The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-06-19
The Platform.

Grating its long established principles of
protection and reciprocity, and Its gold
standard plank as published the other
day, has the following planks:
FOREIGN IMMIGRATION.
'sFor the protection of the quality of
our American citizenship and the wages
of our workingmen against the fatal
competition of low-priced labor we de-
mand that the immigration law be thor
oughly enforced and so extended as to
exclude from entrance to the United
States those who can neither read nor
write.
CIVIL SERVICE.
"The civil service law was placed on
the statute books by the Republican
party, which has always sustained it,
and we renew our repeated declarations
that it shall be thoroughly and honestly
enforced and extended wherever prac-
ticable.
LYNCHINGs.
'We proclaim our unqualified con-
demnation of the uncivilized and bar
barbous practice, we'll known as lynch
ing. or killing of human beings suspected
or charged with crime, without process
of law.
NATIONAL ARBITRATION.
''We favor the creation of a national
board OF arbitration to settle and adjust
differences which may arise between
employers and employees engaged in in
terstate commerce.
TEMPERANCE.
''We sympathize with all wise and
legitimate efforts to lessen and prevent
the evils of intemperance and promote
morality.
RIGHTS OF WOMEN.
"The Republican party is mindful of
the rights of women. Protection of
American industries includes equal op-
portunities, equal pay for equal work
and protection to the home.
''We favor the admission of women to
wider spheres of usefulness, and well
come their cooperation in rescuing the
country from Democratic and Populist
mlsmanagement and misrule.
ARMENIAN MAssACREs.
"The massacres in Armenia have
aroused the deep sympathy and just in
dignation OF the American people, and
we believe the United States should
exert all the influences 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,
as everywhere, American citizens and
American property must be absolutely
protected at all hazards and at any cost.
MONROE DOCTRINE.
''We reassert the Monroe doctrine in
its fullest extent, and we reaffirm the
right of the United States to give the
doctrine effect, by responding to the ap-
peals of any American state for friendly
intervention in case of European en-
croachment.
owe have not interfered and shall not
interfere with the existing possessions
of any European power in this hemis-
phere, but those possessions must not,
on any pretext, be extended. We hope
fully look forward to the eventual with
drawal of the European powers from
this hemisphere and to the ultimate
union of all the English-speaking parts |
of the continent by the free consent of |
Its inhabitants.
CUBA.
"From the hour of achieving their
own independence, the people of the
United States have regarded with SYM
pathy the struggles of our American
peoples to free themselves from Euro
pean domination. We watch with deep
and abiding interest the heroic battle of
the Cuban patriots against cruelty and
and our best hopes go out
ior the full success of their determined |
contest for liberty.
The government of Spain, having lost
control of Cuba, and being unable to
protect the property or lives of resident |
American citizens, or to comply with its
treaty obligations, we believe the gov
srnment of the United States should |