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trade and commerce, the party respon-
sible for this political platform denies
the competency of the Government to
protect the lives and property of its
citizens against internal disorder and
violence. 1t asSails the judicial monu-
ments reared by the Constitution for
the defense of individual rights and
public welfare, and it even threatens
to destroy the integrity and inlepend-
ence of the Supreme Court, which has
been considered the last refuge of the
citizen against every form of outrage
and injustice. In the face of serious
peril which these propositions embody
it would seem that there could be but
cne sentiment among right-thinking
citizens as to the duty of the hour All
men Of whatever party who believe in
law, and have some regard for the
sacredness of individual and institu-
tional rights, must unite In defense of
the endangered interests of the Nation.
THE TARIFF.
NV hlle the financial issue which has
been thus considered and which has
come as the result of the agitation of
recent years, to occupy a peculiar con-
righteousness, is admittedly of primary
Importance there is another question
which must command equal and serious
attention. Our financial and business
condition is at this moment one of al
most unprecedented depression; our
great Industrial system is seriously
paralyzed Production in many impor-
t2nt branches of manufacture has al
together ceased; capital is without re-
munerative employment; labor is idle;
the revenues Of the Government are in
sufficient to meet it's ordinary and nee
essary expenses. These conditions are
not the result Of accident. They are
the outcome of the American economic
policy, deliberately enacted and applied
It would not be difficult, and would not
involve any violent disturbance of our
existing commercial system, to enact
necessary tariff modiflca tions along the
lines of experience. For the first two
fiscal years Of the so-called Mckinley
tariff the receipts from customs were
$3.50, SO1 $50. At this writing the Will
son tariff Act has been in force for
nearly two full fiscal years, but the to-
tai receipts. actual and estimated, can
not exceed S312, 441.947
INCREASE IN NATIONAL DEBT.
the resources of the Government and
trenching even upon it's gold reserve,
has brought about public distrust and
business disaster. 1t has, too, necessi-
tated the sale of S262, 900, 900 of bonds,
thereby increasing to that extent the
national debt 1t will be remembered
that in no year of more than a quarter
Of a century Of continuous Republican
administrations succeeding the civil
war, when our industries We're disin-
tegrated and all the interests Of busi-
ness were more or less disturbed, was
the national debt increased by a single
dollar. 1t was, on the contrary, stead
lily and rapidly diminished. In such
condition of affairs as this, it is idle to
argue against the necessity of some
sort of change In our fiscal laws. The
Democratic party declares for rem
edy by direct taxation upon selected
class of citizens. 1t opposes any ap-
plication Of the protective principles"
PROTECT AMERICAN INDUSTRIES.
Our party holds that by a wise ad-
justment Of the tariff, conceived in mod
Grafton and with view to stability, we
may secure all needed revenue, and it
declares that in the event of it's restora-
ton to power it will seek to accom-
rlish that result. 1t holds too, that it is
the duty Of the Government to protect
ard encourage in all practicable ways
the development of domestic indus
tries the elevation of home labor and
the enlargement Of the prosperity of
the people. 1t does not favor any form
of legislation which would lodge in the
Government the power to do what peo-
pie ought to do for themselves, but it
believes that it is both wise and patri-
otic to discriminate in favor of our own
material resources, and the utilization,
under the best attainable conditions, of
our own capital and our own available
Skill and industry.
1.-The words of the Republican national
platform on this subject are at once
tt emperate and patriotic. 1t says of the
policy of protection In its reasonable
application it is just, fair and impartial,
equally opposed to foreign control and
Democratic monopolistic monopoly, to
sectional discrimination and individual
fayoritism' We demand such
an equitable tariff on foreign imports
which come into competition with
American products as will not only fur
nish adequate revenue for the necessary
expenses of the Government, but will
protect American labor from degrada-
ton 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 produc-
ton. The ruling and uncompromising
principle is the protection and deveI-
opment Of American labor and industry.
The country demands a right settle
ment and then it wants rest
1.-The Republican party in it's first sue
cessful national contest under Abraham
Lincoln declared in favor of that pol
icy of national exchanges which secures
to the workingman living wages to
agriculture remunerative prices to me-
chanics and manufacturers an adequate
1eward for their skill. labor and enter
prise, and to the nation commercial
prosperity and independence
1.-The principle thus enunciated has
never been abandoned In the crisis
now upon us it must be technically ad-
hered to- In 1892, when by universal
consent we touched the high-water
mark Of our national prosperity, we
were under the same financial system
that we have to-day. Gold was then
the sole standard, and silver and paper
were freely used as the common cur
rency We had tariff framed by Re-
publican hands under the direction of
the great statesman who now logically
leads the contest for restoration of the
policy whose reversal brought paralysis
to so many of our industries and dis
tress upon so large body of our peo-
pie. We We're under the policy Of reci-
procity formulated by another illustri-
ors statesman of the grand American