The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-07-02

ductiOn on American soil of all the
sugar which the American people
use and for which they pay other
countries more than 800, 200, 900
annually. TO all our products-to
those of the mine and the field as
well as those of the shop and the
factory-to hemp, to wool, the
product Of the great industry of
sheep husbandry, as well as to the
finished woolens of the mill-we
promise the most ample protection.
We favor restoring the early
American policy of discriminating
duties for the upbuilding of our
merchant marine and the protec-
ton of our shipping in the foreign
carrying trade, so that American
ships-the product of American
labor, employed in American ship
yards, sailing under the Stars and
Stripes, and manned, differed and
owned by Americans-may regain
the carrying Of our foreign COM
merce.
The Republican party is unre-
servcdly for sound money. 1t
caused the enactment of the law
providing for the resumption of
the specie payment in 1879; since
then every dollar has been as good
as gold.
We are unaltcrably opposed to
every measure calculated TO debase
our currency or impair the credit
of our country. We are, therefore,
opposed to the free coinage Of silver,
except by international agreement
with the leading commercial nations
Of the world, which we pledge our
selves to promote; and until such
agreement can be obtained, the ex-
isting gold standard must be pre-
served. All our silver and paper
currency must be maintained at
parity with gold, and we favor all
measures designed to maintain in
violable the obligation of the I'm
tied States and all our. money,
whether com or paper, at the pres
ent standard, the standard of the
most enlightened Nations of the
earth.
The veterans Of the Union armies
deserve and should receive fair
treatment and generous recognition.
Whenever practicable they should
be given the preference in the mat
ter Of employment, and they are en-
titled to the enactment of such laws
as are best calculated to secure the
fultilment Of the pledges made to
them in the dark days Of the coun-
try's peril. We denounce the prac-
ticc in the Pension Bureau, so reck-
lessly and unjustly carried on by
the present Administration, of re-
ducing pensions and arbitrarily
dropping names from the rolls, as
deserving the severcSt condemna-
ton of the American people.
Our foreign policy should be at
all times firm, vigorous and dig
nified, and all our intereats in
the Western hemisphere carefully
watched and guarded. The Ha-
wailan Islands should be controlled
by the United States, and no for
eign power should be permitted tc
interfere with them; the Nicaragua
Canal should be built, owned and
operated by the United States, and.
by the purchase Of the Danish Is
lands, we should secure a proper
and much-needcd naval station il
the West Indies.
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 infu
ence it can properly exert to bring
these atrocities to an end. II
Turkey American residents have
been exposed to the gravest dangers
and American property destroyed
There, and everywhere, American
citizens and American property
must be absolutely protected at al
hazards and at any cost.
We reassert the Monroe Doctrin,
in its full extent, and we reaffirn
the right Of the United States t.
give the doctrine effect by respond
ing to the appeals of any American
state for friendly intervention il
case of European encroachment
We have not interfered, and shall
not interfere, with the existing pos
sessions of any European power II
this hemisphere, but those posses
sions must not, on any pretext, b.
extended. We hopefully look for
ward to the eventual withdrawal 0
the European powers from thi
hemisphere, and to the ultimat
union of all of the English-speak
ing part of the continent by tn
free consent Of its inhabitants.
From the hour of achieving thei