The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-06-26

sugar pnooueen OF this country. Th,
republican party fsvors such pro.ec
ton as win lead to the production or
American soil of all the sugar which
the American people use and fol
which they pay other countries more
than 800! !OOO, 600 annually.
|. WOOL AND WooIKys.
To all our products-so thrse OF the
mine and 6eld, as well as those of the
sheep and the faetory-to hemp, to
wool, the product OF the great industry
OF sheep husbandry as well as to the
finished woolens of the mill-xe
promise the most amiable protection.
MERCHANT MARINE
We favor restoring the early Amer
lean policy of discriminating duties
Tor the upbuilding Of our merchant
marine and the protection of our ship
ping interests In the foreign carrying
trade SO that American ships, the pro-
duct OF American labor, employed in
American ship yards, sailing under
the stars and stripes and manned,
ofhcered and owned BY Americans
may regain the carrying of our foreign
commerce.
The republican party Is unreserved-
ly Tor sound money. 1t caused the
enactment of the law providing for
the resumption of specie payments in
1879; since then every dollar has been
as good as gold; we are unalterably
opposed to every measure calculated
TO dehase our currency or impair the
credit OF our country We aie, there
lore. opposed 20 the free coinage of
silver except by international agree
ment with the leading commercial na-
tlons OF the world, which We pledge
ourselves to promote, and until such
agreement can be obtained the exist
ing 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 inviolably the obligations of
the United States and all our money.
whether coin or paper, at the present
standard, the standard Of the most en-
hghtened nations OF the earth
PENSIONS.
The Veterans of the union armies de-
serve and should receive fair treat-
ment and generous recognition. When
ever practicable they should be given
the preference In the matter of en-
ployment, and they are entitled TO the
enactment OF such laws as are best
calculated to secure the fulillment of
the pledges made to them In the dark
days of the eountry's peril We de-
nounce the practice in the pension
bureau, 50 reeklessly and unjustly car
ried on by the present administration,
of reducing pensions and arbitrarily
dropping names from the rolls As de-
serving the severest condemnation of
American people.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Our foreign policy should be at al
times firm, vigorous and digni6ed, and
all our interests In the western hemis-
phere carefully watched and guarded
The Hawaiian islands should be con-
trolled by The United States, and no
foreign power should be permitted to
interfere Herewith; the Nicaraguan
canal should he built, owned and oper-
ated by the United States, and by the
purchase OF the Danish islands we
should secure the proper and much
needed naval station In the West
Indies.
ARMENIAN NASSACRES.
The massacres in Armenia have ar
oused the deep sympathy and just in
dignation OF the American people,
and we believe the United States
should exert all the influence ii can
properly exert to bring these atrocities
to an end In Turkey American
residents have been exposed to the
grarest dangers and American proper
ty destroyed. There and everywhere
American citizens and American prop
erty must be absolutely protected at
all hazards and at amy cost
MONROE DOCTRINE
We reassert the Monroe doctrine ta
Its fullest extent and we reaf6rm the
right of the United States 10 give the
doctrine effect by responding to the
appeals of any American state for
| friendly Intervention In case Of En-
Dpean encrpachment. We have not
interfered and shall not interfere with
the existing possessions OF any Eur
pean power In this hemisphere, but
these possessions must not, on any
petext, be extended We hopefully
look forward 10 eventual Withdrawal
of the European powen from this
hemisphere and to the ultimate union
OF al English speaking parts Of the