The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-07-04

interests in the foreign. carrying trade
SO American ships, the product OF
American labor, employed in Ameri.
can shipyards, sailing under the Stars
and Strips, and manned, differed, and
owned by Americans, may regain the
carrying of our foreign commerce.
The Republican party is unreserved.
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
currency or impair the credit of this
country.
We are, therefore, opposed to the
free coinage of silver except by inter
national agreement, 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, inviolably, the Obll-
cations of the United States, and all
our money, whether coin or paper, at
tbs present standard, the standard of
the most enlightened nations of the
earth.
The veterans of the union armies de-
serve and should receive kind treat
ment and generous recognition. When
ever 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 calcu-
lated to secure the fulfllment 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 unjustly 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.
Our foreign policy should be at all
times, firm, vigorous and dignifed, and
all our interests in the western hemis-
phere carefully watched and guarded.
The Hawaiian islands should be con-
trolled by the United States, and no
foreign power should be permitted to
interfere with them; the Nicaragua
canal should be built, owned, and op-
Grated by the United States and by the
purchase of the Danish islands we
should secure the proper and much
needed naval station in the West In.
dies.
The massaCres in Armenia have
aroused the deep sympathy and just
indignation of the American people.
and We believe the United States
should exert all the influence it can
exert to bring these atrocities
to an end. In Turkey American resi-
dents have been exposed to the gravest
dangers and American property de-
strOyed. There, as everywhere, Ameri-
can citizens and American property
must be absolutely protected at all
hazards and at any cost.
We reassert the Monroe doctrine in
Its fullest extent, and we reafirm the
the United States to give the |
doctrine effect by responding to the an. |
peals of any American state for friend |
y Intervention in case of European en-
We have not inteTfeFed and shall not
interfere with the existing possession
If any European power in this hemis-
'here, but those possessions must not
IN any pretext, be extended. We hope.
July look forward to the eventual
of European powers from
his hemisphere and to the ultimate
lnion of all the English-speaklng parts
# the continent by the free consent of
Is inhabitants.
From the hour Of achieyeinp their
Wn independence, the people of the
United States have regarded with SYM
athy the struggles Of other American
eople to free themselves from EuroD-
an domination. We watch with deep
nd abiding interest the heroic battle
+ the Cuban patriots against cruelty
nd oppression, and our best hopes 90
ut for the full success Of their deter
Aimed contest for liberty.
The government Of Spain, having
st control of Cuba, and being unable
protect the property or lives of resi-
ent American citizens, or to comply
18th its treaty obligations, we believe
le government of the United States
lould actively use it's influence ana
BOD offices to restore peace and give
to the island.
The peace and security of the reDnb-
and the maintenance of its rightfuI
huence among the nations of the
rth' demand naval power common.
rate with its position and RESPONSE.
lily. We, therefore. favor the con.