Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-08
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
A Mastery Declaration of PrincI-
pies that viii Insure Victory.

national convention, Appearing lor inc
popular and historical justification of
their claims to the matchless achieve
mcnts of thirty years of Republican rule,
earnestly and confidently address them
selves to the awakened intelligence, eN-
pcricnce 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
Nlamitous -nsequence of full and UNI
,NStricted Democratic control OF the
4 government 1t has been a record OF
unparalleled incapacity, dishonor ana ans
aster. In administrative management II
has ruthlessly sacrificed Indispensable
revenue cntailed an INCREASING dehclt'
eked out ordinary current expenses win
borrowed money, piled up the public debt
Icy $262, 00O. 900 in time of peace, forced
an adverse balance of trade, kept Il per-
potual menace hanging over the redemp-
ton fund, pawned American credit 10
alien syndicatcs and reversed all the
measures and results of successful he
publican rule. In the broad effect OF ITS
policy it has prccipitatcd panic, bllghted
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 he rescued
from the hands of those who have shown
themselves incapable to conduct il with
out disaster at home and dishonOr abroad,
and shall he restored to the party which
for thirty years administered il with I'M
Cqualcd success n prosperity. and III
this connection we heartily indorse the
wisdom. patriotism and success of the
administration of President Harrison.
Protection Is Reafirmed.
We renew md emphasize our allcgi-
ance to the policy of protection as the
hulwark of American industrial indie
pcndence and the foundation of Ameri-
can development and prosperity. This
true American policy taxes foreign prod
nets and encourages home industry; il
puts the burden of revenue on foreign
goods: il secures the American market
for the American producer; it upholds
the American standard of wag for the
American workingman; it puts the fac
tory by the side of the farm, and makes
the American farmer less dependent Oh
foreign demand and price: it diffuscs
general thrift and POUNDS the strength of
all on the strength of each. In its reason
able application il is Just, fair and i'm
partial. equally opposed to foreign con
troll and domestic monopoly. TO sectional
discrimination and individual favoritism.
We denounCc 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
Crnmcnt, but will protect American Ia
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 10y 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 n right
settlement and then il wants rest.
Protection and Reciprocity.
We believe the repeal of the reciproci-
~ arrangements negotiated by the last
Republican administration was n nation
nj calamity, and we demand their re-
newal and extension on such terms as
will equaliZe our trade with other ma
lions, 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-
lessly struck down both. and both must
be re-established. Protection for what
we produce: free admission for the nee
esSaries of life which we do not produce:
reciprocal agreemnts of mutual interests
which gain open markets for us i'm re-
turn 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 an outlet for our sur
plus.
Sugar Attitude Stated.
We condemn the present administra-
tion for not keeping faith with the sugar
producers of this country. The Repub-
lican 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 100000, 600 annual
ly.
American Products Favored.
To all our prOducts-to those of the
mine and the field. as well as to 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.
Merchsnt Marine Restoration.
We favor restoring the early American
policy of discriminating duties for the
upbnilding of our merchant marine and
the protection of our shipping in the for
eign carrying trade, so that American
ships-the product of American labor,
employed in American shipyards. sail,
ing under the Stars and Stripes and
manned, oficered and owned by Ameri-
oans-may regain the carrying of our
foreign commerce.
For Sound Money.
The Republican party is unreservedly
for sound money. 1t caused the enact.
ment of the law providing for the re-
sumption of specie payment in 1879.
since then every dollar has been as good
as gold.
We are unalterably opposed TO every
measure calculated to debase our cur.
rency or impair the credit of our coun-
try. We are, therefore, opposed TO the
free coinage of silver. except by interna-
tional agreement with the leading com
merical nations of the world, which we
pledge ourselves TO promote, and until
such agreement can be obtained the ex-
listing gold standard must be preserved.
All our silver and paper currency must
he maintained at parity with gold. and
we favor all measures designed TO main
tain invoilably the obligations of the Unit
ed States, and all our money, whether
coin or paper, at the present standard.
the standard of the most enlightened ma,
lions of the earth.
Matter Of Pensions.