The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-06-18
ARRAY OF PRINCIPLES ADOPTED
BY THE REPUBLICAN Ma
TIONAL CONVENTION.
THE EXISTING GOLD STANDARD.
The Monetary Plank Says 1t Must Be
Continued Until an International
Agreement Can Be Had-Protec-
ton, Reciprocity and Pen
sion Planks.

platform in full adopted by the Repub-
lican national convention today:
The Republicans of the United States,
assembled by their representatives in ma
tional convention, appealing for the pop
ular and historical justification of their
claims to the matchless achievements of
thirty years of Republican rule, earnest
ly and confidently address themselves to
the awakened intelligence, experience
and confidence of their countrymen in
the following declaration of fact and
principles:
For the first time since the Civil war,
the American people have witnessed the
calamitous consequences of full and I'M
restricted Democratic control of the
government. 1t has been Il rec
ord of unparalleled incapacity, dis
honor and disaster. In administra-
tive management it has ruthlessly
sacrificed indispensable revenue, entailed
an unceasing deficit eked out ordinary
and current expenses by borrowing
money piled up debt of $262,000000
in time of peace, forced an adverse bal
ance of trade, kept Il perpetual menace
hanging over the redemption fund,
pawned our credit to alien syndicates
and reversed all the measures and re-
suits of successful Republican rule. In
the broad effect of its policy it has pre-
cipitated panic, blightcd industry and
trade with prolonged depression, closed
factories, reduced work and wages,
halted enterprise and crippled American
production while stimulating foreign
production for the American market
Every thought of public safety and in
dividual interest demand that the gov
| eminent should be rescued from those
| who have shown themselves unable to
rule without disaster at home and dis
credit abroad and shall be restored to
the party which for thirty years admin
istered it with unequaled success and
prosperity. And in this connection we
heartily endorse the wisdom, patriotism
and success of the administration of
President Harrison.
THE TARIFF.
| We renew and emphasize our ale
| glance to the policy of protection as the
bulwark of American industrial indie
pendence and the foundation of Ameri-
can development and prosperity. This
| true American policy taxes foreign prod
ucts and encourages home industry, it
puts the burden of revenue on foreign
goods, it secures the American market
for the American products, it upholds
| the American standard of wages for the
| American workingmen, it puts the fac
| tories by the side of the farm and makes
| the American farmer less dependent on
| foreign demand and prices and it diff
| fuses general tariff reform and POUNDS
| the strength of all on the strength of
each. In its reasonable application it
is just, fair and impartial, equally op-
posed to foreign control and domestic
monopoly and individual favoritsm.
We denounce the present Democratic
tariff as sectional. injurious to the pub
| lie credit and destructive to business en-
| terprise. We demand such an cuuita-
BILE tariff on foreign imports which come
into competition with American products
as will not only furnish adequate rev.
| enue for the necessary expenses of the
| government, but will protect American
| labor from degradation to the wage level
of other nations. We are not pledged
to any particular schedules. The ques-
| ton of rates is a practical question to be
| governed by the conditions of the times
| and production; the ruling Republican prin-
ciple is the protection and development
of American labor and industry. The
country demands a Republican rule and
'ii'h H. N"hAS lNct'
RECIPROCITY.
we believe the repeal or reciprocity ar
engagements negotiated by the last Re
publican administration was a national
calamity and we demand their repeal and
extension of such terms as will equalize
our trade with other nations and remove
the restrictions which now obstruct the
sale of American products on the part
OF the foreign countries and secure
large market for the products of our
farms, forests and factories
Protection and reciprocity are two
measures of Republican policy and 90
hand in hand. Democratic rule has reck-
lessly struck them down and both must
be re-cstablshcd.
we believe in protection for what we
produce, free admission for the neces-
SarleS of life. which we do not produce;
reciprocal agreements of mutual inter
ests which gain our markets for us in re-
turn for our open market to others.
Protection builds up domestic industry
ana secures our own market for our
selves; reciprocity builds up foreign 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 Republi-
tall purity laNOfS such protection as will
lead to the production on American soil
or all the sugar which the American peo-
pie can use and for which they pay other
countries S1OO,OOO,000 annually.
WOOL AND WOOLENS.
10 all our products--to those of the
NINE and field, as well us those of the
Sheepan dfact DRY, to hemp, to WOOL to
the great industry of the sheep husband
man rs well rs to the finished production
OF the mill, we promise the most ample
protection.
MERCHANT MARINE.
We favor restoring the ancient Ameri-
can policy of discriminating duties for
the upbuilding of the merchant marine
and the protection of shipping in the for
elgn trade. also American ships, the prod
net of Americans, employed in American
ship yards, sailing under the stars and
stripes, and manned. Differed and owned
by Americans. may regain the carving
of our foreign commerce.
FINANCIAL PLANK.
The Republican party is unrestrictedly
Tor sound money. 1t caused the enact
ment of the law providing for the resump-
n mo-.