Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-06-26

from the rolls as deserving the severest
Condemnation Of the American people, =
Our Forsign Relations.
Our foreign policy should be at all times
firm, vigorous and dig1ifled, and all our
interests in the Western hemisphere care
fully watched and guarded. Tho Hawaiian
islands should be controlled by the Ua'teo
States, and no foreign power should pe
permitted to interfere with them; the
Nicaraguan canal should be built, owned
and operated by the United States, and by
the purchase Of the Danish islands we
should secure proper and much needed
naval station in the West Indies.
The Armenian Massacres.
The massacres In Armenia have orousea
the deep sympathy and just Indignation
of the American people and we believe that
the United States should exercise all the
influence it cah possibly exert to bring
these atrocities t6 an end. In Turkey,
American residents have been exposeu to
the gravest dangers and property "a:
gtfeyed. There and everywhere, Amerlr
cali citizens and American property must
be absolutely protected at all hazards and
at any cost: "&
The Monroe Doctrine:
We reasserE Che Monroe doctrine III its
fullexten and we reaffirn the right o.
the United States to give the doctrine Of:
feet by responding to the appeals Of any
American state for friendly Intervention
in case of European ehcroachment. We
have not interfered and shall not interfere
with the existing possessions of any Euro
pean power in this hemisphere, but those
possessions must not, on any pretext, be
extended. We hopefully look forward to
the eventual withdrawal of the ENropean
powers from this hemisphere and TO- the
ultimate union of all the English-spehk-
ing part of the continent by the free cbn4
sent of it's inhabitants. .g
Should interfere in Cuba.
From the hour of achieving their own
Independence the People Of the United
States have regarded with sympathy the
struggles of other American peoples to
free themselves from European domina-
ton. We watch with deep and abiding
interest the heroic battle of the Cuban
patriots against cruelty and oppression,
and our best hopes go out for the full sue
cess of their determined contest for
liberty.
The government Of Spain, having lost
control of Cuba and being unable to pro-
tect the property or lives of resident
American citizens;:or to comply with it's
treaty obligations, we believe that the
government of the United States should
actively use it's influence and good offices
to restore peace and give Independence to
the island.
Would Increase the Navy:
The peace and security Of, the republic
and the maintenance of it's rightful' influ~
ence among the nations of the earth: de.
mand a naval power commentaries with
it's position and responsibility. We there
fore, favor the continued enlargement Of
the navy and complete system Of hArbor'
and sea coast defenses.
As to Foreign Immigration.
For the protection Of the quality Of our
American citizenship and of the wages of
our workingmen against the fatal compe-
tition of low priced labor, we demand that
the immigration laws be thoroughly en-
forced, and so extended as to exclude from
entrance to the United States those who
can neither read nor write.
The Civil Service.
The civil service law was placed on the
statute book by the Republican party,
which has always sustained it, and we re-
new our repeated declarations that it shall
be thoroughly and honestly enforced and
extended wherever practicable.
Free Ballot and Fair Count.
We demand that every citizen Of the
United States shall be allowed to cast one
free and unrestricted ballot, and that such
ballot shall be counted and returned as
cast. " -ft $50 t',..' " ~
a Condemn Lynching. u.s. g.
We proclaim our unqualified condemna-
ton of the uncivilzed and barbarous
practice, we'll known as lynching or kill
ing of human beings, suspected or charged
with crime, without process Of law. y<
$ National Arbitration
We favor the creation Of national
board of arbitration to settle and adjust
differences which may arise between en-
ployers and employed engaged in inter.
state commerce. -.nc -s..
b. Hvse nomesteads. ..-,
We beliere in an immediate return to
the free homestead policy Of the Repub-
Ican party, ana urge the passage Dy con-
gress of the satisfactory free homestead
measure which has already passed the
house and is now pending in the senate.
Admission of Territories. -. =
We favor the admission of the remain
ing territories at the earliest practicable
date, having due regard to the interests Of
the people of the territories and of the
United States. All the federal officers ap-
pointed for the territories should be elect
ed from bona flde residents thereof, and
the right of lf-government should be &C
corded as far as practicable
" Such Are Their Principles.
Such are the principles and policies OF
the Republican party. BY these princi-
pies we will abide and these policies we
will put into execution. We ask for them
the considerable Judgment Of the American
people. Confident alike in the history OF
our great party and in the success Of our
cause, we present our platform and our
candidates in the full assurance that the
election will bring victory to the Repub
Noan party and prosperity to the people 0t
The United Stateas s5sss