The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-08-20
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
Text of Declaration of PrinCi-
piles Adopted by the Ma
tional Convention.

The following is the text Of the plat
form adopted by the Republican con-
vention at st. Louis:
The Republicans OF the United States,
assembled by their Representatives in ma
tional convention, appealing for the pop
ular and historical Justification OF their
claims to the matchless achievements Of 30
years Of Republican rule, earnestly and
confidently address themselves TO the
awakened intelligence, experience and
conscience of their Coumtrymen in the fol-
lowing declaration Of fgCts and principles:
CaIamities OF Democratic Control.
For the first time since the Civil War
the American people have witnessed the
CQlamltous consequences Of free and un-
restricted Democratic control of the gov
ernIhent. It has been a record OF unpar-
aielled i~ncapacity, dshon0r and disaster.
In administrative management it has
ruthlessly sacrificed Indispensable reve-
nue., entailed an unceasang deficit, eked
out ordinary current expenses with Dor.
rowed money, piled up public debt $685.
Co., 900 in. time Of peace, forced an adverse
balance of trade, kept n perpetual menace
hanging over the redemption fund ,pawned
GtAAlNA I'll ALNAAN ~ tAitaN ~ lAAll'NNt1 hAAl
reversed all the measures and results of
successful Republican rule. In the broad
effect Of it's policy it has pracipitated pallid
blighted industry and trade with pro.
longed depression, closed factories, re.
duced work and wages, halted enterprise
and crippled American production, while
stimulating foreign p~ro.iuction for the
American market. Every consideration
Of public safety and ndiVslual interest de
mands that the government shall be res.
cued from the hands OF those who have
shown themselves Incapable to conduct it
without disaster at home and dishoror
uaiouu, and shall be restored TO the party
which for thirty yearsadmLnisterodit with
unequnlled success and prosperity,
Renew Allegiance To Protection.
We renew and emphasize our allegiance
to the policy Of protection as the bulwark
of American industrial Independence and
the foundation Of American development
and prosperity. This true American pol
icy taxes foreign products md encourages
home industry; it puts the burden Of
revenue on foreign goods; it secures the
American market for the American bro.
duCer; it upholds the American standard
of wages for the American worEingman;
u Illlo VIC ltElDIN w t!lt NltlL III Ile Ittffl
and makes the American farmer less de-.
pendent on foreign demand and price: it
diffuses general thrift, and Pounds the
strength OF all OF the strength of each.
In its reasonable application, il is Just,
fair and impartial, equally opposed to
foreign control and domestic monopoly, to
sectional discrimination and individual
favoritism.
MO npnE41Frn the yt1aD-nTE INs,Nga-~Ato
tariff as sectional, injurious to the public
credit and destructive to business enter
prise. We demand such anequitable 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
still protect American labor from degrade
ton TO the wage level of Other lands. We
are not pledged to any particular SEIZED
ules. The question Of rates is q practical
question, TO be governed by the conditions
Of the time and production; the rulingand
uncompromising principle is the prOtec-
tion and development Of american labor
and industry. The country demands a
right settlement and then il wants rest.
Repeal of Reciprocity Was CaIamitous.
We believe the repeal Of the reciprocity
heterogeneous AlGEcli-AEth hg VIZ IdSl ~
publican administration was a national
calamity, and we demand their renewal
and extension on such terms as will equal.
ize our trade with other nations, remove
the restrictions which now obstruct the
sale Of American products in the ports Of
other countries and secure enlarged mar
kets for the products Of our farms, forests
and factories.
Protection and reciprocity ere twin
measures Of Republican policy and go
hand in hand. Democratic rule has reck-
lessly struck down both, and both must
be Te-established.
Protection for what we produce: free
admission for the necessaries Of life which
we do not produce; reciprocal agreements
of mutual interests which gain open mar
kets for us in return for our open markets
to others. Protection builds up domestic
industry and trade, and secures our own
market for ourselves; reciprocity builds uD
foreign trade and finds an outlet fox our
surplus.
Protection For Sugar.
We condemn the present administration
for not keeping faith with the sugar pro
ducers Of this country. The Republican
party fayors such protection 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 5000 600 annually.
Wool and WoOIens.
To ell ouP products-to those of the
y no and the field as well as those Of Is;
shop and the faotory-to hemp, to wool
the product of the great Industry Of thu
sheep ~husbandry, as well as to the finished
woolens Of the mill-we promise the most
ample protection.
Merchant Marine.
We favor restoring the early American
policy of discriminating duties for the I'M