrade
American labor, which is entitled
10 liberal return for the wealth it
creates, and we endorse the vote of
West Ni"ginia's only Representa-
tive in Congress against that bill.
We congratulate our fellow Protec-
tionists of the United States that
in our united and uncompromising
hostility to Free Trade, we are met
with the united and uncompromis-
ing hostity of the British press and
the British manufacturing interests;
and we are as determined to repcl
the industrial assault of to-day as
the fathers and founders of the Re
public were to rePel the armed as
sault of 70. Invasion is invasion,
under whatever guise, and we call
upon the patriotic men of West
Virginia to join with us to resist the
British effort to subjugatc the pro-
dnctive energies of America.
Our firm belief in the right and
the duty of the Government to pro-
tect the people in every possible
way impels us to demand at the
hands ofthe representative of the
people legislation to restrict that
immigration which cuts into the
wages of the American laborer and
so deprives him in part of that pro
lection which protective tariff is
designed to afford him. We there
fore favor tax on adults of not less
than 500 on every immigrant, not
tor the revenue for the Government.
but for protection of American la
Dor.
We would exempt the immediate
families or members of the immedi
ate famil es OF those who are or
may become residents in this coun-
try. We are opposed to the land
ing of contract laborers and pau
pers on any terms, and until more
stringent laws can be passed to
deal with the whole subject of i'm.
migration, we demand an honest
and searching administration of ex-
listing laws relating thereto.
We favor National aid to com
mon schools, and we charge upon
the Democratic party the defeat of
measure that would have given
to the free school system of West
Virginia more than a million dol
lars from an overlooking National
treasury.
We favor such legislation, Ma
tional and State, as shall make inn
possible those combinations of cap
ital known as trusts, whereby pri-
vate enterprise is paralyzed an trib.
ute wrung from millions of helpless
consumers.
The sugar trust, the whisky trust
and the Standard Oil Trust-all
Cleveland machines, are rank ex-
amplcs of the kind of combination
which we would legislatc outofex
istence.
We deprecatc the determination
of the Democratic leaders in West
Virginia to obscure the real issues
of the day by raising war issues.
reviving old prejudiccs and animos-
tiles and arraying against each other
neighbors who are every year coming
closer togetherin a common effort to
place West Virginia among the
rich and powerful common wealths
of this Union. We refer the voters
of West Virginia TO the late Demo.
cratic State Convention, the address
Of the chairman Of that convention.
a Senator Of the United States; to
the platform Of that convention pre-.
sentcd by another Senator Of the
United States; 20 speeches deliver
ed on the floor Of that convention.
to speeches made i'm ratification of
the work Of that convention i'm an
swer to these unworthy tactics Of
desperate politicians, we, the Re.
publicans ofthis State invite the PEG.
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