The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-10
HERE is The PLATFORM.
Upon fhis Declaration of Prin-
cipIes Republicans Can Stand.
AND THE PARTY is SURE TO WIN.
Sound Planks on the Tariff and Cur
rency-A Demand for Full Ballot
Southern Outrages Denounced-T
Administration Commended.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, June 10.-The fol-
lowing is the full text OF the platform as
completed by the committee on resolu-
tions:
The representatives OF the Republicans
of the United States, assembled in gen.
eral convention on the shores of the Mis-
sissippi river, the everlasting bond OF an
indestructible republic whose most glor.
ious chapter OF history is the record OF
the Republican party, congratulate their
countrymen on the majestic march Of
with the principles OF our platform of
1888, vindicated by victory at the polls
and prosperity in our fields, workshops
and mines, and make the following dec
laration of principles
We reaffirm the American doctrine OF
protection. We call attention to its
growth abroad. We maintain that the
largely due to the wise revenue legisla-
tion Of the Republican congress.
We believe that all articles which cam
not be produced in the United States, ex-
cept luxuries, should be admitted free of
duty, and that on all imports coming
into competition with the products OF
American labor there should be levied
duties equal to the difference between
wages abroad and at home.
We assert that the prices OF manu-
factured articles of general consumption
have been reduced under the operations
OF the tariff act OF 1890.
We denouDce the efforts OF the Demo-
cratic majority OF the House of Repre-
sentatives to destroy our tariff laws
-piecemeal, as Is manifested by their at
tacks upon wool, lead and lead ores, the
chief products of q number OF states, and
we TASK the people for their judgment
thereon.
We point to the success of the Repub-
lican policy of reciprocity, under which
our export trade has vastly increased and
new and enlarged markets have been
opened for the products OF our farms
and workshops.
We remind the people of the bitter op-
position OF the Democratic party to this
practical business measure, and claim
that executed by Republican admins
tration, our present laws will eventually
give US control of the trade of the world.
The American people, from tradition
and interest favor BIZ -metallism, and the
Republican party demands the use of
both gold and silver as standard money,
with such restrictions and under such
provisions, to be determined by legisla-
tion, as will secure the maintenance of
the parity OF values of the two metals, 80
that the purchasing and debt paying
gold, or paper, shall be at all times equal.
The interests OF the producers of the
country, its farmers and its workingmen,
demand that every dollar, paper, or coin,
ISSUED by the government shall be as
good as any other.
We commend the wise and patriotic
steps already taken by our government to
secure an international conference, to
adopt such measures as will insure a par
ity OF value between gold and silver for
use as money throughout the world.
We demand that every citizen of the
United States shall be allowed to cast one
free and unrestricted ballot in all public
elections, and that such ballot shall be
counted and returned as cast; that such
laws shall be enacted and enforced as
will secure to every citizen, be he rich or
poor, native or foreign born, white or
black, this sovereign right guaranteed by
the constitution.
The free and honest popular ballot, the
just and equal representation of all the
people, as well as their just and equal
protection under the laws, ars the foun-
dation of our Republican institutions,
and the party will never relax its efforts
until the integrity of the ballot and the
purity OF elections shall be fully -guaran-
teed and protected In every state.
We denounce the continued inhuman
outrages perpetrated on American citi-
zens for political reasons in certain
Southern states of the Union.
We favor the extension OF our foreign
commerce, the restoration of our mercan-
tile marine by home built ships, and the
creation OF a navy for the protection OF
our national interests and the honor of
our flag; the maintenance OF the most
friendly relations with all foreign pow
ers; entangling alliance with none; and
the protection of the rights OF our fish
ermen.
We reaffirm our approval of the Monroe
doctrine and believe in the achievement
OF the manifest destiny of the Republic
in its broadest sense.
We favor the enactment of more strin-
gent laws and relations for the restrict
ION of criminal, pauper and contract i'm
migration.
We favor efficient legislation by Con-
gress to protect the life and limbs Of en-
ployes OF transportation companies en-
gagged in carrying on Interstate COM
merce, and recommend legislation by the
respective states that will protect en-
ployes engaged I'm state commerce, in
mining and manufacturing.
The Republican party has always been
the champion OF the oppressed and rec
ognizes the dignity OF manhood, ire
spective OF faith, color or nationality; IL
sympat thizes with the cause OF home rule
in Ireland, and protests against the per-
secution OF the Jews in Russia.
The ultimate reliance OF free popular
Is the intelligence Of the
people, and the maintenance OF freedom
among men. We therefore declare anew
our devotion TO liberty OF thought and |
of speech and press, and APP
prove all agencies and Instrument talities |
which contribute TO the education OF the |
children OF the land; but while insisting |
upon the fullest measure OF religious lib |
erty, We are opposed to any union OF |
church and state.
We resfEifHf our opposition, declared In |
the publican platform oi 1sss, to all |
Of capital organized In |
trusts or otherwise TO control arbitrarily |
the condition OF trade among our citizens.
We heartily endorse the condition OF /
trade among our citizens. We heartily
endorse the action already taken upon |
this subject and ask for such further