The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24

of revenue on foreign goods; it secures the
| American market for the American pro-
ducers; it uphods the American standard
of wages for the American workingmen; 1t
puts the factory by the side of the farm;
makes the American farmers Deepen dent on
foreign demand; it diffuses general thrift,
and Pounds the strength of each. In its re-
responsible application IL is best, fair and
impartial, and equally opposed to foreign
control and domestic monopoly, to sectional
discrimination and individual favortism.
1--WE denounce the present democratic
tariff as sectional, partisan and one-sided,
and disastrous to the treasury and destruc-
tive of business enterprise, and we demand
such an equitable tariff on foreign imports,
which come into competition with Ameri-
can products, as will not ouly furnish ade--
quate revenue for the necessary expenses of
the government, but will protect American
labor from degradation and the wage level
of other lands. We are not pledged to any
particular schedule, The question of ra-
tios is a practical question, TO be governed
by the condition of the times and of pro-
duction. The ruling and incorporating
principle is the production and develop
ment of American labor and industry. The
country wants a right settlement, and then
1t wants rest.
Protection and reciprocity are twin
measures Of republican policy, and go
hand in hand Democratic rule has re-
sistlessly struck down both, and both must
Protection for what we produce; free
admission of the necessaries of life which
we do not produce; reciprocal agreements
of natural interests which gain open mar
kets for us in return for our open markets
to others Protection builds domestic in
dustry and trade and secures our own
market for ourselves; reciprocity builds up
foreign trade and finds an outlet for our
surplus
for not keeping faith with the sugar pro
ducers of the country. The republican
party favors such protection as will lead to
the production on American soil of such
sugar as the American people use and for
| which they pay other countries more than
$1O0,000,000 annually.
mine and the field, as well as to those of the
shop and factory-to help, to wool, the
product OF the great industry of sheep hus-
bandry, as well as to the finished woollens
of the mill, we promise the most ample
protection.
1--WE favor restoring the early American
policy of discriminating duties for the up
building of our merchant marine foreign
carrying trade, so that American shipping,
the product of the American labor en-
plOyed in American ship-yards, sailing
under the Stars and Stripes and manned,
Differed and owned by Americans. may re-
gain the carrying of our foreign commerce.
"The republican party is unreservedly for
sound money. 1t caused the enactment 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 cal
| culated to debase our currency or impair
| the credit of our country. We are, there
| fore, 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 agreement can be obtained the exist
ing gold standard must be preserved. All
| our silver and paper currency now in clrcu-
lation must be maintained at parity with
| gold, and we favor all measures designed to
maintain inviolably 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.
"The veterans of the Union Army de-
serve and should receive fair treatment and
| generous recognition. Whenever practi-
cable they should be be given the prefer
ence 10 the matter OF employment, and they
are entitled to the enactment of such laws
| as are best calculated to secure the fulfill
ment of the pledges made to them in the
dark days of the country's peril. We de-
nounce the practice in the pension bureau,
so relentlessly and unjustly carried on by
| the present administration, OF reducing
pensions and arbitrarily dropping names
| from the rolls as deserving the severest con-
| domination of the American people.
| "Our foreign policy should be at all times
firm, vigorous and dignifed, and all our in
terests in the Western Hemisphere care
fully watched and guarded. The Hawaiian
Islands should be controlled by the United
States and no foreign power should be per-
| mitted TO interfere with them; the Nicara-
guam 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 sta
|
The massacres of Armenians have
| aroused the deep sympathy and just indig-
nation of the American people, and we be.
lieve that the United States should exer'
else all the influence it can properly exert
| to bring these atrocities to an end. In Tur.
| key American residents have been exposed
to the gravest dangers and American prop
| erty destroyed. There and everywhere
American citizens and American property
must be absolutely protected at all hazards
| and at any cost.
| "We reassert the Monroe doctrine in its
full extent, and we reaffirm the right of the
United States to give the doctrine effect by
responding to the appeals of any American
state for friendly intervention in case OF
European encroachment.
| "We have not interfered, and shall not
interfere, with the existing possessions OF
| any European power in this hemisphere
but those possessions must not, on any pre-
text, be extended. We hopefully look for
| warn W tuo EVENTUAL WlJnurdWluB VI INT
European powers from this hemisphere and
to the ultimate union of all English-speak
ing parts of the continent by the free con
sent Of its inhabitants.
" From the hour of achieving their owr
independence, the people of the United
States have regarded with sympathy the
struggles of other American peoples to free
themselves from European domination
We watch with deep and abiding interest
the heroic battle Of the Cuban patriots
against cruelty and oppression, and our
best hopes go out for the full success o.
their determined contest for liberty.
The government of Spain, having lost
control of Cuba, and being unable to pro
tect the property or lives of resident Amer
leans or to comply with treaty obligations
we believe that the government of the
United States should actively use it's in
f1uence and good offices to restore peace and
give independence to the island.
The peace and security of the republic
and the maintenance OF its rightful in
f1uence among the nations of the earth, de
mand naval power commensurate with It'll
position and responsibility. We. therefore
favor the continued enlargement Of the
navy and complete system of harbor and
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