The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-06-17

This will be considered again tomorrow
morning and will probably be submit
ted to the full committee substantially
as 1t now stands.
The money plank, which is that pre-
pared and favored by Mr.. Merriam of
Minnesota is as follows:
1.-The Republican party is unreserved-
ly for sound money. 1t caused the en-
actment Of the law providing for the
resumption Of specie payments in 1879;
since then every dollar has been as
good as gold.
1--WE are una1terably opposed tc 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 inter-
national agreement with the leading
commercial nations of the world which
we pledge ourselves to promote, and
until such an agreement can be OBJ
tained the existing gold standard must
be preserved All our silver and paper
currency now in circulation must be
maintained at parity with gold, and
we favor all measures designed to
maintain inviolably the obligations Of
the United States, and our money,
whether coin or paper, at the present
standard, the standard Of the most en-
lightened nations of the EARTH
The text Of the platform is as follows:
The Republicans of the United States
assembled by their representatives in
national convention, appealing for the
popular and historical jurisdiction of
their claims to the bitter fruits of four
nP yuQU
as the matchless improvements Of
thirty years of Republican rule. earn
estly and confidently address them
selves to the awakened intelligence,
experience and conscience of their
countrymen in the following declara-
tion Of facts and principles:
For the first time since the civil war,
the American people have now wit
messed the calam1tous consequences Of
full and unrestricted Democratic con-
troll of the government. 1t has been a
record Of unparalleled incapacity, dis
honor and disaster. In the admins
trative management it has ruthlessly
sacrificed indispensable revenue, eked
cut ordinary current running ex-
penses with borrowed money, piled up
the public debt $262, 900 in time Of
peace, forced an adverse balance Of
trade, kept a perpetual menace hang
ing over the redemption fund, paWned
American credit to alien syndicates
and reversed all the measures and re-
suits of successful Republican rule.
In the broad effect of it's policy 1t has
precipitated panic, blighted industry
and trade with prolonged depression,
closed factories, reduced work and
wages halted enterprise and crippled
American production, while stimulat-
ing foreign production for the Amer
lean market. Every consideration Of
public safety and individual interest
demand that the government shall be
rescued from the hands of those who
have shown themselves incapable of
conducting 1t without disaster at home
and dishonor abroad, and shall be re-
stored to the party which for thirty
years administered 1t with unequaled
success and prosperity.
POLICY OF PROTECTION.
We renew and emphasize our allegi-
ance to the policy of protection as the
bulwark of American industryal indie
pendence and the foundation of Ameri-
can development and prosperity. This
true American policy taxes foreign pro-
ducts and encourages home industry;
it puts the burden Of revenue on foreign
goods; it secures the American market
for the American producers; 1t upholds
the American standard Of wages for
the American workingmen; 1t puts the
factory by the side of the farm and
makes the American farmer less de-
pendent on foreign demand and price;
it diffuses general thrift and founds
tha strength of all on the strength of
each. In It's responsible application, 1t
is just, fair and impartial, equally op-
posed to foreign control and domestic