Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-19
PLATFORM.

OnQer the banner OF the republican
party the people of the United States,
after a devastating war, took up the
march of progress and for thirty years
enjoyed peace and unexampled pros
perity, now interrupted by the late presi-
Dental election. To that party we again
pledge allegiance and reafirm our faith
in the beneficence Of its principles.
We especially assert our belief in this
cardinal principle of the party: The.
safety Of the republic, the prosperity Of
ts people, the happiness of its homes,
depend upon the maintenance Of Ameri-
can interests against foreign interests.
Therefore, we earnestly, emphatically
oppose the free.trade policy and single
gold standard Of Great Britain. On the
contrary, we demand adequate proteo-
ton for all home industries, north, south,
east and west, so as to maintain the
American standard of wages. To this
end we favor a tariff on foreign goods
competing with domestic goods equal to-
the difference between foreign and
American wages. With the exception
of articles of luxury, goods which by
reason Of climatic or other conditions
cannot be proftably produced in this
country should be admitted free,
BY adherence to the republican prin-
ciple of reciprocity, new and larger mar
kets for our farm products can and
ought to be secured.
Weare opposed to the fiat paper money
doctrine of the populist party, and be-
ieve in a metallic basis for our currency,
consisting of both gold and silver. The,
republican party Of North Dakota de-
mands the use of both these metals as,
standard money. We also demand that,
the mints be opened to the coinage of
silver mined in the United States, with
such restrictions and under such pro-
visions to be determined by legislation.
as will maintain the parity of values of
the two metals. The purchasing and
debt-paying power of every dollar must
always be kept equal to that of every
dollar. Congress should levy a tax on
the importation of silver sufficient to-
protect fully the products of our own
mines.
We are opposed to the repeal of the
state.bank tax, believing that a return
to wildcat money would lower the coun-
try's credit, food the land with worthless
currency, and bring confusion, loss of
confidence, and national disaster.
Believing in the dignity of labor and
the right of the w~orkingmen peacefully
10 contend for their full share of the
product of their toll, we favor a code Of
arbitration or Cancellation, state and ma
tiona], by which both employee and en-
ployer shall be bound, and we recon-
mend that congress so amend the inter-
state commerce law as to provide for the
orderly settlement of disputes between
capital and labor.
By the enactment of the interstate
commerce law, a republican congress
established the right of the federal gov
eminent to regulate and control rail
roads engaged in interstate commerce..
Such control should be freely exercised.
to the end that the people shall not be
compelled to pay interest on watered
stock and fictitious values, but that rates
may be fair and equal for equal services.
The coal beds underlying the western
half of our state will be an important
factor in the development of this com
monweaith. Therefore, we recommend
such legislation as will, by regulating
freight rates, encourage the use of North
Dakota coal, and cause to be spent
among our own people the millions now
yearly sent east for fuel.
For the protection of depositors in ma
tional and state banks, and to prevent
the withdrawal of money from ~circula-s
tion, we believe that the federal and
state governments should guarantee
such depositors against loss, reimburs-
ing themselves by a tax on the banks.
We condemn the present democratic.
administration for opposing the reclpro-
city clause Of the act of 1890. We con-
denim it for placing wool and other Of
our farm products on the free list. We
condemn it's ~disgraceful surrender to
the rapacious sugar trust, the coal trust,
lead trust, and other monopolies. We
condemn it for it's .unpatriotic intepre-
tation of the pension laws, and for the,
hardehlps which it persists in imposing
on the infeebled veterans. We condemn
it for lowering the stars and stripes in
Hawaii and for it's attempt to replace a.
republican government by a rejected
monarchy.
In the Young Mems Republican league
we welcome an efficient aid for political
education and party success.
We recommend that at it's next seq
sion the legislature enact a law requir-
ing state, county and, municipal treas
urers to account for an cover into the
treasury all interest and earnings of the
public funds.