Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-11-02
~UBLIC PLATFORM.

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. 10 that party we again
allegiance and reafirm faith
in the benefcence of it's 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 it's 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 protec-
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 minis 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 workingmen peacefully
TO contend for their full share of the
product of their toll, we favor a code Of
arbitration or Cancellation, state and ma
tional, by which both employe 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.
monwealth. 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
ton, we believe that the federal anc
state governments should guarantee
such depositors against loss, reimburs
ing themselves by a tax OF the banks. 81
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 o
our farm products on the free list. w,
condemn it's ~disgraceful surrender tt
the rapacious sugar trust, the coal trust
lead trust, and other monopolies. W.
condemn it for its unpatriotic intepre
tation of the pension laws, and for tn
hardshlps which it persists in imposing
on the infeebled veterans. We condemn
it for lowering the stars and stripes ii
Hawaii and for it's attempt to replace
republican government by a ~rejecte;
monarchy.
In the Young Mems Republican leagu'
we welcome an efficient aid for politica
education and party success.
We recommend that at it's next see
sion the legislature enact a law requir
ing state, county and municipal treas
urers to account for an cover into tn
treasury all interest and earnings of tn
public funds.
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