The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1896-02-20

age the development of the Industrial interests
OF the whole country: and we commend that
policy OF national exchanges which secures to
the workingmen liberal wages. to agriculture
iemuherative prices, to mechanics and manu-
iacturers an adequate reward for their skill,
labor and enterprise. and to the nation COM
mercial prosperity and independence
hetter projection no republican could ask or
oeslre; ana poorer none should advocate or &c
cept! We are faithfully welded to the great
principle OF protection by every tie of party
realty and Affection and 1t Is dearer to us now
than ever before Not only is 1t dearer to us
Us republicans, but 1t has more devoted sup
porters among the great masses of American
people irrespective OF party, than ut any pre-
Vious period In our history 1t is everywhere
recognized and Endorsed as the great, MASTER
ful, triumphant American principle-the KEY
TO our prosperity In business. the safest prop
to the treasury of the United States, and the
ouiwark OF our national independence and
financial honor.
Protection the Vital Question.
The question Of the continuance or abandon
ment OF our protective system has been the
one great, overshadowing, vital question in
american politics ever since Mr.. Cleveland
opened the contest In December. 1887. to which
the lamented James G. Blaine made swift re-
ply from across the sea- and 1t will continue
the issue until q truly American policy, for the
good OF America Is firmly established and per-
petuated
The fight will go on. and must go on, until
the American system Is everywhere recog-
nized, until all nations come to understand and
respectit as distinctly, and all Americans come
to honor or love 1t as dearly. Us they do the
American flag God grant the day may soon
come when all partisan contention over 1t Is
forever at an end!
The republican party only Is competent to
carry this policy into effect. Whenever there
Is anything to be done for this country. it is to
the republican party we must look to have II
done. We are not contending for any particu-
lar tariff law, or laws or for any special sehed-
ules, or rates, but for the great principle-the
American protective policy-thc temporary
overthrow of which has brought distress and
ruin TO every part Of our beloved country.
1t may be asked what the next republican
tariff law will provide. cannot tell you what
the rates will be, but they will measure the
difference between American and European
conditions. and will be fully adequate to pro-
tect ourselves from the invasion Of our markets
by oriental products to the injury Of American
labor, and will in no case be too low to protect
and exalt American labor, and promote and in
crease American production.
cannot better answer this grave question
than by an illustration Of Mr.. Lincoln's. Some
one asked him, how long u mans legs ought
to be-" He said: THAT is very serious
a great many times. Some should be longer
and some shorter; but want to tell you that
mans legs ought always to be long enough to
reach from his body to the ground" And so
tell you, my inQuiring free trade friend that
the legs Of the next republican tariff law will
be long enough to firmly support the American
body polite; sustain the public treasury: lift
up our national credit and uphold the dignity
and independence Of American labor. and the
enterprises and occupations OF the American
people.
What the Republican Party Stands For.
No one need be in any doubt about what the
republican party stands for Its own history
makes that too palpable and clear to admit Of
doubt 1t stands for reunited and recreated
nation, based upon free and honest elections in
every township, county, city, district and state
in this great American union. 1t stands for the
American freside and the flag Of the nation.
1t stands for the American farm, the American
factory and the prosperity Of all the American
people. 1t stands for o reciprocity that re-
ciprocates and which does not yield up to an
other country q single days labor that belongs
to the American workingman. II stands for
international agreements which get as much
as they give, upon terms Of mutual ad-
vantage. 1t stands for an exchange Of
our surplus home products for such foreign
products we consume but do not produce.
1t stands for the reciprocity OF Blaine; for the
reciprocity OF HARRISON LOT the RESTORATION
and extension Of the principle embodied in the
reciprocity provision OF the republican tariff OF
1890 1t stands for foreign policy dictated by
and imbued with u spirit that is genuinely
American; for policy that will revive the
national traditions, and restore the national
spirit which carried US proudly through the
earlier years Of the century. 1t stands for such
policy with oil foreign nations as will insure
both to US and them justice. impartiality, fair
UoOl faith DIGNITY and honor, 1t stands
for the Monroe doctrine as Monroe himself
proclaimed 1t, about which there Is no d.
vision whatever among the American peo-
pie. 1t stands now, as ever, for honest
money, and q chance to earn 1t by honest toll.
It stands for o currency of gold silver and
paper with which to measure our exchanges
that shall be as sound Gs the government. and
as untarnishcd as its honor. The republican
party would as soon think Of lowering the flag
OF our country as to contemplate with patience
or without protest and opposition any at
tempt to degrade or corrupt the medium Of
exchanges among the people. 1t can be re-
lied upon in the future, as in the past, 70
supply the country with the best money
ever known, gold, silver and paper, good the
world over. 1t stands for commercial policy
that will whiten every sea with the sails OF
Anne RIGA vessels flying the American flag
and that will protect the flag wherever 1t
floats. 1t stands for q system which will give
to the United States the balance OF trade wltn
every competing nation in the world. 1t Is for
y fiscal policy opposed to debts and deficiencies
in time OF peace, and favors the return OF the
government to a debt-paying, and opposes the
continuance Of q dcbt-making, policy.
VIII Fight on Its Own Ground.
And, gentlemen OF the Marquette club let
me tell you that the republican party, true to
the advice and example OF Lincoln, is going to
make the campaign this year upon its own
ground, not upon its opponents That is to
say, the republicans Of the country are not go
ing to help the democratic leaders obscure the
issue on which their party has been wrecked
and the administration stranded. by taking
up every new incident about which u hue
and cry may be raised. On the contrary, they
will not be led of by side issues, but they will
everywhere courageously insist that the people
in November shall Judge the administration
and its party by their works and not by any
new and boastful protestations by them They
will give due credit for any sporadic outburst
of patriotic fervor for our rights in foreign
countries that the administration may choose
to indulge in and rejoice that tits at last on the
right side of q great question. which is where
the republicans have always been The
ship Of state shall not be lured into
shallow waters by false lights. No new
horn zeal for American rights, or