Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-06-27

disaster administrative management ruthessy
sacrificed indispensable entd unceasng deficit ked
ordinary expenses with borrowed money piled public
debt by in time forced adverse balance of trade
kept perpetual hanging redemption pawned
American credit alien yndicates reversed all the and
results of successful Republican rule In the broad effect its policy
has pptated panic bghted industry trade with prolonged de-
PRESTON wages enterprise
crippled American production while stimulating foreign production for
Every public safety
ual interest that the
incapable conducting
without disaster home and shonor abroad aud shall be
the which for thirty administered with unequaed
and prosperity And in this connection heartily ndore the wisdom
patriotism Administration
TARIFF.
We emphasize allegiance policy protection
buwar independence
development prosperity policy
foreign industry puts
foreign goods the American for the
producer it uphods the American standard of wages for the Ame
workingman factory
the American farmer less dependent foreign demand and prices
duses general thrift and POUNDS strength all strength
each In its reasonable application fair and impartial equally
opposed to foreign control and domestic monopoly to sectional dmi
nation and individual favoitism
present sectional injurious
the public credit enterprise
such equitable tariff foreign imports which competition
with American only adequate
the necessary the Government but will protect American
labor from degradation the wage
pledged particular The question
question governed prouc-
on the ruling and uncompromsing principle protection
veopmen of American labor and industry country
right settlement and then it wants rest.
RECIPROCITY
We believe repeal reciprocity arrangements negotiated
the last Republican Administration national calamity
mand their renewal and extension such will quaze
trade with other nations the restrictions which obu the
sale of American products the ports
larged products farms
Protection and reciprocity ofRepubcan policy
hand in hand Democratic rule has recky down BOTH
both reesabshed produce
for the life which poduce
gain open
for market others Protection builds domestic industry
and trade and market for ourselves reciprocity
% lore ira de finds on e for OurS urDluS
SUGAR.
We condemn the Administration keeping
producers this The Republican pro-
lection will lead the production soil sugar
which the people they pay
more than $780, annually.
WOODS AND WooIENs
To all producto those the the
of the shop and acOto hemp WOOL the product great
dusty sheep husbandy we'll the finished
MILL promise the ample protection.
MERCHANT MARINE.
We favor restoring the early American policy discriminating
for the upbudg merchant protection
shipping the foreign carrying trade that hps-the
product of American labor employed ship yards sailing
under the Stars and Stripes and manned cered
regain the carrying trade foreign
MONEY
The Republican party unreseedy money 1t caused
the the providing resumption specie payments
in 1896 since then dollar has been good gold
We unateraby opposed
the credit country We therefore opposed
to the free coinage of silver international
leading pledge ourselves to
promote agreement existing gold
preserved paper currency must be
parity gold designed
inoaby the obligations of the
whether paper the present
enlightened nations of the earth.
PENSIONS
The veterans the Union Armies deserve and
recognition practicable
the preference the employment they
the enactment of such laws best
of the pledges made them
We denounce the the
justly carried by reducing pensions
and arbitrarily dropping from rolls deserving
condemnation of the American people
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Our foreign policy should be all vigorous dgnife
all interests the Western hemisphere carefully
guarded The Hawaiian Islands by
States and foreign Power should be permitted them
should United
States and by the purchase the Danish Islands
proper and much needed naval station the West Indies.