The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-17

ument We're furnished by individual mem
hers of the Committee.
The preamble was stated to read as fol-
lows:-
1.-The Republicans of the United States
assembled, by their esentatives, in
National Convention, appealing for the
popular and historical Justification OF
their claim to The bitter fruits Of four
years of Democratic control as well a.
the matchsess achievements of thirty
years Of Republican rule, earnestly. and
confidently address themselves to the
awakened intelligence, experience and
conscience of their countrymen in the
following declara ton Of facts and prin-
ciples:-
For the first time since the Civil War
the American people have now witnessed
the calamitous consequences Of full and
unrestricted Democratic control of the
government. 1t has been a record of
unparalleled incapacsty, dishonor and dis
aster. In the administrative manage
ment it has ruthlessly sacrificed indis-
pensable revenue, elsed cut ordinary cur
rent running expenses with borrowed
money, piled up the public debt $262, ,0o0,
900 in time Of peace, forced an adverse
balance of trade, kept perpetual menace
hanging over the redemption fund
pawned American credit to alien syndi-
Gates and reversed tall measures and re-
suits CT successful Republican rule. In
the broad effect of its policy it has pre-
trade, prolonged depression closed fac
tories, reduced work and wages, halted
enterprises, crippled American production
while stimulating foreign production for
the American market Every consider
aion of public safety and individual in
terest demands that the Government
shall be rescued from the hands of those
who have shown themselves incapable of
conducting it without disaster at home
and dishonor abroad, and shall be re-
stored to the party which for thirty years
administered it with unequalled sue
cess and prosperity.
1--WE renew and emphasize our allegiance
to the policy of projections as the bulwark
Of American industrial independence and
the foundation of American deyelopment
and prosperity. This true American policy
taxes foreign products and encourages
nome nome industry; it puts the burden of rev.
American market for the American pro-.
ducer; 1t upnolds the American standard
Of wages for the American workingmail:
II puts the factory by the side Of the farm
and makes the American farmer less de-
pendent on foreign demand and prices: it
diffuses general thrift and POUNDS the
strength of all on the strength of each.
In its responsible application it IS lust.
lair and impartial, equally opposed to for
eign control and domestic monopoly, to
.sectlonad dlscraniila ton and Individual
favOritism.
We denounce the present Democratic
tarln as sectional, partisan and ones. .ded,
and disastrous to the Treasury and de-
structive of business enterprises. and we
demand such an equitable tariff On foreign
imports which come in competition with
American products as VIII not only fur
hlsn adequate revenue for the necessary
expenses of The Government, but viii
protect American labor from the degrada-
5aon nSa ana uae wage level OF other lands.
we are not pledged to any Particular
schedule. The question of rates is a prac-.
tlcal question, to be governed by the con
dlt1ons OF time and Of production. The
the protection and development of A1neri-
can labor and industry The country wants
right settlement and then it wants a
l'he Republican party renews its pledge
for the protection Of all American Indus
tries against foreign competition and de-
e5ares its $ fsath g, that the supremacy Of
the result of such a policy We beleve
in liberal reciprocity and just retail aIion.
and demand the application of the Colder
Rule of commerce TO ali future legisla fian
affecting the tariff ana foreign trade.
We believe the repeal Of the reciproc-
ity arrangements negotiated by the last
Republican administration was national
calamity, and we demand their renewal
ana extenss On on such terms as Will equal
ize our trade with other nations, remove
the restriction that now obstruct the
sale Of American products In the ports of
other countries and secure enlarged mar