Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1896-06-25

| iff which protects, coupled with reci-
procity which reciprOcates by secur-
ing the best markets for our pro-
ducts, and the opening of American
factories to the free coinage of Amer
lean muscle; a pension policy just
| and generous to our living heroes
and to the widows and orphans of
their dead comrades; governmental
supervision and control of transpOr-
tation lines and rates; protection of
the people from all unlawful cOmbi-
| nation and unjust action of aggre-
gated capital and corporated power;
an American welcome to every God
| fearing, liberty-loving, constitution
respecting ,law-abiding glabor-seekinS,
decent man; the exclusion of all
whose birth, whose blood. whose
condition, whose teachings, whose
practices, would menace the per-
manency of free institutions and en-
danger the safety of the American
people or lessen the opportunities
| for American labor: the abolition of
sectionalism; every star i'm the Amer
| lean flag shining for the honor, well
fare and happiness of every common
wealth and of all people; deathless
loyalty To all, truly American, and
patriotism eternal as the stars.
The report of the committee on
resolutions being i'm order they We're
offered by Chairman Foraker. the
introduction being as follows:
The Republicans of the United
States assembled by their represen-
tatives i'm national convention, ap-
pealing for the popular and historic
Justification of their claims to the
matchless achievements of thirty
years of Republican rule, earnestly
and confidently address themselves
to the awakened intelligence, eXpcr-
ience, and conscience of their country
men i'm the following declaration OF
facts and principles:
For the first time since the civil
war the American people have wit
missed the calamitous consequences
of full and unrestricted Democratic
control of the government. 1t has
been IL record ofunparalleledi of incapac-
ity, dishonor and disaster. In adj
ministrative management it has
ruthlessly sacrificed indispensable rev.
enue, entailed an unceasing deficit,
eked out ordinary currents expenses
with borrowed money, piled up the
public debt by $262, ,OO0,O i'm time OF
peace, forced an adverse balance OF
trade, kept Il perpetual menace hang
American credit to alien syndicates,
and reversed all the measures and re-
suits OF successful Republican rule.
In the broad effect of it's policy it has
precipitated panic. blighted industry
and trade with prolonged depression,
closed factories, reduced work and
wages. halted enterprise and Grip
pied American production while stim-
ulatiug foreign production for the
| American market. Every consider
alton of public safety and individual
interest demands that the govern
ment shall he rescued from the hands
of those who have shown themselves
incapable to conduct it without dis
aster at home and dishOnOr abroad,
and shall be restored to the party
which for thirty years administered ii
with unequaled success and prosperity
We renew and emphasize our ale
glance to the policy OF protection as
the bulwark of an American indus.
trial independence and the foundation
of American development and pros
perty. This true American policy
taxes foreign products and encOur
ages home industries and puts the
burden of revenue on foreign goods
it secures the American market
for the American producer
upholds the American standard, o
wages for the A american workingman
it puts the factory by the side of the
farm and makes the American farmer
less dependent on foreign demand and
price; it diffuses general thrift and
founds the strength of all on the
. strength of each. In it's reasonable
application ii is just, fair and impair
tial. equally opposed to foreign con
trol and domestic monopoly. tC
sectional discrimination and individ
. uaI favOritism. We denOunce the pres
. ent Democratic tariff as sectional. in
furious to public credit and destruct
, i've to- business enterprise. VIZ
demand such equitable tariff on for
eign imports which come into
competition with American products
az will not only furnish adequate rev
enue for necessary expenses OF the
government. but will protect Ameri
can labor from degradation tO the
wage level of other lands. We ART
not pleged to any particular schedules
/ the question of rates is n practica
question to be governed by cOndi
tiOns of the time and of production
the ruling and uncOmpromising prin
ciple is the protection and develop
ment of American labor and industry
the country demands a right settle
and then it wants a rest.
The platform favOrs reciprocity
. restoring of the merchant marine, jus1
, pensions, reasserts the MOnore doc
trine. favors the independence o
Cuba. of free ballot and the enforce
, ment of the immigration laws. TIL,
money and wool planks are as fol
lows:
The Republican party is unrcserv
.dly for sound money. 1t caused tn,