The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-13
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
Minnesota People Can Endorse All
Declarations Herein Expressed.

The representatives of the Republican
party of the state of Minnesota in conven-
ton assembled deplore the depressed con-
dition of American industries under Dem
ocratic misrule by theorists and reckless
and dishonest experimenters in statesman
ship. Discrcdited in foreign diplomacy,
our home industries PROSTATE and our
people idle, there is no aspect of public af-
fairs which a patriot can contemplate
with satisfaction.
We contrast with our present distracted
condition the decades when, under the
guidance of the Republican party, we
were blessed with honorable consideration
abroad and peace and plenty at home;
when wages were high and all our people
contented and happy because prosperous.
The Republican party, which took
labor from the auction block and made it
honorable, and which bases it's great
economic doctrine on the maintenance of
an American standard of wages for
American producers, is today, as always,
the party of all workingmen. We pledge
ourselves in the future as in the past to
such care for the interests and rights of all
classes of our people that law and order
will be maintained; that labor will be as
sured of its just reward, unrobbed by
monopolies and trusts; and industry, Sc
cure from danger, will be again free to re-
sumo it's activity benefcient alike to en-
ployer and wage Garner.
First-We favor protective tariff under
which, upon imports competing with the
products of American labor, duties are
levied equal to the differences between the
wages and labor at home and abroad.
And as to imports, other than luxuries
not so competing, we believe that the
same should be admitted free of duty, so
far as the requirements of the government
may permit. But the principles of reel
procity should be so incorporated in our
tariff laws as to give new and enlarged
markets to the products of this country.
Second-The Republican party believes
in the use of both gold and silver as
money, maintaining the substantial parity
of value of every dollar in circulation with
that of every other dollar 1t believes in
bimetalism and that the restoration of
of the world is absolutely necessary for
business prosperity, proper rates of wages
and the welfare of the people.
Holding these views, we believe it should
be the policy of the United States to do
restoration of silver to the worlds cur
rency.
Third-We demand free ballot and a
fair count, and for every citizen the right,
unmolested, to cast one ballot in any cleo
ton, and to have that ballot honestly
counted as cast. The mission of the Re-
publican party will not be ended until in
every state of the Union all citizens, black
or white, native or foreign born, shall be
equal in the courts and at the ballot box.
The Democratic party, united in nothing
else, was unanimous in the repeal of the
federal election laws, thus openly confess
ing itself the party of fraud.
Fourth-We are opposed to all trusts
and combinations seeking to control or
unduly enhance the price of commodities,
and we are in favor of Grad eating or re-
pressing the same by suitable and effective
laws. The manufacture of Irvine at our
state prison has been and still is most
effective means to protect our farmers
against the monopoly of the Irvine trust.
Fifth-The laboring and industrial
classes are entitled to all proper and
necessary protection, and therefore we are
and have been in favor of laws; % to pro-
tect the health, the life and the limb of all
employees OF transportation, mining and
manufacturing companies; (2) to establish
and maintain boards or tribunals of con-
Citation or arbitration, whereby the dis
agreements and differences between en-
ployers and employees may be settled and
adjusted by peaceful means, without
strikes or lockouts; (S to reclaim and to
preserve the public domain for actual set
tiers under homestead laws
Sixth-All proper and necessary meas
ures should be adopted and enforced to
exclude from our shores all paupers, Grim