Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-06-25
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

SemDled Dy tnelrs representatives III natlonai
| convention, appealing for popular as well as
historical justification of their claims to match
less achievements during thirty years of re-
publican rule. earnestly and confidently ad
dress themselves to the awakened intelligence,
experience and conscience OF their countrymen
in the following declaration Of facts and princi.
pies: "For the first time since the civil war
| the American people have witnessed the Gala
mitous consequences of full and unrestricted
democratic control of the government. 1t has
| been a record of unparalleled incapacity, dis
honor and disaster. In administrative man
agement it has ruthlessly sacrificed indspen-
sable revenue, entailed unceasing deficit, eked
out ordinary current expenses with borrowed
money, piled up the public debt by $262, 900. 600
in time of peace, forced an adverse balance OF
| trade, kept perpetual menace hanging over the
| redemption fund, pawned American credit to
alien syndicates, and reversed all measures
and results OF successful republican rule. In
the broad effect Of its policy it has precip;ated
a panic, blighted industry and trade with pro-
longed depression, closed factories, reduced
work wages, halted enterprise and crippled
American production while stimulating foreign
| production for the American market Every
consideration OF public safety and individual
| interest demands that the government be res
! cued from the hands of those who have shown
| themselves incapable to conduct it without dis
aster at home and dishonOr abroad, and shall
be restored to the party which for thirty years
administered 1T with unequalled success and
prosperity. And in this connection we heartily
endorse the wisdom, patriotism and success OF
the administration OF President Harrison.
PROTECTION AND RECIPROCITY.
| We renew and emphasize our allegiance to
the policy Of protection as the bulwark OF AM
erican industrial independence and the founda-
ton Of American development and prosperity.
This true American policy taxes foreign pro-
| ducts and encourages home industry; it puts
| burden OF revenue Oh foreign goods 1t secures
the American market for the American pro-
ducrr; it upholds the American standard OF
wages for the American workingman; II puts
the factory beside of the farm and makes the
| American farmer less dependent on foreign de-
mand and price; it diffuses general thrift and
POUNDS the strength OF eace. In its reasonable
application 1t is just fair and impartial equally
opposed to foreign control and domestic mono
poly, to sectional discr imitation and individual
favOritism.
We denOunce the present democratic tariff as
sectional, injurious to public credit and de-
Structive to business enterprise. We demand
such equitable tariff on foreign imports which
come into competition with American pro-
ducts as will not only furnish adequate re-
venue for the necessary expenses OF the gov
ernment but will protect American labor from
! degradation to the wage level of other lands.
We are not pledged to any particular schedules.
The question of rates is a practical question, TO
be governed by the conditions OF time and of
production; the ruling and uncompromising
|
American labor and industry. The country
demands right settlement and then it wants
rest. We believe the repeal of the reciprocity
arrangements negotiated by the last republi-
can administration was IL national calamity,
and we demand their renewal and extension Oh
such terms as will equaliZe our trade with
other nations, remsys restrictions which now
obstruct the sale of American products in the
ports OF other countries, and secure enlarged
markets for the products OF Our farms, forests
and factories. Protection and reciprocity are
twin measures of the republican policy and 20
hand in hand. Democratic rule has recklessly
struck down both and both must be re.estab-
lished. Protection for what we produce; free
admission for the necessares of life which we
do not produce; reciprocal agreements of
mutual interests which gain open markets for
..
Protection builds up domestic industry and
trade and secures our own market for ourselves
reciprocity builds up foreign trade and finds an
outlet for our surplus
We condemn the present administration for
not keeping falh with tee sugar producers of
this country. The republican party favors such
protection as will lead to the production on
American soil OF all the sugar which the Amer
lean people use, and for which they pay other
countries more than $1e0, O0O, 900 annually.
To ali our prOducts-tO those of mine and
field as well as those of shop and factory-to
hemp. towOol, the product of the great ill.,
dustry of sheep husbindry as well as to the
finished woOlens of the mill-we promise most
ample protection.
.. MERCHANT MARINE.
We favor restoring the early American
policy OF discriminating duties for the upbuild-
ing of our merchant marine and the protection
OF our shipping in the foreign carrying trade, 50
that American ships, products of American
labor, employed in American shlpyards, sailing
under the stars and stripes, and manned,
officers and owned by Americans, may regain
the carrying of our foreign commerce.
.- FINANCIAL PLANK.
The republican party is unreservedy fol
sound money. 1t caused the enactment of Law
providing for the resumption of specie pay
ments i'll 1879; since then every dollar has been
as good as gold. We are unalterably opposed
to every measure calculated to debase oul
currency or impair the credit of our, country
We are, therefore, opposed to the free coinage
! of silver except by International agreement
with the leading commercial nations OF the
world, which we pledge ourselves TO promote
and until such agreement can be obtained the
existing gold standard must be preserved. AL
| our silver and paper currency must be
I maintained at parity with gold, and we favor
1 all measures designed to maintain inyiolably
the obligations of the United States and all our
money, whether coin, or paper, at the present
I standard the standard of the most enlightened
nations OF the earth. ..a us .
PENSIONS. ".... ...
Il Veterans of the union army deserve anC
should receive fair treatment and generous
recognition, and whenever practicable SHOULD
4 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
fulfllment of pledges made them in the DARK
days OF the countryS peril We denollnce the