The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-01
A SOUND DOCTRINE.
A Declaration of the Vital Princi-
pies L pom Which Stands
Great Party.
LABOR AND TARIFF PLANKS,
Statements of Men With the Good
Wishes for the Government
at Heart.
LABOR AND TARIFF PLANKS,
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
The following resolutions were
unanim ously adopted by the repub-
lican convention at Great Falls:
ADMINISTRATORS ENDORSED.
Resolved, That the republicans of
Montana by their accredited repre-
sentatives in state convention as
sembled, ratify the nomination of
Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw
Reid for president and vice-president
of the United States, and endorse
the declaration of principles adopted
by the republican national conven-
tion at Minneapolis.
HOME AND FOREIGN RELATIONS.
That we commend the administra-
ton of President Harrison for the
wisdom and efficiency of its domestic
policy, the frmness and moderation
of its management of our foreign re-
lations and the vital spirit of our
Americanism by which it has been
characterized and adorned.
PROTETTION AND RECIPROCITY.
That we claim our unalterable de-
votion to the principle of protection
to American industries and Ameri-
can labor, and commend the Me
kinley act as a consistent and bene
fcient embodiment of that policy.
1t has created new industries; diver
sifed our productions; furnished en-
ployment for labor and maintained
its wages, preserved the home
market for home products, and re-
tanned for distribution and circua-
ton among our own people the
moneys that would otherwise 90
abroad for the improvement of other
countries and the impoverishment of
our own. BY inaugurating the prin
ciples of reciprocity, it has estab-
lished a system of mutual exchange
with foreign countries of products
and commodities peculiar to each;
and while preserving the integrity
Of the protective policy, it has great
ly increased our foreign commerce
and opened new markets for the
products of our industries.
WOOL TARIFF.
That we demand that the present
duty on wool be maintained, and
condemn the action of the democrats
in the house of representatives by
which they sought to deny to the
wool growers of the west the pro-
lection which they conceded to the
manufacturers of the east.
FREE LEAD.
That we regard with bitter indig-
nation the effort of the democratic
majority in the house to admit lead
ores when found in combination with
silver, free of duty, a measure which,
if it had not been defeated by the re-
publican senate, or vetoed by IA repub
lican president, would have exposed
the miners of Montana to competi-
ton with the poems of Mexico, and
visited disaster and ruin upon that
great industry which is so large a
factor in affording employment to
work;ngmen, in the creation of
wealth and in promoting the pros
perity of our state.
FREE COINAGE.
That we demand the full recogni-
ton of silver as money metal by
the opening of the mints of the
United States to it's free and unlim-
tied coinage; the use of both gold
and silver at their present ratio as
legal tenders; that all paper money
shall be redeemed in gold or silver,
and that thus every dollar, whether
gold, silver or paper, shall be of
equal paying and purchasing power.
We repudiate the insinuation con-
tanned in the national platform of
the democratic party that free coin
age would result in punishable money
and a fuctuating currency" and in
sist that on the contrary the use of
both the money metals would afford
the best assurance of stability, the
best safeguard against unwholesome
initiation and the best measure of the
volume of currency required by the
commercial and industrial interests
of the world We arraign the demo-
cratic party for its hostility to free
coinage as manifested by the action
Of its majority in the house of repre-
sentatives in defeating two bills for
that object. We recognize with
satisfaction the declaration of the
republican party which pledges its
approval of such an act when it shall
have been adopted by the Legislative
department of the government.
MINERAL LANDS.
That we applaud the liberal and
enlightened policy inaugurated by
the republican party of dedicating
the mineral lands upon the public
domain to those who shall explore
and develope them and of expressly
reserving them from grants to rail
road companies; that we demand
that such reservation shall be vigor-
ously enforced, and pledge the re-
publican party to secure that end by
prompt and efficient measures of leg
islatipn: