The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-23
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
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dependence and the found alton OfAmer'
lean development and prosperity. The
true American policy taxes foreign
D products and encourages home indus
try it puts the burden Of revenue on
foreign goods; it secures the American
market for the American producer; 1t
upholds the American standard OF
wages for the American w~Orkingman
it puts the factory by the side Of the
farm and makes the American farmer
less dependent on foreign demand and
price; it DIFF Uses general thrift and
fCuuds the strength of all on the
strength of each. In its reasonable ap-
~plicatiCn it is just, fair, and impartial,
equally opposed to foreign control and
domestic monopoly, to sectional dis
elimination and individual favoritism.
We denounce the present Democratic
tariff as Sc ional, injurious to the pub
lie credit, and destructive to business
enterprise. We demand such an eqIi-
table tariff on foreign imports which
come into competition with American
products as will not only furnish ade-
Quate revenue for the nee 3esary eX
penses of the Government, but will
protect American labor from degrade
ton to the wage level of other lands.
We are not pledged to any particular
schedules. The question of rates is a
practical question, to be governed by
the conditions of the time and produc
ton; the ruling and uhcompromising
principle is the protection and devel
opm9nt of American labor and indus
try. The country demands a right set
Element, and then it wants rest.
RECIPROCITY AND PROTECTION, TWINS.
We believe the repeal Of the recipro,
city arrangement by the last Rspubli
can Administration was e National ca
lamity, and we demand their renewal
and extentiOn on such terms as will
! equ8ljzH our trade with other nations,
remove the restrictions which now OBJ
struct the sale of American products
in the parts Of other countries, and sc
cure enlarged markets for the prOduc
ton Of our farms, forests and factories.
Protection aud reciprocity are twin
measures of r publican policy, and
go hand in hand. Democratic rule has
recklessly struck down both, and both
must be re established. Protection for
what we produce; free admission for
the n~ecessaries Of life which we do not
produce; reciprocal agreements of mu
tual interest which gain open markets
for us in return for our open markets
to others. Protection builds up domes-
tic 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 GROWERS
We condemn the present A0minis
tratiOn for not keeping faith with the
sugar producers Of this country. The
Republican Party fav0rs such protec-
ton as will lead to the production OF
American soil o. ell the sugar which
the American people use, and for which
they pay other counties more than
500. OOO, 600 annually,
WOOL AND wCOLENS.
To all our productc-5o those of the
mine and the field as we'll as those of
the shop aud factory &C hemp, to wool,
the product of the great industry Of
sheep hu9bandry, as we'll as to the fin
ished woolens of the mill, we promise
the most ample protection.
MERCHANT MARINE.
We favor restoring the early Ameri-
can policy Of discriminating duties for
the upbuilding of our merchant marine
and the protection of our shipping in
the foreign carrying trade, so that
American shipC- the product of Amer
lean labor employed in American ship
yards, sailing under the S .ars and
Stripes, and manned, differed, aud
owned by AmericanC-mAy regain the
carrying of our foreign commerce.
FINANCIAL DECLARATION.
The Republican party is u~ureserved
ly for sound money, 1t caused the en-
actment of the law providing for the
resumption of specie payments 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
country. We are therefore opposed
to the free coinage of silver except by
international agreement with the lead
ing commercial nations of the world,