Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-06-19
AND HOBART.

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The Platform.
Following are the tariff, reciprocity,
ugar and wool and financial planks in full:
A Protective TariG,
We renew and emphasize our allegiance
to the policy of protection as the bulwark
of American industrial independence and
the foundation of American development
and prosperity. This true American policy
taxes foreign products and encourages
home industry it puts the burden of reve-
nue. on foreign goods; it secures the Ameri,
can market for the American producer; it
upholds the American standard of wages
for the American workingman; it puts the
factory by the side of the farm and makes
the American farmer less dependent on for
eign demand and price; it diffuses general
thrift and POUNDS the strength of all on the
strength of each. In its reasonable appli-
cation it is just, fair and impartial, equally
opposed to foreign control and domestic
monopoly, to sectional discrimination and
individual favoritism. We denounce the
present Democratic tariff as sectional, in
furious TO the public credit and destructive
to business enterprise. We demand such
an equitable tariff on foreign imports which
come into competition with American prod
ucts as will not only furnish adequate rev.
enue for the necessary expenses of the
government, but will protect American
labor from degradation to the wage level
of other lands. We are not pledged to any
particular schedules. The question of rates
is practical question, to be governed by
the conditions of the time and of produc-
ton; the ruling and uncompromising prin-
cip!e is the protection and development of
American labor and industry. The coun-
try demands a right settlement, and then
it wants rest.
Reciprocity.
We believe the repeal of the reciprocity
arrangements negotiated by the last Re-
publican 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 fac
tories. 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
reestablished Protection for what we pro-
duce; free admission for the necessaries of
life which we do not produce; reciprocal
agreements of mutual interest 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 ourselves; reciprocity
builds up foreign trade and finds an outlet
for our surplus.
Sugar and Wool.
We condemn the present administration
for not keeping faith with the sugar pro-
ducers of this country. The Republican
party favors such protection as will lead to
the production on American soil of all the
sugar which the American people use, and
for which they pay other countries more
than 500, 100000 annually.
To all our products-to those of the mine
and the field as we'll as those of the shop
and factory-to hemp-to wool, the prod
uct of the great industry of sheep hus-
bandry, as well as the finished woolens
of the mill-we promise the most ample
protection.
We favor the restoring of the early
American policy of discriminating duties
for the upbuilding of our merchant marine
and the protection of our shipping in the
foreign carrying trade, so that American
sbips-the product of American labor, EN-
ployed in American shipyards, sailing
unuer tne stars ana stripes, ana manned,
differed and owned by Americans-may re-
gain the carrying of the foreign commerce.
The Gold Plank.
The Republican party is unreservedly
for sound money. 1t caused the enact
ment of the law providing for the resump-
ton of specie payments in 1879; since then
every dollar has been as good as gold. We
are unalterably opposed to every measure
calculated to debase our currency or i'm
pair the credit of our country. We are,
therefore, opposed to the free coinage of
silver except by international agreement
with the leading commercial nations of the
world, which we pledge ourselves to pro-
mote, and until such agreement can be OBJ
tanned, the existing gold standard must be
preserved. All our silver and paper cur
rency must be maintained at parity with
gold, and we favor all measures designed
TO maintain inviolably the obligations of
the United States and all our money,
whether coin or paper, at the present stan
dard, the standard of the most enlightened
nations of the earth.
The remaining planks declare, among 9TH
er things for civil service reform, for national
arbitration, for temperance legislation, re-
assert the Monroe doctrine, and express
active sVmnathv with the CuhanS