Evening star., 1896-06-18

| Senator Teller
| Every consideration of public safety and
| II dividual interest demands that the gov
ernment shall be rescued from the hands
| OF these who have shown themselves in
| tapahie to conduct fl without disaster at
/ home aad dishonor abroad and shall be
| restored to the party which for thirty
years administered 1t with unecualed sue
cess and prosperity, and in this connection
we heartily indorsc the wisdom. patriotism
and the success of the administ ration of
President Harrison
| Tariff.
We renew and emphasize our allegiance
| to the policy of protection the bulwark
of American Industrial independence and
| the foundation of American development
| and prosperity. This true American policy
taxes foreign products and ENCOURAGES
| home industry; ii puts the burden of reve-
| nue. on foreign goods; IL secures the Ameri-
| can market for the American producer; IT
! uph"lds the American standard OF wages
| Tor the American workinRE.an: ii puts the
factory by the side of the farm and makes
| the American farmer less dependent on
| foreign demand and price; it diffuses gen.
! oral thrift and founds the strength of all
| on the strength of each. In its reasonable
| application it is just. fair and impartial
! equally opposed to foreign control and do
| :nestic monopoly, to sectional discr!mina-
| ton and individual favoritism.
We denounce the present democratic tar
iff as sectional. injurious to the public cred
it and destructive to business enterprise. We
demand such equitable tariff On foreign
imports, which come into competition with
American products, as will not only furnish
adequate revenue for the necessary 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
onestion of rates is practical question,
to he governed by the conditions of the
time and of production: the ruling and un-
compromising principle is the protection
and development of American labor and
industry. The country demands a right
settlement and then ii wants lest.
Reciprocity.
We believe the repeal OF the reciprocity
arrangements negotiated by the last re-
publican administration was a national ca
lamity and We demand their renewal and
extension en- such terms as will ecualize
our trade with other nations, remove the
restrictions which row obstruct the sale
of American products in the ports Of other
countries, and secure enlarged markets for
the products of our farms, forests and fac
tories.
Protection and reciprocity gre twin
measures of republican 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 ad-
| mission for the neCessaries of life which
w. do
| of mutual interests which gain open mar
kets for us i'm return for our open market
TO others. Protection builds up domestic
industry and trade and secures our own
market for oui selves; reciprocity builds up
foreign trade and finds an outlet for our
surplus.
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 sloo11oo annually
Wool and Woolens.
To all market proiucts-to those of the
mine and the field, as we'll as to those of
the shop and the factory-to hemp, to wool,
| the product of the great industry of sheep
| husbandry, as well as to the finished WOOL
| ems Of the mll-we promise the most ample
pf election.
Merchant Murine.
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-ths
t..--
| American ship yards. sailing under the
stars and stripes. and manned, officered
| and owned by Americans-may regain the
carrying of our foreign commerce.
Money.
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 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 agree
ment with the leading commercial nations
| of the world which we pledge ourselves to
promote. and until such agreement can be
| 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 de-
signed to maintain invfclably the oblisa-
| lions of the United States and all our mon-
ey, whether coin or paper, at the present
| standard, the standard of the most enlieht-
| ened nations of the earth.
Pensions.
| The veterans of the Union army deserve
and should receive fair treatment and gen