The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-10-01
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
Text of Declaration of Princi-
Piles Adopted by the Ma
tional Convention.

yention at st. Louis:
The Republicans of the United States
assembled by their representatives in ma.
tional convention, appealing for the pop,
ular and historical justification Of their
claims to the matchless achievements of 30
years of Republican rule, earnestly and
confidently address themselves to the
awakened intelligence, experience and
conscience of their countrymen in the fol.
lowing declaration Of facts and principles:
Calamities of Democratic Control.
For the first time since the Civil War
the American people have witnessed the
cdlamitous consequences of free and I'M
restricted Democratic control Of the gov
eminent. 1t has been a record of unpar.
aielled ~incapacity, dishonor and disaster.
In administrative management it has
~ruthlessly sacrificed indispensable reve-
nue., entailed an unceasing deficit, eked
out ordinary current expenses with Dor
rowed money, piled up public debt $685.
O00, 600 in time of peace, forced an adverse
balance of trade, kept a perpetual menace
hanging overthe redemption fund pawned
American credit to alien syndicates and
reversed all the measures and results of
successful Republican rule. In the broad
effect of its policy it has precipitated pallid,
blighted industry II trade with pro-
longed depression, closed factories, re.
duced work and wages, halted enterprise
and crippled American production, while
stimulating foreign production for the
American market. Every consideration
OF public safety and individual interest de-
mands that the government shall be res
2ued from the hands Of those who have
shown themselves incapable to conduct il
without disaster at home and dishonor
abroad, and shall be restored to the party
which for thirty years administered it with
~unequalled success and prosperity.
Renew Allegiance to Protection.
We renew and emphasize our allegiance
20 the policy Of protection as the bulwark
OF American industrial independence and
the foundation of American deyelopment
and prosperity. This true American pol
icy taxes foreign products and encourages
home industry; it puts the burden of
revenue on foreign goods; it secures the
American market for the American bro.
Queer; 1t upholds the American standard
OF wages for the American workingman:
IL puts the factory by the side of the farm
and makes the American farmer less de.
pendent on foreign demand and price. il |
diffuses general thrift, and Pounds the
strength OF all on the strength of each.
In its reasonable application, it is lust. |
fair and impartial, equally opposed to
foreign control and domestic MONOPOLY. tn
sectional discrimination and individual
fayoritism.
We the present Democratic
tariff as sectional, injurious to the public |
credit and destructive to business enter.
prise We demand such an equitable tariff
on foreign imports which come into COM
petition with American products as will
only furnish adequate revenue for the
necessary expenses of the government. but
still protect American labor from degrade
ton TO the wage level of other lands, We
are not pledged to any particular sched-
ules. The question of rates is a practical
question, to be governed by the conditions
the time and production; the ruling and
Incorporating principle is the protec.
lion and development of American labor
ana industry. The country demands q
right settlement and then it wants rest.
Repeal of Reciprocity Was Calamitous.
We believe the repeal of the reciprocity
arrangements negotiated by the last Re
administration was q national
calamity, and we demand their renewal
and extension on such terms as will equal.
lie our tradew with other nations, remove
the restrictions which now obstruct the
sale OF American products in the ports of
other countries and secure enlarged mar.
kets Tor the products of our farms, forests
factories.
PROTECTION and reciprocity are win
measures OF Republican policy and go
land In and Democratic rule has reck-
Iessly struck down both, and both must
De re-established.
PROTECTION for what we produce; free
Tor the necessarieS of life which
We Go not produce; reciprocal agreements
I mutual interests which gain open mar !
let's Tor us IN return for our open markets /
o others. Protection builds up domestic !
Industry and trade, and secures our own :
market Tor ourselves; reciprocity builds up I
orelgn trade and finds an outlet for our '
{
Protection For Sugar. ,
We condemn the present administration I
'r not keeping faith with the sugar pro- g
ucers of this country. The Republican I
arty fayors such protection as will lead to f,
ne production on American soil of all the {
which the American people use. and l.
u which they pay other countries more o
100000, 900 annually. n
Wool and WooIens. :
To all our products-to those of the '
line and the field as we'll as those of the !
iop and the factory-to hemp, to wool I,
lie product of the great Industry of thi II
ieep ~husbandry, as well as to the finished II
oolens of the mill-we promise the most p
nple protection. u
Merchant Marine. 70
we favor restoring the early American q,
'llcy of discriminating duties for the up- =,
Hiding OF our merchant marine and the b,
of our shipping in the foreign
crying trade, so that American ships n,
product of American labor. emnloved \