Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-06-27

10 the production on American soil Of
+ all the sugar which the American PEG
/ pie use. and for which they paid other
| countries moro than $lOO,000'OoO annually
Wool and WOOlens.
To all our products, to those of me
+ mine and field as we'll as tho e of the
| shop and factory-to hemp, to wool, the
! product of tho great industry OF sheeI
! husbandry, as well as to the finished
woods of the mill-we promise most am
pie protection.
Merchant Marine.
We favor restoring the early American
policy of discriminating duties for the
uDbuilding of our merchant marine and
the protection of our shipping interests
in the foreign carrying trade, so that
American ships-the product of American
labor employed In American shipyards
sailing under the Stars and Stripes, and
manned, offcered and owned by Ameri-
cans-may regain the carrying of our
foreign commerce.
Money.
The republican party is unreservedly
for sound money. 1t 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 unaterably opposed TO
every measure calculated to debase our
currency or impair the credit of our
country. We are, therefore, opposed to
free coinage of silver, except by inter-
national agreement with tea leading
commercial nations of tho world, which
we pledge ourselves to promote, and I'M
til such agreement can be obtained, the
existing gold standard must be preeerv-
ed All our silver and paper currency
must be maintained at a parity with
gold and we favor all measures de-
signed to maintain inviolably the obli-
cations of the United States. and all our
money, whether coin or paper, at the
present standard the standard of the
most enlightened nations of the earth.
Pensions.
The veterans of the union armies de-
serve and should receive treatment, and
generous treatment. Wherever practical
Bile. they should be given the preference
in the matter of employment, and they
are entitled to the enactment of such
laws as are best calculated to secure tho
fulfllment of the pledges made TO them
In the dark days of the country's peril
We denounce the practice in the pension
bureau. so recklessly and uniustly car
ried on by the present administration
of reducing pensions and arbitrarily
dropping names from the rolls, as de-
serving the severeSt condemnation of the
American people.
Foreign Relations.
Our foreign policy should be at all
all our interests in the western hemi-
sphere carefully watched and guarded.
The Hawaiian Islands should be con-
trolled by the United States and no for
eign power should be permitted to inter
fere with them; the Nicaragua canal
should be built. owned and operated by
the United States, and by the purchase
of the Danish islands. we should secure
a proper and much needed naval station
in the West Indies.
Armenian MasSacres.
The massacres In Armenia have arous-
ed the deep sympathy and just indigna-
ton Of the American people, and we be-
lieve the United States should exercise
all the influence it can properly exert TO
bring these atrocities TO an end. In Tur-
key American residents have been eX-
posed to the graVest dangers and Amer
lean property destroyed. There and ev-
erywhere American citizens and Ameri-
can property must be absolutely protect
ed at all hazards and at "ny cost.
Monroe Doctrine.
We assert the Monroe doctrine to it's
fullest extent, and reaffirm the right Of
the United States to give the doctrine
effect by responding to the appeals of
any American state for friendly inter-
yentlon in the case of European en-
croachment. We have not interf red and
shall not interfere with the existing pos
sessions or any european power IN THIS
hemisphere, but those possessions must
not on any pretext be extended. We
hopefully look forward to the eventual
withdrawal of the European powers
from this hemisphere and to the ulti-
mate union of all the Englsh-speaking
parts of the continent by free consent
of it's inhabitants.
The Cuban Matter.
From the hour or achieving their own
Of limited
States have regarded with sympathy the
struggles of the other American peoples
to free themselves from European domi-
nation. We watch with deem and abiding
interest the heroic battle of the Cuban
patriots against the cruelty and oppres-