Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-07-28
REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM,

| in convention, mindful of their duty in
| the ventful contest already begun,
! proud of their past and confident OF
| their future, submit to the people of
| the state the principles which they
| deem essential to the welfare of their
country.
We heartily approve the platform of
| the party announced at the national
| republican convention recently held in
| St Louis. and we pledge our fellow re-
| publicans throughout the United States
to carry all its declarations to triumph
| ant success in the coming election.
We cordially indorse the candidates of
| that convention, and We hasten to as
sure our sister states that Iowa, speak
ing through a magnificent ma jority will
cast her electoral vote for William Nc
kinley and Carrot A. Hobart.
We recognize the revolutionary char
acter Of the convention lately held in
Chicago. We appreciate the dangers OF
dts startling doctrines and the immeas-
urable disasters that would follow their
adoption by the government. We have
seen the ruin accomplished by the free
trade declaration of 1892 and we have
now hard demand that the ruin
shall be made complete by the over
throw OF our financial system and the
substitution of an experiment that can
result only in untold misery and meal
culable loss.
We believe that every possible fiuc-
tuation OF money standards between the
Iowa producer and his consumer is a
marsNi between them. If ii is not an
advantage to have common standard
with his customer abroad then 1t is no
advantage to have common standard
with the other communities Of this
union.
In the interest Of our export trade.
for the furtherance of the policy OF
rarinrOpifv a Of
our commerce, as well as for the ben
eft OF our silver producers, we pledge
support of the Iowa representatives in
congress to the promotion of an inter-
national agreement to establish the
Joint standard universally; and from
the same considerations to oppose the
proposition to carry the United States
to silver monometallism.
We are opposed to the change, to a
single silver standard because 1t will
decrease and not increase the supply
Of money in the country; because in
stead of restoring confidence it will de-
troy credits instead OF inspiring enter
prise I, will spread alarm; instead or
aiding the debtor 1t will involve him in
bankruptcy; instead OF furnishing en-
ployment to labor 1t will make more un-
certain and unremunerative that which
1t has, and instead of benefting the
producer and farmer 1t will injure them,
and finally because 1t would do infii-
mite injustice and involve our country
In reputation and dishonor.
We denounce as falsenthe- statement
OF the democratic party that we have
contracted or that our policy will con-
tract the volume of our currency; on
the contrary. We assert that the prin-
clple we advocate is the only principle
that Will give to the country the money,
stable In its purchasing power and ade-
quate In amount, which the prosperity
OF the people demands.
The republican party, under its pol
Icy, assures the people of an ample
currency. composed Of gold, silver and
paper, no one kind preferable to an
other; none Of it subject in the hands
or the people to variation OF value, but
every dollar as good as gold and there
held by the real power of the govern
ment OF the United States
We stand upon the record which the
republican party has made. We recall
the prophecies Of our antagonists in
Iowa in 1873 that specie payments
would ruin our state. and we point to
the period OF never to be equalled
prosperity which ensued from 1880 to
1892, with every dollar Of our currency
kept at the gold standard, without the
sale or a bond or a whisper against our
credit
We re-aff1rm our faith in the doctrine
OF protection to American labor. and
the policy which is part Of it, the pro-
motion of our foreign trade by recip-
rocal agreements. Under this consist
ent and practical policy the develop
ment OF our limitless resources will be
resumed, enterprise will spring into
action at a million opportunities, capi-
cal Will go out seeking for the wage
Garner, and when the table Of the work
ingman Is again covered with plenty
the American farmer will know good
HsO1I
prices Of our farm products can be re-
stored only by the recovery Of the
markets to which we had access four
years ago. and through the return to
our home consumers of the buying
power which was theirs four years ago.
The Iowa farmer needs no other con-
dltion to assure this prosperity than
those which maintained the level OF his
prices. increased the value of his farm.
and reduced the cost of his purchases
during the four splendid years of Pres
ident Harrison's administration BY
the restoration OF these conditions. by
maintaining the stability of our money
and not by debasing It's value, the re-
publican party promises him relief
The abandonment Of the treaties Of
reciprocity whdch had opened the mar.
ket places of Spanish America and
Central Europe to the farm products
OF the United States has resulted in the
almost tOLal excursion or our bread
stuffs and meats from countries az
fected by the reciprocal agreements OF
1891. Thus so-oalled tariff reform, as
by the FiftyIthird congress,
instead of opening new markets for
the farm. has closed foreign markets
20 US and stimulates production by our
at the same time causing
an unexampled prostration Of its near
est and best customers, the wage-earn~
ars of our own land.
The republican party appeals with
confidence to the people of Iowa to
support ii in it's purpose to establish
he industries and all Of the varied in
.erests Of production and exchange,
upon stable and certain basis, that
he genius and energy of this great
people may be free to work out the
rational prosperity. as they did in that
decade following 1880.
The fourth commandment prohibits
he working Of cattle" on Sunday.
he cyclists argue that they can ride
n Sunday because wheel is not in
luded among cattle. But they work
heir calves.-Wichita Eagle.
That most strait sect, the Dunkards.
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