Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-06-24

oun!nistra tlon was national calamity, and
we demand their renewal and extension on
such terms as will equalize our trade with
other cations, remove the restrictions which
now ob'truct the sale of AmsrIca produc Is in
the ports OF other countries and secure en-
!argeo markets for the products Of our farms,
forests and factories.
Protection and reciprocity are twin meas.
ures OF Republican policy and go hand in
hand Democratic rule has reckessly struck
down both, and both must be re-established-
prote; ton for what we produce free ad mis-.
sion Tor the necessaries of life which we do not
produce; reciprocal agreements OF mutual in.
terest, which gain open markets for us in re-
turn Tor our open markets to others. Protec-
tion builds up doms. tic industry and trade,
and secures our own market for ourselves; re-
ciproc ity builds up foreign trade and finds an
outlet for our surplus
ave condemn the ent administration
FOR not keeping faith with the sugar producers
OF this country. The Republican party favors
such projection as will lead to the production
on american soil OF all sugar which the
American people use and for which they pay
other coutries more than 500, O)0,9c0 annually.
Wool and woolens.
To all our products-to those of the mine
and field, as we'll as those of the shop and
factory, to hemp, to wool the pro Iuct of the
great industry OF sheep husbandry, as we'll a,
70 the finished woolens OF the mill-we prom.
40 snO AAiOSI aAupi0 pCOO5CLkOQ.
Merchant Marine
We favor restoring the early American
policy OF discriminating duties for the up-
building of our merchant marine and the pro.
lection OF our shipping interests in the foreign
carrying trade. SO American ships-th3 pro.
duct OF American labor empl Dyed in American
shlpyards sailing under the stars AMI stripes,
and manned, Differed an owned by Ameri.
oans-may regain the carrying of our foreign
commerce
Money.
The Republican party is unreservedly for
sound money. It caused the enactment of the
law providing for the resumption OF specie
payments in 1919 Since then every doll1r has
been as good as gold. We are unalteraby
opposed to every measure calcula ted 10 debase
our currency or impair the credit of our oun.
try We are, therefore. opposed to the free
coinage OF silver except BY international agree.
mont with the leading commercial nations Of
the world. which we pledge ourselves to pro-
mote. and until such an agreement can be
obtained the existing gold standard must be
preserved. All our silver and paper currency
must be main tanned at parity with gold,
and We favor all measures designed to main
tain 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.
Pensions.
"The veterans OF the Union armies deserve
and should have fair treatment and generous
recognition Whenever pract1ca blo they
should be given the preference in the matter
OF employment, and they are entitled to the
enactment OF such laws are best calculated
to secur, the fulfllment of the pledges made
to them in tbs dark days of the country peril
We denounce the practice in tho pension bu.
reau. so reckle,sly and uniustly CARR ed on by
the present administration. of reducing pen.
sions and arbitrarily dropping ma mes from the
rolls, as deserving the sevcrest condemnation
or the American people.
Foreign Relations.
"Our foreign policy should be at all times
firm, vigor GUS and dIgnifiod. and all our inter.
ests in the Western he misphere carefully
watched and guarded. The Hawaiian islands
should be controlled by the United States and
no foreign power should be permitted to inter.
fere with them; the Nicaraga canal should be
built. owned and operated by the Unitad States
and by the purchase OF the Danish islands we
should secure the proper and much needed
naval station in the West Indies.
Armenian Massacres.
1.-THE massacres in Armenia have aroused tie
deep sympathy and ju,t Indignation of the
American people and we beliovo the United
States should exercise all the influence it can
properly exert to bring these atrocities to an
end. In Turkey, American residents have been
exposed to the gravest dangers. and American
property destroyed There and everywhere
American citizens and American property must
De aDSOl uLely pTOL6C LoU at all naZarQS anu at
any cost
Monroe Doctrine.
I'VE reassert the Monro, doctrine in its full
est extent and Wa rea firm the right OF
tie United States TO give the doctrine eff
feet by responding to tho appeals of any
American state for friendly Intervention in
case OF Eur opean encroachment We have not
interfered AMI shall not interfere with the K
listing possessions of any European power in
this hemisphere but those possessions must not,
on any pretext, be extended We hopefully
look forward to the eventual with6r awal of the
European powers from this hemisphere, and
to the ultimate union of all English-sps aking
parts Of tho continent by thu free consent Of
its inhabitants
From the hour OF achieving their own indie
pendence, the people of the United States have
regarded with sympathy the struggles OF other
American peoples to free themselves from Eu-
ropean domination. We watch with deep and
abiding interest the heroic battle OF the Cuban
patriots against cruelt5 and oppression, and
our best hopes go out for the full success of
their determined contest for liberty The gov
eminent OF Spain having lost control of Cuba.
ana being unable to protect the property or
lives OF resident American citizens or to COM
ply with its trea'y obligations, we believe tho
United States should actively use its influence
and good offices to restore peace and give indie
pendence to the island
The Navy.
The peace aud security of the republic and
the maintenance of its rightful inf1uenc among
the nations OF the earth, demani naval power
commensurate with its position and response
blllty We therefore, favor the continued en-
iargement OF the navy and complete system of
harbor and seacoast defensss.
Foreign Immigration.
For the protection of the quality OF our
American citizenship and Of the wages of our
Workingmen against the fatl competition of
low priced labor, we demand that the immigra-
ton laws be thoroughly enforced. and SO ex-
tended as to exclude from entrance to the
United States thos, who IAN neither read nor
write.
Civil Service.
The civil service law was placed on the
statute books by the Republican party, which
has always sustained it, and we r1new our re-
patel declarations that it shalt be thoroughly
and honestly enforced and extended wherever
practicable.
Free Ballot.
We demand that every citizen Of the United
STATES shall be Above 1 to cast one freq and
unrestricted ballot, and that such ballot shall
be counted and returned as cast
Lynchings
We proclaim our unqualified condemns alton
OF the uncivilized and barbarous practice. we'll
known as lynching, o. killing Of human beings
suspected or harged with crime, without pro-
cess ofIaw.
National Arbitration.
I'VE favor the creation Of q national board
OF arbitration to settle and adjust differences