The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-06-25
THE PLATFORM.
Full Text of the Resolutions Adopted by the Republican Convention-Vote on tho Financial Plank.

| Financial Plank.
 ST. LOUIS, June 19-The finance plank in the platform recommended by the committee on resolutions was adopted by the convention by vote of SEX ayes to llOH nays, the balance being adopted by a viva voce vote. The platform is as follows:
 The republicans of the United States. as- sembled by their representatives in national convention, appealing for the popular and his- torical justification of their claims to the matchless achievements of 30 years Of repub- lican rule, earnestly and confidently address themselves to the awakened intelligence, ex- perience and conscience of their countrymen in the following declaration of facts and prin- ciples: For the first time since the civil war the American people have witnessed the ca | lamitous consequences of full and unrestricted democratic control of the government It has | been record of unparalleled incapacity, dis | honor and disaster. In administrative man. | agement 1t has sacrificed indispensable reve- nue. entailed an unceasing deficit, eked out | ordinary current expenses with borrowed money, piled up the public debt by s29s, 100000 in time of peace, forced an adverse balance of trade, kepta perpetual menace hanging over the redemption fund, pawned American credit to alien syndicates and | reversed all tho measures and results Of suc- cessful 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 pro- duction while stimulating foreign produ c tion for the American market Every considera- tion of public safety and public interest de- mands that the government shall be rescued | from the hands of those who have shown them- selves incapable of conducting 1t without dis Il md iSho oh shall be restored to the party which for 30 years ad- ministered 1t with unequaled success and prosperity. And in this connection VIC heartily tndorse the wisdom, the patriotism and the success of the administration of President Harrison
 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 pros- perity. This true American policy taxes for eign products and encourages home industry: | 1t puts the burden of revenue on foreign goods; | It secures the American market for the Amer ican producer: it upholds the American stand ard of wages for the American workingman; 1t puts the factory by the side of the farm and makes the American farmer less dependent on foreign demand and price: 1t diffuses general thrift and founds the strength of all on the strength of each In its reasonable applica- tion it is just. fair and impartial, equally op- posed to foreign control and domestic monop- | ply. to sectional discrimination and individual iavoritism.
 We denounce the present democratic tarif IS sectional injurious to the public credit and | destructive to business enterprise. We de- mand such an equitable tarn on foreign im- ports which come into competition with Amer | ican products as will not only furnish adequate revenue for the necessary expenses of the gov ernment. but will protect American labor from degradation to the wage level of other lands. We are not pledged to any particular sched- ules. The question of rates is practical question to be governed by the conditions of tho time and production: the ruling and un- | compromising principle is the protection and 1 development of American labor and industry. | The country demands a right settlement, and .hen 1t wants rest
 l We believe the repeal of the reciprocity ar- rangements negotiated by the last republican administration was national calamity, and VIC demand their renewal and extension on such terms as will equalize cur trade with other l 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 I 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-estab-
 ished. Protection for what we produces 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 our |selves reciprocity builds up foreign trade and l finds an outlet for our surplus.
 We condemn the present administration for not keeping faith with the sugar producers 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 slc0 900 annually. | To all our products-to those of the mine and Held as we'll as to those Of the shop and fac- tory, 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.
 | We favor restoring the early American pol- icy of discriminating duties for the up-build- Ing of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the foreign carrying trade. 30 that American ships-the product of Amer lean labor. employed in American shipyards, sailing under the stars and stripes and manned
 officered and owned by Americans-may re- gain the carrying of our foreign commerce.
 The republican party is unreservedly for sound money It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie I payments III lsIS, SlnCe IHcH every uOlbr uas been as good as gold We are unalterably op- posed to every measure calculated to debase our currency, or impair the credit of our coun try. We are, therefore, opposed to free coin age of silver except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world. which we pledge ourselves to promote | and until such an agreement can be obtained the existing gold standard must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency must be maintained at parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain invioably | the obligation of the United States and our money, whether coin or paper. at their present standard. the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth.
 | The veterans of the union army deserve and | should receive fair treatment and generous recognition. Whenever practicable they should | be given the preference in the matter of em- ployment and they are entitled to the enact- ment of such laws as are best calculated to se- cure the fulhllment of the pledges made to them in the dark days of the country's peril 1 We denounce the practice in the pension bu- | reau, so recklessly and unjustly carried on by the present administration, of reducing pen- sions and arbitrarily dropping names from the roll us deserving the seyerest condemnation of the American people
 | Our foreign policy should be at all times firm. vigorous and dignifed. and all our interests in the western hemisphere watched and guarded | The Hawaiian islands should be controlled by