Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-06-19
kans of the United states

achievements during thirty years of re-
publican rule, earnestly and confidently
address themselves to the awakened
intelligence, experience and conscience
or their countrymen In the following
declaration of facts and principles: For
the first time since the civil war the
American people have witnessed the
calamitouS consequences of full and
unrestricted democratic control of the
government. 1t has been a record of
unparalleled incapacity, dishonor and
disaster In administrative manage
ment It has ruthlessly sacrificed indls-
pensable revenue. entailed unceasing
deficit, eked out ordinary current ex-
penses with borrowed money, piled up
the public debt by 1882, 900, 600 In time of
peace, forced an adverse balance of
trade, Kept perpetual menace hanging
over the redemption fund, paWned
American credit to alien syndlcates,
and reversed all measures and results
or successful republican rule. In the
broad effect of It's policy 1t has pre-
c!pitated panic, blighted industry and
trade with prolonged depression, closed
factories, reduced work wages, halted
enterprise and crippled American pro-
duction while stimulating foreign pro-
duction for the American market
Every consideration of public safety
and individual interest demands that
the government be rescued from the
hands of those who have shown them
selves incapable to conduct it without
disaster at home and dishonor abroad
and shall be restored to the party which
for thirty years administered 1t with
unequalled success and prosperity
PROTECTION AND r. .CIPROCITY
We renew and emphasize our allegi-
ance to the policy Of protection as the
bulwark of American Industrial indie
pendence and the foundation Of Ameri-
can development and prosperity. This
true American policy taxes foreign pro
ducts and encourages home industry;
1T puts a burden of revenue on foreign
goods; 1T secures the American market
for the American producer; it upholds
the American standard of wages 70:
the American worknaman; it puts tn
factory by the side of the farm anG
makes the American farmer less de
pendent on foreign demand and pric"
1t difuses general thrift and found
the strength of all on the strength o.
each. In its reasona bic application i
is just fair and impartial equally op,
posed TO foreign control and domestic
monopoly, to sectional discrimination
and individual favoritism.
We denounce the present democratic
tariff as sectional, injurious to public
credit and destructive u business enter
prise. We demand such equitable tariff
on foreign imports which come into
competition with American products az
will not only furnish adequate revenue
for the necessary expenses Of the gov
eminent but will protect American Ia
Dor from degradation to tha wage level
of other lands. We are not pledged to
any particular schedules. The gu stion
Of rates is practical question, to be
governed by the conditions of time and
Of production; the ruling and uncom-
promising principle Is protection and
The development of American labor and
industry. The country demarAs &
right settlement and then it wan rest.
We believe the repeal Of the rec procity
arrangements negotiated By the last re-
publican administI alton was national
calamity, and we demand their renewal
and extension on such terms as VIII
squalize our trade with ether nations,
remove restrictions which now cbstruct
the sale of American products in the
ports of other countries, and secure en-
arged markets for the products of ou.
farms, forests and factories. Protec-
lion and reciprocity are twin sur2s
IF the republican policy and go hand in
hand. Democratic rule has reckiessly
struck down both, and both must be
te-established. Protection for what we
produce; free admission for the neces-
saries of life which we 90 not produce;
reciprocal agreements of mutual inter
ssts which gain open markets for us in
return for our open market to others.
Protection builds up domestic industry
and trade and secures our own market
TOR ourselves; reciprocity builds up for-
eign trade and finds an outlet for our
surplus.
We condemn the present admin rae
ation 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
300, GOO. 900 annually.
To all our products-tO those of mine
and field as we'll as those of shop and
factory-to hemp, to wool, the product
" the great industry of sheep husband
ry. as we'll as to the finished Wooiens of
the mill--we promise most ample pro-
lection.
MERCHANT MARINE.
We favor restoring the early Areri-
ran policy of discriminating duties for
the upbuilding of our merchant ma
rine and the protection Of our shippitS
In the foreign carrying trade, so that
American ships, products of American
labor employed in American shipyards,
sailing under the stars and stripes, and
manned. otficered and owned by AIner-
leans, may regain the carrying Of our
foreign commerce.
FINANCIAL PLANK
The republican party is unreservedly
for sound money 1t caused the enact
ment of a law providing for the re-
sumption of specie payments in 1879:
since then every dollar has been as
good as gold. We are unalterably OPP
posed to every measure calculated to
1ebase our currency OF impair the cred
1t of our country, We are, therefore,
opposed to the free coinage OF silver
except by international agreement with
the leading commercial nations of the
world, which we pledge ourselves TO
promote, and until such agreement can
be obtained. the existing gold stand
ard must be preserved. All our silver
and paper currency must be MAIN
tanned at a parity with gold, and we IA
vor all measures designed to maintain
inviola bly, the obligations of the United
States and ali our money, whether coin,
or paper. Al the present standard, the
standard Of the most enlightened pa
lions of the earth, af
PENSIONS.
Veterans of the union army deserve
and should receive fair treatment and
generous recognition, and whenever
practicable should be given preference
In the matter Of employment, and they
are entitled to the enactment Of such
laws as are best calculated to secure
the fulfllment of pledges made them in
the dark days of the counuy's peril.
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