Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-07-17
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The republicans OF Iowa, assembled
IN convention, mindful of their duty in
the ventfui contest already begun,
proud of their past and confident of
their future, submit to the people OF
the state the principles which they
deem essential to the welfare Of their
country.
We heartily approve the platform of
the party announced at the national
republican convention recently held in
ST. Louis, and we pledge our fellow re-
publicans throughout the United States
TO carry all It's declarations to triumph
ant success in the coming election
We cordially indorse the candidates OF
that convention, and we hasten to as
sure our sister states that Iowa, speak
ting through magnificent majority, will
cast her electoral vote for William Nc
kinley and Carrot A, Hobart.
We recognize the revolutionary char
acter of the convention lately held in
Chicago. We appreciate the dangers of
dts startling doctrines and the immeas-
urable disasters that would follow their
adoption by the government. We have
seen the ruin accomplished by the free
trade declaration of 1892, and We have
now hard. d demand that the ruin
shall be made complete by the over
throw of our financial system and the
substitution of an experiment that can
result only in untold misery and incal-
culable loss.
We believe that every possible nuc-
tuation OF money standards between the
Iowa producer and his consumer is a
margY between them. If 1t is not an
advantage to have common standard
with his customer abroad, then 1t is no
advantage to have a common standard
with the other communities of this
union.
In the interest of our export trade
for the furtherance of the policy of
of reciprocity, and for the promotion Of
our commerce, as we'll as for the benz
eft of our silver producers, we pledge
support Of the Iowa representatives III
congress to the promotion of an inter-
national agreement to establish the
joint standard universally and from
the same considerations to oppose the
proposition to carry the United States
to silver monometallism.
We are opposed to the change to
single silver standard because 1t will
decrease and not increase the supply
Of money in the country; because in
stead of restoring confidence it will de-
,troy credits. instead ofsinspiring enter
prise l. will spread alarm: instead OF
aiding the debtor 1t will involve him in
bankruptcy; instead of furnishing en-
ployment to labor it will make more un-
certain and unremunerative that which
1t has, and instead of benefiting the
producer and farmer it will injure them,
and finally because it would do infii-
mite injustice and involve our country
In reputation and dishonor.
We denounoe as false the statement
of the democratic party that we have
contracted or that our policy will con-
tract the volume OF our currency; on
the contrary we assert that the prin-
ciple we advocate is the only principle
that will eyiI- IA tla~ NO IONS Xy
stable in It's purchasing power and ade-
quate in amount, which the prosperity
of the people demands.
The republican party, under Its poll
icy. assures the people of an ample
currency, composed OF gold, silver and
paper, no one kind preferable to an
other none OF it subject In the hands
Of the people to variation OF value, but
every dollar as good as gold and there
held by the real power of the govern
ment of the United States.
We stand upon the record which the
republican party has made. We recall
the prophecies of our antagonists in
Iowa in 1878 that specie payments
would ruin our state and we point to
the period of never to be equalled
prosperity which ensued from 1880 to
1892, with every dollar of our currency
kept at the gold standard without the
sale Of a bond or a whisper against our
credit
We re-afirm our faith in the doctrine
of protection to American labor. and
the policy which is part of 1t, the pro-
motion of our foreign trade by recip-
rocal agreements. Under this consist
ent and practical policy the develop
ment of our limitless resources will be
resumed enterprise will spring into
action at a million opportunities, capt.
tai will go out seeking for the wage
Garner, and when the table of the work
ingman Is again covered with plenty
the American farmer will know good
times once more. We hold that the
prices OF our farm products can be re-
stored only by the recovery OF the
markets to which we had access four
years ago, and through the return to
our home consumers OF the buying
power which was theirs four years ago.
The Iowa farmer needs no other con-
dition to assure this prosperity than
those which maintained the level of his
r-ices, increased the value of his farm,
and reduced the cost of his purchases
during the four splendid years of Pres
ident Harrison's administration BY
the restoration of these conditions, by
maintaining the stability Of our money
and not by debasing its value the re-
publican party promises him relief.
The abandonment Of the treaties OF
reciprocity which had opened the mar
ket places of Spanish America and
Central Europe to the farm products
cf the United States has resulted in the
almost total exclusion of our bread
stuffs and meats from countries af-
fected by the reciprocal agreements Of
1891. Thus so-called tariff reform, as
managed by the Fifty-third congress,
instead of opening new markets for
the farm, has closed foreign markets
to us and stimulates production by our
competitors, at the same time causing
an uneNampled prostration OF its near
est and best customers, the wage-earn-
ers of our own land.
The republican party appeals with
confidence to the people Of Iowa to
support it in it's purpose to establish
the industries and all of the varied in
terests of production and exchange,
upon stable and certain basis that
the genius and energy of this great
people may be free to work out the
national prosperity. as they did in that
marvellous decade following 1880.
The fourth commandment prohibits
the working of cattle" on Sunday.
The cyclists argue that they can ride
on Sunday because wheel is not in
Guided among cattle. But they work
their ca1ves.-Wichita Eagle.
That most strait sect, the Dunkards,
really ought not to make bicycle riding
test of membership. There is Scrip
tural authority for the belief that peo-
pie who fall may rise again.-Pittsburg
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