Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-18

adequate revenue for the necessary eX-
penses OF the government, but will protect
American labor from degradation to the
wage level of other lands. We are not
pledged to any particular schedules The
question of rates Is n practical question.
to be governed by the conditions of the
time and of productions the ruling and I'M
compromising principle is the protection
and development of American labor and
industry. The country demands a right
settlement and then it wants rest.
Reciprocity.
We believe the repeal of the reciprocity
arrangements negotiated by the last re-
publican administration was a national ca
lamity and We demand their renewal and
extension On such terms as will eQualiZe
our trade with other nations, remove the
restrictions which row obstruct the sale
of American products in the ports of other
countries. and secure enlarged markets for
the products of our farms, forests and fac
tories.
Protection and reciprocity are twin
measures of republican policy and go ha nd
in hand. Democratic rule has recklessly
struck down both. and both must be re-
established.
Protection for what VIC produce; free ad-
W. do not produce; reciprocity agreements
of mutual interests which gain open mar
kets for us in return for our open market
20 Others. Protection builds up domestic
industry and trade and secures our own
market for ouI selves; reciprocity builds up
foreign trade and finds an outlet for our
surplus.
We condemn the present administration
for not keeping faith with the sugar pro-
ducers of this country. The republican
party favcrs 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 s1OoOO0.oO0 annually.
Wool and WoOlens.
To all market Droiuc ts-to those of the
mine and the field, we'll as to those of
the shop and the factory-to hemp. to wool,
the product of the great industry of sheep
husbandry, as we'll as to the finished wool
ems Of the mill-we promise the most ample
protection.
Merchant Marine.
We favor restoring the early American
policy of discriminating duties for the up
building of our merchant marine and the
protection of our shipping in the foreign
Carrying trade, so that American ships-the
product of American labor employed in
American ship yards, sailing under the
stars and stripes, and manned Differed
and owred by Americans-may regain the
carrying of our foreign commerce
Money.
The republican party is unreservedly for
sound money. 1t caused the enactment of
the law providing for the resumption of
specie payments in 1879: since then every
dollar has been good as gold.
We are uralterably opposed to every
measure calculated to debase our currency
or impair the credit of our country We
are therefore opposed to the free COMA ge
of silver, except by International agree
ment with the leading commercial nations
of the world, which we pledge ourselves to
promote. and until such agreement can be
obtained, the existing gold standard must
be preserved. All our silver and paper
currency must be maintained at parity
with gold, and we favor all measures de-
signed to maintain inviclably the obliga-
lions of the United States and all our mon
ey, whether coin or paper, at the present
standard the standard of the most enlight-
ened nations of the earth.
Pem1iOnS.
The veterans Of the Union army deserve
and should receive fair treatment and gen.
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