Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-25
REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM
I ext Of Declaration Of Princi-
pies Adopted by the Ma
tional Convention.

The following is the text Of the plat
form adopted by the Republican con-
v~ention at st. Louis:
The Republicans Of the United States,
assembled by their representatives in ma
tional convention, appealing for the pop
ular and historical justification of their
claims to the matchless achievements of 80
years of Republican rule, earnestly and
confidently address them.elves 70 the
awakened intelligence, experience and
conscience Of their countrymen in the fol
lowing declaration of facts and principles:
Calamities of Democratic Control.
For the first time since the Civil Wa
the American people have witnessed tho
calamitous consequences of free and un
restricted Democratic control Of the gov
eminent. 1t has been Il record Of unpar-
alclled ~incapacity, dishonOr and disaster
In administrative management it has
ruthlessly sacrificed indispensable reye
nue.. eatailCd an unceasing deficit, esed
out ordinary current expenses with boI-
roWd money, piled up public debt 5000
Q01tJJin tiYn8 aE peace, forced All adyerso
balance u trade. kept q perpetual menace
hanging Yertherodenlption fund, psawncd
Ara iaaa credit to allen syndicotes and
ray an the measures and results oi
sacc ssful Republican rule. In the bread
effect Of its policy it has preoipitated pallid,
bnGhted industry and trade with pro
Iongod depression, closcd factories, re-
duced work and wages, halted enterprise
and crippled American production, while
stimulating foreign production for the
American market. Every consideration
of public safety and individual interest de-
mands that the government shall be res
cued from the hands of those who have
shown themselves incapable to conduct it
without disaster at home and dishonor
abroad, and shall be restored to the party
which for thirty years administered il with
u~nequalled success and prosperity.
Renew Allegiance to Protection.
We renew and emphasize our allegiance
to the policy of protection as the bulwark
of American industrial independence and
the foundation of American development
and prosperity. This true American pol
icy taxes foreign products and encourages
home industry; it puts the burden Of
revenue on foreign goods; it secures the
American market for the American pro-
ducer; 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 price; it
diffuses general thrift, and POUNDS the
strength of all on the strength of each.
In its reasonable application, 1t is just,
fair and impartial, equally opposed to
foreign control and domestic monopoly, to
Sacttana1 arinnina and ip1;r;lroI
favoritism.
We denounce the present Democratic
tariff as sectional, injurious to the public
credit and destructive to business enter
prise. We demand such an equitable tariff
on foreign imports which come into com
petition with American products as will
not only furnish adequate revenue for the
necessary expenses of the government, but
still protect American labor from degrade
ton to the wage level of other lands. We
are not pledged to any particular sched-
ules. The question Of rates is a practical
question, to be governed by the conditions
of the time and production; the ruling and
uncompromising principle is the protec-
ton and development of American labor
and industry. The country demands a
right settlement and then it wants rest.
Repeal of Reciprocity Was Calsmitous.
We believe the repeal of the reciprocity
arrangements negotiated by the last Re
publican administration was "A national
calamity, and we demand their renewal
and extension on such terms as will equal
ize our trade with other nations, remove
the restrictions which now -obstruct the
sale of American products in the ports of
other countries and secure enlarged mar
kets 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-established.
Protection for what we produce; free
admission for the n-ecessEies Of life which
we do not produce; reciprocal agreements
OF mutual interests which gain open mar
kets for us in return for orr open markets
TO others. Protection builds up domestic
industry and trade, and secures our own
market for ourselves; reciprocity builds up
foreign trade and finds an outlet for our
surplus.
Protection For Sugar.
We condemn the present administration
for not keeping faith with the sugar pro-
ducers of this country. The Republican
party favors such protection 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 Sl00,0 100000 annually.
Wool and Woelens.
To all our products-to those of the
mine and the field rs well as those of tine
shop and the factory-to hemp, TO wool,
the product of the great industry of the
sheep h~usbandry, as well nv TO the finished
woolens of the mill-we premise the most
ample protection.
Merchant Marine.
We favor restoring the early American
policy of discriminating duties for the UP
building of our merchant marine and the
protection of our shipping in the foreign
carrying trade, so that American ships
the product of American laber, employed
in American ship yards, sailing under the
stars and stripes, aud manned, Differed
and owned by Amcricans-may regain the
carrying of our foreign
The Financial Plank
The Republican party is unreservedly
for sound money. lie caused the enact