Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-06-25

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borrowed money, piled up the publ
debt by $3.50, ,ooo, 900 i'll time of peace
+, forced an adverse balance of trade, KEEP
a perpetual merace hanging over tht
redemption fund, pawned American
credit to alien syndicates. and reversed
Z all the measures and results of success
: full Republican rule. In the broad effec
of its policy it has precipitated panic
blighted industry and trade with pro
longed depression, closed factories, re
duced work and wages, halted enterpris,
and crippled American production Will,
stimulating foreign production for tn,
l-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 con
duct it without disaster at home and dis
honor abroad and shall be restored to
the party which for thirty years admins
tered it with unequaled success and pros
perity.
I TARIFF,
We renew and emphasize our allegiance
to the policy of protection as the bull
wark of American industrial indepen-
dence and the foundation of American
development and prosperity. This true
American policy taxes foreign products
and encourages home industry; it puts
the burden of revenue on foreign goods;
it secures the American market for the
American producer; it upholds the Amer
| lean standard of wages for the American
| workingman; it puts the factory by the
| side of the farm and makes the Ameri
can farmer less dependent on foreign de-
a..I I,G,eae ora,aro1 tI,rfft
and POUNDS the strength Of all on the
strength of each. In its reasonable ap-
plication it is Just, fair and impartial,
domestic monopoly, to sectional discrim-
ination and individual favoritism.
We denounce the present Democratic
tariff assectiona1 injurious to the pub
lie credit and destructive to business
enterprise. We demand such an equi-
table tariff on foreign imports which
come into competition with American
products as will not only furnish ade-
quate revenue for the necessary ex-
penses of the government, but will pro-
tect American labor from degradation to
the wage level of other lands. We are
not pledged to any particular schedule.
The question of rates is practical ques-
ton, to be governed by the conditions of
the time and of production; the ruling
and uncompromising principle is the
protection and development of American
labor and industry. The country de-
mands right settlement and then it
wants rest.
RECIPROCITY.
We believe the repeal of the recipro-
city arrangements negotiated by the last
Republican administration was national
calamity and we demand their renewal
and extension on such terms as will
equalize our trade with other nations,
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
recklessly struck down both, and both
must be re-established.
Protection for what we produce: free
admission for the necessaries of life |
which we do not produce; reciprocal |
agreements of mutual interests which |
gain open markets for us in return for
our open market to others. Protection |
builds up domestic industry and trade |
and secures our own market for our
selves; reciprocity builds up foreign |
trade and finds an outlet for our surplus. |
SUGAR,
We condemn the present administra-
ton for not keeping faith with the sugar
producers of this county. The Repub |
lican party favors such protection as will
lead 10 the production on American soil |
Of all the sugar which the American |
people use, and for which they pay other |
counties more than $Ioo, ,ooo, 900 an
nually.
Wool AND WooLENS.
To all our products-to those of the |
nine and the field as well as to those of
he shop and the factory-to hemp, to
WOOL, the product of the great industry of
heep husbandry, as well as to the finish
d woolens of the mill-we promise the
most ample protection.
MERCHANT MARINE.
We favor restoring the early American
policy of discriminating duties for the
lpbuilding of our merchant marine and
he protection of our shipping in the for
,ign carrying trade, so that American
product of American labor,
in American shipyards, sailing
lnder the Stars and Stripes, aud manned,
'ficered and owned by Americany-may
egain the carrying of our foreign COM
nerce.
MONEY.
The Republican party is undoubtedly
or sound money. 1t caused the enact
nent of the law providing for the re-
umption of specie payments in 1879;
q. 4 IL 1,ae ernn1 4
Is gold.
We are unalterably opposed to every
Measure calculated to debaSe our currency |
,r impair the credit of our country. We
ire therefore opposed to the free coinage
IF silver except by international agree
nent with the leading commercial ma
ions of the world, which we pledge our
selves to promote, and until such agree
nent can be obtained the existing gold
standard must be preserved. All our sill
yer and paper currency must be main
tanned at parity with gold, and we favor
all measures designed to maintain in
violab1e 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 army de-
serve and should receive fair treatment
and generous recognition. Whenever
practicable they should be given the pre-
ference in the matter of employment, and
they are entitled to the enactment of such
laws as are best calculated to secure the
fulhllment of the pledges made to them
in TIE dark days of the country's peril. |
We denounce the practice in the pension
bureau, so recklessly and unjdstly car
ried on by the present administration of
pensions and arbitrarily drop
ping names from the rolls, as deserving
the severest condemnation of the Ameri-
can people.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Our foreign policy should be at all
times firm, vigorous and dignifed, and
all our interests in the western henis-
phere carefully watched and guarded.
The Hawaiian islands shonld be control
led by the United States, and no foreign
power should be permitted TO interfere
with them; the Nicaragua canal should
be built, owned and operated by the
United States; and by the purchase of the
Danish islands we should secure a proper
and much needed naval station in the
West Indies.
ARMENIAN MASSAcREs.
The massacres in Armenia have arous-
ed the deep sympathy and just ind1gua-
ton of the American people and we be-
lieve that the United States should exer-
else all the influence it can properly |