The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-05-24
THE HERO Of
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THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
A Strong Declaration for American Pre-
tective System.

A Strong Declaration for American Pre-
tective System.
Chairman Gilbert. Of the committee
on resolutions, read the platform. 1t
was adopted as read, and is as follows
We, the Republicans Of Pennsylvania, in
convention assembled, repeat for the reg
ulation and government of the national
currency the following principles of
finance which were announced by us at
our last state convention, aud which
since then have received the overwhelm-
ing approval of our fellow citizens:
We favor the expansion of the %circula-
ting medium Of the country until the same
shall amount to forty dollars per capita Of
our population, and approve the PROPOSE
ton to issue to national banks notes to
the par value Of the amour of bonds de-
posted to secure their circulation.
We declare that the obligations of the
government should be discharged in
money, approved and current in all civil
lied nations, to the end that a largely in
creased reserve of gold should be grad
ually accumulated and maintained.
We declare our belief to be that no legis-
lation can make our currency meet the
needs Of the American people unless it
conforms to the following u%tterances of
SHN ANSS NVlNAOhs hO ~ Hull l.
can people from tradition and interest ia.
vor bi-metall1sm, and the Republican party
demands the use Of both gold silver as
standard money with such restrictions
and under such provisions to be deter.
mined by legislation, as will secure and
maintain the parity Of values of the two
metals, so that the purchasing and debt
paying power Of a dollar, whether of sill
yer, gold or paper, shall be at all times
equal. The interests OF the producers of
the country, the farmers and w%orkingmen
demand every dollar, paper or coin, issued
by the government shall be as good as any
other.'
THE AMERICAN PROTECTIVE SYSTEM.
The threats and efforts which the Demo-
cratic party now In control of the eXecu-
tive and Legislative departments of the
national government are making to des-
troy the system of protection to American
Industries, have wrecked our manufact-
uring establishments, ruined our en-
ployers, ~beggared our working mon, and
brought distrust upon the honesty of their
proposed legislation.
We denounce the Democratic attack
upon the American protective system, be-
cause its effect already has been to reduce
to idleness two millions of workmen and
values to an amount greater than the ma
tional demands created for the suppression
OF rebels; because it enlarges the free list
only upon products which employ the
greatest number Of American workmen:
because 1t strikes with equal cruelty the
farmer, the miner and the lumberman, the
iron, the glass and the textile worker; be-
cause 1t transfers work from our own
mills, mines and workshops to foreign
countries because it is sectioned and aimed
directly at Northern industries, and fos-
tiers the plantation system and destroys
the; oecause 1t is vicious in its changes from
specific to ad valorem duties in its reduc-
tion of the revenues OF the government by
many millions Of dollars, and it resorts to
war taxes and increased internal and di-
rect taxes to make up the deficiency it
needlessly creates.
We commend and approve efforts of our
senators and members of congress to delay
and defeat the passage Of the legislation
hostile to any American industry, and we
denounce the treatment Of our workmen
by the Democratic committee of the SEN
ate, which, in viola ton Of courtesy and of
all legislative traditions, denied them q
hearing when they desired in a constitu-
tlonal manner to demonstrate against this
destructive legislation.
We denounce the selection Of q southern
Democrat for the secretaryship Of the in
terror as a deliberate betrayal of the well
fare Of our soldiers and sailors and de-
plore the needless prosecutions, suspicious
and privations to which they have been
subjected under that hostile administra-
tion.
AN U~NPATRIoTIC ADMINISTRATION,
We denounce the unpatriotic and un.
American management of onr foreign re-
Iations by the Democratic national admin
lstrRtion which surrenders American treaty
rights in Samoa, and which has uniusti6a-
bly, planted and labored to uphold and re-
store an odious monarchy in Hawaii and
prevent the establishment there Of a sister
republic, in conflict with that principle of
self.government upon which our own re-
public was founded.
We demand the enactment Of such legis.
lation as will prevent the immigration of
paupers, criminals and persons incapable
physically or mentally of ~self-support.
We demand such change in our NATURAL.
cation system as will deny the rights
OF American citizenship to anarchists and
all others hostile to our government and
liberty OF law upon which it is based. The
Cleveland administration has real
lied the worst apprehensions of those who
opposed it's election. 1t has shown its in
capacity to govern alike in foreign and do
nestle %affairs, incapacity to wisely advise
even its W party followers, SO that
Democratic congressman are adrift upon
all questions, wherever the power of
patronage does not compel them to think
alike. Majorities are justly chargeable
with all the affairs of the government, but
majorities which are permitted to drift in
a sea of impotency deserves the contempt
Of all thoughtful citizens.