Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-08-07


ments for 80 years of Republican rule,
earnestly and confidently address them
selves to the awakened intelligence, ex-
perlence and conscience of their coun-
tlymen in the following declaration of
facts and principles:
For the first time since the Civil War
the American people have witnessed
the calamitOus consequences of full and
unrestricted Democratic control of the
government. 1t has been a record of
unparalleled incapacity, dishonor and
disaster In admins tratiVe manage
gent it has ruthlessly sacrificed indis-
pensible revenue, entailed an unCeasing
deficit. eked out ordinary current eX-
penses with borrowed money, piled up
the public debt by $262 000, 600 in time of
peace, forced an adverse balance of
trade, kept perpetual menace hanging
over the redemption fund, paWned
American credit to alien syndncates and
reversed all the measures and results
Of successful Republican rule. In the
broad effect of its policy, it has precip-
itated panic, blighted industry and trade
with prolonged depression, closed fac
tories. reduced work and wages, halted
enterprise and crippled American pro-
duction, while stimulating foreign pro-
duction for the American market Ev
cry consideration Of pubic safety and
individual interest demands that the
government shall be rescued from the
hands of those who have shown them
selves incapa BILE to conduct it without
disaster at home and dishonor abroad,
and shall be restored to the party which
for 30 years administered il with I'M
eQualled success and prosperity. And
In this connection. we heartily endorse
the wisdom. patriotism and success of
the administration of Pre- lert IIarri
son
We renew and emphasize our ale
glance to the policy of protection as the
bulWarE of American industrial In1e-
pendence and tn" ipundat.oN Of Ameri
tan development and prosperity This
tue American policy taxes foreign prod
ucts and encourages home industry; 1t
puts the burden Of revenue on foreign
goods it secures the American market
for the American producer; ii upholds
the American standard of wages for the
American Workingman it puts the fac
tory 10y the side of the farm and makes
the American farmer less dependent on
foreign demand and prices; it dihuses
general thrift. and POUNDS the strength
of all on the strength of each. In its
reasonable application it is just, fair
and impartial, equally opposed to for
eign control and domestic monopoly,
the sectional discrimination and indl-
vidual faVoritism
We denOunce the Democratic tariff as
sectional, injurious to the public CT edit
and destructive to business enterprise.
We demand such an equitable tariff on
petition with American products as will
not only furnish adequate revenue for
the necessary expenses of the govern
ment, but VIII protect American labor
from degradation to the wage level of
other lands. We are not pledged to any
particular schedule. The question OF
rates is practical question to be gov
e1ned by the condition of the time and
OF production; the ruling and uncom-
promising principle is the protection
of \ sif.lra 1sl t,r and
industry. The country demands right
settlement. and then it wants rest.
We believe the repeal of the recip-
rocity arrangements negotiated by the
last Republican administration was ii
national calamity and we demand their
renewal and extension on such terms
rs will eoualize our trade with Other ma
tions. remove the restrictions which now
ohstluct the sale of American products
in the ports OF other countries. and Sc
cure enlarged markets for the products
OF our farms. forests ana factories
Protection and reciUrocity are twin
measures of the Republican policy and
go hand in hand Democratic rule has
tcsistlessly struck down both. and both
must be re-rsta blished
Protection for what we produce: free
admission for the uocessaries of life
which we do not produce: reciprocal
agreements of mutual interest which
gain omen markets for us i'm return for
our ouen markets to others Protcc-
ton builds up domestic Industry and
trade and secures oul. own market for
ourselves. ractnruritv builds m foreign
trad4 and 6nds am outlet for ouf surplus
we condemn th,. tlesent administra-
tfnn fo,. NOT lsacni1e faith with the sugar
urnducers of this country. The Reuubli-
can partv favors such protection as win
laad to the rroduction ON American, soil
OF all the sugar which the American neo-
pla use. and for which they pav other
c,,rt,.;as ,,,,r. tl,or c1oO am 6no a.,
uuaUv
TO all our Droducts-to those of the
mine and field as ven as tc those of tho
shnp and facto,v-to benn to wool the
nroduct of the great Industry of sheen
h,ishandrv as Won &C +o tha 6nfeha5
Uoolens of the mills we pron,ise the most
annie nro+ectinr
We favor resto1.ine- the early American
policv of DISCRIMINATING duties for tho
nbiiildino, Of oIIr ,7,crcbaut marine anu
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