Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-01
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
"A Mastery Declaration of PrinCi-
pies that Will Insure Victory.

hLI u DLlOaN LIZA OhAus
"A Mastery Declaration of Princi-
piles that Will Insure Victory.
The Republicans of the United States,
assembled by their representatives in
national convention, appealing for the
popular and historical justification of
their claims to the matchless achieve
ments of thirty years of Republican rule,
earnestly and confidently address them
selves to the awakened intelligence, eX-
perience and conscience of their country
men 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 I'M
destricted Democratic control OF the
government. 1t has been record or
unparalleled incapacity, diShonor and dis
.-aster. In administrative management 1t
has ruthlessly sacrificed indispensa Bile
revenue, entailed an unceasing deficit,
e. eked out ordinary current expenses with
borrowed money, piled up the public debt
by 1892, 600. 900 in time of peace, forced
al adverse balance of trade, kept per-
-petual menace hanging over the redemp-
ton fund, pawned American credit TO
alien syndicates and reversed all the
measures and results of successful Re-
publican rule In the broad effect of ITS
industry and trade with prolonged de-
preston, closed factories, reduced 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 demands
that the government shall be rescued
from the hands of those who have shown
themselves incapable to conduct it with
out disaster at home and dishonor abroad,
and shall be restored to the party which
for thirty years administered il with un-
~equaled success and prosperity, and IN
this connection we heartily indorse the
wisdom. patriotism and success of the
administration of President Harrison.
Protection Is Reaffirmed.
We renew and emphasize allegi-
~ance to the policy of protection as the
bulwark of American industrial indie
pendence and the foundatiOn of Ameri-
can DEVELOPMENT and prosperity. This
true American policy taxes foreign prod
ucts and encourages home industry; it
puts the burden of revenue foreign
goods; it secures the American market
for the American producer; 1T upholds
the American standard of wages for the
American workingman; it puts the fac
tory by the side of the farm, and makes
the American farmer less dependent on
foreign demand and price; it diffuses
general thrift and POUNDS the strength of
all on the strength of each. In its reason
able application it is just, fair and i'm
partial, equally opposed to foreign con-
troll and domestic monopoly, to sectional
discrimination and individual favoritism.
We denounce the present Democratic
tariff as sectional, injurious to the pub
lie credit and destructive to business en-
terprise. We demand such an equitable
tariff on foreign imports which come into
competition with American products as
will not only furnish adequate revenue
for the necessary expenses of the gov
~ernment, but will protect American la
Dor from degradation to the wage level
of other lands. We are not pledged to
any particular schedules The question
of rates is a practical question, to be
governed by the conditions of the time
and of productions; the ruling and I'M
compromising principle is the protection
and development of American labor and
industry. The country demands right
settlement and then it wants rest.
Protection and Reciprocity
We believe the repeal of the reciproci-
zty arrangements negotiated by the last
Republican administration was n nation
al calamity, and we demand their re-
-newal and extension on such terms as
will equalize our trade with other ma
TtionS, remove the restrictions which now
~obstruct the sale of American products
in the ports of other countries and secure
enlarged markets for the products of our
farms, forests and factories.
Protection and reciprocity are twin
measures of Republican policy and go
hand IN hand. Democratic rule has reck-
1essly struck down both, and both must
he re-established. Protection for what
we produce; free admission for the nee
sessaries of life which we do not produce
reciprocal agreemntS of mutual interests
which gain open markets for us in re-
vturn for our open market to others. Pro
lection builds up domestic industry and
trade, and secures our own market for
ourselves: reciprocity builds up foreign
trade and finds outlet for our sur
Eplus.
Sugar Attitude Stated.
We condemn the present administra-
~tion for not keeping faith with the sugar
producers of this country. The Repub-
1ican party favors such protection as will
lead to the production on American soil
of all the sugar which the American peo-
pie use, and for which they pay other
countries more than 800, DOC, 900 annual
@ly.
American Products Favored.
To all our products-to those of the
mine and the field, well to those OF
the shop and the factory-to hemp. tic
wool, the product of the great industry
-of sheep huSbandrS, well as to the
finished woolens of the mill-we promise
Nfhe most ample protection.
Merchant Marine Restoration.
We favor restoring the early American
spolicy of discrimina ting duties for the
the protection of our shipping in the for
seign carrying trade, so that American
sships-the product of American labor
employed in American shipyards sail
ing under the Stars and Stripes anu
manned, officered and owned by Ameri
scans-may regain the carrying of oul
foreign commerce.
For Sound Money.
for sound money. 1t caused the enact
Ement of the law providing for the re
sumption of specie payment in 1879
since then every dollar has been as good
gold
We are unalterably opposed to every