Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-06-26

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finds an outlet for our surplus.
SUGAR.
We condemn the present admins
tEation for not keeping faith with the
sugar producers of this country. The
Republican party favors such protec-
ton as will lead to the production on
American soil of all the sugar which
the American people use and for which
they pay other countries more than
81 coo, 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 the factory-to hemp,
to wool, the product of the great in
dustry of sheep husbandry as we'll as
to the finished woolens OF the mill
we promise the most ample protection.
MERCHANT MARINE.
We favor restoring the early Ameri-
can policy of discriminating duties for
the upbuilding of our merchant ma
rine and the protection OF our ship
ping interests in the foreign carrying
trade of American ships, the products
of American labor, employed in Amer
ican shipyards, sailing under the stars
and strip and manned, oflicered and
owned by Americans, may regain the
carrying OF our foreign commerce.
MONEY.
The Republican party is unre
servedly for sound money. 1t caused |
the enactment o. the law providing for
the resumption of specie payments in
1879; since then every dollar has been |
as good as gold We are una!terably op-
posed to every measure calculated to de-
base our currency or impair the credit of |
our country. We are, therefore, op-
posed to the free and unlimited coinage |
of silver. except by international agree
ment, which We favor, and until such |
agreement can be obtained the existing |
gold standard should be preserved. We |
favor the use of silver as currency, but to
the extent only that its parity with gold |
can be maintained, and we favor meas
ures designed to maintain inviolable the |
money of the United States, whether
coin or paper, the standard of the most |
enlightened nations of the earth.
PENSIONS.
The veterans of the Union armies |
deserve and should receive fair treat
ment and generous recognition.
Whenever practicable 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 the fulfill
ment OF the pledges made to them in
the dark days of the coun.ry's peril.
We denounce the practice in the
pension bureau so recklessly and un-
justly carried on by the present ad-
ministration, OF reducing pensions and
arbitrarily dropping names from the
rolls as deserving the severest condem-
nation 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
foreign power should be permitted to
interfere Herewith; 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.
The massacres in Armenia have
aroused the deep sympathy and just
indignation OF the American people,
and we believe the United States
should exert all the influence it can
properly exert to bring these atrocities
to an end. Iu Turkey, American res
idents have been exposed to the grav-
est dangers and American property
destroyed. There, and everywhere,
American citizens and American
property must be absolutely protected
at all hazards and at any cost.
| MONROE DOCTRINE.
We reassert the Monroe doctrine in
it's fullest extent and we reafiirm the
right of the United States TO give the
doctrine effect by responding to the
appeals OF any American state of the
friendly intervention in case of Euro
pean encroachment. We have not in
terfered and shall not interfere with
the existing possessions of any Euro
pean power in this hemisphere, but
these possessions must not on any pre-
text be extended. We hopefully look
forward to the eventual withdrawal of
the European powers from this hem
isphere, and to the ultimate union of
all English-speaking parts of the cont
inent by the free consent OF its inhab-
itants.
| CUBA.
From the hour OF achieving their
own independence, the people OF the
United States have regarded with
sympathy the struggles OF other
American peoples to free themselves
from European domination. We
watch with deep and abiding interest
the heroic battles of the Cuban patri.
OTIS against cruelty and oppression,
and our best hopes go to the full sue
cess Of their determined contest for