The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-06-19


tion as will lead to the production on
American soil OF all sugar which the
American people use and for which
they paid other countries more than
800, 100000 annually.
WOOL AND wooLENs.
To all our products-to those of the
mine and field as we'll as those Of the
sheep and factory-to hemp. to wool.
the product of the great industry Of
the sheep husbandry as well as to fin-
ished woolens OF the mill-we promise
most ample protection.
MERCHANT MARINE.
We favor the restoring Of the early
American policy of discriminating du-
ties for the upbuilding Of our merchant
marine and the protection Of our ship
ping interests I'm foreign carrying trade
so American shlps-the product OF
American labor. employed in Amerl-
can shipyards, sailing under the stars
and stripes and manned. officered and
owned by Americans-may regain the
carrying Of our foreign commerce.
MONEY.
The republican party is unreservedly
for sound money. II caused the enact
ment OF the law providing for the re-
sumption Of specie payments In 1879:
since then every dollar has been as
good as gold. We are unalterably op-
posed to every measure calculated to
debase our currency or impair the
credit OF our country. We are. there
fore. opposed to the free coinage Of
silver except by international agree
ment with the leading commercial ma
tions Of the world. which We pledge
ourselves to promote, and until such
agreement can be obtained. the exist
Ing gold standard must be preserved.
be maintained at q parity with gold,
and we favor all measures designed
to maintain inviolate the obligations
Of the United States and all our money,
whether coin or paper. at the present
standard, the standard of the most en-
lightened nations Of the earth.
PENSIONS.
Veterans of the union armies deserve
and should receive fair treatment and
generous recognition. Whenever prac-
ticable they should be given preference
In the matter of employment. and they
are entitled to the enactment of such
laws as are best calculated to secure
the fulfillment of pledges made to them
In the dark days OF the country's peril
We denounce the practice In the PEN
sion bureau, so recklessly and unjustly
carried on by the present adminlstra-
ton. Of reducing pensions and arbi-
trarily dropping names from the rolls
as deserving the severest condemnation
Of the American people.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Our foreign policy should be at all
times firm. vigorous and dignified and
all our interests In the western hemis-
phere carefully watched and guarded.
The Hawaiian islands should be con-
trolled by the United States and no for
eign power should be permitted to in
terfere with them: the Nicaragua ca
nal should be built, owned and oper-
ated by the United States. and by the
purchase Of the Danish islands we
should secure the proper and much
needed naval station In the West In
dies.
ARMENIAN MAssACREs.
Massacres In Armenia have aroused
the deep sympathy and just indigna-
tion Of the American people. and we
believe the United States should exer-
else all the influence 1t can properly ex-
ert to bring these atrocities tn an end.
In Turkey American residents have
been exposed to the gravest dangers
and American property destroyed.
There and everywhere American citi-
Gems and American property must be
absolutely protected at all hazards and
at any cost.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
We reassert the Monroe doctrine in
ia f,,iIast extent ana we reaf,irm the
right ~ the limited states m give the
doctrine efyect nv respondinp 10 tn.
anpeais of any American state Of
friendly Intervention IN case OF Euro
pean encroachment. We have not in
terfered and shall NOT Interfere with
the axis,,ng nossassions of anv Euro.
pean poEer in this hemisphere. but
those possessions must not. on any pre-
text. be extended. We hopefuIly look
forward 10 the eventual withdrawal OF
European powers from this hemisphere
and to the ultimate union of ali En-
glIsh speaking parts OF the continent
by the free consent of its inhabitants.
crrpa
rror ~. ho,r ~ ach,sv,ro THAR own
independence the people of the limited
states have regarded with sympathy
the strugples OF other American peo-
nIes m free Themselves from Furonea n
dominatIon We watch with deem and
abldIns interest the heroic battles OF
the Cuban patriots against cruelty and
oppression. and our best homes 20 out
for the full success of their determined
contest for liberty. The government Of
Spain having lost control Of Cuba and
OoLOR unable TO protect the property or