Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-06-29

| OF Uno Government. LII has D00u
record of unparalleled incapacity, dis
honor and disaster. In administrative
management it has ruthlessly sacri-
feed indispensable revenue, entailed
an unceasing deficit, eked out ordin-
ary current expenses with borrowed
money, piled up the public debt by
| 1862, 900, 900 in a time Of peace, forced
an adverse balance of trade, kept a
perpetual menace hanging over the
redemption fund, pawned American
credit to alien syndicates and revers-
ed all the measures and results of sue
cessful policy it has precipitated
panic, blighted Republican rule. In
the broad effect of industry and trade
with prolonged depression, closed
factories, reduced work and wages,
! halted enterprise and crippled Amer
lean production, while stimulating
foreign production for the American
market. Every consideration of pub
lie safety and individual interest de-
mands that the government shall be
rescued from the hands of those who
have shown themselves incapable of
conducting it without disaster at home
and dishonor abroad, and that it shall
be restored to the party which, for
thirty years, administered it with un-
equaled success and prosperity. And,
in this connection, we heartily indorse
the wisdom, patriotism and the sue
cess of BENJAMIN HARRISON
We renew and emphasize our
allegiance to the bulwark of Ameri-
can independence and the foundation
of American development and pros
perity. This true American policy
taxes foreign products and encourag-
of home industry. 1t puts the burden
of revenue on foreign goods. 1t Sc
cures the American market for the
American producer; it upholds the
American standard of wages for the
American workingman; it puts the
factory by the side of the farm, and
makes the American farmer less de-
pendent on foreign demand and pric-
es; it diffuses general thrift and
founds the strength of all on the
strength of each. In its reasonable
application it is just, fair and impair
tial, equally opposed to foreign con-
troll and domestic monopoly, to Sec
tional discrimination and individual
favoritism.
We believe the repeal of the reci-
pro ocity arrangements, negotiated by
the last Republican administration,
was national calamity, and demand
their renewal and extension on such
terms as will equalize our trade with
other nations, remove the restrictions
which now obstruct the sale of Amer
lean products in the ports of other
countries, and secure enlarged mar
kets for the products of our farms,
forests and factories.
The Republican party is unreserv
edly 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 as good as gold. We are unal-
terably opposed to every measure cal
culated to debase our currency or i'm
pair the credit of our country. We
are, therefore, opposed to the free
coinage of silver except by an inter
national agreement with the leading
commercial nations of the earth,
which agreement we pledge ourselves
to promote, and until such agreement
can be obtained, the existing gold
standard must be maintained. All of
our silver and paper currency must
be maintained at parity with gold,
and we favor all measures designed to
maintain inviolable the obligations
of the United States, of all our money,
whether coin or paper at the present
standard, the standard of the most
| enlightened nations of the earth.
The veterans of the Union armies
deserve and should receive fair treat
ment and generous recognition.
Whenever practicable they should be
given the preference in the matter of
employment. And they are entitled
to the enactment of such laws as are
best calculated to secure the fulfill
ment of the pledges made to them in
the dark days of the country's peril.
Our foreign policy should be at all
times firm, vigorous and dignified,
and all our interests in the Western
Hemisphere should be carefully
watched and guarded.
The massacres in Armenia have
aroused the deep sympathy and just
indignation of the American people,
and we believe that the United States
should exercise all the influence it can
properly exert to bring these atroci-