The record-union., 1896-08-31
WHAT 1T PROPOSES AND WHAT
MAY BE.

The Republican party claims that it's
policy will bring about an industrial re-
vivaI through usual and wholesome pro-
cesses. The Democrats and Populists
propose also an industrial revival by
legislation that shall effect change in
prices. The Republicans present the
simple proposition of protection, which
the people have tried, and the full eff
feet of which they understand, but with
admission free u all commodities which
we cannot produce with reasonable sue
cess.
The Republicans believe that creating
new resources for wage earners,' as a
contemporary well puts it, is the wise
way to induce this industrial activity
1t finds that mills are idle because their
output has been disastrously crossed by
products produced by labor that
earns wage below the level which
American civilization demands as the
order of living for an American citi-
zen.
1t says frankly to the people it is
DCNlCA L1dl yO4L 14CA5ADO oAle~AA
be one IN whom you can take pride,
and who can contribute TO your COM
fort and prosperity because of his wage
earning capacity, tina nthat you should
get certain supplies at somewhat less
cost, and have for a neighbor one who
is on a level with pauper and cheap la
Dor of foreign lands, while at the same
time you afford your country revenue
sufficient for its economic conduct.
It is better for you that you have an
employed than an idle neighbor; your
neighbor is idle now because American
industry is paralyzed by unequal and
hurtful foreign competition.
Tt says, moreover, that whereas we
all now pay tribute to foreigners who
do most of the carrying of our foreign
commerce. the American merchant ma
rine has dwindled until per cent. of the
commerce is carried on American bot
toms. Now, instead Of paying bounties
TO laboriouslY lift up American shipping
and put our marine service on level
with that Of other nations. and give us
sailors upon whose ranks we can draw
1or our navy, the Republican party pro-
noses TO admit at lower tariff duty all
goods brought from foreign ports upon
American bottoms; that this will not
take money out of the common treas
ury, but win put money into it, thus ac-
complishing two purposes by a single
policy.
1t proposes to make money more
abundent by giving labor the oppor-
tunity to earn it and call it into circula-
ton. 1t proposes that both metals of
money shall have perfectly fair treat
ment, and that neither shall be driven
out by the other, and to that end it
comedies that there may be perfectly
free coinage of silver when it can be
brought about by international agree
ment, believing that it cannot be wisely
accomplished by other means 1t there
fore, pledges itself to promote diligently
the attainment of that end
Here then, with the well understood
doctrine of reciprocity, we have the
main propositions of the Republican
party But there are others supple
mental to and indeed of them. The
OF these the Record Union" has ad-
Vanced as possible to be handled by
the Republican party, which has always
proved equal to any exigency with
which the nation has been confronted.
One of these is that the date for the
free coinage of silver shall be fixed in
The near future, by which we will be
able to determine ad interim what the
effect will be as we approach that date.
and thus have ample opportunity to
avoid any violent financial wrench
This was done, it Will be recalled. with
entire success in the resumption of
specie payments
Another suggestion among those
which may well be considered by the
people, and unquestionably will be when
the Republican party shall have been
invested with authority. as it will be,
Ia the suggestion of this paper, made in