The record-union., 1896-06-19

tact American labor from degradation
to the wage level of other lands. We
are not pledged to any particular
schedules. The question of rates is a
practical question, to be governed by
the conditions of the time and of pro-
duction; the ruling and uncompromis
ing principle is the protection and de-
velopment of American labor and in
dustry. The country demands a right
settlement, and then il wants rest.
RECIPROCITY
We believe the repeal of the reciproc
ity arrangements negotiated by the last
Republican administration was ma
tional 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 coun-
tries, and secure enlarged markets for
| the products of our farms, forests and
factories.
Protection and reciprocity are twin
measures of Republican policy, and go
hand in hand. Democratic rule has
| reclllessly struck down both, and both
| must be re-established Protection for
what we produce; free admission for
the necessaries of life which we don't
produce; reciprocal agreements of mu-
tual interest which gain open markets
tor us in return for our open market
to others. Protection builds UP domestic
| industry, and secures our own market
for ourselves; reciprocity builds up for
| eign trade and finds an outlet for our
| surplus.
SUGAR.
We condemn the present administra-
| ton for not keeping faith with the
sugar producers of this country. The
! Republican party favorS such protec-
ton 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.
| WOOL AND WOOLENS
| To all our products; to those of the
| mine and the field as we'll as to those
of the shop and factory; to hemp, to
wool, the product of the great industry
Of sheep husbandry as we'll as to the
finished woolens of the mill, we promise
the most ample protection.
MERCHANT MARINE.
We favor restoring the early Ameri-
| can policy of discriminating duties for
the up-building of our merchant ma
rine and the protection of our shipping
in the foreign carrying trade, so that
American ships-the product of Amer
| lean labor, employed in American ship
yards sailing under the stars and
stripes and manned, officered and own
| ed by Americans-may regain the car
rying of our foreign commerce.
MONEY.
The Republican party is unreserved-
| ly for sound money. 1t caused the en-
actment 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 debase our cur
rency or impair the credit of our coun-
try. We are therefore opposed to the
free coinage of silver except by inter-
| national agreement with the leading
commercial nations of the world, which
we pledge ourselves to promote, and
until such agreement can be obtained
the existing gold standard must be
preserved. AE our silver and paper
currency must be maintained at par
ity with gold, and we favor all meas
| ures 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 enlightened ma
| tions of the earth
PENSIONS
| The veterans of the Union armies de-
serve and should receive fair treatment
and generous recognition. Whenever
practicable they should be given the
preference in the matter of employ
ment and they are entitled to the en-
actment of such laws as are best calcu-
lated to secure the fulfillment of the
pledges made to them in the dark days
! Of the country's peril.
| We denounce the practice in the Pen
sion Bureau so recklessly and unjustly
carried on by the present administra-
tion of reducing pensions and arbihar-
lily dropping names from the rolls as de-
serving the severest condemnation of
the American people.
| FOREIGN RELATIONS
Our foreign policy should be at all
times firm, vigorous and dignified. and
all our interests in the Western Hemi-
sphere carefully watched and guarded
The Hawaiian Islands should be con-
trolled by the United States, and no for
eign Power should be permitted to in
terfere with them; the Nicaragua Canal
should be built. owned and operated by
the United States, and by the purchase
Of the Danish Islands we should secure
a proper and much needed naval sta
ton in the West Indies.
ARMENIAN MASSACRES.
The massacres in Armenia have
| aroused the deep sympathy and lust
indignation Of the American people, and
we believe that the United States
should exercise all the influence it can
properly exert to bring these atrocities
to an end. In Turkey American resi-
dents have been exposed to the grayest
dangers, and American property de-
stroyed. There and everywhere Amer
lean citizens and American property
must be absolutely protected at all baz-
! ards and at any cost
MONROE DOCTRINE.
| We reassert the Monroe doctrine in
its fullest extent, and we reaffirm the
right of the United States to give the
doctrine effect by responding to the ap-
peals of any American State for friend
~ intervention in case of European en-
croaehment- We have not interfered.
and shall not interfere, with the exist
ing possessions of any European Power
in this hemisphere but those possess
slons must not, on any Dretext, be ex-
tended. We hopefully look forward to
the eventual withdrawal of the Euro
pean Powers from this hemisphere and