Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-08


existing gold standard must be preserved. All
our silver and paper currency must be
maintained 1t parity with gold, and we favor
all measures designed to maintain in,iolably
the obligations of the United States aud all our
money, whether coin, or paper, ut the present
standard, the standard Of the most enlightened
nations of the earth.
PENSIONS.
Veterans of the union army deserve and
should receive fair treatment aud generous
recognition, and whenever practicable should
be given preference in the matter of employ
ment, and the are entitled to the enactment of
such laws as are best calculated to secure the
fufillment Of pledges made them in the dark
days of the coUntry's peril. We denounce the
practice in the pension bureau, so reckleSSly
and unjuStly carried on by the present admins
trati0n of reducing pensions, arbitrarily drop
ping names from the rolls, as deserving of the
severest condemnation OF TIE American people.
FOREIGN Foley.
Our foreign policy should be at all times firm,
vigorous and dgnfcd, and all our interests in
the western hemisphere carefully watched and
guarded The Hawaiian islands shoald be
controlled by The Un ted States and no fol eign
power should be permitted to Interfere with
them: the Nicaraguan canal should be built
owned and operated by the United States; and
by the purchase of the Danish Islands we
should secure IL proper and much needed naval
station in the West Indies.
The masSacres in Armenia have aroused the
deep sympathy and Just indignation of the
American people and we believe the United
States should exercise all the influence it can
properly exert to bring these atrocities to an
end. In Turkey American residents have been
exposed to the gravest dangers and American
property destroyed. There, and everywhere,
American citizens and American property must
be absolutely protected at all hazards and at
any cost.
We reassert the Monroe doctrine in its full
extent and we reaffirm the right eff the United
States to give the doctrine effect by responding
to the appeals Of any American state for our
friendly intervention in case of European ell
croachmcnt. We have not interfered, and
shall not interfere, with the existing possessions
OF any EurOpeOn power in this hemisphere, but
these possessions must not, on any preteXt, be
extended. We hopefully look forward to the
eventual withdrawal of the European powers
from this hemisphere and to the ultimate union
OF n | the English speaking part of the continent
by the free consent of its inhabitants.
From the hour of achieving their own indie
dependence the people of the United States
have regarded with sympathy the struggles of
other American people to free themselves from
European domination. We watch with deep
and abiding interest the heroic battle OF the
Cuban patriots against cruelty and oppression,
and our best hopes 90 out for their full success
of their determined contest for liberty. The
government of Spain having lost control of
Cuba and being unable to protect the property
OF resident American citizens or comply with
Its treaty obligations we believe the govern
ment of the United States should actively use
its influence and good offices to restore peace
and give independence to the island.
NAVY AND DEFENSES.
The peace and security of the republic and
the maintenance of its rightful influence among
the nations of the earth demand Il naval power
commensurate with its position and RESPONSE
bility. We, therefore, favor the continued en-
largement of the navy and the complete system
OF harbOr and S"ac0aSt defenSeS.
IMMIGRATION.
For the protection of the quality of our
American citizenship and of the wages Of the
WOrgngmen against the fatal competition OF
low priced labor, we demand that the mmigra-
ton laws be thoroughly enforced and so cX-
tended as to exclude from entrance to the
United States those who can neither read nor
write.
CIVIL SERVICE.
The civil service law was placed on the
statute book by the republican party, which
has always sustained it and we renew our re-
pcated declarations that it shall be thoroughly
and honestly enforced and extended wherever
practicable.
ON THE BALLOT.
We demand that every citizen of the United
States shall lac allowed } cast one free ballot
and that such ballot shall be counted and re-
turned as cast.
ON LYNCHING.
We proclaim our unqualified condemnation
OF the unciviiZed and barbarouS practice web
known as lynching or killing human beings,
suspected or charged with crime, without the
process of law.
NATIONAL ARBITRATION.
We favor the creation of n tiOnal board of arbi-
tration to settle and adjust differences which
may arise between employer and employees ell.
gagged In interstate commerce.
FREE HOMESTEADS.
We believe in All immediate return TO the free
urge the passage by congress of the satisfactory
free homestead measure which has already
passed the house and is now pending in the
senate.
ON THE TERRITORIES.
We favor the admission of the remaing terri
tories at the earliest practicable date, having
due regard to the interests of the people of the
territories and of the United States All fed
eral officers appointed for the territories should
Be elected from bona fide residents thereof and
the right of self government should be accorded
so far as practicable.
We believe the citizens of Alaska should
nave representation i'll the congress of the
United States to the end that all needed legIsla-
tion may be intelligently effected.
ON TEMPERANCE.
We sympathize with all wise and legitimate
efforts to lessen and prevent the evils of in
temperance and promote morality.