The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-19

tue uppullulllS bL bVl lAClNuihl uiO- rine and the protection of our ship ping in the foreign carrying trade, so that American ships-the product of American labor, employed in American shipyards, sailing under the Stars and Stripes and manned, ollicored and owned by Americans-mayr regain the carrying e our foreign commerce.
 The Financial Plank.
 The republican party is unreserved- ly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing for 1879; since then every dollar has been as good as gold.
 We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our cur rency or impair the credit of our coun- try. We are, therefore, opposed to the free coinage of silver except by inter- national agreemen with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be ob- tained the existing gold standard must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency must be maintained at parity  designed to maintain inViolably the obligations of the United States and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth.
 The veterans of the Union armies deserve and should receive fair treat ment and generous recognition. When ever practicable they should be given the preference in the matter of enl- ployment, and they are entitled to the enactment of such laws as are best calculated to secure the fulfillment of the pledges made to them in the dark days of the country's peril. We de- nounce the practice in the pension bu- reau so recklessly and unjustly carried on by the present administration of reducing pensions and arbitrarily drop ping names from the rolls, as deserving the severest condemnation of the Am erican people,
 Our foreign policy should be at all times firm, vigorous and dignitied and all our interests in the western hem isphere carefully watched and guard ed The Hawaiian Islands should be controlled by the United States and no foreign power should be permitted to interfere with them; the Nicaragua canal should be built, owned and op- erated by the United States and by the purchase of the Danish Islands we should secure proper and much needed naval station in the West h. dies.
 The massacres in Armenia have aroused the deep sympathy and just indignation of the American people, and we believe that the United States should exercise all the influence it can properly exert to bring these atrocities to an end In Turkey, American resi- dents have been exposed to the gray est dangers and American property destroyed there and everywhere Amer ican citizens and American property must be absolutely protected at all hazards and at any cost.
 The Monroe Doctrine.
 We reassert the Monroe doctrine in it's full extent and we reaffirm the right of the United States to give the doe Urine effect by responding to the ap- peals of any American state for friend ly intervention in case of European encroachment We have not inter- fered and shall not interfere with the existing possessions of any European power in this hemisphere, but these possessions must not, on any pretext, be extended We hopefully look for ward to the eventual withdrawal of the European powers from this hemis- ,l4 .F ,F the English speaking part of the conti- nent by the free consent of it's inhab- itants.
 From the hour of achieving their own independence, the people of the United States have regarded with sym pathy the struggles of other American people to free themselves from Eu- ropean domination. We watch with deep and abiding interest the heroic battle of the Cuban patriots against cruelty and oppression, and our best hopes go out for the full success of their determined contest for liberty
 Cuba.
 The government of Spain having lost control of Cuba, and being unable to protect the property or lives of resi- dent American citizens or to comply with It's treaty obligations, we believe that the government of the United States should actively use its influence and good offices to restore peace and give independence to the island
 The peace and security of the re- public and the maintenance of its right ful influence among the nations of the earth demand a naval power commen- surate with it's position and responsi- bility. We, therefore, favor the contin- ued enlargement of the navy and a complete system of harbOr and seacoast defences.
 For the protection of the equality of our American citizenship and of the wages of our workingmen against the fatal competition of low priced labor we demand that the immigration laws be thoroughly enforced and so extended as to exclude from entrance to the United States those who can neither read nor write.
 The civil service law was placed on the statute books by the republican l party, which has always sustained it and we renew our repeated declara- tions that it shall be thoroughly and honestly enforced and extended wher- ever practicable.
 ! We demand that every citizen of the i United States shall be allowed to cast one free and unrestricted ballot and returned as cast
 We proclaim our unqualified condem- nation of the uncivilized and barbarous