The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-06-27
FROM THE PLATFORM.
(Tarif.

idnce 10 tne pOllcy OF prOuectlOn as
the bulwark of an American indus
trial independence and the foundation
of American development and pros
perity. This true American policy
taxes foreign products and encourages
home industry and it puts the burden
of the revenue on foreign goods; il
secures the American market for the
American producer; it upholds the
American standard of wages for the
American workingman; it puts the
factory by the side of the farm and
makes the American farmer less de.
pendent upon foreign demand and
price; it diffuses general thrift, and
founds the strength of all on the
strength of each. In it's reasonable
application it is just, fair and inn
partial, equally opposed to foreign
control and domestic monopoly; to
sectional discrimination and individual
favoritism.
(Reciprocity.)
We believe the repeal of the reci-
procity arrangements negotiated by
the last Republican administration
was a National calamity and we de-
mand their renewal and extension ON
such terms as will equalize our trade
with other nations remove the restric
tions 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 and factories.
(Foreign Relations.)
Our foreign policy shall be at III
times firm, vigorous and dignifed, and
all our interests in the western homi-
sphere carefully watched and guard
ed. The Hawaiian islands should lie
controlled by the United States and
no foreign power should be permitted
to interfere with them. The Nicar-
aqua 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 In
dies.
(Sugar.)
We condemn the present administra-
tion 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 $10O,000,000 annually.
(Merchant Marine.)
We favor restoring the early Amer
lean policy of discriminating duties
for the upbuilding of our merchant
marine and the protection of our
shipping interests in the foreign car
rying trade so that American ships,
the product of American labor en-
ployed in American shipyards, sailing
under the Stars and Strips and man
ned, officered had owned by Ameri-
cans, may regain the carrying of our
foreign commerce.
(Money.)
The Republican party is unreserved-
ly for sound money. 1t caused the en-
resumption of specie payments in 1879.
Since then every dollar has been as
good as gold. We are malterably OPP
posed to every measure calculated 10
debase our currency or impair th"
credit of our country We are there
fore opposed TO the free coinage of sill
YER except by international agree
men with the leading nations of the
world, which we pledge ourselves to
promote, and until such 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 inviolably the obligations of
the United States, and all our money,
whether paper or coin, at the present
standard-the standard of the most
enlightened nations of the earth.
Ummigration)
For the protection of the equality
of our American citizenship and the
wages of our workingmen against the
fatal competition of low-priced labor
we demand that the immigration laws
be thoroughly enforced and so extend
ed as to exclude from entrance to the
United States those who can neither
read nor write.
Monroe Doctrine.)
We reassert. the Monroe doctrine in