Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-13
prosperity And in this connection we heartily
endorse the WISDOM patriotism and success Of
the administration OF President Harrison.
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We renew and emphasize our allegiance to
the policy OF protection as the bulwark OF Am
erican industrial independence and tho founda-
ton of American development and prosperity.
This true American policy taxes foreign pro-
ducts and encourages home industry; 1t puts
burden or revenue on foreign goods; it secures
the American market for the American pro-
ducrr; it upholds the American standard OF
wages for the American woykingman; 1t puts
the factory beside Of the farm and makes the
American farmer less dependent on foreign de-
mand and price; it diffuses general thrift and
POUNDS the strength OF eace. In its reasonable
application it Is just fair and impartial equally
opposed to foreign control and domestic mono
poly, to sectional discrimination and individual
favOrtism.
We denounce the present democratic tariff as
sectional, injurious to public credit and de-
structive to business enterprise. We demand
such equitable tariff on foreign imports which
come into competition with American pro-
ducts as will not only furnish adequate re-
venue for the necessary expenses OF the gov
ernment but will protect American labor from
degradation to the wage level OF other lands.
We are not pledged to any particular schedules.
The question OF rates Is a practical question, 10
be governed by the conditions Of time and OF
productions the ruling and uncOmprOmising
principle is protection and the development OF
American labor and industry. The country
demands q right settlement and then it wants
rest We believe the repeal of the reciprocity
arrangements negotiated by the last republi-
can administration was u national calamity,
and we demand their renewal and extension on
such terms as will equaiZe our trade with
other nations, remeve restrictions which now
Obstruct 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 the republican policy and go
hand in hand Democratic rule has reckleSSly
struck down both and both must be re.estab-
liShed. Protection fer what we produce free
| admission for the necessaries of life which we
do not produce; reciprocal agreements OF
mutual interests which gain open markets for
us in return for our open market 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.
We condemn the present administration for
| not keeping failh with tee sugar producers OF
| this country. The republican party favors such
protection rs will lead to the production on
American soil OF all the sugar which the Amer
lean people use, and for which they pay other
countries more than SleO 900 annually.
To all our products--to those of mine and
field as well as those of shop and factOry-to
! hemp, to wool, the product OF the great in
dustry of sheep huSbandry as well as to the
| finished woOens OF the mil-we promise most
ample protection.
MERCHANT MARINE.
We favor restoring the early American
policy of discriminating duties for the upbuild-
ing of our merchant marine and the protection
OF our shipping in the foreign carrying trade, so
that American ships, products of American
labor, employed in American shipyards, sailing
under the stars and stripes, and Manned
officers and owned by Americans, may regain
the carrying of our foreign commerce.
FINANCIAL PLANK.
| The republican party Is unreservedy fer
sound money. 1t caused the enactment of law
providing for the resumption of specie pay
mentS in 1879; since then every dollar has been
| as good as gold. We are unalterably opposed
| to every measure calculated to debaSe our
| currency or impair the credit of our country.
| We are, therefore, opposed to the free coinage
of silver except by international agreement
| with the leading commercial nations OF the
| world, which we pledge ourselves TO promote,
and until such agreement can he obtained, the
existing 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 maintain nNiolably
the Obligations of the United States and all our
money, whether coin, or paper, at the present
standard, the standard of the most enlightened
nations OF the earth
PENSIONS.
| Veterans of the union army deserve and
| should receive fair treatment and generous
| recognition, and whenever practicable should
| be given preference in the matter of employ
ment, and the are entitled to the enactment of
such laws as are best calculated to secure the
fulflment Of pledges made them in the dark
days of the c0umtry'S peril. We dcnOunce the
practice in the pension bureau, so reckleSSly
and uniustiy carried on by the present admins
tratiOn OF reducing pensions, arbitrarily drop
ping names from the rolls, us deserving Of the
SevereSt condemnation of the American people.
FOREIGN POLICY.
Our foreign policy should be at all times firm,
vigorous and dignihed, and all our interests in
the western hemisphere carefully watched and
guarded. The Hawaiian islands ShOald be
| confronted by the UD ted states and no foreign
power should be permitted to Interfere with
them; the Nicaraguan canal should be built,
owned and operated by the United States; and
by the purchase of the Danish Islands we
should secure proper and much needed naval
station in the West Indies.
The maSSacreS in Armenia have aroused the
deep sympathy and just indignation of the
American people and we believe the United
States should exercise all the influence it can
properly exert to bring these atrocities to an
end In Turkey American residents have been
exposed to the gravest dangers and American
property destroyed. There, and everywhere,
American citizens and American property must
be absolutely protected at all hazards and al
any cost.
We reassert the Monroe doctrine in its full
extent and we reaffirm the right eff the United
States to give the doctrine effect by responding
to the appeals of any American state for our
; friendly Intervention in case Of European en-.
croachment. We have not interfered, and
shall not interfere, with the existing possessions
of any Europeon power in this hemis sphere, but
: these possessions must not, on any pretext, be
extended. We hopefully look forward to the
eventual withdrawal of the European powers
from this hemisphere and to the ultimate union
OF all the English speaking part of the continent
by the free consent OF it's inhabitants
From tho hour Of aphiayinU thair nu,p linda