The Portland daily press., 1896-06-19
The Platform.

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The Republicans of the United States,
assem- bled by their representatives in
the national convention, appealing for
the popular and historical justification
Of their claims to the matchless achieve
ments of thirty years of Rpublican rule,
earnestly and confidently address them
selves to the awakened intelligence, ex-
perience and conscience of their country
men in the following declaration of
facts and principles:
For the first time since the civil war,
| the Anne rcian people have witnessed the
calamitous consequences of full and unre-
stricted Democratic control of the gov
eminent. 1t has been record Of unpar-
alleled incapacity, dishonor and disaster.
In administrative management it has
ruthlessly sacrificed indispensable reve-
nue., entailed an increasing deficit, eked
| out ordinary current expenses with
borrowed money, piled up the public debt
| by S962. O00, 600 in time of peace; forced
an adverse balanoe.of trade, keep per-
petual menace hanging over the redemp-
tlon fund, pawned American credit to
allen syndicates and reversed all the
measures and results of successful Re-
publican rule. III the broad effect of its
| policy 1t has precipitated panic, blighted
industry and tTaae with prolonged de-
preston, closed factories, reduced work
and wages, halted enterprises and crippled
American production while slim ulaEing
foreign 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 of conducting ii
without disaster at homo and dishonor
abroad, and shall be restored to the party
which for thirty years administered it
with unequalled SUCCESS and prosperity.
And in this connection we endorse the
wisdom and success of President Harri-
sons ADMINISTRATION.
TARIFF.
We renew and emphasize our allegiance
to the policy of protection as thesbulwark
OF American industrial independence and
the foundation of American development
and prosperity. This true American policy
takes foreign products and encourages
home industry; it puts the bur den OF
revenue on foreign goods; it secures the
American market for the American pro-
aucer; it upholds the Amerio standard
OF wages for the American workingman
| 1t puts the factory by the side of the farm
and makes the American farmer less de.
pendent on foreign demand and price
t difuses general thrift 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 ana domestic monopoly,
to sectional discriminate on and individ.
ual favorites.
We denounee the present Democratic
| tariff as sectional, injurious to the pub
lie credit and destructive to business en-
terprises. We demand such an equitable
tariff on foreign imports which come in
to competition with American products
as will not only furnish adequate reye
nue. for the necessary expenses of the gov
ernnent, but will protect American labor
from degradation to the wage level OF
other lands. We are not pledged to any
particular schedules. The question Of
rates is practical question. to be gov.
erned by the conditions of the time and
of production, the ruling ana unoompro-
missing principles the protection and de-