The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-06-23

pensions arbitrarily, dropping names from
the rolls, as deserving the severest con
demnation of the American people
Our foreign policy should be at all times
firm, generous and dignifed, and all our
interests in the Western hemisphere care
fully watched and guarded. The Hawaiian
Islands should be controlled by the United
States and no foreign power should be per-
mitted to Interfere with them the Mic
araguan 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
station In the West Indies.
The massacres in Armenia have aroused
the deep sympathy and just 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 residents have been exposed to
the graVest dangers and American property
destroyed There and everywhere, Ameri-
can citizens and American property must
be absolutely protected at all hazards and
at any cost
We reassert the Monroe doctrine in its
full extent and we reaffirm the right OF
the United States to give the doctrine eff
feet by responding to the appeals Of any
American state for friendly Intervention
in case of European encroachment. We
have not interfered and shall not interfere
with the existing possessions of cry Euro
pean power in this hemisphere, but those
possessions must not, on any pretext, be
extended. We hopefully look forward to
the eventful withdrawal of the European
powers from this hemisphere, and to the
ultimate union of all the English-speaking
part Of the continent by the free consent
of its Inhabitants.
From the hour of achieving their own
Independence, the people of the United
States have regarded with sympathy the
struggles of other American peoples to
free themselves from European domina-
ton. We watch with deep and abiding In
terest the heroic battle of the Cuban pa
tri0ts against cruelty and oppression and
our best hopes go out for the full success Of
their determined contest for liberty. The
government of Spain, having lost control of
Cuba and being unable to protect the pro-
perty or lives Of resident American citizens,
or to comply with its treaty obligations, we
believe that the government of the United
States should actively use its influence to
restore peace and give independence to
the island
The peace and security of the republic
and the maintenance of it's rightful in
luence among the nations of the earth,
demand naval power commensurate with
its position and responsibility. We, there
fore, favor the continued enlargement Of
the navy and complete system of harbor
and sea coast defenses.
For the protection OF the quality OF our
workingmen against the fatal competition
of low-priced labor, we demand that the I'M
migration laws be thoroughly enforced and
so extended as to exclude from entrance to
the United States those who can neither
read nor write.
The civil service law was placed on the
statute book by the Republican party,
which has always sustained it, and we res
new our repeated declarations that it shall
be thoroughly and honestly. enforced and
extended wherever practicable.
We demand that every citizen Of the
United States shall be allowed to cast one
free and unrestricted ballot and that such
ballot shall be counted and returned as cast.
We proclaim our unqualified condemna-
ton of the uncivilized and baFbarous prac-
tice, well known as lyIiehing or killing hui
man beings, suspected or charged with
crime, without process Of law.
We favor the creation of d national board
Of arbitration to settle and adjust differ
ences which may arise between employers
and employed engaged in Interstate COM
merce.
We believe in an immediate return to
the free homestead policy Of the Repub-
lican party, and urge the passage by con-
gress of the satisfactory free homestead
measure which has already passed the house
and is now pending in the senate.
We favor the admission of the remain
ing territories at the earliest practicable
date, having due regard fo the interests Of
the people of the territories and Of the
United States. All the federal officers ap-
pointed for the territories should be elected
from bona fide residents thereof, and the
right of self-government should be accord
ed as far as practicable.
We believe the citizens of Alaska should
have representation in the congress of the
United States to the end that .needful legis-
lation may be intelligently enacted
We sympathize with all wise and legiti-
mate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils
of intemperance and promote morality.
The Republican party Is mindful of the
rights and interests of women. Protection
of American industries includes equal OPP
portunities, equal pay for equal work and
protection to the home. We favor the adj
mission Of women to wider spheres of use
fulness, and welcome their cooperation In
rescuing the country from Democratic and
Populist nismanagement and misrule.
Such are the principles and policies OF
the Republican party. BY these principles
we will abide and these policies we will
put into execution. We ask for them the
considerable Judgment of the American
people. Confident alike in the history of
our great party and III the justice Of our
cause. we present our platform and our
candidates in the full assurance that the
election will bring victory to the Repub-
lican party and prosperity to the people OF
the United States.