Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-06-27

| secure enlarged markets for the prod
ucts OF our farmers, forests n facto-
ries.
Protection and reciprocity are twin
measures Of republican policy. and go
hand In hand. Democratic rule has
recklessly struck down both. and both
must be re%-established. Protection for
what we produce, free admission for the
necessaries Of life which we do not pro-
duce: reciprocal agreements of mutual
interest which gain open markets for US
in return for open markets for others.
Protection builds up domestic indus
try and trade, and secures our own mar
ket for ourselves; reciprocity builds up
foreign trade and finds an outlet for our
surplus.
We condemn the present adminlstra-
ton for not keeping faith with the sugar
producers Of this country. The repub-
lican party favors 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 500. 000, 900 annu-
ally.
WOOL AND wooLENS.
To all our products, to those OF the
mine and the field as well az those OF the
/ SnOD ana TacIOry-IO nenD-lO NOCi. lie
product of the great industry OF 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
upbuisdlng Of our merchant marine n
the protection OF our shipping In the for
eign Carrying trade, so that American
ships, the product of American labor i'm
American ship yards, sailing under the
stars and stripes, manned differed and
owned by Americans. may regain the
carrying Of our foreign
MONEY.
The republican party is unreservedIy
for sound money. 1t caused the enact
ment Of the law providing for the re-
sumption OF specie payments in1s7< SSs
since then every dollar has been as good
as gold. We are unaiterably opposed to-
every measure calculated to debase our
currency or impair the credit OF our
country. We are therefore opposed to-
the free coinage OF silver except by IN
ternational agreement with the leading
commercial nations Of the world, which
we pledge ourselves to promote. AND un-
til such agreement can be obtained the
existing gold standard must be pre-
served. All OF our silver and paper cur
rency must be preserved. All our silver
and paper currency must be maintained
at parity with gold. and we favor all
measures designed to maintain inviola.
bly, obligations Of the United States, ana
all our money, whether coin or paper, at
the present standard. the standard or
the most enlightened nations of the
earth.
PENSIONS.
The veterans OF the union armies de-
serve and should receive fair treatment
and generous recognition. whenever
practicable they should be given the
H.. ~ =. atfn ~ a. mani
employment. AID they are entitled to the
enactment oi such laws as are vest cal
culated TO secure the 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 reck-
lessly and unjustly carried on by the
democratic party in 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 dlgnihed ana
this hemisphere carefully watched and
guarded. The Hawaiian islands should
be controlled by the United states ana
no foreign power should be permitted to-
interfere with them. the Nicaragua
canal should be built. owned and oper-
ated by the United states, and by the
purchase OF the Danish Islands we
should secure a proper and much need
ed naval station In the West Indies.
ARMENIAN MAssACREs.
The massacres in Armenia have
aroused the deep sympathy and Just in
dlgnatlon of the American people. and
we believe that the United States should
exercise all the influence 1t can properly
exert 10 bring these atrocities TO an end.
In Turkey American residents have
been exposed 10 the graves. dangers
and American property destroyed there.
ana everywhere American citizens and
American property must be absolutely
projected at all hazards and AZ any cost.
MONROE DOCTRINE.
We reassert the Monroe doctrine I'm
its fullest extent, and we reafirm the
rightfulness TO Give the doctrine effect
by responding TO the appeals OF any
American state for friendly Intervention
In case of European encroachment. We
have not interfered, and shall not inter
fere, with the existing possessions OF
any European power in the 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 hemi-
sphere and the ultimate union Of all the
English speaking part OF the continent
by the free consent OF its inhabitants.
CUBA.
From the hour OF achieving their own
independence the people OF the United
~ ~ ItEdTutu NIL SlUnD1tDH tn9
struggles Of other American peoples TO
free themselves from European domin-
alton. We watch with deep and abiding in
terest the heroic battle OF the Cuban patri-
OTIS against cruelty and oppression, and our
best hopes go out for the full success OF
their determined contest for liberty.
The government OF Spain has lost con-
troll Of Cuba, and being unable 10 protect
the property or lives OF resident American
citizens, or to comply with It's treaty OBJ
legations. we believe that the government
OF the United States should actively use
its influence and good offices to restore
peace and restore independence to the
island.
THE NAVY.
The peace and security of the republic, OF
the maintenance OF its rightful influence
among the nations OF the earth, demand a
naval power commensurate with Its posi-
ton and responsibility. We therefore ia
vcr the continued enlargement OF the navy
and a complete system of harbor and sea-
coast defenses.
FOREIGN IMMIGRATION.
For the protection of the equality OF our
American citizenship, and of the wages OF
our workingmen against the fatal compe-
tition of low-priced labor, we demand that
the immigration laws be thoroughly en-
entrance to the United States those who
can neither read nor write.
CIVIL SERVICE.
The civil service law was placed on the
statute book by the republican party.
which has always sustained IL, and we re-
new our repeated declarations that Ii shall
be thoroughly and honestly enforced and
extended wherever practicable.
FREE BALLOT.
We demand that every citizen OF the
United States shall be allowed to cast one
free and unrestricted ballot, and that such
ballot shall be counted and returned as
cast.
LYNcHfNGs.
We proclaim our unqualified condemna-
ton of the unciyiliZed and barbarous urac-
tice. well known as l~ynching. or killing OF
human beings, suspected or charged with
crime, without process Of law.
NATIONAL ARBITRATION.