The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
Supplement j
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
A Mastery Declaration of Princi-
pies that Will Insure Victory.


popular and historical justification OF
their claims to the matchless achieve
ments of thirty years of Republican RUE.
earnestly and confidently address them
selves to the awakened intelligence. eN-
pericnce and conscience of their country
men in the following declaration OF facts
ard principles:
For the first time since the Civil War
The American people have witnessed the
calaplitous consequences of full and un-
>..1strcted Democratic control OF the
government 1t has been Il record OF
unpa alIeled incapacity. dishoror ana dls-
aster. In administrative management IL
has ruthlessly sicrifced indispensahle
revenue. entail u an uneeaslng dehclt'
ckpd ont ordinary current expenses with
borrowed money. piled up the public debt
by $.l62 0U0. .00S'ip time of peace, forced
an adverse balance of trade. kept per-
petnal menace hanging over the redemp-
lion fund. pawned American credt TO
alien syndicates AMI reversed aH 4 1he
measures and results II successful Re-
publican rule In the broad effect of its
policy it has precipitated panic. blghted
industry and trade with pfslonged de-
iiression closed factories. reduced work
and wages halted enterprise ana crippled
American production. while stimulating
foreign production for the American
marSet. Every consideration OF publlc
safety and individual interest demands
that the government shall be rescued
from the hands of those who have shown
themselves incapable to conduct 1t With
out disaster at home and dishonor abroad.
and 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 success of the
administration of President Harrison
Protection is ReatIirmed.
We renew and emphasize our ahgi-
ance to the policy of protection as the
bulwark of American industrial indie
pendence and the foundation of Amerl-
can development and prosperity. This
true American policy taxes foreign prod
ucts and encourages home industry; 1t
puts the burden of revenue on foreign
goods; it secures the American market
for the American producer; 1t uphelds
the American standard of wages for the
American workingman; it puts the fac
tory by the side of the farm, and makes
the American farmer less dependent on
foreign demand and price; it difuses
general thrift and POUNDS the strength of
all on the strength of each. In its reason
able application it is just, fair and inn
partial, equally opposed to foreign con-
troll and domestic monopoly, to sectional
discrimination and individual favoritism.
We denounce the present Democratic
tariff as sectional, injurious to the pub
!. lie credit and destructive to business en-
tefpFlSe. we demand Sucn an eQultdDie
tariff on foreign imports which come into
competition with American products as
will not only furnish adequate revenue
for the necessary expenses of the gov
ernment, but will protect American la
bor from degradation to the wage level
of other lands. We are not pledged to
any particular schedules. The question
of rates is practical question, to be
governed by the conditions of the time
and of production; the ruling and un-
compromising principle is the protection
and development of American labor and
industry. The country demands right
settlement and then it wants rest.
Protection and Reciprocity.
We believe the repeal of the reciproci-
fy arrangements negotiated by the last
Republican administration was n nation
al calamity, and we demand their re-
newal and extension on such terms as
will equaliZe our trade with other ma
tions, remove the restrictions which now
obstruet the sale of American products
in the ports of other countries and secure
enlarged markets for the products of our
farms, forests and factories
Protection and reciprocity are twin
measures of Republican policy and go
hand IN hand. Democratic rule has reck-
lessly struck down both. and both must
be re-esta blished. Protection for what
we produce; free admission for the nee
essaries of life which we do not produce;
reciprocal agreemnts of mutual interests
which gain open markets for us in re-
turn for our open market to others. Pro-
lection builds up domestic industry and
trade. and secures our own market for
ourselves; reciprocity builds I'D foreign
trade and finds an outlet for our sur
plus.
Sugar Attitude Stated
We condemn the preEent administra-
ton for not keeping faith with the sugar
producers of this country. The Rennh-
lican party fayors such protection as will
lead to the production on American soil
of all the sugar which the American peo-
pie use, and for which they pay other
countries more than $100,000,000 annual
ly.
American Products Favored.
To all our products-to those of the
mine and the field, as well as to those of
the shop and the factopy-to hemp. to
wool, the product of the great industry
of sheep husbandry. as well as to the
finished wooIens of the mill-we promise
the most ample protection.
Merchant Marine Restoration.
We favor restoring the early America n
policy of discriminating duties for the
upbuilding of our merchant marine and
the protection of our shipping in the for
eign carrying trade, so that American
) Sh1pS-the produet Oh American labor
employed in American shipyards. sail,
ing under the Stars and Stripes and
manned, officered and owned by Ameri-
cans-may regain the carrying of our
foreign commerce.
For Sound Money.
The Republican party is unreservedly
for sound money. 1t caused the enact
ment of the law providing for the re-
sumption of specie payment in 1879
since then every dollar has been as good
as gold.
We are unalterably opposed to every
measure calculated to debase our cur-
rency or impair the credit of our coun-
try. We are, therefore, opposed to the
free coinage of silver, except by interna-
tional agreement with the leading COM
merical nations of the world, which we
pledge ourselves to promote, and until
such agreement can be obtained the ex-
isting gold standard must be preserved.
All our silver and paper currency must
be maintained at parity with gold. and
we favor all measures designed to main
tain invoilably the obligations of the Unit
ed States, and all our money, whether