The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-19

procity arrangements negotiated by
the last Republican administration was
a national calamity and we demand
their renewal and extension on such
terms as will equalize our trade with
other nations, remove the restrictions
which now obstruct the sale of Ameri
can 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
reckiessly struck down both, and both
must be re-established. Protection for
what we produce; free admission for
he necessaries of life which we do
not produce; reciprocal agreements of
mutual interests which gain open mar
kets in return for our open markets to
others. Protection builds UP domestic
industry and trade and secures our
own market for ourselves; reciprocity
guilds up foreign trade and finds an
outlet for our surplus.
SUGAR.
We condemn the present administra-
ion for not keeping faith with the
sugar producers of this country. The
Republican party favors such protec-
American soil of ali the sugar which
the American people use and for
which they paid other countries more
than $100,000,0G0 annually.
WOOL AND WOOLENs.
To all our products-to those of the
mine and field, as. well as those of the
shop and factory, to hemp wool, the
product of the great industry of sheep
,-1.o .l,.xr ell - he ,,ic
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 policy of ship
ping interests in the foreign carrying
trade, so American ships, the product
of American labor, employed in Ameri-
can shipyards. sailing under the stars
and stripes, and manned, differed and
owned by Americans-may regain the
carrying oe our foreign commerce.
MONEY.
The Republican party is unreservedly
for sound money. 1t caused the enact
ment of the law providing for the re-
sumption of specie payments in 1879
Since then every dollar has been as
good as gold. We are unalterably OPP
posed to every measure calculated 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 agree
ment with the leading commercial ma
tons of the world. which we pledge
ourselves to promote, and until such
agreement can be obtained the exist
ing gold standard must be preserved.
Ali our silver and paper currency
must be maintained at a parity with
gold, and we favor all measures de-
signed to maintain inviolably the obli-
cations of the United States and all
our money, whether coined or paper.
at the present standard. the standard
of the most enlightened nations of the
earth.
PENSIONS.
The veterans of the Union army de-
serve and should receive fair treatment
and generous recognition. Whenever
practicable they should be given the
preference in the matter of employ
ment, and they are entitled to the en-
actment of such laws as are best cal
culated to secure the fulfiIlment of the
pledges made to them in the dark days
OF the country's peril We denounce
the practice in the pension bureau, so
recklessly and unjustiy carried on by
the present administration, of reducing
pensions and arbitrarily dropping
names from the rolls as deserving the
severest condemnation of the Ameri-
can people.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Our foreign policy should be at all
times firm, vigorous and dignified and