The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-06-25
c. e. Tfescott, Publisher.
THE PLATFORM.

The republicans of the United
States assembled by their repre-
sentatives in national convent tion,
appealing for the popular and his
torical justification of their claims
to the matchless achievements of
30 years of republican rule, earn
estly and confidently address them
selves to the awakened intelligence,
experience and conscience of their
countrymen in the following decIa-
ration of facts and principles For
the first time since the civil war
the American people have wit
messed the calamitous consequences
of full and unrestricted democratic
control of the government. 1t has
been a record of unparalleled inca>
paeity, dishonor and disaster. In
administrative management it has
ruthlessly sacrificed indispen: able
revenue, entailed an increased
deficit, eked out ordinary current
expenses with borrowed money,
piled up the public debt by 1862, :
600, 600 in time of peace, forced an
adverse balance Of trade, kept a
perpetual menace hanging over the
redemption fund, pawned American
credit to alien syndicaues and
reversed all thea measures and re-
suits Of successful republican rule
In the broad effect of its policy it
has precipitated panic, blighted
industry and trade with prolonged
depression, closed factories, re-
duced work and wages, halted
terprise and crippled American
production while stimulating for
eign production for the American
market. Every consideration OF
public safety and individual interest
demands that the government
shall be rescued from the hands OF
those who have shown themselves
incapable to conduct 1t without
disaster at home and dishonol
abroad, and be restored to the
party which, for 80 years, admin
istered it with unequaled success
and prosperity. And in this
connection we heartily endorse the
wisdom, patriotism and success O.
the administration of Presiden'
Harrison.
We renew and emphasize ouI
allegiance to the policy Of protec
tion as the bulwark of an American
development and prosperity. This
true American policy taxes foreigr
products and encourages home
industry and it puts the burden o
revenue.on foreign goods it secure
the American market for tn
American producer; it upholds tn
American standard of wages TO
the American workingmen; it put
the factory by the side of the farm
and makes the American farme
less dependent on foreign deman
and price, it diffuses general thrift
and founds the strength of all o
the strength Of each. In its rea
sonable application 1t is just, fai
and impartial, equally opposed t
foreign control and domesti
monopoly, to sectional discrimina
tion and individual favoritisn
We denounce the present demo
cratic tariff as sectional, injuriou
to public credit and destructive t
business enterprises. We deman
such equitable tariff on foreig
imports which come into compel
tion with American products &
will not only furnish adequat
revenue for the necessary expense
of the government, but will pr
tect American labor from degrad
tion to the wage level of oth'
lands. We are not pledged to an
particular schedules. The questic
of rates is practical question
. be governed by the conditions
the time and of production; Il
ruling and uncompromislng pri