Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-08-21
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM

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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM.
The Republicans of the United
States assembled by the representatives
in national convention appealing for
the popular and historical justification
of their claims to the bitter fruits of
their four years of Democratic control,
as we'll as the matchless improvements
of thirty years of Republican rule,
earnestly and confidently address them
selve to the awakened intelligence, ex-
perience and conscience of their
countrymenin the following declaration
of facts and principles:
For the first time since the civil war,
the American people have now wit
messed calamatous consequences off full
and unrestricted democratic control of
of unparalleled incapacity, disaster and
dishonor. In the administrative man.
agement il has ruthlessly sacrificed
indispensable revenue, eked out ordi-
nary current expenses with borrowed
money, piled up the public debt
s262, ,OOo, ,O0O in time of peace, forced an
adverse balance of trade, kept per-
petual menace hanging over the re-
demption fund, has pawned American
credit Go alien syndicates and reversed
all the4neasures and results of success
full republican rule. In the broad
effect of it's policy it has precipitated
panic, blighted industry and trade with
prolonged depression, closed factories,
reduced work and wages. halted enter
prise and crippled American production
while stimulating foreign production
for the American market. Every con-
sideration of public safety and individ-
ual interest demands that the govern
ment shall be rescued from the hands
of those who have shown themselves
incapable of it without a disaster at
home and dishonor abroad, and shall
be returned to the party which for 30
years administered it with uneuual sue
cess and prosperity.
We renew and emphasize our allegi-
ance to the policy of protection as the
bulwark OF American industrial indie
pendence and the foundation of Amer
lean development and prosperity
This true American policy taxes foreign
productsand encourages home industry;
it puts the burden ofrevenue on foreign
goods: it secures the American market
| for the American producers: it upholds
the American standard of wages for the
American workingman: it puts the
factory by the side of the farm and
makes the farmer less dependent on
foreign demand and price; it diffuscs
general thrift and funds the strength
of all on the strength of each. In it's
responsible application, it is just, fair
and impartial, equally opposed to
foreign ntroland domestic monopoly,
to sectional discrimination and indi-
vidual favoritism.
We denounce the present democratic
tariff as sectional, partisan and one
sided, and disastrous to the treasury
is destructive of business enterprise
and we demand an equitable tariff on
foreign imports which come into COM
petition with American products as
will not only furnish adequate revenue
for the necessary expenses of the
government but will protect American
labor from degradation and wage level
of other lands. We are not
pleged to any particular schedule.
The question OF rates is practical
question to be governed by the con-
dition of the times and of production.
The ruling and uncompromising prin-
ciple is the protection and develop
ment of American labor and industry.
The country wants like settlement
and then it wants rest.
The Republican party renews its
pledge for the protection of all Ameri-
can industries against foreign com,
petition. and declares its faith that
among the nations is the result of such
| a tn1inVy Mo Ln1in,,o In,
procity and just retaliation, and demand
the application of the golden rule of
commerce to all future legislation
affecting the tariff and the foreign trade
We believe the repeal of the reciprocity
arrangement negotiated by the last
Republican administration was a na.
tional calamity, and demand their re.
newal and extension on such terms as
will equalize our trade with other ma.
tions and remove the restrictions that
now obstruct the sale of American pro-
ducts in the ports of Europe, and Sc.
cure new markets for the products of
our farms, forests and factories.
We are unalterably opposed to every
measure calculated to debase our cur.
rency, or impair the credit of oul
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 tc
promote, and until SUCH hagreement car
be obtained, the existing gold standard
must be preserved. All our silver anc
paper currency now in circulation
must be maintained at parity will
gold, and we favor all measures de
signed to maintain inviolably the OBJ
legations of the United States and al
J our money, whether coin or paper, al
the present standard, the standard o.
the most enlightened nations of tn,
earth.
In other planks civil service reform
is approved and the extension of tn,
, principle wherever practicable. Th,